Town of Hartford, New York

Washington County Tourism Consultant Christine Hoffer will put on a presentation & roundtable workshop on Washington County Tourism & Buy Local Program at the Hartford Firehouse. The presentation will be on Weds 6/16/10 at 6pm.
The Firehouse is located at the intersection of State Route 40 and State Route 149 which is a little bit north of [...]

I received a call today from U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy’s office about the Civil War Enlistment Center. The Congressman wants to visit the center on Thursday, June 3rd at 12:30 pm.
As you may remember, The Town of Hartford and Hartford’s Historical Society requested that Congressman Murphy see what he could do to help preserve the [...]

The Hartford Farmers’ Market has a new home for the 2011 season. The 2011 season will be the Grand Opening season and will now be located next door to the Stewart’s Shop, at the old Meme and Papa’s Icecream shop. The old Meme and Papa’s Icecream shop is the Regional District Headquarters for Stewarts.
Market Manager [...]

Hartford Central School’s 7th Grade class is conducting a “Dine to Donate” fund raiser at the Queensbury 5 GUYS BURGER and FRIES on Thursday April 29th from 5pm to 8pm.  20% of purchase with a flyer will be donated to the 7th Grade Trust Fund.
The burger joint is located at 735 Upper Glen Street.
You can get [...]

The opening of the Hartford Farmers’ Market has been postponed for 1 year.
The Board of Directors for the Market decided that the Market simply did not have enough vendors signed up for the mid-May opening to make it viable. You only get 1 chance to make a good first impression and having a market open with [...]

The Hartford Farmers’ Market is well on its way to becoming a reality.
A core group of persons that have showed interest from the very beginning met to draft Market Rules, Market Budget, Market Vendor Application form, and create a Board of Directors.
A press release has been issued to all the local papers announcing that the [...]

Today I received a phone call from NYS Ag & Markets. I was informed that Hartford was awarded a $24,000 Farmland Protection Planning Grant.  The application for this grant was done during the planning process of our current Comprehensive Review (Master Plan) with the help of Consultant Brandy Saxton. 
This grant is to develope an agricultural [...]

Washington County Tourism has a new website www.washingtonnycounty.com . This site is still under construction until it is sufficiently populated with events and links to businesses. A link to this site is provided via our Town of Hartford website under “Pages”. If you have a Hartford event or tourism related business please go to this [...]

Governor Paterson recently signed into law a new initiative enabling you to receive alerts  when a moderate or high level sex offender moves into an area of interest to you. It is called NY-ALERT. It will also notify you of weather alerts, highway emergencies, Amber alerts, etc. It can be fine tuned to alert you [...]

Normally, during Americade week some bikers just roar through town on their way to somewhere else.  Americade is getting so large that the organization needs to offer activities away from Lake George that the bikers can participate in.
So, they are planning a Scavenger Hunt, much like a Poker Run and asked me if Hartford would like [...]