The Columbia NE consortium of Repair Cafes was featured in this week’s Upstater.com in advance of their 6/24 Repair Cafe in Chatham. You can read the article here.
Rockland Repair Cafe Featured on News 12
News 12 covered the June Rockland Repair Cafe held at the Firemans Training School in Pomona, NY. To see the clip, please go here.
Albany Repair Cafe Featured on WTEN/News 10 in Albany
Dave West, Schenectady Repair Cafe organizer and Albany tool library volunteer, and Kimberly Parker, the organizer of the new Albany Repair Cafe, were both featured in a promo for this weekend’s Albany Repair Cafe on WTEN news. To see the clip, go here.
RCHV Coordinator and Hurleyville/Port Jervis Organizers on WALL Radio in Orange Co.
RCHV LIVE on WALL Radio 1340AM at 8:00am on Wed. June 7th
Suzie Fromer (RCHV Coordiantor) and Peter Marchetto (Port Jervis/Hurleyville RC Organizer) and Akenataa Hammagaadji (Highland Falls RC Organizer) were live on Orange County's WALL Radio with Kate Brannan (also a textile fixer from Middletown and Mamakating RCs) on June 7th. Listen to the interview here.
Rockland Repair Cafe featured in May/June Rivertown Magazine
Rockland Repair Cafe featured in May/June Rivertown Magazine
Rockland Repair Cafe featured in May/June Rivertown Magazine“Switching from Replace to Repair,” an article in the Rivertown May/June Magazine, prominently features a 2 page spread on pages 21-23 on the Rockland Repair Cafe which is returning on June 11th. To read the story, go here.
New Paltz Celebrates 10 Years of Repair Cafes
New Paltz Celebrates 10 Years of Repair Cafes
The New Paltz Repair Cafe celebrated its 10th anniversary on Saturday, May 20th. The event was covered in HVOne. To see the article, please go here.
Red Hook Earth Day Repair Cafe in the Daily Catch
Red Hook’s Repair Cafe was featured in an article covering the many Earth Day activities around town in Red Hook’s The Daily Catch. In the piece, Red Hook Repair Cafe organizer Steve Appenzeller fondly credits Repair Cafe Hudson Valley’s John Wackman for founding or inspiring the many cafes that have spread throughout the region.
To read the article, go here.
RCHV on The Today Show 4/21/23
Well THAT was exciting! Repair Cafe Hudson Valley threw together a team of fixers to head down to NYC for Earth Week last Friday. We brought broken items, tools, fixers and a few of our intrepid organizers for a very special Repair Cafe Today Show that was filmed LIVE on the Today Show Plaza. Memories to last a lifetime and a tremendous boost for getting the word out about Repair Cafes. Go HERE to see the segment.
NYT Article on Repair Cafes Mentions Colonie's Cafe
A New York Times article on the Repair Cafe movement focused on the reporter’s local Repair Cafe and Tool Library in her home base of Buffalo. It also referenced one of RCHV’s cafe’s in the Capital Region, the brand new Colonie Repair Cafe at the Colonie Library which had its first cafe on Earth Day. They had 60 visitors at their first cafe, including many who had only heard of Repair Cafes this WEEK due to our recent segment on the Today Show and this article.
You can read the article here.
Rivertowns Repair Cafe Featured in Hudson Independent
The Rivertowns Repair Cafe’s TarryHollow Repair Cafe (a joint venture between the neighboring villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow) was featured in the Hudson Independent. To read the article, which also mentions a brief history of the repair cafe movement in the Hudson Valley, click here.