NOW this… by Brenda
NOW this… by Brenda
BIG News! (Besides it being Pumpkin Season)
Don’t judge, but in my world, every season is pumpkin season. Every season is also pineapple season, potato season, and pink lemonade season. But pumpkins are front and center right now. Pumpkin spiced lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin donuts, Hello Pumpkinville!, pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin seeds … is there such thing as pumpkin pancakes? If so, I’d be all for that, too.
Pumpkin is so versatile, I’m sure it can be included in just about any recipe for a burst of festive fall flavor. Plus, pumpkins are good for you! They’re high in potassium and fiber which, since my leukemia battle in 2019, I now always make sure I add a little extra of each to my diet. Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe? If so, send it my way! Email your recipes to brenda@ellicottvilleNOW.com so we can share them with our readers.
There are many reasons to enjoy pumpkin all year round. Just like there are many reasons to pick up a copy of this newspaper each time it hits stands. (Ok, I know that was a super lame lead-in. I couldn’t help myself.)
Our team here at ellicottvilleNOW takes pride in providing our readers with a quality publication dedicated to Ellicottville and its surrounding communities. With an office right downtown, and many of us living and raising our families here, we stay pretty well connected with all that’s happening within the community, the businesses, the school … there are a lot of great things going on! So many that we can’t ever seem to fit it all in our bi-weekly print version. Which is why we encourage you to visit our website regularly (ellicottvilleNOW.com), where you can read up on more news items and special stories as they come in.
However, the struggle is real. The challenge to fit all that great content into every other Thursday’s print edition always ends in hard decisions of what to feature, what to cut, what can wait until the next rotation, and will it be old news by then? (These are the things that keep me up at night.) Thankfully, the struggle of having so much unprinted content will soon be a thing of the past.
With encouragement from fellow business owners and community members, we are excited to announce that come 2022, ellicottvilleNOW will publish weekly, allowing for fresh content to be featured in print EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. Our faithful advertisers, our local readers, our visitors, and all those special relationships we’ve established over the past two decades (what?? really?? have I been in this industry for that long??) have helped to shape the publication into what it is today. Our paper is growing! Our staff is growing! Our excitement for what the future holds is growing! We’ve got some new features in the works and we can’t wait to show you around!
But for now, please enjoy the articles and take your time browsing the advertisements within these pages (for it is our advertisers that allow this publication to exist). Enjoy the abundant shopping and dining and all the exciting activities available in this one-of-a-kind place that we have the privilege of calling home. Autumn is an invigorating time of year. Enjoy every crisp morning, every turn of color. Enjoy your pumpkin spiced lattes and sweet pumpkin rolls. Enjoy your Fall festivities of Rock’N Roll and classic cars, the leaf peeping chairlift rides, and of course, those family adventures to Pumpkinville. Dig out those flannels, stack your firewood, and get your chili recipes ready (with or without pumpkin). Fall is on the way! Here’s to a beautiful season ahead!
