Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Haunted History Tours Return – Member Exclusive Presale!
Get ready for spine-tingling nights of history and hauntings as the Warwick Historical Society brings back its Haunted History Tours this October. With all-new chilling stories and a thrilling route through Warwick’s historic properties, this year promises to be even darker, deeper, and eerier than before.
Tour Dates:
- Friday, October 17
- Saturday, October 18
- Sunday, October 19
Tickets (21+ only):
- $45 – Tour + pre- and post-tour snacks
- $55 – Tour + snacks + two adult beverages (one pre-tour & one post-tour)
Walking Tour: ~1 mile, ~90 minutes, rain or shine. Comfortable shoes recommended.
Member-Only Presale:
Tickets go on sale exclusively to WHS Members from Sept 15–21.
Public sales begin Monday, Sept 22.
⚠️ THESE TOURS WILL SELL OUT—don’t miss your chance to experience Warwick’s haunted past before tickets vanish into thin air..
Secure your spot during the Member Presale Window at the calendar page on whsny.org or by calling 845-986-3236.
Dare to walk with us… if you’re brave enough.
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Happy Halloween
Warwick Halloween Events appear throughout the community, among not-for-profit organizations, municipal initiatives, and independent businesses. All seem to be joining in the fun!
A 1920s MURDER MYSTERY EXPERIENCE
October 21 @ 3pm – 6pm, Ages 13+
Things take a turn for the gutter at Mafia Don Lou Zar’s juice joint when someone is put on ice! The crowd is chock full of potential suspects. Jilted lovers, a rival Mafioso, and an undercover fed make an appearance at this speakeasy and not a single person is muttering a word! Help find out who’s on the level and who’s on the lam by trading clues with your guests, gathering information, and solving the crime before the murderer hotfoots it out of there!Dress like it’s the 1920s! Flapper dresses, zootsuits, feather boas and headbands, pinstriped suits and fedoras are all appropriate attire.
The party will be 3 hours and includes the immersion theater mystery experience, hors d’oeuvres, dessert and a drink ticket. A cash bar will be available.
Oct 23: Pine Island Trunk or Treat
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• Edenville Halloween Party
Oct 28, 2023, 6PM – 9PM
Prizes, music, buffet dinner beer, fun!
Warwick NY Halloween
3rd Annual Halloween Party at the Pine Island Tap House
The Pine Island Tap House is hosting their 2nd Annual Costume Halloween Party!
Saturday, October 28th
6:00 to 11:00pm
Come in costume! Cash prizes will be given for the scariest, funniest, most original, and cutest couple! They even have trophies!
Next Wave Food Truck will be here all day and night, Drink Specials.
Whiskey Crossing will be playing from 7:00pm till 10:00pm.
Pine Island Tap House
682 County Route 1, Suite B
Pine Island, NY
More Warwick Halloween Events
Oct 29: Blue Arrow Farm: Costume Party
With music by OC5
• Oct 28, 2023: The Lamp Post Inn Annual Halloween Party
Saturday, Oct 28, featuring music by Rated R; prizes for the best costumes; drink specials and food specials, too!
Oct 20,21,28: Haunted House Warwick Valley Community Center, 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, N.Y.
The Warwick Valley Community Center will be hosting a haunted house this Halloween season.
“For Halloween local teens are invited to take part in the Community Center’s Haunted House. This year our theme is a good old creepy folk tale, Hansel and Gretel in the Haunted Forest,” said Melissa Shaw-Smith, director of Wickham Works.
The show takes place October 20, 21, and 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door (cash only), with all proceeds benefiting the center’s youth programs.
The community center’s annual haunted house, started in 2017. This will be the first haunted house held since the pandemic. The creepy Hansel and Gretel theme will tell the tale of two kids abandoned in the woods by their wicked stepmother, left to the mercy of wild and terrifying beasts. Organizers noted that there will be many scary encounters along the path for the audience to experience. Middle and high school students and members of Acting Out Players will perform in the show, while local artists and teenagers build the sets and props.
Drop-in workshops for teens and adults are held at the center at 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, on Monday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m. “All teenagers in the area are welcome to join the Haunted House and our art community workshops,” added Shaw-Smith.
The community center uses a variety of programs to engage with youth in their Alcohol and Drug Prevention programs. One of these programs is an ongoing collaboration with the community arts non-profit Wickham Works. Each year, this collaboration draws in teenagers ages 12 through 18 to put on the Doc Fry Music Sessions, a monthly live band, and help with the pop-up art gallery, building puppets for town festivals, making art for the Day of Acceptance annual Warwick Pride event, creating public art exhibits in the summer for a community service project, and more.
The Wickham Works Facebook page has information on the Haunted House and upcoming workshops and events. Contact mshawsmith@wickhamworks.org or the Warwick Community Center at 845-986-6422 for more information.
• Oct 31: Paesano Pizzeria Halloween Special
Cheese Pizza: $9.99 (+ Tax) Tuesday, Oct 31, 2023
• Oct 31: Vernon NJ Senior Halloween Party
11AM-2PM
• Oct 31, 2022 @ 4:30 pm: Village of Warwick
The Village of Warwick Recreation Department and the Warwick Lions Club will be hosting a spooktacular Halloween Costume Parade on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Line-up will take place at 4:30 p.m. on High Street and the parade will start at 5 p.m. and proceed down Main Street to Railroad Avenue. A costume contest with prizes will take place on Railroad Avenue.
This year’s costume contest will include the following categories: Most Original, Scariest, Best Group/Family and Cutest. The contest will be divided into the following age groups: 0-5, 6-9, 10-14, adult, and family ensemble.
Refreshments are sponsored by ShopRite of Warwick.
Residents invited to ‘scare the mayor’
Village residents are invited to take part in the village’s Seventh Annual Scare the Mayor Contest. This is a contest for the scariest, most frightful, scream-worthy Halloween decorated house in the village of Warwick. The contest is free to enter, and village of Warwick residents are eligible to participate. If your home won first prize the previous year, you are ineligible to win first prize this year, but can still participate in the contest. To register your house, call Village Hall at 845-986-2031 or email clerk@villageofwarwick.org by Friday, Oct. 27.
Starting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, participants will receive a visit from village of Warwick Mayor Michael Newhard and guest judges who will deem the ghouls and ghosts who scare them the most.
First-, second-, and third-prize winners will receive a plaque that brags, “I Scared the Mayor.” Additionally, one home will receive, “The Karl Scheible Award for Exemplary Skill and Thematic Creativity” in honor of late village of Warwick Planning Board member Karl Scheible, who created the original “Haunted House” on Oakland Court. Winners will be announced on Facebook.
So, string those purple and orange lights with care, spread cobwebs as far as they can bear, creepy skulls and candy corn too, anything spooky really will do. The mayor anticipates the delights from all the scary frights, and they look forward to celebrating the best that residents can offer.
Halloween curfew and road closures
There is a Halloween curfew for all persons under the age of 18 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian on all village streets and parks and other public areas in the village of Warwick between the hours of 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30 and 6 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, and again from 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31 to 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1.
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Haunted History Tours Return – Member Exclusive Presale!
Get ready for spine-tingling nights of history and hauntings as the Warwick Historical Society brings back its Haunted History Tours this October. With all-new chilling stories and a thrilling route through Warwick’s historic properties, this year promises to be even darker, deeper, and eerier than before.
Tour Dates:
- Friday, October 17
- Saturday, October 18
- Sunday, October 19
Tickets (21+ only):
- $45 – Tour + pre- and post-tour snacks
- $55 – Tour + snacks + two adult beverages (one pre-tour & one post-tour)
Walking Tour: ~1 mile, ~90 minutes, rain or shine. Comfortable shoes recommended.
Member-Only Presale:
Tickets go on sale exclusively to WHS Members from Sept 15–21.
Public sales begin Monday, Sept 22.
⚠️ THESE TOURS WILL SELL OUT—don’t miss your chance to experience Warwick’s haunted past before tickets vanish into thin air..
Secure your spot during the Member Presale Window at the calendar page on whsny.org or by calling 845-986-3236.
Dare to walk with us… if you’re brave enough.
|
Happy Halloween
Warwick Halloween Events appear throughout the community, among not-for-profit organizations, municipal initiatives, and independent businesses. All seem to be joining in the fun!
A 1920s MURDER MYSTERY EXPERIENCE
October 21 @ 3pm – 6pm, Ages 13+
Things take a turn for the gutter at Mafia Don Lou Zar’s juice joint when someone is put on ice! The crowd is chock full of potential suspects. Jilted lovers, a rival Mafioso, and an undercover fed make an appearance at this speakeasy and not a single person is muttering a word! Help find out who’s on the level and who’s on the lam by trading clues with your guests, gathering information, and solving the crime before the murderer hotfoots it out of there!Dress like it’s the 1920s! Flapper dresses, zootsuits, feather boas and headbands, pinstriped suits and fedoras are all appropriate attire.
The party will be 3 hours and includes the immersion theater mystery experience, hors d’oeuvres, dessert and a drink ticket. A cash bar will be available.
Oct 23: Pine Island Trunk or Treat
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• Edenville Halloween Party
Oct 28, 2023, 6PM – 9PM
Prizes, music, buffet dinner beer, fun!
Warwick NY Halloween
3rd Annual Halloween Party at the Pine Island Tap House
The Pine Island Tap House is hosting their 2nd Annual Costume Halloween Party!
Saturday, October 28th
6:00 to 11:00pm
Come in costume! Cash prizes will be given for the scariest, funniest, most original, and cutest couple! They even have trophies!
Next Wave Food Truck will be here all day and night, Drink Specials.
Whiskey Crossing will be playing from 7:00pm till 10:00pm.
Pine Island Tap House
682 County Route 1, Suite B
Pine Island, NY
More Warwick Halloween Events
Oct 29: Blue Arrow Farm: Costume Party
With music by OC5
• Oct 28, 2023: The Lamp Post Inn Annual Halloween Party
Saturday, Oct 28, featuring music by Rated R; prizes for the best costumes; drink specials and food specials, too!
Oct 20,21,28: Haunted House Warwick Valley Community Center, 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, N.Y.
The Warwick Valley Community Center will be hosting a haunted house this Halloween season.
“For Halloween local teens are invited to take part in the Community Center’s Haunted House. This year our theme is a good old creepy folk tale, Hansel and Gretel in the Haunted Forest,” said Melissa Shaw-Smith, director of Wickham Works.
The show takes place October 20, 21, and 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door (cash only), with all proceeds benefiting the center’s youth programs.
The community center’s annual haunted house, started in 2017. This will be the first haunted house held since the pandemic. The creepy Hansel and Gretel theme will tell the tale of two kids abandoned in the woods by their wicked stepmother, left to the mercy of wild and terrifying beasts. Organizers noted that there will be many scary encounters along the path for the audience to experience. Middle and high school students and members of Acting Out Players will perform in the show, while local artists and teenagers build the sets and props.
Drop-in workshops for teens and adults are held at the center at 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, on Monday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m. “All teenagers in the area are welcome to join the Haunted House and our art community workshops,” added Shaw-Smith.
The community center uses a variety of programs to engage with youth in their Alcohol and Drug Prevention programs. One of these programs is an ongoing collaboration with the community arts non-profit Wickham Works. Each year, this collaboration draws in teenagers ages 12 through 18 to put on the Doc Fry Music Sessions, a monthly live band, and help with the pop-up art gallery, building puppets for town festivals, making art for the Day of Acceptance annual Warwick Pride event, creating public art exhibits in the summer for a community service project, and more.
The Wickham Works Facebook page has information on the Haunted House and upcoming workshops and events. Contact mshawsmith@wickhamworks.org or the Warwick Community Center at 845-986-6422 for more information.
• Oct 31: Paesano Pizzeria Halloween Special
Cheese Pizza: $9.99 (+ Tax) Tuesday, Oct 31, 2023
• Oct 31: Vernon NJ Senior Halloween Party
11AM-2PM
• Oct 31, 2022 @ 4:30 pm: Village of Warwick
The Village of Warwick Recreation Department and the Warwick Lions Club will be hosting a spooktacular Halloween Costume Parade on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Line-up will take place at 4:30 p.m. on High Street and the parade will start at 5 p.m. and proceed down Main Street to Railroad Avenue. A costume contest with prizes will take place on Railroad Avenue.
This year’s costume contest will include the following categories: Most Original, Scariest, Best Group/Family and Cutest. The contest will be divided into the following age groups: 0-5, 6-9, 10-14, adult, and family ensemble.
Refreshments are sponsored by ShopRite of Warwick.
Residents invited to ‘scare the mayor’
Village residents are invited to take part in the village’s Seventh Annual Scare the Mayor Contest. This is a contest for the scariest, most frightful, scream-worthy Halloween decorated house in the village of Warwick. The contest is free to enter, and village of Warwick residents are eligible to participate. If your home won first prize the previous year, you are ineligible to win first prize this year, but can still participate in the contest. To register your house, call Village Hall at 845-986-2031 or email clerk@villageofwarwick.org by Friday, Oct. 27.
Starting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, participants will receive a visit from village of Warwick Mayor Michael Newhard and guest judges who will deem the ghouls and ghosts who scare them the most.
First-, second-, and third-prize winners will receive a plaque that brags, “I Scared the Mayor.” Additionally, one home will receive, “The Karl Scheible Award for Exemplary Skill and Thematic Creativity” in honor of late village of Warwick Planning Board member Karl Scheible, who created the original “Haunted House” on Oakland Court. Winners will be announced on Facebook.
So, string those purple and orange lights with care, spread cobwebs as far as they can bear, creepy skulls and candy corn too, anything spooky really will do. The mayor anticipates the delights from all the scary frights, and they look forward to celebrating the best that residents can offer.
Halloween curfew and road closures
There is a Halloween curfew for all persons under the age of 18 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian on all village streets and parks and other public areas in the village of Warwick between the hours of 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30 and 6 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, and again from 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31 to 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1.
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
- Open Mic
Every Saturday sign-up to 5:30 PM Start 6 pm - Edenville Trivia
Every Friday Night 7-9 pm - Tony Sky Blues Jam in Edenville: 1pm to 4 pm
- Song Writers Showcase (3rd Sunday of the month): 1 pm to 4 pm
- Open Mic
Every Saturday sign-up 6 to 6:30 PM Start 7 pm - Edenville Trivia
Every Friday Night 7-9 pm - Tony Sky Blues Jam in Edenville: 1pm to 4 pm
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- April 20, 2024
- May 5, 2024
- June 9, 2024
- July 14, 2024
- August 11, 2024
- Song Writers Showcase (3rd Sunday of the month): 1 pm to 4 pm
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- April 21, 2024
- May 19, 2024
- June 16,2024
- July 21, 2024
- August 18, 2024
- September 15,2024
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Haunted History Tours Return – Member Exclusive Presale!
Get ready for spine-tingling nights of history and hauntings as the Warwick Historical Society brings back its Haunted History Tours this October. With all-new chilling stories and a thrilling route through Warwick’s historic properties, this year promises to be even darker, deeper, and eerier than before.
Tour Dates:
- Friday, October 17
- Saturday, October 18
- Sunday, October 19
Tickets (21+ only):
- $45 – Tour + pre- and post-tour snacks
- $55 – Tour + snacks + two adult beverages (one pre-tour & one post-tour)
Walking Tour: ~1 mile, ~90 minutes, rain or shine. Comfortable shoes recommended.
Member-Only Presale:
Tickets go on sale exclusively to WHS Members from Sept 15–21.
Public sales begin Monday, Sept 22.
⚠️ THESE TOURS WILL SELL OUT—don’t miss your chance to experience Warwick’s haunted past before tickets vanish into thin air..
Secure your spot during the Member Presale Window at the calendar page on whsny.org or by calling 845-986-3236.
Dare to walk with us… if you’re brave enough.
|
Happy Halloween
Warwick Halloween Events appear throughout the community, among not-for-profit organizations, municipal initiatives, and independent businesses. All seem to be joining in the fun!
A 1920s MURDER MYSTERY EXPERIENCE
October 21 @ 3pm – 6pm, Ages 13+
Things take a turn for the gutter at Mafia Don Lou Zar’s juice joint when someone is put on ice! The crowd is chock full of potential suspects. Jilted lovers, a rival Mafioso, and an undercover fed make an appearance at this speakeasy and not a single person is muttering a word! Help find out who’s on the level and who’s on the lam by trading clues with your guests, gathering information, and solving the crime before the murderer hotfoots it out of there!Dress like it’s the 1920s! Flapper dresses, zootsuits, feather boas and headbands, pinstriped suits and fedoras are all appropriate attire.
The party will be 3 hours and includes the immersion theater mystery experience, hors d’oeuvres, dessert and a drink ticket. A cash bar will be available.
Oct 23: Pine Island Trunk or Treat
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• Edenville Halloween Party
Oct 28, 2023, 6PM – 9PM
Prizes, music, buffet dinner beer, fun!
Warwick NY Halloween
3rd Annual Halloween Party at the Pine Island Tap House
The Pine Island Tap House is hosting their 2nd Annual Costume Halloween Party!
Saturday, October 28th
6:00 to 11:00pm
Come in costume! Cash prizes will be given for the scariest, funniest, most original, and cutest couple! They even have trophies!
Next Wave Food Truck will be here all day and night, Drink Specials.
Whiskey Crossing will be playing from 7:00pm till 10:00pm.
Pine Island Tap House
682 County Route 1, Suite B
Pine Island, NY
More Warwick Halloween Events
Oct 29: Blue Arrow Farm: Costume Party
With music by OC5
• Oct 28, 2023: The Lamp Post Inn Annual Halloween Party
Saturday, Oct 28, featuring music by Rated R; prizes for the best costumes; drink specials and food specials, too!
Oct 20,21,28: Haunted House Warwick Valley Community Center, 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, N.Y.
The Warwick Valley Community Center will be hosting a haunted house this Halloween season.
“For Halloween local teens are invited to take part in the Community Center’s Haunted House. This year our theme is a good old creepy folk tale, Hansel and Gretel in the Haunted Forest,” said Melissa Shaw-Smith, director of Wickham Works.
The show takes place October 20, 21, and 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door (cash only), with all proceeds benefiting the center’s youth programs.
The community center’s annual haunted house, started in 2017. This will be the first haunted house held since the pandemic. The creepy Hansel and Gretel theme will tell the tale of two kids abandoned in the woods by their wicked stepmother, left to the mercy of wild and terrifying beasts. Organizers noted that there will be many scary encounters along the path for the audience to experience. Middle and high school students and members of Acting Out Players will perform in the show, while local artists and teenagers build the sets and props.
Drop-in workshops for teens and adults are held at the center at 11 Hamilton Avenue, Warwick, on Monday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m. “All teenagers in the area are welcome to join the Haunted House and our art community workshops,” added Shaw-Smith.
The community center uses a variety of programs to engage with youth in their Alcohol and Drug Prevention programs. One of these programs is an ongoing collaboration with the community arts non-profit Wickham Works. Each year, this collaboration draws in teenagers ages 12 through 18 to put on the Doc Fry Music Sessions, a monthly live band, and help with the pop-up art gallery, building puppets for town festivals, making art for the Day of Acceptance annual Warwick Pride event, creating public art exhibits in the summer for a community service project, and more.
The Wickham Works Facebook page has information on the Haunted House and upcoming workshops and events. Contact mshawsmith@wickhamworks.org or the Warwick Community Center at 845-986-6422 for more information.
• Oct 31: Paesano Pizzeria Halloween Special
Cheese Pizza: $9.99 (+ Tax) Tuesday, Oct 31, 2023
• Oct 31: Vernon NJ Senior Halloween Party
11AM-2PM
• Oct 31, 2022 @ 4:30 pm: Village of Warwick
The Village of Warwick Recreation Department and the Warwick Lions Club will be hosting a spooktacular Halloween Costume Parade on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Line-up will take place at 4:30 p.m. on High Street and the parade will start at 5 p.m. and proceed down Main Street to Railroad Avenue. A costume contest with prizes will take place on Railroad Avenue.
This year’s costume contest will include the following categories: Most Original, Scariest, Best Group/Family and Cutest. The contest will be divided into the following age groups: 0-5, 6-9, 10-14, adult, and family ensemble.
Refreshments are sponsored by ShopRite of Warwick.
Residents invited to ‘scare the mayor’
Village residents are invited to take part in the village’s Seventh Annual Scare the Mayor Contest. This is a contest for the scariest, most frightful, scream-worthy Halloween decorated house in the village of Warwick. The contest is free to enter, and village of Warwick residents are eligible to participate. If your home won first prize the previous year, you are ineligible to win first prize this year, but can still participate in the contest. To register your house, call Village Hall at 845-986-2031 or email clerk@villageofwarwick.org by Friday, Oct. 27.
Starting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, participants will receive a visit from village of Warwick Mayor Michael Newhard and guest judges who will deem the ghouls and ghosts who scare them the most.
First-, second-, and third-prize winners will receive a plaque that brags, “I Scared the Mayor.” Additionally, one home will receive, “The Karl Scheible Award for Exemplary Skill and Thematic Creativity” in honor of late village of Warwick Planning Board member Karl Scheible, who created the original “Haunted House” on Oakland Court. Winners will be announced on Facebook.
So, string those purple and orange lights with care, spread cobwebs as far as they can bear, creepy skulls and candy corn too, anything spooky really will do. The mayor anticipates the delights from all the scary frights, and they look forward to celebrating the best that residents can offer.
Halloween curfew and road closures
There is a Halloween curfew for all persons under the age of 18 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian on all village streets and parks and other public areas in the village of Warwick between the hours of 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30 and 6 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, and again from 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31 to 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1.
Join us, in person or virtually, for our 20th Anniversary Celebration at the magnificent Mulder Chapel. It features three of our Grand Scholarship recipients, Ryan Soeyadi, pianist and Esther Chae, cellist, Shavon Lloyd, Baritone, plus three consummate professionals: Charles Mokotoff, classical guitarist, E’lissa Jones, violinist, singer/songwriter, and John Cimino, baritone.
This will be music on a very high level, plus the event will be catered by Allan’s Falafel of Chester NY. Doors will open at 1:30 and we’ll feed you (come hungry) until 2:30 when the concert will begin with Charles Mokotoff, then Ryan Soeyadi, Esther Chae, Shavon Lloyd , and John Cimino. At 3:30 we’ll take a 30 minute intermission. You can revisit the food area. At 4PM we’ll continue the concert with a special surprise guest followed by E’lissa Jones who will close out the show.
Throughout the event you can bid on the auction items which will include an acoustic guitar signed by Bob Dylan, another one signed by Bruce Springsteen, an electric guitar signed by Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & others. Plus you’ll be able to bid on vacation packages to Europe, Mexico and Indonesia. This event will satisfy you in mind, heart, body and soul. Truly a one of kind music/culinary experience.
Early bird price is only $99 until October 1st when tickets will become $125. Room for only 190 people. If you can’t attend, you can join us virtually from anywhere in the world to participate in the online auction (this will be live on September 29th). Also subscribe to our YouTube channel and we’ll share the video of the event sometime in November. https://www.youtube.com/@musicforhumanity-1 Click here for more information about the event.
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
- Open Mic
Every Saturday sign-up to 5:30 PM Start 6 pm - Edenville Trivia
Every Friday Night 7-9 pm - Tony Sky Blues Jam in Edenville: 1pm to 4 pm
- Song Writers Showcase (3rd Sunday of the month): 1 pm to 4 pm
- Open Mic
Every Saturday sign-up 6 to 6:30 PM Start 7 pm - Edenville Trivia
Every Friday Night 7-9 pm - Tony Sky Blues Jam in Edenville: 1pm to 4 pm
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- April 20, 2024
- May 5, 2024
- June 9, 2024
- July 14, 2024
- August 11, 2024
- Song Writers Showcase (3rd Sunday of the month): 1 pm to 4 pm
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- April 21, 2024
- May 19, 2024
- June 16,2024
- July 21, 2024
- August 18, 2024
- September 15,2024
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
This Weekend at Pennings Farm Market
Live Music at Pennings Farm in Orange County New York
Albert Wisner Public Library is the community’s favorite place to meet, discover, learn and connect.
An extensive menu of programs for children, teens, adults, including books, ideas, lectures, movies, visiting authors, exhibits, art galleries, and much more!
Library Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday – Thursday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 12pm-4pm
Curbside Pickup available daily: please call: (845) 986-1047
Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025 4:30pm-9pm
- Hot Rod Car Show – 6-10PM, featuring Danny C: Hurley Mountain Highway
Thursday Sep 18 , 2025
- Felix and The Cats, 6-9PM
Friday Sep 19, 2025:
- Closed
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025:
- Closed
Sunday, Sep 21, 2025:
- Equinox New Moon: Sound Bath
Don’t miss our Rain or Shine Concert Series on weekends, with the best in live local music. And of course, our outdoor pavilion and indoor concert hall are open to bring you pub style food and drink, our beer and wine bar, our ice cream stand, and all kinds of great family fun.
Join us almost every Friday for line dancing lessons, open to all skill levels! Plus, every alternate Friday we’ve got Blues Night with the TeeVee Allstars. Bring your instrument, your voice, your family and friends, and play along or hang out with us and enjoy the music!
Admission is $5.00 per person, with all proceeds going to our animal rescue here on the farm. Please double-check the calendar for final event dates! Live Entertainment | Blue Arrow Farm
A new series of great jazz artists, featured at an intimate venue at Warwick’s Corporate Park, The Last Whiskey Bar
Performances are 2-4PK
- Sat June 17: Rick Savage
- Sat: July 1: Jeff Ciampa Trio
Chronogram Magazine
March 2023
Searching for an elevated whiskey experience, or just looking to soak up speakeasy vibes? You’ll find both at The Last Whisky Bar in Warwick.
Brian Smith, Jim Samborski, Michael Forman, and Bill Iurato are part of a 10-member whiskey appreciation group that has met every Wednesday since 2016. A couple years ago, the four men realized that if they wanted to frequent the whiskey-centric bar of their dreams with the Al-Capone-meets-the-Rat-Pack atmosphere they desired, they’d have to create it themselves.
Iurato, who’s owned Peck’s Liquors in the village of Warwick for over 30 years, and Smith, who co-owns a village bar, are the only two of the quartet with liquor biz chops. Samborski is a retired NYPD detective and a consultant for a bank in Puerto Rico, and Forman is a contractor. They collaborated on the concept and just needed the brick-and-mortar space to bring it to life. Forman offered up his 900-square-foot storage shed in Wickham Woodlands, the 733-acre grounds of the former Mid-Orange Correctional Facility.
The Last Whisky Bar opened last April, and it looks nothing like a storage shed anymore. A seamless, 47-foot-long, domed copper ceiling crowns the interior. Slate tiles that once graced a roof are solidly underfoot. Sunlight slants in through French doors—installed sideways to serve as windows—whose former life was spent in a Tuxedo Park home. The sinuous maple bar and wood-topped stools are etched with fractal-burned images resembling trees or lightning, which is apropos: Forman created them with (fairly dangerous) high-voltage electricity. “Michael is the artist behind all of this,” Smith says with appreciation.
The bar serves up whiskies, craft cocktails ($14 each, curated by cocktail sommelier John Contreras), wines, and beers. The cocktail list rotates throughout the year, with a couple mainstays: The Last Whisky Bar Manhattan (bourbon, sweet and dry vermouth, bitters, lemon) and the Corpse Reviver #2 (gin, Cointreau, Cocchi Americano, Absinthe, lemon), a hangover remedy whose recipe hails from the Prohibition era. A handful of barrel-aged cocktails (Old Fashioned, Manhattan) are offered, as well. They are mixed and finished in small oak barrels that sit behind the bar. Over six weeks, the cocktails take on the essence of the barrel before being served on demand.
More than 250 kinds of whiskey, rye, bourbon, and Scotch are served up at LWB. Newbies are invited to start with “Whiskey 101” ($25), a flight of four three-quarter-ounce pours that includes an Irish whiskey, rye, bourbon, and Scotch.
Patrons who know their favorites can choose from the extensive 1.5-ounce-a-pour menu ranging from Jim Beam ($9) up to Whistle Pig Double Malt Rye ($64 a pour), or partake in an experience that sets LWB apart from your neighborhood watering hole: The Bottle Keep.
For $250 per year and the cost of their bottle of choice, a patron (and up to five friends) can purchase a locker space. The bottle of top-shelf curated whiskey (up to a $350 bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and beyond) will be kept safely in the locker; when the locker owner visits, the bartender serves them from their very own bottle—either neat, on the rocks, or mixed into a cocktail—for $6 a drink.
There are three lockers with a total capacity of 148 bottles. Two lockers are tall, glass-faced, black wooden cabinets. The third is a wall-mounted set of horizontal cabinets that wrap around an alcove of seating. Some of the doors on those lockers are inlaid with glass interlaced by a diamond pattern of wire: Yes, it’s prison glass—salvaged onsite and cut to fit.
Forman and his electrician son Aiden wired LED lights throughout the lockers, and when a bartender pushes a button, the lights race all around the bottles inside before finally illuminating that particular bottle. Bottles that are in use sit on a shelf behind the bar. When the locker owner is ready to leave, their bottle is safely returned to the locker. LSB’s business is about 20 percent lockers, and the remaining 80 percent is traditional bar service.
More than 250 kinds of whiskey, rye, bourbon, and Scotch are served up at LWB. Newbies are invited to start with “Whiskey 101” ($25), a flight of four three-quarter-ounce pours that includes an Irish whiskey, rye, bourbon, and Scotch.
Patrons who know their favorites can choose from the extensive 1.5-ounce-a-pour menu ranging from Jim Beam ($9) up to Whistle Pig Double Malt Rye ($64 a pour), or partake in an experience that sets LWB apart from your neighborhood watering hole: The Bottle Keep.
For $250 per year and the cost of their bottle of choice, a patron (and up to five friends) can purchase a locker space. The bottle of top-shelf curated whiskey (up to a $350 bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and beyond) will be kept safely in the locker; when the locker owner visits, the bartender serves them from their very own bottle—either neat, on the rocks, or mixed into a cocktail—for $6 a drink.
There are three lockers with a total capacity of 148 bottles. Two lockers are tall, glass-faced, black wooden cabinets. The third is a wall-mounted set of horizontal cabinets that wrap around an alcove of seating. Some of the doors on those lockers are inlaid with glass interlaced by a diamond pattern of wire: Yes, it’s prison glass—salvaged onsite and cut to fit.
Forman and his electrician son Aiden wired LED lights throughout the lockers, and when a bartender pushes a button, the lights race all around the bottles inside before finally illuminating that particular bottle. Bottles that are in use sit on a shelf behind the bar. When the locker owner is ready to leave, their bottle is safely returned to the locker. LSB’s business is about 20 percent lockers, and the remaining 80 percent is traditional bar service.
The locker idea is reminiscent of those at the Flatiron Room whiskey lounge in Manhattan, without the $1,000 annual fees, “We wanted to do something like that here, so everyone can enjoy a high-end atmosphere without the higher price tag,” Forman says. The lockers are popular—of the 148 spots offered this year, only 15 were left as of March 16.
Greg and Christina Stanton are the proud owners of Locker No. 1. “We heard through friends about The Last Whisky Bar and its locker program, and we love it,” says Greg, twirling his wedding ring made from a bottle of Maker’s Mark. Weekly visitors to LWB, the Stantons recently surpassed a bottle threshold set by the bar; in gratitude, the bar’s partners gifted them with a bottle of 15-year Pappy Van Winkle.
Samborski points out that a sense of ownership in the bar has evolved among locker patrons, resulting in a friendliness reminiscent of the ’80s TV show “Cheers.” Not that you could watch a rerun, or any show actually, at LWB, because there are no TVs. “We’re all about conversation; you won’t see people staring at their phones here, either,” says Samborski. “All too often, people are too busy looking at a sporting event or down at their phones. We think of this place as a relief valve for the week.”
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There’s plenty to see here without media interrupting the vibe. Two beautiful glass pendants hang over the bar, and a library ladder reaches the topmost mahogany bar shelves. A stained-glass pendant light from Samborski’s first home illuminates the lounge area. Another stained-glass chandelier—from Forman’s parents’ home—hangs next to the wall-mounted liquor locker. A deeply carved door with a thick coat of red paint marks the bar’s ADA-approved bathroom. It, and the sidelights on either side, came from a house Forman had renovated. If that bathroom is in use, patrons are welcome to enter the c.1970s phone booth to their left: Behind the bifold door is a petite but fully equipped bathroom.
The rest of the decor leans heavily toward the smoke-and-leather aesthetic of speakeasy days. Patrons can lounge on the Chesterfield couch in front of an electric fireplace, or curl up on a leather easy chair painted with a portrait of Paddy Van Winkle himself by local artist Kristy Rosen.
There’s live music every week from Thursday to Sunday. Indoors, the bands set up in the lounge area. When the temps warm up outside, the live music finds its way outside. To create a backdrop for the stage, Forman moved two boulders in the backyard and, between them, installed a red gate originally from the prison itself. You’ll hear Frank Sinatra and others Big Band favorites over the indoor and outdoor speakers when live music isn’t playing.
Music isn’t the only programming in the works. Whiskey-appreciation classes on the docket for the near future. “We’re all about educating our customers,” says Smith. “We’re not experts, but we’re all learning, and we invite people to learn with us.” The staff, too, becomes well-schooled in whiskey as they work.
The Last Whisky Bar is open Thursday through Sunday. But on select Mondays and Tuesdays, the bar opens as a speakeasy: Tipped off by LWB’s social media, followers are invited to knock on an inconspicuous gray steel door. Just like in the days of Al Capone, the “Closed” sign will slide open and the patron is asked for the password shared on LWB’s social that day. Their first speakeasy night was December 5—the 89th anniversary of the end of Prohibition—and the password was “Volstead,” the name of the act that began those dark days in 1933. Along with those flexible hours comes a caveat, however. “We will never be open on Wednesdays,” Smith says, as those are reserved for the OG whiskey appreciation nights.
Forman’s sister Dawn and her husband Max Mack run Griddle Me This, serving up gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and other delicacies from a camper and outdoor setup outside LWB. Griddle Me This’s schedule nearly mirrors that of the bar, making it a perfect stop for those late-night eats when most kitchens have closed.
True to their collaborative nature, the four owners cycled through a few names before settling on Last Whisky Bar, which is a reference to the Doors’ classic “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar).” They added ‘last’ because, well, according to Samborski, “this is the last whiskey bar you’ll ever need.”
