Photo credit: Peter Lyons Hall
The Greenwood Lake Chamber of Commerce is set to hold its Annual Street Fair on Saturday, June 14th, 2025, an event that brings the community together featuring dozens of vendors, food trucks, and the potential for an Old-Time Baseball Game originally planned for last summer as part of our Centennial celebration.
Vendor signups for the Street Fair are available at https://gwlnychamber.com/events/greenwood-lake-street-fair/, with a deadline of May 28. According to the Chamber website, “Your payment does not guarantee your spot. Registrants will need to be approved in order to avoid business duplications. Please note if you’re not approved, your payment will be refunded.”
Meanwhile, there are two swimming environments available in the Town of Warwick: the pools available at Mountain Lake Park, for which swimming lesson signups have been available since the beginning of April (in person at Town Hall); and the beach at Greenwood Lake, which will officially open for the season on weekends, beginning on Friday, May 23rd, until June 19th, when the schedule will shift to full-time operations. Greenwood Lake beach passes are currently available on-line at a discounted rate through May 17th. Registration for swimming lessons in Greenwood Lake will open in early June.
The last Saturday in May, the 31st, will be the opening day for the upcoming season for the popular Lakeside Farmers Market, at Winstanley Park (across from Chase Bank) on Windermere Ave., from 9AM-1PM. This is the fourth season for Greenwood Lake’s Farmers Market, the once upstart farmers market that began at the foot of Windermere Ave. at Waterfront Park, but then graduated to Winstanley Park, farther north on the same road but in the middle the Village where there is a lot more visibility and foot traffic.
As a result of the relocation of the market and an aggressive marketing effort that included the introduction of the Market Bucks program and the integration of the Community Composting program, in collaboration with Grow Local Greenwood Lake, Lakeside Farmers Market was the recipient of a $22,000 NY State Grant that its committee had received in 2024. NY State distributed only six of these grants statewide to qualifying farmers markets. Since then it has carefully continued to grow its list of participating vendors by carefully inviting new exhibitors that feature a delicious selection of prepared foods and artisan products, like Flower & Dough, and Hillery Farms, The Lunch Lady, J&A Farm Produce, and a number of artisan vendors and not-for-profit organizations.
The Community Composting Program continues to expand. The US is one of the largest contributors of methane on the planet because of the large amount of food waste, estimated to be around 25% of its annual production. When food scraps rot in landfills they release methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. According to the Food Network, “Many of our landfills turn into huge, steaming piles of methane-emitting organic waste, which seriously compromises any plans to reverse our ever-intensifying global climate chaos.” Lakeside Farmers Market collects food waste from residents for free to minimize the impact of food waste, and adds it to the community compost program.
Residents and visitors alike will soon learn about the free concert series lineup at Thomas P. Morahan Waterfront Park this season, while organizers prepared the finishing touches to this year’s artists. The concert series, like those held in the Villages of Warwick and Florida NY, are a highlight of the season because they are held with the spectacular lakefront as a background in front of a large and very appreciative crowd. Lake Lodging Motel owner, Ingrid King, loves to remind her guests that her secluded spot off 17A “is also near many of the best destinations in the Warwick Valley region: fine restaurants and ice cream parlors, hiking on the best trails in the NY-NJ area, pick-your-own orchards, wineries, craft breweries, distilleries, farmers markets, and concert venues.”
To learn more about Greenwood Lake’s upcoming summer season of activities, click on GWLny.org
