Last call for the centennial year. The feast's official schedule has today, Sunday, September 13, running noon to 10:00 at Veterans Memorial Park, 201 Gipsy Trail Road in Carmel. Admission is free, and the closing day has its own shape: the Kids Markets run from noon to 4:00, where young entrepreneurs sell their own wares, Andrea and the Armenian Rug Riders play at 3:00, and the GiGi's Playhouse 50/50 raffle drawing lands at 4:00. DJ Fonz closes out the night.
If you have been waiting for the right window, the weather is cooperating with the schedule. Today's forecast holds showers and maybe a thunderstorm before noon, then the chance thins out and the high sits near 75, so the afternoon and evening look like the feast-friendly half of the day. Saturday's car show has come and gone; today is the quieter kind of closing day.
One practical note for a closing night: the kids' market and the raffle both land early, between noon and 4:00, so if the schedule is the draw, arrive inside that window and you catch the whole closing-day program with time to spare.
The questions Putnam searches this week, answer first, source after.
Is Oktoberfest still going in Putnam Valley today?
Yes, it wraps today. The German American Social Club's Oktoberfest at 11 Kramers Pond Road runs noon to 7:00 PM, under the big tent, with the band Spitzbaum playing through the weekend. Today is their Emergency Responder Recognition Day: free admission for active and retired police, firefighters and emergency services providers with ID. Otherwise admission is $10, and kids under 14 come free with an adult.
When does public comment close on the county's climate plan?
Monday, September 15, the day after tomorrow. The draft Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Plan is open for review at putnamcountyny.gov/ccarp, with comments by email to climatesmart@putnamcountyny.gov, by mail to the Planning Department at 841 Fair Street in Carmel, or through the survey on that page. The county expects to adopt the plan in October, so this week is the part where residents shape what it says.
More than 8,400 people, including 1,600 children, per figures the county legislature released this week for Hunger Action Month. Barry Lewis of the Regional Food Bank told lawmakers his organization distributed over 1.1 million pounds of food in Putnam in 2025, about 924,427 meals, against a meal gap he put at more than 1.6 million missing meals. His arithmetic on why the SNAP debate matters here: for every one meal the bank distributes, SNAP distributes nine.
The morning is the wet half: showers and a possible storm before 1:00 PM, with ponding in the usual low spots on Route 6 and the secondary roads into Carmel. No road advisories are logged for the county, and Metro-North keeps the regular weekend timetable on the Harlem Line out of Brewster and Southeast.
From early afternoon on, the pattern lifts: partly sunny, high near 75, and a dry evening for the feast's last hours. Monday opens the week with scattered showers before 7:00 AM, then sun and a high near 70. If you are driving to Kramers Pond Road for Oktoberfest instead, the same window applies; both events are at their best after lunch today.
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Festival pages list times; they do not make choices. Try: "Here is the feast's closing-day schedule [paste it]. I have kids who want the markets and adults who want the band. Build two plans, one arriving at noon and one at 3:00, with what each catches and misses." Seeing both versions side by side settles the arrival-time argument faster than negotiating in the parking lot.
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