Van Etten News

Cat Martino took five years to follow up her first full-length. This half-decade hiatus after 2004's Here Now had nothing to do with artistic burnout or a move from her Brooklyn home to a new town.

Spencer has a very big day scheduled for this Saturday. "Party at the Pond" starts at 8 a.m. with the annual Seymour Maltese Kids Fishing Derby at Nichols Pond.

The Owl House, located in a modest house on Marshall Street just outside downtown, has been a destination for vegans, vegetarians, gluten intolerants and carnivores alike since it opened in August 2010.

There are plenty of new acts to be seen and heard at Bonnaroo this year. New York native Cat Martino is one act that you can catch on the Miller Lite-sponsored New Music On Tap stage.

The S-VE Farmers' Market will open for the season on Saturday. The market will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Look for the 14 vendors right across from the fire station on Saturday mornings through the fall.

Last month the Scottish electronic duo Boards Of Canada released a series of mysterious recordings of a voice reading a set of numbers.

Heather Gable has had it rough. During the recession, sales dropped off at Finger Lakes Coffee House, the business she owns in Van Etten, a small Upstate New York town.