Somers first repair cafe at the end of April was featured in an article in Halston Media Group’s The Somers Record in early May. To read the article, click on the article title in bold below.
"From Broken to Beloved: Repair Cafe finds Success in Somers," Halston Media Group, May 3, 2026.
The Repair Cafe Hudson Valley network, the RPI Repair Cafe and the whole repair movement were beautifully written about in the new Substack column Scratch about all things done by hand. To read the piece, click on the article title in bold below.
"Things Break. Only Humans Can Fix Them," Scratch Substack, Kate Cohen, April 28, 2026.
The Columbia NE Repair Cafe season started in April with the Austerlitz cafe and continues with a pop up later in the month in Kinderhook thanks to two new portable repair kits which were paid for by a grant from NYSAR3. To read the article, click on the article title (in bold) below.
"Repair Cafe receives NYSAR3 grant to support kit program," The Columbia Paper, April 18th.
The April Red Hook Repair Cafe was featured in a recent article in The Daily Catch which included an embedded video with interviews with organizers and fixers.
To read or listen to the article and see the video, click on the linked article title below.
"From Lamps to Loppers, Saturday’s Repair Café Brings New Life—and Community—to Red Hook," The Daily Catch, April 20, 2026.
The PBS Kids show Cyberchase came and filmed last October at the Hastings Repair Cafe and we got word that the episode aired last weekend. Cyberchase is a math and science focused cartoon show that always features a similarly themed live action segment at the end—that was what was filmed at our cafe.
To see the episode in its entirety, click on the episode title, Fix it Time, below. To see just the live action segment (starring one of our very own fixers!) go to the 22 minute mark.
"Fix it Time!" Cyberchase, PBS Thirteen, April 18, 2026 (Hastings Repair Cafe featured in live action segment at 22 minutes).
A wonderful piece about visible mending in the Scenic Hudson Valley Viewfinder starts with a very productive visit to the Ellenville Repair Cafe. To read the piece, click on the title below.
"Mending Clothing + Gear Creatively," Scenic Hudson Valley Viewfinder, April, 2026.
The Mt. Kisco-Bedford Times covered the March Pound Ridge Repair Cafe in their April/May issue with photos and a wonderful in depth article. Below are PDFs of the piece, including photographs.
You can also read the article in its entirety online with additional pictures here.
RCHV’s RPI Repair Cafe was featured on WAMC Northeast Public Radio this week after last weekend’s repair cafe in Troy. To hear the piece, click on the title of the article below.
"Capital Region Residents Pursue Sustainable Living at Repair Cafe," WAMC Northeast Public Radio April 6, 2026.
Reader’s Digest features an article on repair cafes in the RCHV as well as others in a new piece in their April/May 2026 Issue. This piece was adapted from The Hudson Independent which featured the Rivertowns Repair Cafe in Irvington last July.
Click on the linked PDF below to download and read the article.
"Where Broken Items Get New Life," Reader's Digest US, April/May 2026.
This eel fork fixed by our professional (but volunteer!) welding Repair Coach Vince Murray was discussed in this Reader’s Digest article. RCHV Coordinator Suzie Fromer was in Stanford that day and snapped this pic as she too was intrigued by the item!
The recent mention of our TarryHollow Repair Cafe in the Wall Street Journal was seen far and wide, as seen by a recounting of this in an article in an Idaho paper who was inspired by it to start thinking about starting his own cafe.
"It's the Simple Things," Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press, March 21, 2026.
Toss it? No Way…Bring it to the Repair Cafe