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.
The Hudson Valley repair cafe movement was featured in The Hudson Valley Viewfinder Magazine. To read the article, click on the title below.
“Why the Region’s Repair Cafes Continue to Boom”, The Hudson Valley Viewfinder, March, 2026.
A variety of RCHV cafes were featured in this piece, including Kingston, Newburgh, and Woodbury. Dave Zimel was filmed fixing lamps at Newburgh (above).
February’s Woodstock Repair Cafe was featured in The Overlook. To read the article, click on the title below.
“Tinker Time in Woodstock: A Repair Cafe Brings Neighbors Together,” The Overlook, February 13, 2026.
RCHV's ‘Zipper Queen,’ Michelle Elise, was featured on the NPR segment “Here to Help” on Sunday, February 16th.
To listen to the piece, click here.
Michelle Elise (right) fixes a tent with broken zippers at the Kingston Repair Cafe. She remembers this fix as one of her faves in this NPR piece.
The January Yorktown repair cafe was featured by The Yorktown News on January 29th.
To read the article, click here and click through to page 3.
“Repairs Carry On,” The Yorktown News, 1/29/26, p. 3.
The RCHV network of repair cafes, and in particular the TarryHollow Repair Cafe, was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal on 1/16/2026 in an article on retirement and ‘mattering,’ or doing important, satisfying volunteer work as a retiree. To read the article, click on the linked title below.
“The Retirement Crisis No One Warns you About: Mattering,” Wall Street Journal, 1/16/2025.
RCHV Coordinator and our network of cafes was quoted and mentioned in The Cool Down, an environmental website. To read the article, click on the linked title of the article below.
‘Innovative business sets out to solve major problem with household waste,’ The Cool Down, Dec. 25, 2025.
The December 6th Monroe Repair Cafe was featured in The Photo News, pictured below.
Toss it? No Way…Bring it to the Repair Cafe