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B&NC’S 2026 Health & Wellness Essentials
These are some of our healthy-lifestyle essentials from some favorite local shops to kick off the New Year New You, in style
The B&NC Health & Wellness Edit
This year’s B&NC wellness guide isn’t about chasing trends or overhauling your life overnight. It’s about thoughtful routines and trusted experts. About movement that builds strength, care that supports skin and body health, and mindfulness that creates clarity rather than pressure. Our B&NC health, beauty, and wellness experts spent time visiting the top local fitness boutiques, trainers, spas, medspas, life coaches, alternative medicine practitioners, and more… to create our curated list of noteworthy favorites.
Darien’s Humphrey Sisters
Defying all odds, Nicole (24), Ashley (23), and Chloe (20), won the 2025 NCAA National Championship in Women’s Lacrosse playing together for the University of North Carolina ‘Tar Heels’...and Chloe was named the National Championship Game MVP, Team MVP, and won the Tewaaraton Award - the lacrosse equivalent of the Heisman Trophy!
Wedding Announcement
Robert Docters
The Bedford Playhouse
The Giggling Pig
Part studio, part community hub, The Giggling Pig brings joyful art, music, camps, and parties to Pound Ridge. Founded by educator and professional cellist Jessica Elkhatib-Hynes, it’s a warm, creative space where kids discover confidence, connection, and a whole lot of fun.
Chef Peter Kelly
A Man & His Car
Tony Berger… and the ‘Sir Stirling Moss’ Series 1 Semi-Lightweight E-Type Jaguar
For Anthony Berger, the ultimate automotive love story arrives in the form of a rare Series 1 Semi-Lightweight E-Type Jaguar… once raced by Sir Stirling Moss himself. A tale of provenance, patience, and passion, it’s a journey that proves the right car doesn’t just turn heads…it finally scratches the itch.
Teeth of the Dog… is back!
@BrunchWithBabs
@brunchwithbabs is the internet’s grandma! Babs opened up the brand new basket house in Silvermine to B&NC Mag and shared her story with Bedford & New Canaan Magazine.
Holiday Gift Guide
Our picks for the 2025 holiday season - and there’s something for everyone!
Out & About: Nov|Dec 25
Out & About at all the best area events in the Bedford & New Canaan Magazine readership
Nov|Dec ‘25 President’s Letter
A holiday note from our President
Mitti & Melissa Liebersohn
“What gives Mitti and me pleasure is helping other people,” says Melissa. “We’re fulfilled when a parent calls to say we’ve really helped their kid. Between Mitti’s philanthropy and my social work, we’re lucky enough to have the satisfaction of helping people on a large scale, and within the community on a personal level. As people say, ‘giving is its own reward’!”
Purple Plains
Cannabis is legal for regulated ‘recreational’ sale, and permitted use in most places where smoking a cigarette is allowed, in both New York and Connecticut. However, by quirk of law, exercise of government, and twist of fate, Purple Plains - located at 32 Westchester Avenue in Pound Ridge - is the only licensed cannabis store in the B&NC area!
Epic Soccer
“With Epic Soccer we’re providing organized sports for kids who otherwise wouldn’t get to play,” says Jessica Bennett, co-founder of this Darien Soccer Association-supported organization, now in its second year. “It isn’t a fully structured typical game - sometimes it’s just kicking it around - but the athletes are building basic skills, building relationships with one another and with their high school mentors, getting a sense of teamwork, making great strides, feeling successful, and having fun!”
THE PANTRY
The Pantry, presently located in the United Methodist Church at 300 Main Street in Mt. Kisco, distributes approximately 1,000,000 pounds of food and 1,300,000 meals per annum - making it the largest weekly-choice food pantry serving the 21 towns in Northern Westchester!
Dr. Jessie Stone
Dr. Jessie Stone is the modern day Albert Schweitzer - but who you’ve never heard of! She’s devoted her life to providing primary healthcare, health education and disease prevention and lives in a rural malaria-infested region along the Nile River in Uganda more than half of each year. …And then she runs a kayaking camp for disadvantaged children on the Housatonic River in Connecticut each summer, in her ‘spare time’!
The Katonah Museum of Art
You Can’t Spell Museum Without ‘U’ And ‘ME’
The Museum was founded in 1954 by a group of local women who had the audacious idea that they could bring the best of the art world to their community. …Now that vision is reality at the Katonah Museum of Art!