Week by week through Dec. 23, we’ll be showcasing local certain merchants and their best must-have goods of the season. This week’s Sleepy Hollow focus requires some off-roading to websites rather than brick-and-mortar shops.

So buy local and go to:

1. RemTree tees have been perfected by long time retailer and Sleepy Hollow mother Emilia Monteforte. She’s kept it sweet and simple with these very wearable basics:

• Organic cotton tee-shirt dresses in easy-wearing colors like charcoal and dark earthy green, $36.
• Several items in the cotton spandex line are on sale with $20 tanks and $24 camisoles with built-in bras. 

Note that shipping is free for purchases of $75 and over, or only $2.99 by first class mail. Visit her website for more info and to purchase.

2. Cards are hard. Might as well have a designer do it. We’ve just showcased new Sleepy Hollowite Jana Ryan's Kudzu Editions. To see more of Ryan’s designs click here. 

3. Philipsburg Manor Gift Shop – note their weekend-only hours this time of year – is made for the holidays with items unique to our town like:

• A copper headless horseman ornament made exclusively, in the U.S., for Historic Hudson Valley, $18.95.
• March out to the mill to purchase fresh ground wheat flour or corn meal (varies) for the foodie in your life at $5 a bag.
• Old Christmas: From the Sketchbook of Washington Irving, for obvious reasons, $16.95.
• A CD of Jonathan Kruk, our regional storytelling star, called Santa on the Hudson: Stories of Christmas as told by Kruk, with music by Matt Noble, $14.95.