Things I didn’t know when we started thinking about moving here: Your neighbors are your 911, my local nurse practitioner told me. Every real estate agent here’s grandmother used to run a …
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By LEAH CASNER
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3/31/21
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Passover, or Pesach, carries the distinction of being the most widely observed Jewish holiday, outperforming even Chanukah. While both are home-based, the magic of Passover lies with the Seder …
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By RABBI LAWRENCE S. ZIERLER
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3/24/21
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Respectable Borough Council President, Michael Augello, Councilmen, James Brennan Jr., Robert Jennings, James Jennings, Jared Newbon, William McAllister and Mayor Sarah Canfield:
On behalf of …
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By TANNER SIMON
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3/10/21
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There’s a threat to our drinking water that you can help avert at a public hearing on Tuesday, March 17.
Water is one of our most critical and endangered resources. We have some of the …
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By VITO DIBIASI
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3/10/21
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Last week, you asked the other legislators why your wife’s rights weren’t considered after she fell multiple times and contracted COVID-19.
It’s a fair question, but what I …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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2/24/21
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A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed that half of Black Americans will not take a COVID-19 vaccine. Even some Black doctors and health care workers have refused the vaccine, citing safety …
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By ANTONIO DELGADO
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2/24/21
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It must have been a winter resident of upstate New York who set Valentine’s Day in mid-February, because this is the time of year when we really need a lover to wrap our arms and legs around, …
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By BARBARA NIMRI AZIZ
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2/17/21
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In accordance with the Sullivan County Hotel and Motel Occupancy Tax Law, the county retains 15 percent of the revenues resulting from the imposition of the “room tax” to defer the …
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By ALAN SORENSEN
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2/10/21
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I write to you on this bitter January day, wherein such bitterness is not the day’s, but my own. You see, what should be a cold winter morning is instead a fraught (not frosted) warm-weather …
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By NOAH KAMINSKY
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1/27/21
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I happen to be in Washington, D.C. this week on personal business not at all related to politics or a desire to witness the anticipated violence and riots. We happen to be staying in Northeast …
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By RABBI LAWRENCE S. ZIERLER
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1/13/21
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It was shocking to watch the insurrection unfold at the U.S. Capitol. Fascists and white supremacists came to our Capitol with weapons, bombs and a goal of intimidation and harm in an effort to …
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By MAYA K. VAN ROSSUM
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1/13/21
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The New York State Office of Mental Health should be ashamed of the treatment frontline nurses are receiving at the Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Forensic Facility in New Hampton, NY. Seventy nurses care …
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By ONEIDA MUSA
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1/6/21
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We’ve all just experienced some of the most distressing and disturbing nine months we’ve ever lived, and in spite of good news about vaccines, there is no tangible end in sight. …
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By JO SHUMAN
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12/16/20
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I had a friend who once said, “I don’t know nothing and I’m glad, because it means I can’t be wrong.”
I know something, and I’m not wrong. I know that the virus …
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By JIM STRATTON
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12/16/20
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I remember Pete & Kathy’s Luncheonette. The building is still there on Route 52, almost at the corner of 116 in Lake Huntington, NY. The paint is still that deep—beautiful barnyard …
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By NOAH KAMINSKY
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12/9/20
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According to many historical sources, Chanukah represents the first battle for religious freedom after the Syrian Greeks tried to deny the small second Judean commonwealth its rights to practice and …
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By RABBI LAWRENCE S. ZIERLER
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12/9/20
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Our Grand Old Republic is undergoing its greatest stress test since the Civil War.
Thankfully, the 45th worst president (45 of 45) was successfully terminated by a majority of citizens in a …
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By NED SADER
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12/2/20
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This is a great time to appreciate what we once had and what we still have. We all know the holidays will be different this year, and because we can’t re-create the past without a time machine, …
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By JENNIFER CANFIELD
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12/2/20
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So, I’ve been thinking. (Cue the horrified cries.)
Looks like we have a Democratic president, a Democratic House and a Republican Senate. What’s going to get signed into law? Nothing, …
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I recently turned 66 years old and I am starting over. That feels like an opening gambit to a discussion of golf, travel or the hours to be spent with brushes and oils, but that’s not where …
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By CHARLES RUBIN
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11/18/20
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