MY VIEW

Keeping Skinners Falls Bridge alive

There are 30 vehicular bridges across our Delaware in the 200 miles between Hancock and Trenton. Every one of them has been replaced or renovated, some of them many times, due to floods, fires, ice …

What’s the best gift for relationships this holiday season? Understanding ourselves

We were in one of those finish-everything-before-the-holidays meetings, pussyfooting about an accusation someone had made. Suddenly a colleague confessed, “My hands are clenched. My shoulders …

Let’s not shoot CEOs; let’s fix our broken health care system

Americans love having cars. But really, what good would our personal vehicles do us if we didn’t wholly embrace the concept of public roads? If the moment we pulled out of our driveways, we …

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Walmart and Amazon are exploitative and destructive

Officially, we don’t have royalty in this country. However, we do have “retail kings.” Like “Crazy Eddie.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the Crazy Eddie electronics …

My newspaper days (television, too)

On December 13, I received an award and gave a dinner talk at the National Press Club in Washington, recognizing my 68 years as a journalist and my 58 years as a club member. This recognition is …

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Letters to the editor

How about a little sharing?

I am forwarding this news article I read in Mid Hudson News ( www.midhudsonnews.com/2024/12/22/legislature-approves-reallocation-of-kent-arpa-funds/ ) about Putnam County’s decision to allocate …

PennDOT must restore not destroy the historic bridge

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability is alerting the public that PennDOT’s proposal to destroy the Skinners Falls, Milanville Bridge is not based on facts. Our comment letter and associated …

Statements on Marcy Correctional Facility camera footage

New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) has been monitoring the events …

A cooperative agreement

The New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission agreement, established in 1919, mandates equal responsibility between Pennsylvania and New York for decisions involving the …

NYSCOPBA president slams governor’s veto of critical death gamble legislation

The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) is deeply disappointed in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to veto the union’s “death gamble” …

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OPINION

Photo by Tom Rue

Rest in Pieces Skinner’s Falls Bridge

Make Studies and Surveys. The snail sets the pace. Bury millions of bucks in ridiculous waste. Ask public opinion from expert to folk. Then lay down your cards at …

TRR file photo circa 1985

Editor Glenn Pontier, left, production assistant Lisa Vitolo, circulation manager Allison Larkin, associate editor Laurie Stuart, and staff writer Andrea Henley Heyn, wave to copy editor Ed Wesely as he heads off with the newspaper "flats" to the Union Gazette printing plant in Port Jervis.

Isn’t it nifty? Look who’s fifty!

The first edition of The River Reporter was printed on December 3, 1975. The way I tell the story is that the paper was founded by the first managing director of Lincoln Center, Tom …

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COLUMNS

river talk

Snow birds

ramblings of a catskill fly fisher

Concerns re extended trout fishing

in my humble opinion

Be nice, be nice, be nice

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

With a little bit of help

In the early days, we typed the copy for the newspaper on my Selectric typewriter that I received as a high school graduation gift. From there we pasted it with rubber cement onto large "flats," …

Isn't it nifty? Actually, it's a miracle

I have been working on The River Reporter for the last 47 years. That is a very long time. And a bit of a miracle. And while I admit I'm a bit tired, my passion for providing a …

Resting in a sea of overload

Ask anyone and they will tell you that they are busy. Super busy. And stressed. With constant interruptions, bings, rings, and pings, it's good to be reminded that we can unplug ourselves …

BLOGS

Ukraine is an excellent investment

Thirty-four years ago, I stood in the Golan Heights overlooking Syria towards Damascus and wondered. The support the United States has shown in Ukraine was quintessential in distracting …

A tale of two borders

One has to admire the recent move by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau when he traveled to meet with President-Elect Trump to discuss the pending tariffs that have been proposed. Let’s be …

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