Wayne recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month

HONESDALE, PA — More than 40 years have passed since the first “Take Back the Night” events began cropping up throughout the country. Since then, activists throughout the world have …

UDC endorses rehabilitation of Skinners Falls Bridge

NARROWSBURG, NY — At its April 1 meeting, the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) voted unanimously (minus one abstention) to recommend rehabilitation of the 1902 Baltimore truss bridge connecting …

Sharing the vision

REGION — The show may have been in Spanish Harlem, but the message is there for all of us, no matter where we live. The Red Carpet for Social Justice Coalition honored female frontline …

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Coronavirus Updates

COVID rising in Sullivan County, vaccination clinics in Wayne and Pike

Sean LeStrange seeking election as Magisterial District Judge WAYNE COUNTY, PA — Retired Honesdale Police Detective Sergeant Sean LeStrange is seeking election as Magisterial District Judge …

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In the community

- A litter-pluck surprise
  
  I hope you all had a very nice Passover and Easter. I hosted Easter Sunday dinner. It was really easy; everyone brought something. We had a …
- PA expanding vaccine distribution
  
  PENNSYLVANIA — The PA Department of Health has laid out a path toward making the COVID-19 vaccine available to everyone in the commonwealth …
- Preparedness
  
  MONTICELLO, NY — Unspoken as we climb out from the current pandemic: What if this happens again? Sullivan County, and New York counties in …

Opinion

- Infinite pools
  
  This week marks a little over a year since I left work one evening and received a call the next day letting me know I’d be working from …
- Never stop growing
  
  The great thing about gardening is you never stop learning. I have been tending a garden for more than 30 years in one place or another. But …
- Closer to the source
  
  I once had the responsibility of teaching health and nutrition to incoming students at Job Corps. This residential program run by the Department …

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Sports

Booters battle to a tie

LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — It all boiled down to 35 seconds when, on Tuesday, March 30, the Sullivan West Lady Bulldogs (1-1-1) hosted the Lady Bears of Tri-Valley (0-2-1) in a girls’ varsity …

Bulldogs win homecoming game

LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — The Sullivan West football team (2-0) defeated the visiting Bears of Tri-Valley (0-2) 16-8 during their under-the-lights homecoming game on Friday, March 26. Before the …

Reflections in the glass: Hornet’s hoops part two

HONESDALE, PA — The Honesdale High School Hornets girls’ varsity basketball team wrapped up their season with an overall record of 4-8 (0.33 win percentage) and posted a 2-4 Lackawanna …

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Editorial

Proposed recycling legislation deals devastating blow to community newspapers

New York State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and a host of colleagues have introduced legislation that shifts the responsibility and costs of recycling from municipalities to the producers of packaging and …

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Leisure

A shot in the arm

Honestly, I don’t get it. I’m not sure if it’s generational, if I’ve become old and befuddled, or if I’m just plain stupid. Perhaps it’s a combination of all …

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Outdoors

river talk

Springtime serenade

ramblings of a catskill flyfisher

Trout-stream fishing, 2021

The way out here - The River Distorter

The night peepers

Trick or Treat!

Though the festivities were different this year, Halloween 2020 still went on!

Nature’s aviators

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Reimagining Halloween

REGION — Ghosts and goblins, fairies and superheros headed out for Halloween in the year of the pandemic. While not the traditional Trick-or-Treat, communities reinvented their traditions for …

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