New funding for Pike County nonprofits
MILFORD, PA — Nonprofits headquartered in Pike County and that were impacted by COVID-19 can apply for up to $25,000 in aid.
The Pike County …
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4/6/22
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During my interview with Santa last week, he uttered those familiar words and it got me thinking.
What? it happens.
In a Utopian society, the concept of peace on Earth is a given, but every …
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By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX
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12/15/21
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Good, bad, or somewhere in-between, holidays evoke memories. In the old days, we’d take family photos (with actual cameras, not phones) of the Thanksgiving turkey and relatives gathering to …
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By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX
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11/24/21
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The last pancake breakfast
EQUINUNK, PA — Well, not the last one forever. Just the last one for 2021.
The Pine Mill Community Hall, on Pine Mill Road in Equinunk, will hold its final …
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11/17/21
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Go Orange Day celebrates kindness
HONESDALE, PA — Go Orange Day, on Thursday, October 21, marks nine years since Wayne County first embraced Rachel’s Challenge and launched a campaign …
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10/20/21
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We got the news on a Sunday evening: Mort was gone.
Dr. Mort Malkin—author, poet, physician, activist, and self-described “gadfly”—had been a fixture here in the …
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By SKIP MENDLER
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7/28/21
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If you have not yet been to “Peace, Love & Lights,” the holiday light show at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, you do not know what you are missing. This past weekend, there were six …
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By Eileen Hennessy
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12/9/20
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What's going on in arts, leisure and community December 10 to 16
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12/9/20
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That age-old excuse has existed since the first one-room schoolhouse was attended by the first student who had a mongrel at home to blame for not handing in his (or her) assignment on time. Of …
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By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX
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12/2/20
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Psychologist Kim Olver has a holiday gift for us all. It is hope, and a way to find it.
Olver (who also writes for the River Reporter in her column “From the Relationship Center”) …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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11/18/20
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The River Reporter has invited readers to join its Monthly Conversation Experience by reflecting on the following prompt: In this time of upheaval, where do you find refuge and renewal? It will come …
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By SANDY LONG
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9/30/20
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She sits on the bankwhere small stones punctuatethe surface in front of her,and the river ripples gently at her feet.Here the forest waitswhile the river crosses,tall trunks reflectedin its flow. …
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By ELAINE KOPLOW of Hardwick, NJ
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8/6/20
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The river said
I’m glad you’ve come
What took so long
You’re busy?
Indeed I said
You just don’t know
It’s life these days
Not easy
Now let …
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By JENNIFER CANFIELD of Damascus, PA
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8/5/20
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The beauty of the natural world of the Upper Delaware River region always restores my spirit, especially in these turbulent times. Seeing an eagle, observing nature at different times of the day, and …
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By ERICA HART of Hankins, NY
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8/5/20
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Humming wet rises swiftly over broad boulders,explores storm-stacked debris with cautious foaming fingers,stops to ripple ‘round fat jumping fish.“Call me River!” it shouts,shooting …
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By NANCY DYMOND of Bethany, PA
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8/5/20
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The smallest tendrilhas me in its gripin the gardenpart of a newbornbutternut squash plantI watch itreaching across the groundthough I can’t actually see when it makes a break for itbutday …
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By CHANA POLLACK of Cochecton, NY
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8/5/20
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You shall not revel in our constrainmentCurséd plague, foul maker of forlornness,Nor prison us in woeful malcontent Or sunder our souls from passion’s caress!Toothless are you to crush …
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By GARY HOLMES of Wurtsboro, NY
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8/5/20
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On paperSo pliant Receptive Susceptible to flushes of colorLight’s various temposmark time
Like the still life of a simple peachthe memory of whichmay sufficeif only its furry …
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By MYRA MNIEWSKI of Cocheton, NY
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8/5/20
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Boredom — I miss leavesfalling off trees — wither — it’sCorona season.
Kids meant to prance likedeer in field, now still — hidingfrom COVID-19.
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By Z. A. KOHLOA of Callicoon, NY
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8/5/20
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I almost missed one of my favorite seasons;
I had been busy self-pollinating worry.
The sight of a robin on the berm
of a road way too familiar lately,
caught my attention.
his …
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By SALLY HENDEE of Hawley, PA
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8/5/20
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