Ways to secure open space

By NEAL HALLORAN

This is not so much a vision as it is just one more way to achieve what I believe is a vision many of us hold. Several years ago I wrote another article on my vision of the Delaware River Valley. It wasn’t some grand vision of what it might become, but an appreciation of what is here. I always liked the openness and natural beauty of what was here when I would visit my grandmother and other relatives in Sullivan County as a child. We would visit on a regular basis and spent some summers up here. As a teen I worked in a boarding house on Washington Lake in Yulan, including the infamous summer of 1969.

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Workforce Development helps kids gain skill and experience

HARRIS, NY—For most of them, this is their first job, but it may turn out to be one of their most valuable in the long run. What seven young people who are part of the Workforce Development Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) are gaining from their six weeks at Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC) this summer ranges far beyond the benefits of receiving a paycheck.

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