Victoria and the boa

The woman was strange looking, almost cartoonish. She stood a few feet in front of me with an oversized shopping cart, her daughter in a matching purple sweat suit by her side. The line to the register had been overwhelming at the Astor Place K-mart electronics department. It stretched 20 people long, the end reaching into the men’s underwear aisle.

In my hands was my single purchase, a 10-pack of DVD covers to package and send off my editing reel. The woman’s shopping cart was full.

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The foundations of a viable plan

By JAY EPSTEIN

We are blessed in this area to have some enormous natural resources: the river, the mountains, the lakes, the forested lands and the people who live here. Each has a specific function in making it all happen.

Ask yourself why people want to come and live here, and the answer is the beauty of the area and the inner peace that comes with being here. In order to avoid turning the area into a strip mall, with development uncontrolled, and the wasting of the prime asset that brought people here yesterday and today, we need something that will keep the dream alive for those to come in future generations.

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