Baseball in the park

I sit in the park on a drizzly Sunday morning watching six boys play baseball and finishing a book. A large steaming cup of coffee and a toasted pumpernickel bagel sit next to me on the bench. The baseball boys range in ages and sizes. I wager a guess that they are between 10 and 14.

It is nice, even in the cold and wet, to sit on the bench. I am reading in spurts, pleasantly distracted by the loud arguing over where to put the bases.

“It’s too far,” a medium-sized boy with long hair shouts, standing on a large rock that will double as second base. “This isn’t the major leagues.”

“To your right!” a boy who seems younger yells.

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Out of many, one

By Jonathan F. Rouis

When I became chairman of the Sullivan County Legislature earlier this year, I knew that if my colleagues in the legislature and I were going to be successful in building a better Sullivan County, we needed to change the way things had always been done, particularly with regard to the county’s economic development plans.

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