Saaaa-lute!

“Should we support this?

That puzzled query came from a fellow Waynepeace member, along with a link to the “Blue Fridays” campaign ((www.bluefridays.org)), which urges Americans to show support for the troops by wearing blue on Fridays. Apparently, an email pushing this idea has been circulating on the Internet recently, and found its way to my friend.

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A premonition

The young man was dressed in a white collared shirt and khakis. It was a Thursday night, and he looked like he had come straight to the bar from work. I saw him approaching and there was something about him that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. He was totally drunk and stumbling down the street, but there was something else.

He turned back to his friends, who were milling about outside the bar, and said that he was going home. No one seemed to notice.

You know that feeling you get when you are sure that something strange is about to happen? I guess people call these things premonitions? I never was a big believer in that stuff. But looking at this fellow, stumbling past me on the sidewalk, I knew that something bad was about to happen to him.

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Positioning Sullivan County

for economic growth

In writing this article on how we can best position Sullivan County for economic growth, I decided to draw on my perspective as the commissioner of community and economic development as well as my experience as a second-home owner in the Catskills (20 years) turned full time resident and a local business owner.

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