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The Terrace Stage at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

NARROWSBURG, NY — Produced by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA), the Big Eddy Film Festival “aims to advance the traditional art of storytelling by showing the newest and best … more

By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX | 9/16/20

Navajo elder Jake Singer, left, and Peter Comstock, Head of the Homestead School, in front of one of the tipis.

‘COVID can’t defeat us’

GLEN SPEY, NY — Peter Comstock calls it the blooming: the brightly colored tipis that have sprung up on school grounds. The Homestead School, Glen Spey’s Montessori school, has adapted … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 9/9/20

Alison Hoffmann, left, Sarah Clauss and Jill Carletti stand in front of the historic Murray building on Main Avenue in Hawley, now home to their creation: the Hawley Hub.

Going with the flow

HAWLEY, PA — From Broadway workouts, tap and ballet classes, guided meditation to flow yoga—there’s quite a bit going on at the newly formed Hawley Hub right now. But its … more

By OWEN WALSH | 9/2/20

Groceries just in, waiting for customers at Spruce.

To help feed us all

CALLICOON, NY — The pandemic was, has been, horrible. People have died. Friends have been ill. Our world feels out of control. But there have been points of calm in the chaos. Some of … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 8/26/20

Gathering around a campfire is a quintessential component of most forest school programs.

The forest for the trees

HANKINS, NY — School districts throughout the country are grappling with a conundrum right now. How do they provide an education amid a pandemic? How can they maximize the quality of the … more

By OWEN WALSH | 8/19/20

This is Channing Rutledge of Tri-Gal 4-H Club checking the Temperature, Pulse, and Respiration (TPR) of one of her Beef Cows.

Sale or no sale, education endures

The sound of the auctioneer calling prices with speed and rolling dictation, the scent of animal sweat and hair, the feel of that paper ticket clenched in your hand as you listen for your moment to … more

By HUNTER HILL | 8/12/20

An educator for the community

LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY — Forty years ago, when Dr. Nancy Hackett started her career in education, she probably didn’t anticipate this particular, interesting year. But if nothing else, her … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 8/5/20

Fifteen musicians, actors, stilt walkers, writers, ecologists, farmers and Chief Gentlemoon of the Lenape-Nation of PA are involved with the creation of Farm Arts Collective’s ““Dream on the Farm”” in Damascus, PA.

‘Dream on the Farm’ is a wake-up call

When I received the press release, I was immediately intrigued. “Farm Arts Collective continues outdoor arts programming in the summer of 2020 with ‘Dream on the Farm,’ a live … more

By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX | 7/29/20 | 1 comment

A hemp plant in the high tunnel at Anthill Farm.

CBD, homegrown

HONESDALE, PA — Monique Milleson stands against the background of Anthill Farm Agroforestry, just outside Honesdale. There’s fruit on the trees, the bees in the beehives are buzzing, a … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 7/22/20 | 1 comment

About 60 long-eared bats using an abandoned building in Sullivan County as a day-time roost.

White-nose syndrome has been decimating bat populations.

If you’ve spent a lot of summers here, you remember the bats. They skimmed through the night, swooping by people out for a walk and gobbling up mosquitoes. Or they lived in our houses and … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 7/15/20

Dr. Kenneth Luck, SUNY Sullivan professor of media arts.

Evil overlord fakes moon landing, aliens implicated

You know conspiracy theories; the internet happens to be a ripe breeding ground for them. “These evil all-powerful people or opposing political party or company or piece of technology did a … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 7/8/20

Bob hiking in Arizona in February 2020, a little more than half a year after his heart transplant.

Change of heart

BARRYVILLE, NY — “I thought I had the stomach flu,” Bob Hoshour says. It was 2017, and he and his wife, Dr. Jenise Parris, were at their Barryville house. He’d been tired. … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 7/1/20 | 1 comment

Sis, left, and Greg Paparella at Narrowsburg’s Honey Bee Festival. They have had a booth each year since the festival started.

No, no, no, no, don’t spray it no more

WAYNE COUNTY, PA — Small signs with black letters line the roadside along State Route 652 between Narrowsburg, NY and Beach Lake, PA. They contain two words only: “No … more

By LINDA DROLLINGER | 6/25/20

On furlough from the Met since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown began, Alpert decided to pursue his own lifelong dream of helping others find their truest selves.

Opera star goes country

COCHECTON CENTER, NY — How does a person top a life spent sharing the stages of the world’s great opera houses with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo? Metropolitan Opera … more

By LINDA DROLLINGER | 6/17/20

Rabbits under threat

REGION — As humans cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, rabbits are dying of their own devastating plague. Highly contagious, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, virus type 2 (RHDV2), has mainly been … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 6/10/20

Violet Adams: This multi-talented young lady is on the move.

Meet Violet Adams

If you say that someone is “no shrinking violet,” you mean that the person is not at all shy: a great asset if that same person has aspirations to be a performer. While Violet … more

By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX | 6/3/20

Katie Corcoran, left, Sandy Rickard, Lisa Corcoran and Nicole Curtis help hand out groceries outside of the Lakeside Elementary School.

Food, relief, community

WAYNE COUNTY, PA — This past month, Wayne County banded together in an effort to keep its residents from going hungry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Named the Wayne County Food Relief Fund, … more

By OWEN WALSH | 5/26/20

Pictured in last year’s Memorial Day parade in Roscoe, NY are Leslie Dickson, left, James Stevenson, Chuck Husson and Fred Tucker.

Paying respects

ROSCOE, NY — This year it will be more of a procession than a parade, said Karrie Jara. She’s organizing the Memorial Day observance in Roscoe this year. Yes, it’s still … more

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ | 5/20/20

Volunteer Corps Members Frank Ulbrichm, left, Maggie Tuttle Schutte and Yolanda Suida at Lapolt Park in Liberty.

Sullivan Renaissance in a modern Dark Age

FERNDALE, NY — For 19 years, residents of Sullivan County have emerged from winter hibernation to exult in a rite of spring known only to them: the Sullivan Renaissance Annual Conference, an … more

By LINDA DROLLINGER | 5/13/20

Mothers of Invention

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Currently, people are joining forces to get their vulnerable neighbors essential items, making masks that require no sewing, finding ways to … more

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