It was the Great Bipartisan Disappearing Sign Cluster.
The cluster is—make that “was”—at the end of the bridge from Callicoon, in PA, just under the “Welcome to …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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10/28/20
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LIBERTY, NY — The Spanish Castle has stood, radiating past glories and history, for 90 years. But now the abandoned property is more of a destination for urban explorers than the village jewel …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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10/21/20
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NARROWSBURG, NY — Once upon a time, the U.S. government paid young men and WWI veterans to plant trees.
It paid them to build firebreaks, fire towers and access roads. They built national …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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10/14/20
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SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — “Seeing a tragic accident that could have been prevented,” replied John Hauschild, Sullivan County Fire Coordinator, when asked what Fire Prevention Week 2020 …
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By TED WADDELL
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10/7/20
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HONESDALE, PA — If you’re one of the 331,825 people in Pennsylvania who buy health insurance on the exchange, get ready. Here comes Pennie.
That’s what the state has dubbed its …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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9/30/20
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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 …
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By JONATHAN CHARLES FOX
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9/16/20
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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9/9/20
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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 …
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By OWEN WALSH
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9/2/20
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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8/26/20
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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 …
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By OWEN WALSH
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8/19/20
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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 …
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By HUNTER HILL
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8/12/20
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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8/5/20
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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7/15/20
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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7/8/20
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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. …
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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 …
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By LINDA DROLLINGER
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6/25/20
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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 …
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By LINDA DROLLINGER
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6/17/20
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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 …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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6/10/20
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