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People watching in the country is frightfully more diverting than its city counterpart. For in the Catskills, whilst we are exposed to new faces all the time, the old faces—the …
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By RICHARD TRAVISS
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11/6/19
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“If you don’t know what is happening on October 8th, I urge you to find out... It will be one of the biggest days in LGBTQ legal history and we have a lot to do to prepare. Our fight is …
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By STEVEN TEAGUE
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10/9/19
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Recently, our local library announced availability of Robert Redford’s latest movie, “The Mustang.” It wasn’t shown in theaters nearby. It’s a drama based on a prison …
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By JENNIFER CANFIELD
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9/25/19
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Labor Day has come and gone. I haven’t accomplished as much as I planned to this summer, but it gives me hope and ambition for next summer’s agenda. Days of grilling outside, listening to …
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By BRANDON KENT
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9/11/19
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It may not actually be fall, but to me, it’s officially the season. Each and every Friday is spent on a football field from now until November.
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By AMANDA REED
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8/30/19
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This Labor Day, there will be many people who don’t have the day off. Beginning in high school and through college, I worked part-time, sometimes full-time jobs, mostly at restaurants. I …
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By ELIZABETH LEPRO
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8/28/19
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There’s a sound that my bicycle tires make on a warm August afternoon. I focus on the rhythms of the tires on pavement, a lower pitch on the uphills as my labored breathing joins in, and more …
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By CHARLES RUBIN
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8/21/19
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Here it is, a power outage. I don’t know, maybe it’s for the best not to know what’s going on in the world. Just the other week, the police were down the street from our house …
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By LISA BAUER
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8/21/19
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Last week’s ultimate collapse and cancellation of Woodstock 50 is reminiscent of a long forgotten festival that was to take place in Sullivan County: the doomed Bach to Rock Festival. Months …
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Uncertain times call for sing-able songs. Pete Seeger, the iconic troubadour who passed away in 2014, might have said that, had he lived to see the discord in our country today. Seeger, who would …
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By CHARLES A. RUBIN
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7/31/19
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There aren’t many people I know personally who get as excited over deer as I do—they come across my mind many times throughout the week. I take evening drives in my beat-up Ford Escort, …
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By BRANDON KENT
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7/17/19
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We aren’t anything if we aren’t our people.
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By JOELEE MOTICHKA
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7/10/19
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The antecedents to today’s U.S. LGBT movement go back even further than the Stonewall Riots. In 1893, James Mills Peirce, brother of philosopher and pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, proposed …
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By SEAN STRUB
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7/5/19
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No match for the Missouri, the Columbia, or Snake —the Delaware never stops
for a single dam from sourceto sea, but on the way itwelcomes many creeks and brooks,
the notorious Ten-Mile …
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By MORT MALKIN
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7/3/19
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Memorial Day came to me three times in rapid succession this year: twice in Israel and once in the U.S. Rather than feeling sad and reflective, I felt restive, frustrated and angry. I wanted to …
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CHARLES RUBIN
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6/19/19
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The new bail reform package proposed by New York’s governor and recently passed by our state legislature is a threat to public safety and will make all of us less safe. Those who proposed these …
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JIM FARRELL
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6/5/19
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The psychedelic painted VW “Light” Bus is tripping back to Bethel for the Woodstock 50th Anniversary celebration. As a symbol of the Woodstock generation, the bus is best described in …
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EUGENE WOLFF
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5/29/19
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When you’re an intelligent, ambitious and creative kid in a small town, everyone tells you to get out. Well-meaning adults in my life included, the common narrative pushed on me—growing …
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ELIZABETH LEPRO
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5/22/19
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Bee Pasture Here there is pasture for the sun struck bees; Blue bee balm rooted deep among old stones, Sweet white clover, wild hillside thyme, Basswood blossoms, so much perfume to spare It wastes …
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INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY
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5/15/19
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The foothills of the Poconos and Catskills are a gorgeous cuisine of outdoor life. There is magnificence, adventure and serenity. There are sacrifices, too, in order to live here and appreciate all …
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LYNN GUISER
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5/1/19
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