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“Awww, look at you,” said the technician gazing at my scan at Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, “You’re Lucky Lefty. You have lots of blood in your left …
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Ramona Jan
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9/10/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Prof. I.D. Barnes, a former principal of the Damascus Union Academy, was recently married to Miss Hattie Armstrong of Cochecton, one of his pupils.
The first postal …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/10/24
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Marketing & Events
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With the school year kicking off and fresh carrots in season, it’s a great time to prepare some crispy carrot fries. This simple …
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Kellee Thelman - guest columnist
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9/6/24
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Things have been hectic this week so this column may be a little shorter than normal and completely scattered.
Two weeks ago my daughter and granddaughter moved to Italy leaving their …
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Jim Boxberger
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9/6/24
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The Summer seems to be leaving us with much cooler nights! The Diehl Farm Market is ready for the Fall offering mums, cider, beef, pork, chicken, ( stock up your freezer for a hard Winter) and …
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Sue Bodenstein
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9/6/24
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My oh my what glorious weather we have been having this week! Fall is in the air. Unfortunately, this weather always reminds me of September 11, 2001, as it was a similar type of weather day, clear …
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Susan Brown Otto
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9/6/24
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Cushetunk, the first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware region, part of which would later become Sullivan County, was established in the 1750s by a group of farmers from eastern …
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John Conway
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9/6/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
B.P. Davis, formerly of Jeffersonville and now of Canesto where he is employed by Baker and Vandelinder, manufacturers of farm and spring wagons, came to the village last …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/3/24
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You’ll hear that a lot this weekend – the last weekend of summer.
Yeah, I know, officially there are still three more weekends left of summer. But we know they don’t count. …
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Barry Lewis
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8/30/24
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Around this time of year, all my friends and family who grow gardens are telling me they have an overabundance of tomatoes that are either ripe or about to be overripe. I’ve heard of worse …
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Claire Burns
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8/30/24
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It is usually this time of year that people start coming in the store to buy some sort of fungicide because they think there is something wrong with their pine trees. The conversation always starts …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/30/24
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Congratulations to all the Fire Departments that participated in the Hortonville Volunteer Fire Company Parade & Field Day! It was a great day for their event – no rain! The Jeffersonville …
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Sue Bodenstein
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8/30/24
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With summer slowly moving towards fall, families are preparing for the start of school. Besides acquiring school supplies like pens, notebooks and rulers, children are beginning to lobby for what …
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Hudson Cooper
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8/30/24
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As it has for each of the past several years, Bagel Fest recently brought throngs of people to Broadway in Monticello, recreating some of the energy of days gone by, when such throngs were …
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John Conway
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8/30/24
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No two ways about it, folks. These last days of summer glow with a kind of halo both real and imaginary. This summer, whose long days of sunshine easily outspent other recent rainy summers, spread a …
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James Loney
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8/30/24
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Dark comedy is an interesting genre. It is also known as black comedy and often deals with serious topics that are tough to openly talk about. It will make light of these issues in an attempt to …
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Bill Moloney
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8/30/24
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As the summer sun begins to mellow and the vibrant hues of fall start to paint our landscape, the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association (SCVA) reflects on an exciting summer and eagerly anticipates …
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Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association
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8/30/24
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We all lived on 85th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Myself and ‘the mayor’ for years in separate apartments on the ground floor of the same brownstone. ‘The …
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Ramona Jan
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8/27/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
The exact distance between the villages of Jeffersonville and that of Youngsville, given by L. Hannar, Mr. Roboms and Adam Homer, is just four miles from the Eagle Hotel in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/27/24
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The cool weather this week was just a taste of things to come. As we head into fall it is beginning to become apple picking season. If you don’t have your own trees, there are plenty of you …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/23/24
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For as long as I can remember, I have been an avid sports fan. I tend to root for teams associated with New York. I say associated since I am also a fan of the NY Jets, even though they play in New …
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Hudson Cooper
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8/23/24
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It was early in 1782, and the Revolutionary War had been raging for seven long years when 21-year-old Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtleff and enlisted in the Fourth …
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John Conway
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8/23/24
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My friend Leisha’s parents were due to fly to New Jersey from England where they live, to visit their daughter and her family, as they do every year, at least once, when her father fell …
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June Donohue
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8/23/24
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All sorts of end of summer events are now taking place in rapid succession. This summer has been quiet in Highland and we have not seen the deluge of tourist we usually have and I’m not sure …
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Paula Campbell
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8/20/24
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