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Ahh, fall.
I'm no fan of winter. I hate scraping ice, shoveling snow and always feeling cold.
I enjoy summer because of the warm weather, but the humidity can be draining.
Spring's …
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Barry Lewis
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9/25/26
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When the weather starts changing into fall, all I want are soups and stews. This tomato soup featuring the last of my garden bounty has me savoring the summer flavors and because it contains no …
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Claire Burns
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9/25/26
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Cool nights, rainy days and no frost in sight has got my flowers making a late season push. Even though we are officially in fall now there is still some growing season left.
The …
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Jim Boxberger
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9/25/26
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“Old age ain’t no place for sissies,” Bette Davis famously said, or at least is widely credited with saying. She reportedly even had the phrase embroidered on a pillow, which seems about right …
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Ramona Jan
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9/22/26
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I’ve had some unexpected pleasures recently. My granddaughter, Shauna’s mother invited Vickie, Patricia, and I to breakfast at IHOP in Teaneck, NJ to celebrate Shauna’s 29th birthday on …
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June Donohue
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9/18/26
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My garden tomatoes are nearing an end, but I am hanging on to every last bit of them. It's been a mad dash to try to keep up with picking the produce and freezing or canning so my family can savor …
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Claire Stabbert
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9/18/26
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As the weather gets cooler, our summer annuals start to fade, and many people turn to mums to put some color back into their flowerbeds. Mums, asters and flowering cabbage have all been popular fall standards in the garden.
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Jim Boxberger
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9/18/26
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I have always believed that we are all unique. Apparently, I was wrong.
Consider Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, identical twins born in Ohio in 1939, separated at three weeks old and …
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Ramona Jan
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9/15/26
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Sadly, it's nearing the end of the season of fresh produce, but at least for myself, the tomatoes and zucchini are in abundance. Now is the time I like to create end of summer dishes and freeze what …
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Claire Burns
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9/11/26
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Twenty-five years is a long time.
But perhaps not long enough as so many of us are still working to recover from the deadliest attack on U.S. soil.
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Barry Lewis
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9/11/26
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Summer has come to a close, but my garden is still producing.
My pumpkins and zucchini have started to get that familiar powdery mildew that kills off the leaves in the fall, but the plants are still producing fruit. My tomatoes are bearing fruit as well.
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Jim Boxberger
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9/11/26
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Labor Day in the 1960s was a very different kind of holiday.
There were no inflatable obstacle courses, no food trucks, no Bluetooth speakers and nobody had to post a picture of the potato salad on Facebook to prove they were having fun.
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Ramona Jan
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9/8/26
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Cauliflower pizza is a simple way to put a nutritious twist on a firefighter favorite.
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Submitted by Nicole Blais, Outreach Coordinator, Sullivan 180
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9/4/26
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As we enter September just like the trees around us, we start to change with the change of the season.
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Jim Boxberger
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9/4/26
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It feels sturdy.
That may not sound like much of an observation, but if you were on the Callicoon Bridge during its various stages of construction, you’d understand. Before all this work …
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Ramona Jan
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9/1/26
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So, the issue of the week is the fact that I have a few apple trees in different parts of the county that all seem to be losing their leaves, but the apples are still on the tree. My first thought was a blight or fungus that effected the leaves, but there is no sign of a fungus.
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Jim Boxberger
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8/28/26
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I’m not going to say…walk into a bar. Instead, I have this story to tell about Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz who worked six months on what he half-jokingly called “probably the worst thing I’ve ever done and maybe the coolest.”
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Ramona Jan
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8/25/26
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Every summer with garden fresh tomatoes I love to make Shakshuka. It's so simple and easy to make, and can come together for a breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner. Shakshuka is a simple …
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Claire Burns
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8/21/26
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This summer has produced some unusual events at my house, like the stressed bees I wrote about last week. Another unusual event occurred last Wednesday night when we had a bear in our backyard. Now …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/21/26
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Before there were dating apps, texting, Facebook, Instagram, or the humiliating experience of having someone leave you on “read,” there were personal ads. And if the ones I recently stumbled …
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Ramona Jan
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8/18/26
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Chef Ann Cooper says school food should be something that is good, healthy, supportive and educational. And our society should be demanding that.
A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, …
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Barry Lewis
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8/14/26
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I’m not sure about everyone else, but the abundance of rain this summer has really put a damper on my garden produce, quite literally. The weeds are out of control, and due to not extremely high …
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Claire Burns
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8/14/26
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I purchased a new hive of bees this spring, set them up in my garden and they have been doing well this summer or so I thought. I have been checking their honey super, the box on top of the hive that …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/14/26
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That is the question when you have a bevy of bees making a hive between your chimney and the wall of your house.
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Ramona Jan
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8/11/26
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I have neighbors here in River Edge who recently went to Lake George for a vacation. This caused me to remember many years ago when my husband, our children, and I would go to Blue Water Manor at …
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June Donohue
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8/7/26
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