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Last week I mentioned I had been away and talked about the Melipona bees in Mexico. While I was away, my son, Ryan, was checking our house one day when he noticed some tracks around the house that …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/30/26
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Superbowl Sunday is right around the corner, so this week I am sharing a delicious hot crab dip recipe. There aren't many things that can top an appetizer with hot cream cheese in it. This dip truly …
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Claire Burns
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1/23/26
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In case you missed me last week, I was away and forgot to do my homework before I went away. During that time away, my wife, Vicki and I went to Cozumel, Mexico to visit a bee sanctuary that I had …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/23/26
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On Monday night, my son, Michael and I attended a Martin Luther King birthday celebration in Teaneck, NJ. The annual celebration is sponsored by the Bergen County Martin Luther King Birthday …
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June Donohue
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1/23/26
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When I was in the fourth grade, a classmate named Jeffrey Simpson chased me after school and, when he caught up, stabbed me with a paperclip he had DIY’d into a lethal weapon. I had heard of …
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Ramona Jan
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1/20/26
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I bought a calendar last week.
I share this because I can’t remember ever buying a calendar. Somehow, I always accumulated them. Like rubber bands. I never bought a rubber band in my life. Yet …
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Barry Lewis
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1/16/26
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I used to be intimidated by the idea of cooking an entire roast chicken. My father is excellent at doing so, and naturally I typically leave this job for him and reap all the benefits. However, I've …
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Claire Burns
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1/16/26
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I am now 91 years old and tell people that I intend to live to 100. I recently wrote to my former high school gym teacher who taught in Jeffersonville. Ruth (Gingrich) Devlin will be 101 on January …
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June Donohue
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1/9/26
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All over social media I have been seeing videos for sheet pan beef kofta. This is my simple and easy take on a viral recipe, using pantry staples and items you probably already have at home. No …
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1/9/26
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Hope springs Eternal. I'm not sure where that saying came from and looking outside, spring looks pretty far away. But the holidays are over, 2026 has begun and spring is less than three months away. …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/9/26
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I’ve got one New Year’s resolution, and it’s out of my wife’s playbook of life:
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? A lot easier than swearing to lose …
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Barry Lewis
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1/2/26
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Fade in: A dimly lit Berlin salon, 1820s. Candle flames flicker like nervous confidants across polished mahogany. Two children—barely teens—sit shoulder to shoulder at a grand piano that seems …
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Ramona Jan
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12/30/25
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Around the holidays when family is around, my husband and I like to host brunch at our home. Within the past year, I discovered the magic of a good frittata. It truly is one of the easiest things to …
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Claire Burns
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12/26/25
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As usual, just when you think you know what the weather will do, it does something else. So, everything I wrote about last week hasn't come to fruition as all the snow melted off and didn't refreeze …
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Jim Boxerger
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12/23/25
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There is a special hush between Christmas and New Year’s. The calendar exhales, clocks loosen their grip, and time becomes something through which you can wander. In the Upper Delaware River …
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Ramona Jan
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12/23/25
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‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the house were gifts for the grandkids, but nothing in the fridge, not a morsel for me or a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with …
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Barry Lewis
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12/19/25
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Every year on Christmas Eve my dad makes prime rib, and it is something I look forward to year-round. We started this tradition ever since I can remember, with our biannual voyage to Mr. Willy's on …
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Claire Burns
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12/19/25
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If you grew up any time between the late ’60s and early 2000s, you probably had two constants in your young emotional universe: Santa Claus, and a man in a cardigan who spoke softly enough that …
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Ramona Jan
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12/16/25
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The early season snow has put a beautiful blanket on the ground that should last us all the way till spring. The light snow was easy to move until many areas picked up some rain. Not enough rain to …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/15/25
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My friend, Howard, who has a house in Callicoon Center as well as an apartment along the Hudson River in New York City has been very busy for the past few years caring for his parents. He had settled …
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June Donohue
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12/12/25
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When you think of Christmas, you often think cookies. I've grown up with some incredible bakers in my family. My Great Aunt Anne was known to make wedding cakes and Christmas cookies of all sorts, my …
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Claire Burns
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12/12/25
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The constant cold weather we have right now came in so fast that even I didn't get all my fall projects done. A few weeks back I purchased some fall bulbs to plant for spring and they are still …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/12/25
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If you hang around long enough, you start to realize that history isn’t made in the spotlight; it’s made in the cramped backstage corners where teakettles hiss, hot plates wobble, and the …
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Ramona Jan
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12/9/25
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I love the holiday season.
It’s the annoying traditions of the holiday season that I can do without.
Traditions that come back to me like bad fish.
I'm not talking about the …
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Barry Lewis
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12/5/25
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Sullivan 180 Director of Community Development & Communications
As we enter the Hanukkah and Christmas seasons, the warmth of shared meals and traditions takes center stage. This …
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Guest columnist Shannon Cilento, Sullivan 180 Director of Community Development & Communications
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12/5/25
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