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I wrote about live Christmas trees a couple weeks back and how to best care for them, but a conversation came up over Thanksgiving dinner that required me to do a little digging. It all had to do …
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Jim Boxberer
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12/5/25
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Thanksgiving is fast approaching. We have the free turkey we received from ShopRite which I qualified for by spending the required amount for groceries. I am thinking back to another Thanksgiving …
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June Donohue
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11/28/25
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GRAHAMSVILLE—The holidays in Sullivan County are such magical times. We’ve just gathered around the Thanksgiving table with family and friends, grateful for so many blessings and are now …
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Lisa Carroll
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11/25/25
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I’ve cooked a turkey exactly once in my life, and that was enough to convince me that the Pilgrims owed us all an apology. No one warns you that the bird must be defrosted for roughly the same …
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Ramona Jan
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11/25/25
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When you talk about Thanksgiving, you talk about eating. And when you talk about eating, you talk about turkey.
Thanksgiving eating always starts with the turkey.
But wouldn't you really …
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Barry Lewis
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11/21/25
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In college, I would come home during the holidays and spend most of my time in the kitchen with my Grandma Shirley. We would make pumpkin pies with her pie leaf cutouts (which I now have) and spend …
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Claire Burns
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11/21/25
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner now and then we are on to Christmas. I've seen some houses with Christmas lights on ever since the day after Halloween and to be fair, we have been putting our …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/21/25
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Paris, 1925. The lights of the Left Bank shimmered like champagne, and in the middle of it all was Pauline Pfeiffer—thirty, stylish, fluent in French, and happily self-sufficient. She wrote for …
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Ramona Jan
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11/18/25
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I like to share this recipe every year around the holidays because it is a staple dish of mine. When people hear the word “Thanksgiving,” many think slaving over the stove for hours or …
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Claire Burns
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11/14/25
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Well nothing says the gardening season is over than snow on the ground and on my mower. I had just purchased a new mower and brought it home Tuesday during our little snow squall and this is what it …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/14/25
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There are now kids on my block in River Edge again who come around with their parents to get candy on Halloween. I never know ahead of time whether I will get no kids or groups of them. This brought …
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June Donohue
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11/14/25
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At the optician yesterday, while ordering glasses, the young eyewear expert commented, “I can tell by just talking to you that you shouldn’t get bifocals or progressive lenses. Stick with …
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Ramona Jan
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11/11/25
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Submitted by The Center for Discovery Department of Nourishment Arts (DNA)
There’s something about the scent of apples and cinnamon that instantly feels like fall in Sullivan County. This …
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Claire Burns
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11/7/25
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Going out for dinner last Saturday at our local haunt, Baker’s, we met up with some friends we haven’t seen in awhile, Carol and Roger from Fosterdale Equipment. As Carol and I …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/7/25
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Once upon a time, kids traded bubblegum-scented baseball cards as if they were gold bullion, flipping and swapping them for players whose faces were as familiar as family. I never made it into that …
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Ramona Jan
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11/4/25
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Invasive insects have greatly changed the forest makeup in Sullivan County over the past forty years. Emerald Ash Borer are responsible for the loss of thirty-two ash trees on my property …
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Jim Boxberger
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10/31/25
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Since my career is being a first grade teacher, it’s around this time of year I start falling ill. It’s only a matter of time before I begin to feel under the weather from germs floating …
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Claire Burns
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10/31/25
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Perhaps you’ve seen me at the Callicoon Farmers’ Market—or maybe you caught my recent performance at the Arts Nest in Narrowsburg, hosted by the ever-gracious Kathy Geary of WJFF …
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Ramona Jan
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10/28/25
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I don’t know everything, but I do know the key to happiness, and it’s this simple and easy dessert. It is a favorite for good reason—it’s simple, satisfying, and brings out …
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Claire Burns
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10/24/25
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I don’t eat cereal a lot, but we do keep a box or two in the house for those times when you just don’t want to cook. I’m more likely to eat cereal for lunch or dinner, than I am for …
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Jim Boxberger
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10/24/25
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That’s not a Pete Seeger song. Just me lamenting at what has now become a yearly occurrence. Or should I say, non-occurrence?
I live on a country road in a rural town in a pretty rural …
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Barry Lewis
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10/24/25
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If you’ve ever owned a snake plant, you already know it’s not so much a plant as it is a silent, judgmental roommate. It doesn’t ask for much—just a little light, a drop of …
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Ramona Jan
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10/21/25
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There is something about pasta with meat and peas that screams comfort to me. Lately, I have been making this cozy sausage pasta dish at least once a week. My husband and I love it, and it comes …
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Claire Burns
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10/17/25
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I seem to be hooked on British television. First it was “As Time Goes By” and now it’s another comedy-drama, “Doc Martin,” starring Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin …
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June Donohue
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10/17/25
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So we have now had a hard frost and the outdoor gardening season is officially over, but do we have to start with all the Christmas decorations already? While shopping this past weekend, I noticed …
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Jim Boxberger
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10/17/25
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