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I keep hearing that kids grow up faster these days.
That their iPhones, drones and VR Headsets have helped to eliminate the imagination of their youth. Well, if that’s true, then why …
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Barry Lewis
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12/23/22
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Every holiday season comes a time when my mother breaks out her trusty crockpot to make a big batch of Swedish meatballs.
It’s an easy and versatile dish that can serve equally well …
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Claire Stabbert
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12/23/22
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My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. Additional names mentioned are those of her brothers and sisters except for Daisy who was a family friend.
Dec 16th
Went …
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Ramona Jan
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12/23/22
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Ah, the inevitable, a notice for jury duty. Like death, they never come at a good time. This one’s for my husband.
“I’ll just tell them I work online and they’ll excuse …
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Ramona Jan
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12/20/22
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Well it looks like a White Christmas after all. Brake out the eggnog, hot cocoa or mulled cider and let’s sit around the yule log. If you don't have a fireplace for a yule log, usually on …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/16/22
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Adapting a 1968 song by The Zombies, “It’s the time of the season when your nose runs high.” Yes, we have entered the winter season and with it many of us get a runny nose.
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Hudson Cooper
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12/16/22
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My great-aunt Anne Foland was a baking legend, and a much anticipated treat every holiday season were her famous Christmas cookies.
Anyone lucky to be gifted a tin of her Christmas …
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Claire Stabbert
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12/16/22
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In the summer of ’73, when I was still in high school, actor/comedian Charles Nelson Reilly (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir/The Match Game) was on a plane to NYC where he was scheduled to teach …
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12/13/22
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Covid has changed everyone's life whether you were directly affected or just know who were. Things we used to take for granted like shaking hands, seems to still be taboo even today. Maybe in …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/9/22
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My sons helped me pick out our Christmas tree. Putting it up reminded me of a story I had read about the actress Natalie Portman.
A nice Jewish girl who was born in Israel, Natalie grew …
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Barry Lewis
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12/9/22
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Winter is approaching bringing with it ice, sleet and freezing rain that will impact driving in our county. Unfortunately, the key word is impact. Despite the best efforts of the county’s road …
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Hudson Cooper
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12/9/22
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It’s that time of year… flu season. Around this time is when I really try to prep soups and stews to keep myself as healthy as possible. I’ve heard about bone broth and its …
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Claire Stabbert
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12/9/22
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Winter is a great time for families to utilize their public library for fun programs, quiet reading, and early literacy in a warm, welcoming environment. It’s an even better time to utilize all …
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Amanda Letohic, Acting Director, Fallsburg Public Library
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12/6/22
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My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was born January 28th, 1897 or so she thought. In the late 1800’s people born at home did not typically get birth certificates. With nine Dreher homebirths, all …
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I recently attended the shower and the wedding of my grandson, John and his girlfriend, Christine. The shower was in June at a hotel and was a bit fancier than what I am used to. There was a …
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June Donohue
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12/2/22
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Maybe it was part of the television game plan to educate Americans about the sport that is the most popular worldwide. Thanks to the success of the award-winning television show “Ted …
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Hudson Cooper
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12/2/22
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I swear, Chrissy Teigen is a genius. She is John Legends' model wife who seems to have beauty and brains, because she came up with this incredible recipe. I happen to have her cookbook and it …
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Claire Stabbert
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12/2/22
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The smell of that turkey roasting in the oven or the stuffing on the stove, the smells of last week will last in our memory until next Thanksgiving. What smells do you remember from Thanksgiving the …
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Jim Boxberger Jr.
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12/2/22
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“How much for your mirrors?” asks a stranger about my artistic creations that took hours and days to make, cost mucho money in materials, and happen to be advertised online.
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Ramona Jan
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11/29/22
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When I was growing up it was a mark of distinction when someone became a millionaire. It seems that lately the new measure of extensive wealth is having billions. Having billions also seems to allow …
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Hudson Cooper
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11/25/22
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A highlight of my Thanksgiving weekend is the soup that follows our meal the next day. My sister uses the leftover turkey and carcass to create a rich broth, that feels light but satisfying after a …
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Claire Stabbert
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11/25/22
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I love the holiday season. It's some of 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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11/25/22
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From my grandmother, Lina Dreher’s, diary when she was sixteen and working in the family bakery in Orange, NJ. Other first names mentioned are those of her siblings.
Nov 16
Nights …
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So we got our first blast of winter this week, and we still have four weeks until winter officially gets here. And although many of you may disagree with me on this one, we need the snow, sooner …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/18/22
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Since they’ve been married, my parents have been hosting Thanksgiving for the past 30+ years for our extended family, so we know all about cooking for a large crowd. Since we three kiddos have …
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Claire Stabbert
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11/18/22
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