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I’m not one for making resolutions.
That’s because I usually don’t have good ones to make.
Like everyone, I promise to exercise more, cut down on wasteful spending and …
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Barry Lewis
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1/5/24
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Predictions for 2024, the sun will rise and the sun will set. I’m sticking to the easy ones as my prediction for an early winter was way off. With the severe Canadian wildfires this …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/5/24
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To paraphrase a line from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” …TV, or not TV? That is the question. That thought popped into my head when I suffered the slings and arrows of the …
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Hudson Cooper
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1/5/24
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When I was a kid, a popular expression was DRY UP if you wanted to shut someone up. Well apparently I was asleep at the wheel because for days now I have had very dry skin despite …
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June Donohue
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1/3/24
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In a letter to the editor in Tuesday’s edition of the Democrat , the Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Sullivan County, gave reasons why the annual coyote hunt should be allowed to …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/29/23
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As I mentioned in my last column, my friend Maria was a firm believer in Miracles. Even though a doctor had told her that her son, Eddy should be institutionalized because he’d never …
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June Donohue
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12/29/23
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I’ve been to Garnet Health
I’ve been to Harris
I stayed at CMC
that’s down in Scranton
I’ve seen the walls of Wayne
I go by ambulance
I’ve …
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Ramona Jan
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12/26/23
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Typically on busy weekdays my husband and I cook quick and easy weeknight meals that involve minimal prep work, but when the weekend rolls around, sometimes I like to impress him and my family and …
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Claire Burns
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12/22/23
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What a mess the rain made last week. Our nice coating of snow is gone and what we are left with is mud. Yesterday marked the winter solstice, the shortest daylight day of the year, so now we are …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/22/23
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September 10th 1975: I had just moved into the Hotel Bretton Hall on the corner of Broadway and West 86th Street. It was a dangerous time for the Upper West Side of Manhattan with record high crime …
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Ramona Jan
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12/19/23
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It is the season when seemingly every newscast has a segment about “the tree.” I am not referring to the family debate whether your living room Christmas tree should be artificial or …
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Hudson Cooper
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12/15/23
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I first met Maria at a special nursery school for developmentally disabled children. It was obvious right away that her son, Eddy was seriously disabled. We mothers were going for coffee after …
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June Donohue
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12/15/23
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