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Controversy has swirled over a certain “small town” song of late, a song sung by a country singer who just recently appeared in Sullivan County, playing to an enormous crowd of both …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/25/23
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I had a handful of clothing under one arm and my post office box key in one hand when a neighbor stopped me last week with a question: Where do you donate your used clothing?
It was a fair …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/19/23
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Family vacation photos. We all have them somewhere.
Is there an old album tucked away somewhere with photos of you in a bathing suit cut in the style of the time? A series of images far …
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by Jeanne Sager
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7/18/23
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It was one of those days when the family split into separate rooms of the house to complete our own tasks.
My husband was at work replacing the front door knob. I was in the midst of …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/11/23
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Have you ever sat down to try to explain the 4th of July to someone who isn’t from America?
Or tried to explain any American holiday to a non-American, for that matter?
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by Jeanne Sager
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7/4/23
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“But did you get to enjoy it as a mom?” It’s a question that I heard over and over this graduation weekend from all the people who saw me scurrying around the Sullivan West High …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/27/23
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“We did it,” I said to my husband last Friday morning. I didn’t have to explain what “it” was.
He understood the happiness and heartache all wrapped up in …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/13/23
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The power outage couldn’t have come at a worse time ... or a better one.
I had two pages of my website to update, six emails to send, photos to post to my business social media …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/6/23
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“So, where are you going to school next year?” It’s an innocent enough question, and one I’ve surely asked dozens of times over the years of high school seniors.
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Jeanne Sager
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5/30/23
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I spent the Friday morning before Mother’s Day shifting through stories of local moms, hundreds of moms who had been nominated by the people who love them for a giveaway I was running through …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/16/23
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Spend any time on the roads of western Sullivan County in the coming months, and you’re bound to get caught behind a tractor or two.
This is farm country. It’s been farm …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/9/23
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I’d only just stepped into the shower when I noticed it. The bright orange body of the thing embedded in my left calf was unmistakable.
On a rainy Saturday morning when I’d …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/2/23
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“We are among the privileged, that’s for sure.” It’s not the sort of thing you might expect to hear from someone less than 24 hours after a tornado had torn through their …
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By Jeanne Sager
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4/25/23
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When you grow up in the sort of town that has narrow unmarked roads, the kind that require drivers to pull to the side to let another car pass, there are rules you learn early.
Walk on …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/18/23
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If you’ve walked into a local establishment of late, you might have noticed the signs warning that any purchase beneath a certain dollar value will have to be paid for in cash.
And …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/11/23
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It’s that time of year when we join the bears in stumbling out of hibernation only to realize that, quite suddenly, everything has to be done.
The mower blade needs to be sharpened. …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/4/23
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Scientists tell us it’s officially Ok to welcome the beginning of spring when the Earth’s equator is aligned directly with the sun on the vernal equinox, a phenomenon that came to pass …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/28/23
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“Whoaaaaaaa! We’re going to be in the paper! Can it be the front page?”
If you want to win the heart of a newspaper’s photojournalist, this is your road map.
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Jeanne Sager
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3/21/23
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Want to hear a magic trick? Admit to a small child that you, a grown-up who they do not see on a regular basis or may not even recall seeing, know their name.
As a photojournalist for …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/14/23
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I took my first photo for the Democrat more than two decades ago. I was a high school intern who had absolutely no idea what she was doing, but then that’s the nature of being an intern, …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/7/23
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Do you know whose land you're living on?
It's a question that may seem like a trick. If you own your home, it's yours, right? if you rent, it's your landlord's?
Not exactly. Long …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/28/23
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We didn't have a list at the beginning, but we didn't need it. What we had to teach came almost instinctively.
How to grasp food between two tiny fingers.
How to hold a spoon. …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/21/23
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In the years since I became a homeowner, I've found a long list of things that set you apart from the person you thought you'd be in high school.
Did a teenage me dream of walking around …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/14/23
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Like most Januarys, this has been a month filled with snow days for school kids from around Sullivan County, days when they wake to the news that they can skip reading, writing and arithmetic for a …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/31/23
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If you’re ever having a bad day and feeling a little less than your very best, I told friends recently, remember this story.
I had asked the mechanic to look into why my remote car …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/24/23
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