In 2019, the average median household income in Callicoon was $56,000 a year. Median, for those who haven’t taken a math class in awhile (raising my hand over here!) is the exact middle. …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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6/15/21
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I'm in a love/hate relationship, and it's high time I talked about it.
I love a good walk on a country road in the spring and the summer, breathing in the fresh air and scent of the grass just …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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6/7/21
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I've developed a strange habit in recent years, one that I can't help but blame on social media.
As I drive through the county, I try to pay more attention to my surroundings than I did in my …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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6/1/21
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If you could touch a mood, I'd wager the one in the Sullivan West cafeteria would have been warm and a bit squishy, akin to a hug from your favorite relative. Remember those?
Parents were …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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5/24/21
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As a reporter, I suppose choosing a favorite section of the newspaper is a bit like a parent choosing a favorite child. And yet Down the Decades has always held a special place in my heart.
That …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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5/17/21
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It's 8:15 on a Friday night, and I know exactly where my teenager is: perched in a chair in the living room, watching a movie with their parents, a spoon stuck in the pint of Ben & Jerry's Coffee …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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5/10/21
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You won't see it anywhere in the Constitution, but it's accepted across the American judicial system that if you're arrested and shuffled into a courtroom, you have the right to be judged by a jury …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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5/3/21
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There's no such thing as a “good” racist post on social media. Racism is racism, and racism is both repugnant and repulsive.
Still, there's something especially stomach churning when the …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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4/26/21
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If you've ever had to dig through the instruction manuals for an appliance when something was going wrong, you might have run across a flow chart.
They're the diagrams that tend to be stocked …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/19/21
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I once tried to explain the nightly concert that hearkens spring in the northeast to someone who had never lived in our part of the world.
It didn't quite have the effect I intended.
They …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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4/12/21
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There are some questions that remain constant for parents, no matter how old their child, no matter where they live.
Will they be happy? Will they know how much I love them?
And then there's …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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4/5/21
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I went on a date with my husband a week ago. Perhaps this isn't noteworthy to some, but in a pandemic, this was momentous.
Besides, how else would you describe a few hours off on a Friday morning …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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3/29/21
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