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Chances are you’ve driven around the county of late with heat blowing at full blast from the vents in your vehicle, a thick parka wrapped around you to fight the bitter cold.
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Jeanna Sager
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1/7/25
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2024 was quite a year. It was a year of happiness and of profound sadness. A year of travel and a year of enjoying the coziness of home. A year of hope and hard work and of great disappointment on …
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Kathy Werner
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1/3/25
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Raise your hand if you gave up making new year’s resolutions because you knew you’d just end up breaking them.
If you’re reading this in the diner or the gas station, …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/31/24
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The holiday season may be best known for lighting candles, ho hos, and mistletoe, but it’s also the top season for charitable donations.
The fourth quarter — or Q4 in …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/17/24
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We are about to enter the Fast Forward part of the year. I, for one, can’t believe we have reached the end of November! And that there are only five minutes until Christmas!
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Kathy Werner
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11/29/24
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At last count, an online petition asking the new owners of Peck’s Markets to close the doors to its local grocery stores on Thanksgiving Day had more than 840 signatures.
As the …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/19/24
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I choked on my cocoa today when I heard that Matt Gaetz might be our next Attorney General. I felt like that bewildered kid in the viral video who is waking up from gas after a dentist visit and …
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Kathy Werner
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11/15/24
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I wasn’t expecting to find hope in a high school hallway.
Late last week, I had the honor of capturing senior portraits for the Liberty High School senior class.
For …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/12/24
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If you’ve driven around Sullivan County, or anywhere in upstate New York, in the past few weeks, you’ve likely seen at least a few yard signs calling on you to “protect girls …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/22/24
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It’s that time of year when the world is cast in pink to remind us all that breast cancer is a very real — and very dangerous — disease.
One in eight American women will …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/8/24
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This year marks the first time my 19-year-old will be able to cast a vote for president.
Like most of Gen Z, they’re chronically online, which means their preparations for Election …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/1/24
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This is the story of how a missing stop sign was replaced in my town.
I was just a few hundred feet from home when it happened — a driver came to the end of one road and made a …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/24/24
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On our very first day on our very first walk in Barcelona, my daughter Liz and I happened upon Casa Milà, a famed apartment house designed by Modernista Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi …
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Kathy Werner
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9/20/24
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Our trip to Newport, Rhode Island, was lots of fun. As I mentioned in last week’s column, my sister Mary, her husband John, and I were on our mansion tours while the kids hit the beach and ate …
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Kathy Werner
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9/6/24
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This week’s Senior Field trip is an overnighter. My daughter Liz, son-in-law Peter, granddaughter Adeline (aka “The Kids”) and sister Mary and her husband John traveled to …
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Kathy Werner
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8/30/24
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In 2024 if you have electricity, a television, and Wi-Fi, you may have noticed something. There are so so, so, so many true crime shows. I tried to Google how many of these shows are currently …
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Mike Werner - Guest Columnist
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8/23/24
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We’ve been through this before. This time though, it’s in reverse. This time, the feelings are different.
When the dining room filled with bags and boxes in early May, I was …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/20/24
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This time of year it’s not uncommon to be driving down a roadway in our county and find a section has been closed down for a few hours.
Sometimes it’s for a parade or a street …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/6/24
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To truly explain why it’s so surprising that I now spring out of bed before 6 a.m. excited to greet the day, I need to take you back 19 years and a few months to the time when my co-workers …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/30/24
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And just like that, it’s all changed.
Sunday morning, we woke up in a world where two aging white men were the top runners for president.
Monday morning, we woke up in …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/23/24
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In my continuing series of Field Trips for Seniors, I have another fabulous destination for you to visit.
It is the Museum of Broadway, located on 45th Street, just off 7th Avenue in Manhattan. …
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Kathy Werner
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7/19/24
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One glance wasn’t enough. I had to look again to make sure I wasn’t seeing things, but I was right the first time.
It wasn’t even 6:30 in the morning, and a child …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/16/24
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A s soon as I snapped the photo, I knew it was one I would want to share with the world.
As Liberty High School seniors played a final song with their high school band, I’d captured …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/9/24
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A few days ago, on my way back from New York City, I decided to take a side trip that I had been meaning to take for a long time. My destination was the Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers.
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7/5/24
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I spent last week hundreds of miles from home with more than 100 people who have never been to our corner of the world.
A few had come near — those with spouses who grew up in …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/2/24
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