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Living within spitting distance of a firehouse is not without its perks.
Insurance companies tend to look kindly on the proximity, sometimes offering up discounts — albeit bite-sized …
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Jeanne Saer
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3/24/26
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In celebration of National Women’s Day/Week/Month, I’m continuing to celebrate some of the women I knew whose courage, tenacity, and hard work drove them to succeed despite the obstacles they …
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Kathy Werner
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3/20/26
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As I made my way up and down Main Street in Jeffersonville, pivoting back and forth to capture the St. Patrick’s Day parade festivities and the crowd gathered to enjoy the fun, I spotted something …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/17/26
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Since this is the time of year when we celebrate women, I would like to take my next few columns to celebrate some women who have lifted themselves up and created the life they wanted to live, in …
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Kathy Lerner
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3/13/26
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There is a thing we do as dog owners, though we don’t often talk about it outside of the house. We give our dogs voices. Not dog voices. Not barking or whining. We craft voices we are certain they …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/10/26
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How great is it to have access to everything ever knowable in the history of the universe in a pocket-sized computer that we can also use to communicate with friends and family? I am talking, of …
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Kathy Werner
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3/6/26
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If you Google “Jeanne Sager” and “Neil Sedaka,” AI will provide you with the following story connecting me to the singer and songwriter best known for a string of chart-topping hits in the …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/3/26
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Anyone who spends any amount of time on social media has noticed the way language has changed. There are words on internet platforms that will make you go “viral.” Kids like to repeat these …
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Kathy Werner
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2/27/26
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You’re not supposed to like the New York City subway system.
It’s one of the world’s oldest public transit systems, and you can tell.
In summer the platforms are hot, …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/24/26
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It’s not every day that you get to meet Olympians, but for us it was March 20, 2024. It was then that I joined my daughter Liz and granddaughter Adeline up in Lake Placid where they had gone for a …
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Kathy Werner
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2/20/26
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The gleaming brass of the horn section during a New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) performance in Grahamsville.
A rustic homemade swing hanging from a tree in Equinunk.
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Jeanne Sager
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2/17/26
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These cold days are a wonderful time to curl up with a good book. I’ve been enjoying several. As a former reading teacher, I had several suggestions for my students. Anything you read counts …
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Kathy Werner
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2/6/26
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We were in one of those conversations about co-workers that crop up between spouses, those updates of your week that tend to happen on a Saturday when things finally slow down enough that you can …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/3/26
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Well, that was certainly a snowstorm worthy of the hype! As I watched the snow fall all day on Sunday, I remembered the saying “little flakes, big snow.” When the snowflakes are tiny, the …
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Kathy Werner
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1/30/26
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Is there a kitchen appliance that causes more conflict than the dishwasher? Methinks not.
I can still hear my mother after any big holiday dinner telling us, her grown children, that we …
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Kathy Werner
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1/23/26
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There was a time when explaining the Catskills to someone who’d never visited was simple.
“You know Dirty Dancing?” you’d ask.
Eyes lighting up, they’d likely shout …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/20/26
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A few years ago, my daughter bought me a Kindle for Christmas. She was tired of seeing piles of books all over the house. I then began buying eBooks to read. At last count, I had purchased 240 books …
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Kathy Werner
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1/16/26
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It was a visit from an out-of-towner that started it all.
Driving into town from her home in Massachusetts, she’d noticed something different about the signs along the road. They …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/13/26
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Guest columnist
Lately I’ve been thinking about my dad, who passed away almost seven years ago. My father had a large number of subjects he really enjoyed talking about, but …
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Mike Werner
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1/9/26
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Empty nesting when your child is still in college can feel at times like living in a set of parallel universes.
In one universe there’s a house filled with noise and a driveway with one extra …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/6/26
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The signs of the holiday season are being packed up this week — menorahs and nativities being tucked away in attics and basements for another year — but the signs of the other big year-ending …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/30/25
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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of experiencing Dickens on the Delaware in Callicoon. There was so much going on that it was impossible to see it all! What a testament to the many, many people who …
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Kathy Werner
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12/26/25
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I’m not sure why I still click to read the articles about upstate New York’s “cutest” small towns or the lists of the most “charming” places to visit in the Catskills. I should know by …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/23/25
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Tell me if this one sounds familiar: The more it snows — and the colder it gets — the less you feel like leaving the house to do anything “extra.” We’ve reached the time …
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12/16/25
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When we were in high school, we read a story called “Leiningen Versus the Ants.” Written in 1938 by Carl Stephenson, it somehow made it into every high school anthology in the 1960s. In …
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Kathy Werner
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12/15/25
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