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Our tour of English country houses continued with a welcome change in the weather. My friend Marystephanie and I were relieved to find the temperature lowered to 84 degrees. Believe me, those ten …
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Kathy Werner
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8/21/26
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Roses: We’d like to extend a rose to the Town of Bethel for taking the time to look forward and adopt a new comprehensive plan.
Called the “Bethel Moving Forward Plan,” it replaces a …
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Vincent Kurzrock
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8/21/26
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This is how your brain folds in on itself.
It starts with a little girl stepping out from beneath a pop-up tent, a newborn baby in her arms. You’re so entranced by the perfection of …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/18/26
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We in Sullivan County are very lucky to have so many recreational public spaces and parks that we can enjoy.
If it isn’t our scenic mountains, then it’s our parks. From hiking trails and …
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Vincent Kurzrock
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8/18/26
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Day 2 of our tour of Derbyshire Houses proved to be the most strenuous of the lot. Temperatures hovered around 90 degrees. The day’s journey was described thusly: “A walk along an enchanting …
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Kathy Werner
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8/14/26
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It’s hard to believe it’s already the middle of August. The summer seems to have flown by. (But doesn’t it feel like that every year?).
This summer has been a busy one, marked by many of …
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8/14/26
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Recently, Sullivan County held a naturalization ceremony to welcome seven new people as American citizens (see article on page 1A).
What does it take to become a citizen through naturalization?
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8/11/26
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The look was one part skeptical, one part amused, and I sensed a dash of something else in there. It wasn't confidence exactly but a sense that they knew something I didn’t.
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Jeanne Sager
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8/11/26
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To the editor:
On July 30th, Gubernatorial Candidate Bruce Blakeman, made outrageous and misleading claims regarding NYS energy policy and renewable energy’s impact upon the high electricity …
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8/10/26
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To the editor:
I am writing this letter on behalf of myself and others in our Youngsville Community who are concerned about the direction our local Fire Department seems to be taking. It would …
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8/7/26
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To the editor:
My husband and I live in Livingston Manor; Verizon provided phone service until last Tuesday, when there was a rainstorm. Our phone is the final one on its line with a wire …
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8/7/26
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Marystephanie and I were anxious to start our walking tour, in spite of the fact that Great Britain was in the middle of a major heat wave. We took an Uber to Euston Station for our train ride to Derby.
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Kathy Werner
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8/7/26
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It was the fourth day of vacation, and I’d spent the past five minutes wandering a CVS six hours from home looking for a quick hunger fix. I was on my second trip down the potato chip aisle when …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/4/26
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Over the weekend tens of thousands of people came to Bethel, NY for the two-day Billy Strings concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
By all accounts it looked like not only a great concert …
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8/4/26
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I live in Livingston Manor, where flooding on Main Street and low-lying areas has been a problem for the entire history of the hamlet.
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Patricia Parks
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8/4/26
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I have given you all two weeks of explaining why and how I decided to return to the United Kingdom this past June, and enough of the suspense, already, you must be thinking.
Let’s get this …
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Kathy Werner
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7/31/26
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To the editor:
As someone who fought -mostly unsuccessfully it felt at the time- hard to help the Town of Highland embrace both its natural assets of rivers and valleys and its people assets of …
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7/31/26
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To the editor:
The recent reports of antisemitic attacks in Woodridge and Greenfield Park should grieve every person of conscience. Whether hatred takes the form of threats, intimidation, or …
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7/31/26
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To the editor:
Thank you for the article in the July 17 edition about the Trans+ Support Initiative, (TSI). Having a transgender person in my family and also in the family of a close friend has …
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7/31/26
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To the editor:
Once school’s out for the Summer, thousands of families flock to second homes and camps in the “Yiddish Alps” to escape the city heat. Though this does boost Sullivan …
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7/31/26
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Just last week we wrote about extreme weather as a tornado ripped through parts just north of Sullivan County. And now our region has to contend with even more weather affecting our lives, …
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7/31/26
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To the editor:
Finally, after what feels like wading through dozens of column inches over months of opaque reporting, the July 10 Democrat at long last explains why this Resorts World bond sale, …
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7/30/26
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To the editor:
Our neighborhood in Loch Sheldrake has been working to humanely manage a growing population of abandoned cats through our project, Neighbors Loving Cats. We trap, neuter, spay, …
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7/30/26
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To the editor:
Thank you for taking the time to highlight the good work TSI is doing to provide support for transgender and non-binary citizens in our area. At a time when some have demonized …
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7/30/26
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This past weekend saw some of the area’s most-anticipated events: the Callicoon Country Fair (organized by the Callicoon Business Association) and Riverfest (organized by the Delaware Valley Arts …
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7/28/26
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