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When your friend flies into town to experience a tractor parade for the first time, you expect you’ll spend the weekend laughing, eating ice cream and watching a few hundred tractors mosey through …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/23/26
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We may be a little bit late (just like dad is picking you up from practice), but we would be remiss not to acknowledge Father’s Day, which was celebrated on Sunday, June 21.
Thank you …
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6/23/26
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This is the time of year when my gardening skills start to falter. I’m an inept horticulturist who really desires to be ept, but somehow can’t find the correct formula to create the …
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Kathy Werner
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6/19/26
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Just like it took a while for enslaved people to learn of emancipation in the United States in 1863, it also seems to have taken many years for Americans to learn about and fully understand the …
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6/18/26
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There is always a baby asleep in the middle of it all, usually more than one.
They’re not in a darkened nursery with the blinds closed tight, not in a stroller slowly being pushed back …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/16/26
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It is an early summer Sunday, the kind Sullivan County does so well. Brunch with a few friends runs into another table of them, and somewhere between the coffee and the rosé we fold the two groups …
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Guest Editorial By Dan Koday Communications Director, Catskills Pride
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6/16/26
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Eighty-two years ago this month, on June 6, 1944, the course of history changed on the beaches of Normandy.
Known simply as D-Day, or the Normandy Landings, the day marks the airborne operations …
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6/12/26
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I have a friend who recently had a stay in a hospital. She received a bill, but although she has insurance, the bill was still over $1500. This was quite a quandary, since she doesn’t have that kind of money at hand. What would she do?
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Kathy Werner
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6/12/26
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“Just show up,” we say. “Get involved.”
It all sounds so simple. Move into town, pick a community organization, and walk in the door. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy, right?
It is easy …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/9/26
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Callicoon owes much of its history and lasting legacy to the railroad. In 1848, the Erie Railroad built its Delaware Division through the Upper Delaware Valley, reaching Callicoon and officially …
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6/9/26
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The last leg of our Spring Break tour brought us to the City of Lights, Paris. Daughter Liz, son-in-law Peter, granddaughter Adeline and I had already had wonderful adventures in England, and as …
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Kathy Werner
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6/5/26
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It was the kind of lazy afternoon two kids who grew up in a river town live for. We had two tubes, the Delaware, and nowhere to be.
We were laughing at the kids we used to be when he …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/2/26
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The Regional Food Bank, already dealing with budget cuts, inflation, and rising food insecurity, is feeling the pressure of high fuel prices. Fuel prices have increased costs of operating the Food …
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Guest Editorial By Tom Nardacci, CEO of Regional Food Bank
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6/2/26
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My son-in-law Peter’s Aunt Carol and Uncle Peter live in the glorious Radford Villa in the Cotswolds. After our long day of touring in Bath, our merry band was eager to get home and relax. …
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Kathy Werner
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5/29/26
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this year I find myself thinking not about what our courts cannot do for people struggling with mental illness — but about what they can.
The …
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By Hon. E. Danielle Jose-Decker
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5/29/26
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In retrospect, I can see why the story might skew more toward “shocking example of country living” and less toward “charming childhood anecdote.”
In my defense, I had no idea what the …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/26/26
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This record of our journey finds us still in the English city of Bath, in my beloved Cotswolds. Uncle Peter and Aunt Carol had designed a comprehensive tour for us (daughter Liz, SIL Peter, …
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Kathy Werner
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5/22/26
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Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. military. Unlike Veterans Day which honors all military veterans, Memorial Day remembers those who …
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5/22/26
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There are a handful of words that tend to come up at graduation ceremonies, words about pride and accomplishment, metaphors about chapters closing and doors opening.
They were all there at …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/19/26
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They’re there when you need them—our police officers, firefighters, first responders, ambulance corps, paramedics and fire police. That’s why we honor them during National EMS Week.
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5/19/26
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When we last left our intrepid travelers (daughter Liz, SIL Peter, granddaughter Adeline and yours truly), we had just arrived at Radford Villa, the charming British home of Peter’s Uncle Peter and …
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Kathy Werner
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5/15/26
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As communities across New York prepare to head to the polls this coming Tuesday for school board and budget elections, it is worth remembering that these local votes may be among the most important …
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5/15/26
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Somewhere in my medical chart, a doctor has written that I have “limited healthcare literacy.”
If I’d known at that time that this was what he thought of me, I might have put up a fight …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/12/26
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Once again we have articles in today’s paper about proposed high-density projects in our towns. It seems that we are seeing more of these developments than before in recent memory.
As …
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5/12/26
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A shared responsibility:
Protecting Sullivan County’s
water
To the editor:
In Sullivan County, we take pride in what makes us different: our open land, our farms, our …
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5/8/26
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