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I always thought Winter was my favorite season until I get a glimpse of this warmer weather and remember how much I love the Spring and Summer. I wanted to make a dish that reminded me of …
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Claire Stabbert
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3/31/23
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Don’t be quick to blame deer, rabbits or the crazy winter for why your favorite shrub or tree didn’t make it through the winter. Sometimes the problem is much smaller, it could be the …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/31/23
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Because it’s typically non-invasive and health building, I’ve always preferred an alternative approach to medicine. That’s why I recently sought a Chinese herbalist whom I’ll …
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Ramona Jan
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3/28/23
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Well now it is officially spring and the weather this week was much nicer than what we have experienced in the early part of March. Watching television this past weekend I saw loads of …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/24/23
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The late George Carlin had a routine where he talked about stuff. He opined that life was just a series of events where we acquire stuff and find ways to keep it. According to him, houses were just a …
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Hudson Cooper
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3/24/23
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I called a friend of mine on Sunday, March 12th, to see if she knew about the new location of our church. She knew that we had bought a bank in Westwood, N.J. which would be turned into a …
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June Donohue
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3/24/23
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Andre, my spouse (sounds like something that comes out of a whale, right?) recently formed the band, Irish Hitmen, with Doug Rogers on accordion and vocals, and Roger Brinkerhoff on upright bass. …
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Ramona Jan
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3/21/23
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and a happy birthday to my grandfather Max Greenberg.
I know you’ll find this a bit hard to believe, but there’s really not much that the …
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Barry Lewis
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3/17/23
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Well a couple of weeks ago I said “Beware the Ides of March” and look what happened. We’ve now had more snow in March than January and February combined and it is probably not over …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/17/23
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Recently the National Football League held their annual Pro Bowl game where the best players compete in a televised event. But if you tuned in this year you experienced a “what the heck is …
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Hudson Cooper
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3/17/23
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“Your cousin, Andrea, held my hand during your uncle’s funeral,” mom began. She’s a man now; a police officer just like her dad was. And she calls herself Andy. Can you pick …
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Ramona Jan
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3/14/23
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The woman seated next to me at the book group describes almost word for word the image I’ve been trying to put out of my thoughts since reading it a few days earlier. It is worse than grim, but …
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Tracy Gates
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3/10/23
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A cultural phenomenon rapidly developed after an incident in Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947. As reported in the local newspaper, something crash landed on a rural patch of land outside the town. At …
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Hudson Cooper
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3/10/23
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I know the weather has been pretty sucky the last few weeks, but the weather is the least of our worries. Last week I ended my column with the fact that Lily has had two ticks on her already this …
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Jim Boxberger Jr
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3/10/23
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I recently picked up Ina Garten’s book Go- To Dinners, and it’s absolutely stunning. I highly recommend buying it if you haven’t yet. The wonderful thing about this book is most of …
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Claire Stabbert
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3/10/23
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At the winter farmers market held in Callicoon’s Youth Center, you can find almost anything; baked goods, trout both smoked and freshly fileted, mushrooms, spirits, cheeses and other dairy …
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Ramona Jan
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3/7/23
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I hate to break this to you, but those friends and family snowbirds of yours are basking under the warm Florida sun just chuckling about the weather back home.
You know that, right?
They …
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Barry Lewis
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3/3/23
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I hope you all aren’t sick of my crockpot/instant pot recipes yet. There is something so appealing about pouring in ingredients and letting time, heat, and pressure do the work. Crockpot …
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Claire Stabbert
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3/3/23
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After our tour of the Mayan Chocolate Company our tour concluded at the Barriecito tequila distillery. The Barriecito distillery is a small batch distillery on the mainland of …
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3/3/23
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Years before the internet most people read newspapers to get the latest news. These days so many of us get news alerts on social media sites. When something important occurs, people rush to virtual …
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3/3/23
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I hope you all aren’t sick of my crockpot/instant pot recipes yet. There is something so appealing about pouring in ingredients and letting time, heat, and pressure do the work. Crockpot …
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Claire Stabbert
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3/3/23
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In 1943, 'Project Y,' the Manhattan Project's secret laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, for the development and production of the atomic bomb under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer, …
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Ramona Jan
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2/28/23
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Last week I wrote about Mayan culture and a tour of a Melipona bee sanctuary and this week will be the chocolate portion of our tour with a visit to the Mayan Chocolate Company. Chocolate has …
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Jim Boxberger
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2/24/23
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Being properly groomed seems to be a much easier process for men than women. While men go to a barber in a barber shop, women visit a hair stylist in a beauty parlor or hair salon. FYI, the word …
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Hudson Cooper
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2/24/23
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THEY SEEM TO BE COMING FAST AND FURIOUS NOW WHETHER I WELCOME THEM OR NOT.
TODAY'S HAS A NINE AND AN EIGHT IN IT. “STOP - GIVE me a chance to catch up.
I love the funny cards I …
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June Donohue
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2/24/23
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