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Two thousand three hundred forty. That’s how many days a kid, the average kid, spends in a k-12 school building.
Granted, there aren’t nearly as many of these buildings now as there …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/7/21
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Ever done research before a vacation and stumbled on a slew of tips on how to enjoy your intended destination like a local?
How to eat like a local. How to shop like a local. How to relax like a …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/31/21
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It's been a few years since the meet the teacher night when I wandered through the Sullivan West High School dripping in sweat and fanning myself with the school-supplied map to the classrooms, …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/24/21
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I had it all planned out.
The Saturday morning would be quiet — my daughter at work, my husband relaxing from a long week — and I could finally sit down to plow through photo edits …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/17/21
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I butchered my husband’s beard.
This was never the plan. The plan was just a bit of control for the mass of hair sprouting from cheeks and chin.
These months of living 6 feet apart have …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/10/21
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There’s a question that’s been popping up on Facebook in recent days: Do you know someone who has had COVID?
The short answer is yes.
The longer answer is that — like all too …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/3/21
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An eagle! An eagle!
Now imagine someone yelling it but in a tone that’s both mocking and amused.
Welcome to live with a Sullivan County teenager.
I should have expected this. I was one …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/27/21
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Growing up just feet from the river, there were always rules.
You respected the river’s power. This was the unspoken rule, and yet it was the biggest one too — the one that stuck hard …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/20/21
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If you’re a woman in Sullivan County, chances are pretty fair that you’ve opened up a letter in your mailbox in recent weeks to the news that Crystal Run is closing its Liberty offices …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/13/21
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I’m not sure which was worse — the person who’d plopped down dozens of items in the express lane with the sign that expressly noted it was the place for 15 items or less or the …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/6/21
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When you’ve covered graduations for the Democrat for two decades, the small things start to stick out – incremental changes in a sea of same.
Because of course some things remain …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/29/21
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There were technical issues, an amplifier that didn’t amplify, a music director forced to yell across a football field without a microphone, wind that picked up and sent students’ music …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/22/21
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