Over on Kauneonga Lake's main thoroughfare, Horseshoe Lake Road, economic life is finally rebounding. Some restaurants on “Restaurant Row” were able to stagger through 2020; others chose not to. …
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5/13/21
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Question for residents of Smallwood: can you explain the difference between the following entities: the Hamlet of Smallwood, the Town of Bethel, and the Smallwood Civic Association (SWCA)? Go ahead, …
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James Loney - Community Correspondent
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4/29/21
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By anyone's measure, a business owner who owns and grows an eatery for upwards of thirty years must be doing something very right. Ask your server or local restaurant owner next time you see them …
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James Loney - Community Correspondent
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4/15/21
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The telephone has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up we had one telephone in the house. It hung on the wall in the kitchen, so it was easily accessible. Years later a …
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Hudson Cooper - Columnist
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4/8/21
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Several months ago, I wrote about the long journey taken by a printing project I had ordered. It spent a month in the nonspeedy hands of the USPS.
The project was called “The Olden Girls”, a …
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Kathy Werner - Columnist
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4/8/21
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One of my earliest memories of Easter with my family in Callicoon Center was when I was about seven or eight. Some older kids came by to visit me shortly before Easter and I was busy coloring eggs at …
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June Donohue - Columnist
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4/8/21
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I have a bold statement to make: I have never purchased pre-made marinara sauce. And with a healthy dose of Italian heritage on my mother's side, I never had to. I grew up watching my grandmother, …
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Charlotte Schwartz - Guest Columnist
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4/8/21
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The southern gentlemen involved were well educated and, along with the New England patriots who began the struggle for our independence, developed the principles with which our new country could live …
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Anne Foland - Columnist
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4/5/21
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There are some questions that remain constant for parents, no matter how old their child, no matter where they live.
Will they be happy? Will they know how much I love them?
And then there's …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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4/5/21
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To the editor:
I'm left to wonder if a facemask penalty was called on two recent plays shown in the Democrat sports pages. Clearly, two Ellenville football players and a Roscoe player were not …
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Ken Cohen
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4/5/21
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There were reports circulating last week that New York State became the first state in the nation to roll out a vaccine passport and that the technology developed will be used at entrances to …
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Ed Townsend - Columnist
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4/5/21
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To the editor:
The Youngsville Firecrackers, a Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Group would like to thank everyone that contributed to our 2020 Sock drive. Although we could not meet …
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Jane Doughty
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4/5/21
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