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June 25 - At the May 30th General Meeting, the Smallwood Civic Association (SWCA) Board repeatedly stressed the primary importance of maintaining a safe and healthy and protected Mountain Lake. The …
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6/25/21
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This past rainy Memorial Day weekend, the Smallwood Civic Association (SWCA) held the first of three planned General Meetings for 2021. The informative Zoom session—a recording of which is …
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6/11/21
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Most of us remember a time when, as children, it was possible to simply run out the door into a forest or a field and never think about the danger of a tick bite.
Disease-bearing ticks are …
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James Loney - Community Correspondent
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5/27/21
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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 …
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Jeanne Sager - Columnist
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4/5/21
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