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Beer for the community
“This is a true American project, hot dogs, baseball, old Ford truck and a good American beer. All of our products are made in the USA, we support our community, that’s what we will always be about,”...
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County chair lauds travel guide
Scott Samuelson, chair of the Sullivan County Legislature, took a minute to let his colleagues know he was pleased with the way the Sullivan County Visitors Association handled the cover of the new...
View ArticleThe importance of ethics in government
Since taking office in 2012, the new mix of Sullivan County legislators has been working hard to improve government fiscal accountability by reining in expenses, ferreting out waste and redundancy, and...
View ArticleThe Delaware Company: a new historical organization
May 8, 2013As a professional historian and historiographer, I know how important our past is and how critical it is to preserve and promote it. Unfortunately, for generations many people in this area...
View ArticleSupport for a new government ethics law
May 8, 2013In regards to passage of the local law known as the Sullivan County Ethics Law, the message is clear. We are committed to ensuring public trust in government by the people we serve. However,...
View ArticleGun safety for local schools, one man’s proposals
May 8, 2013[Editors Note: A version of this letter, which was written to the school board at the Livingston Manor Central School and sent to elected officials in Albany and Washington, DC, was shared...
View ArticleNarrowsburg municipal art
The new sign outside Narrowsburg, that replaced the simple, elegant, restrained and dignified billboard that stood there for years, is a design abomination, similar in its ugliness and brash...
View ArticleThe Bill Principle
When we bought our house, “sustainability” wasn’t part of our everyday vocabulary. We did know that a 100-year-old house was likely to bankrupt us with heating bills unless we made serious changes....
View ArticleLake Huntington News May 9
The Pride of Cochecton awards brunch was very nice at the Villa Roma. I was sitting next to Judy Yavarkovsky and we were talking about how hard it is cleaning out our mothers’ houses. I suggested that...
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The doctor has a good barnyard manner; Making one chiropractic adjustment at...
BEACH LAKE, PA — Harry the horse is seeing a chiropractor. At first his owner, Holly Johannes of Beach Lake, didn’t know what was wrong. Harry’s a show horse, but last year he stopped cooperating in...
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Take a walk on the wild side
Ramps. I’ve heard the word bandied about for years here in the country, but until now, was completely ignorant about them. With the onset of gorgeous weather and the shedding of the coats, I decided...
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Prom king and queen crowned
Joshua Taylor, son of Charlene Taylor, was crowned king and Bridget McVeigh, daughter of Sean and Lynda McVeigh, was crowned queen at Honesdale High School’s annual junior-senior prom held Saturday,...
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‘Readings at The Coop: Writers in Conversation’ launches in Honesdale
HONESDALE, PA — The first of a new series of happenings at The Cooperage, “Readings at the Coop: Writers in Conversation,” will take place on Saturday, May 11, with three authors reading some of their...
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Chimps in Tuxedos at the Dancing Cat
BETHEL, NY — The Dancing Cat Saloon and Catskill Distilling Company welcome Chimps in Tuxedos (www.chimpsintuxedos.com) performing standards of the ‘40s and ‘50s, as well as classic rock and Motown,...
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The Dance Center presents ballet ‘Giselle’
Maura Falli of Port Jervis, NY will star as Giselle in the ballet of the same name, and Larry Utter also of Port Jervis will dance opposite her as Albrecht as the Delaware Valley Dance Company presents...
View ArticleMy first pedicure
I hadn’t really thought about getting a pedicure ever before. Not because I’ve made an active choice not to get one, but it just hadn’t ever come up. The opportunity never presented itself. Well, not...
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Halcyon days
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — At long last the glorious spring is here in earnest, and with it a panoply of stunning action under bright blue skies and life-affirming sunshine. That said, the school year’s...
View ArticleWild or stocked?
On Saturday, April 27 the Upper Delaware chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU) was shown a PowerPoint presentation put together by Ed and Judy van Put. This program gave a fisher all the information needed...
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Upper Delaware BioBlitz
On June 29, the public is invited to experience the diversity of life on a property owned by the Norcross Wildlife Foundation in the Northeast corner of Wayne County, during the first Upper Delaware...
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FrackNation director at Sullivan West; McAleer mocks alternative energy,...
The film FrackNation was screened at Sullivan West High School on May 8, and played to an audience of perhaps 100 people, a majority of whom were clearly in favor of gas drilling. Read more
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