As has often been the case with the coronavirus and its inexorable march across the nation, health officials have been greeted by awful surprises and technical breakthroughs. Read more
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I was in the supermarket the other day, making my daily visit, pushing the cart that they seem to reserve just for me. It has a wheel that flutters as you push it down the aisle. It does serve a purpose since it alerts my fellow shoppers that they are about to be run over by a senior shopper…
A documentary filmmaker, from Brooklyn, came up last week. He is making a documentary about ginseng and he wanted to interview me and see some wild ginseng.
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost + September 27, 2020
Some people vow not to try any COVID-19 vaccine that comes out before the election, given the Trump administration’s bizarre and blithe attitude toward the pandemic.
I have, I realized during a recent conversation with Willie Crosby, been ignoring a whole kingdom of beneficial and beautiful organisms in my gardening. Willie is the proprietor of Fungi Ally, a mushroom growers’ supply business based in the town of Montague in Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley.
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The coronavirus infiltrated every aspect of American society where people gather in constricted spaces. And that includes county jails and state prisons.
Contributed photoShiitake logs continue to produce for as long as five years and, unlike vegetables, don’t require any weeding or maintenance, making these mushrooms a leisurely crop to grow.
Attending high school at Hunter-Tannersville Central in the 1960s, I have a special spot in my heart for the Tannersville Lake. Like the rest of the students, good times were enjoyed ice skating, swimming, and dancing to the music coming from the “Boat House.”
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but there were these owners who gathered in New York City (or Albany or Buffalo) calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow them to reopen their businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic even as riskier enterprises were allowed to open.
Big Valley Trail Blazers completed the trail maintenance on Bear Pen Mountain recently and are anxiously awaiting a good winter to enjoy safe and fun snowmobiling. If you would like info on the Big Valley Trail Blazers, give Glenn Howard a call.
PRATTSVILLE — Thank you all our frontline workers — doctors and nurses and their medical staffs, law enforcement, first responders and our essential workers. You are appreciated and in our thoughts.
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The Fall season officially starts this week. The weather has been announcing it the past couple of days. Very frosty nights, cool, sunny days. I am thankful that the jet stream has shifted, and we now have bright blue skies instead of smoky, ash laden sky. I have been watching the leaves slo…
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Contributed photoRip Van Winkle Lake
Photo by Christine DwonTown of Lexington Fire/Rescue Company held an open house on Sept. 21 at the Lexington Fire Station to show the new Town of Lexington Fire District’s Rescue Truck 18-3 and to thank the community. Shown from the left in the front row are Sarah Jordan, Lessia Clinton, Liz…
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What follows is an article by New Baltimore Town Historian Ted Hilscher about the Hamlets of New Baltimore and Coeymans, two similar communities separated by the Greene/Albany County Line whose histories are intertwined. Both settlements date their origins to the earliest settlement of New Y…
Last week we featured the first half of an article on the Hamlets of New Baltimore and Coeymans by Town Historian Ted Hilscher. Part Two now follows.
PRATTSVILLE – Thank you to all healthcare workers, first responders and essential workers for watching out for us. We should try to do the same for you by following good health practices.
This week’s article will talk about a few of the mountaintop physicians that we’ve been fortunate to have had over many years.
We extend deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Mary Westman who passed away last week. Condolences also to the family and friends of George Truesdell.
I just don’t know how to dress this month. I stick my head out of my cocoon of blankets in the morning, and it’s quite chilly in my house. I put on my snuggly robe, pad to the kitchen for my coffee, consider turning on the heat. By the time I get out of my morning shower, It’s warming up and…
From the Oct. 4, 1973 Tales of Old Columbia
From the Edward Ely Sherman Collection, Vedder Research LibraryScene of the Sherman Family Wharves at New Baltimore in 1820, From the Edward Ely Sherman Collection, Vedder Research Library.
Lester Smith Collection, Vedder Research LibraryWard Foods and New Baltimore Hamlet Post Office c. 1930
The start of the new school year is here. We have been here many times before but never like this. It is a momentous time at the Hudson City School District and in the history of public education. After being thrown the pandemic curveball in March, we did a lot of reflection about our experi…
As you may recall from the first quarter of this calendar year, the State was approaching the current fiscal year that started on April 1 with a significant budget shortfall; even before COVID, the financial situation in NY was not good. COVID, of course, greatly exacerbated the issue, and t…
Dear Warriors,
Stock market volatility in 2020 has clearly reinforced at least one important investing principle: Short-term goals typically require a conservative investment approach. If your portfolio loses 20% of its value due to a temporary event, it would require a 25% gain just to regain that loss. T…
When we talk about the coronavirus, it isn’t a simple matter of black-and-white. COVID-19 is one big gray area.
It has been a cruel summer for the state Health Department.
If there is one issue in New York at this moment that requires answers, it’s the number of nursing home deaths at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and the reason the state is stonewalling discovery of what happened and why.
Here are five top state COVID mandates for restaurants: Limit indoor capacity to no more than 50% of maximum occupancy, exclusive of employees; limit outdoor capacity to the number of tables that can be safely and appropriately arranged, such that each table is a minimum of 6 feet away from …
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Let’s be blunt.
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Bears, humans and beagles have all had the good fortune to have been born omnivores.
When gardeners ask me what is the average date of the first killing frost, I have to ask them where they live, exactly.
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