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March has a reputation: it barges in like a lion, then sneaks out like a lamb. The phrase has been floating around weather folklore for generations, the kind of seasonal shorthand that still nails the mood. And the month’s name doesn’t exactly...
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3/27/26
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Recently, a very close friend gave me an important book: The Discourses of Epictetus.
That amazing book opened my eyes to the incredible world of Stoicism. Today, Stoicism stands as one of the most enduring and influential philosophical...
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3/27/26
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The Town of Yorktown is taking a thoughtful and deliberate approach to evaluating the future of its Emergency Medical Services (EMS), with a clear priority: ensuring high-quality, reliable care while maintaining fiscal responsibility for...
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3/27/26
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A pizza or an ambulance?
A choice you may have to make. Not today – but very possibly sometime in the near future. Exactly when depends on what level of emergency medical services (EMS) you want Yorktown to provide its residents – and how much...
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3/27/26
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Many are of the belief that because they have several million dollars’ worth of assets (including their home(s), savings accounts, and retirement monies), they...
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BY ANTHONY J. ENEA
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3/27/26
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The other night I was changing channels to find something to watch on TV.
I found an old black and white episode of the Andy Griffith Show centered around Sheriff Andy Taylor, his young son, Opie, and their Aunt Bee. This homey old-time sitcom...
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3/27/26
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Dear Dr. Linda,
PAPERS, PAPERS, and more PAPERS!!!
My sixth-grade son’s backpack is a mess of papers! He has five binders jammed into his backpack and each one is overloaded with papers. Some of the papers are in the rings in the binders and...
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3/27/26
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Alfred North Whitehead, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, famously announced in 1929, “the safest general characterization of European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
In other words, all...
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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3/27/26
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By the time you read this, the Town Board will have held another public hearing on the proposed Homeland Towers cell tower project on Granite Springs Road.
As of this writing, the outcome is unknown. But whatever the board decides, one thing is...
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3/27/26
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I didn't get to watch much of the Olympics this year, which makes me uniquely qualified to deliver an uniformed yet unbiased account of the major stories.
I did manage to see coverage of the curling events almost EVERY time I turned on the...
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3/27/26
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My son is Mike (the original was Michael, and ordained by me, his mother, never to be shortened).
When he was in second grade, however, he was asked to fill in a form with his full proper name. When he came home from school that day, he asked me...
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3/27/26
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We are fortunate to live in a community that is, by nearly every measurable standard, safer than most in the country.
Putnam County and Northern Westchester benefit from strong public institutions, responsive law enforcement, engaged civic...
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BY PIAGET SOLPIAGET
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3/27/26
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It takes years of training and thousands of dollars worth of equipment to get up onstage. Underpaying musicians hurts everyone.
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BY DUKE COVONE
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3/27/26
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With elections coming up this year, I felt it was appropriate to ask a philosophical question: what yardstick should we use to decide whom to support?
Of course, many of us vote by party affiliation. However, for the purposes of this exercise,...
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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3/27/26
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The Town Board's announcement that they're reestablishing a committee to evaluate the 485-b commercial tax exemption is a step worth taking seriously. But before that committee convenes, two fundamental misstatements need to be corrected — because...
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3/27/26
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As a baby boomer, I am essentially a living meme for technological incompetence. Clichés are clichés for a reason.
Back when this newspaper was still being run out of a brick-and-mortar office, I relied heavily on my...
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3/27/26
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Mahopac families are in an affordability crisis. The cost of groceries, gas, housing and taxes keeps climbing, and now NYSEG wants to hit our community with massive electricity and gas rate increases.
For a lot of households here, this isn’t some...
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BY TANNER MCCRACKEN
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3/27/26
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When it comes to accepting change, my college marketing professor said people fall into four categories. Those comfortable with change are the “early adopters.” They’re followed by the “observers,” pragmatists who watch from the side, wondering...
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BY DON SCOTT
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3/27/26
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Sheridan Gorman was the very best of Yorktown.
She was the kind of person who made you proud to say where you’re from. She carried our community with her in everything she did, and in return, she gave so much of herself back to all of us. Her...
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BY SERGIO ESPOSITO
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3/25/26
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Although Bob Dylan was singing about serving higher powers, there’s a growing trend in the craft beer world where, as it turns out, you serve yourself.
A friend in California first...
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BY JOHN BART
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3/12/26
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