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Local theater deserves a full houseDear Editor,
There is something special about live theater that simply cannot be replicated on a screen.
It brings people together, tells stories that make us laugh, think, remember and sometimes see the world...
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9/18/26
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After years of technological advancement, I am prepared to declare that humanity’s greatest invention is not the printing press, the automobile or the internet.
It is the swim-up bar.
We stayed for six nights at the Hilton Cancún Mar Caribe, an...
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BY BRETT FREEMAN
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As former President and CEO of United Way of Westchester and Putnam, I know what a professional partnership with county government looks like.
The picture painted in the recent article on Putnam County’s $150,000 food-assistance appropriation is...
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BY ALANA SWEENY
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9/16/26
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By Supervisor Robert Scorrano
September 11, 2001, began as a beautiful, clear blue-sky morning in New York City.
I was working in Midtown Manhattan when the calls started coming in. A broker said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We...
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BY ROBERT SCORRANO
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9/11/26
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In 2017, natural gas supplied 40% of New York’s energy.
By 2022, according to the most recent information available form the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), more than 50% of the state’s energy was derived from natural gas. As for...
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BY SERGIO ESPOSITO
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9/4/26
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When I was a child, the rules of responsibility were fairly simple. If you broke a neighbor’s window, you were expected to admit what you had done and pay for the repair....
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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9/4/26
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Life is no day at the beach, sometimes even when you spend a day at the beach.
But here at our home away from home in Ocean City, Md., it's only 15 minutes away. And the beach is clean, free and enticing. I schlepped so much stuff from the car I...
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BY RICK MELÉN
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
I am a resident of Mahopac and am very disappointed with our representatives in town.
I have reached out to the Town Board and Supervisor and never heard one word back...
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
As a longtime Putnam County resident, an NRA certified firearm instructor, a Putnam County Firearm Owners Association founding member and a first responder, I write to strongly endorse the...
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9/4/26
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The room fell quiet.
As our first responder roundtable was drawing to a close, I asked one final question:
“What mental health resources does New York state provide to support our local police officers, firefighters, EMTs and dispatchers after...
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BY MATT SLATER
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9/4/26
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After the death of a loved one it is not unusual for the family to delay making decisions or taking any...
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BY ANTHONY ENEA
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9/4/26
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"Eat as much of the local cuisine as you can, and drink the local beverages offered."
-Anthony Bourdain
I’ve heard from readers who are using KBM brewery profiles as craft beer travel guides, and I couldn’t be happier!
So we leaned into the...
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BY JOHN BART
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9/4/26
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Folding warm shirts and pajamas fresh from the clothes dryer, I held up one of my favorite summer T-shirts.
This soft, faded black short-sleeved T-shirt has bright pink lettering and images of an ice cream cone and a pink 1950’s car promoting...
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BY KIM KOVACH
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9/4/26
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Dear Dr. Linda,
We live in New York, but our daughter decided to only apply to colleges on the west coast.
No matter how we tried to change her mind, she wouldn’t listen. I understand that at the time there were many things happening at home,...
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9/4/26
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Dear Editor,
I sometimes join the protest rally sponsored by Indivisible Yorktown on a Saturday.
The others are mostly Yorktown residents. The thing about protests and rallies is that they unite like-minded...
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Flock cameras have been garnering a lot of headlines recently.
They are also generating a lot of controversy across the country. So what exactly is a Flock camera? Flock is a brand name for a class of surveillance equipment known as ALPRs (which...
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BY DON SCOTT
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9/4/26
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The hardest part of our trip was leaving America.
Before reaching Cancún, we survived expired passports, federal bureaucracy, a wrong-way driver and JFK.
There is nothing like planning a relaxing...
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BY BRETT FREEMAN
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9/4/26
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Americans deserve better than slogans. Every election season, politicians stand at podiums delivering speeches that say nothing, while TV ads show grainy photos of opponents and dramatic voiceovers warning that the other person is dangerous,...
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BY JOHN MOOREN
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8/8/26
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The first responsibility of government is simple: to protect its citizens by upholding the rule of law.
Laws exist to create order, protect innocent people, provide justice for victims, and ensure that everyone is treated equally under a common...
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BY ED LACHTERMAN
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8/8/26
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I was a skinny kid. I remember complaining about it at the dinner table one time, probably around the time I was in seventh grade. I wanted to bulk up a little bit.
My brother, a football star in high school who later earned a football...
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BY BOB DUMAS
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8/8/26
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