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Dear Editor,
I do a lot of my getting around on foot, and in parts of Putnam County that can be its own adventure. Too many roads have no shoulder, no sidewalk, and no safe way for a person to easily get...
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8/8/26
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Yorktown should ban glue trapsDear Editor, I’m writing about a concept that most good people agree about - it's wrong to cause senseless suffering to animals. This is especially true if the suffering is intense, non-stop and prolonged - the type...
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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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The most basic responsibility of town government is to keep our roads, parks and intersections safe for the people who live here.
That means walking through Yorktown with an eye for what could go wrong: a park without a safe water source, a road...
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BY JANN MIRCHANDANI
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8/8/26
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Battery storage. Solar farms. Garbage transfer stations. Cell towers. Car washes. The list of quality-of-life issues that impact our daily lives, and are decided by our Town Board, keeps growing. Now add bicycle safety to the list — especially...
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BY SUSAN SIEGEL
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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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I've often said that getting old is a young man's game. I'm too advanced in years to put up with all the baggage goes along with aging. But if you really want to make yourself feel old, get yourself a puppy. And if you want...
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BY RICK MELÉN
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8/8/26
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When we were 13, Sonya and I stood up in our canoe with one foot on each blazing-hot gunnel, held our paddles across the boat like a tightrope walker's pole, and bounced.
The idea was to dump the other paddler in the water. Sometimes I fell off;...
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BY JOAN ESTES BARICKMAN
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8/8/26
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Dear Editor,
Have you gone somewhere on Route 35?
Have you tried to make a left?
Have you tried to stay alive?
What about a left into the Triangle Shopping Center?
Have you tried that lately?
How long did it...
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8/8/26
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The First Amendment does not exist to protect popular speech. It exists to protect speech that someone, somewhere, finds offensive.
That principle appears to be at the heart of the controversy that recently unfolded in Putnam County.
As part of...
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We hurry from place to place, rushing through our days as though time were an inexhaustible resource. We chase deadlines, promotions, possessions and recognition. We worry about what others think of us, whether we have achieved enough, and whether...
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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8/8/26
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Dear Editor,
Yorktown Town Councilman and Deputy Supervisor Sergio Esposito gets an “F” for his criticism of the important investments being made to support our communities (“State budget fails...
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8/8/26
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Dear Editor,
America is witnessing something deeply alarming: immigrant fathers are being killed by government agents tasked with enforcing civil immigration laws.
On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a...
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8/8/26
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Dear Editor,
“If you serve the public, you should serve only the public.”
Congressman Mike Lawler wrote those words while celebrating legislation restricting members of Congress from...
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8/8/26
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Growing up having a beach house was a treat and a thrill, but when I graduated from high school in a January class, I was expected to get a job.
That meant my very next summer would not be spent basking in the sun. My folks told me I needed to...
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BY MARILYN PELLINI
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8/8/26
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One of Bedford's greatest assets has always been the natural environment that surrounds us.
Our forests, streams, open spaces and scenic neighborhoods are part of what makes our town such a special place to live.
Protecting those resources is...
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BY ELLEN CALVES
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8/8/26
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Dear Editor,
The North Salem Republican Town Committee believes the voters of New York’s 17th Congressional District deserve a full and open exchange of ideas before casting their ballots in what is expected to be...
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8/8/26
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Gov. Hochul's Executive Order 62 — which pauses new discretionary permitting for large data center projects for one year while New York develops a statewide regulatory framework — has generated considerable debate about the future of artificial...
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BY JOHN R. GORDON
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8/8/26
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Turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper or, God forbid, spend some time monitoring social-media outrage, and you would get the idea that Americans do not agree on very much.
Politicians frame every election as an existential crisis. Recent...
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BY DON SCOTT
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8/8/26
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This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to the center of the national debate when he appeared before a Senate committee and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights rather than answer questions about COVID’s origins, gain-of-function research and the...
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BY BRETT FREEMAN
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