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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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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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