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By Dave Roberts Musical Serendipity Since my daughter Jeannine’s death in 2003, the music of Tom Petty, The Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, Rush, Sting and Jackson Browne have allowed me to sit with the many emotions...

  Moo Toh Taw is a graduate of Proctor High School class of 2016 and received her associate degree in Criminal Justice from Herkimer County Community College in the spring of 2018. Moo was the Commencement...

by Roger Chambers Holidays and Observances of October: September 15 - October 15: Hispanic Heritage Month October 1: Child Health Day October 6:  German-American Day October 8: Yom Kippur begins at sundown October 9: Leif Erikson Day October 11: General Casimir...

  A vigil was held on the Village Green on Monday, February 26 to show solidarity with students in Florida who are speaking out so courageously as well as the victims of school gun violence...

By C. Harris-Lockwood Given all of the social misery and conflict surrounding the proposed construction of a hospital in the Columbia Lafayette district or CoLa, there has yet to be a comprehensive plan offered to...

By Cassandra Harris Lockwood Ok. So, the list is long. For whatever reason, the latest has been Texas Instruments, to turn down the Marcy Nano site. Since the withering taint of the Buffalo Billions debacle, numerous...

By Mark Ziobro “Avengers: Endgame” is an epic. It pays homage to the legions of Marvel films that came before it, packages and wraps up the morose happenings of “Avengers: Infinity War” in a way...

By: Dan Roberts How do hospitals get built? Who decides where they locate their facilities? And, who should pay for these facilities and the equipment necessary to provide quality healthcare for the residents of the...

The unusual winter and almost nonexistent spring have made for an unusual start to the 2018 planting season. Linwood Place gardeners didn’t really have time to start a lot of seeds with all of...

Dear Reader: We’ve been complacent. We thought everybody knew how important a free press was to our world and that all this talk about us being the enemy of the people would be dismissed for the...