Photography by Rich Gigli
Who could forget their first high school sweetheart?

By Bob Gaydos
Floridians, it turns out, are smarter than South Carolinians, but Republicans still have a mess on their hands.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Farmers are standing up to genetic-engineering giant Monsanto for the right to grow pure food

By Jeffrey Page
… Especially If You Have a Lot of It

By Michael Kaufman
Orange County will soon have its own affiliate of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Organizers hope for big turnout at the inaugural meeting Feb. 2 in Middletown.

Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, at 1,530 feet, is the tallest mountain on Mount Desert Island and the highest point along the North Atlantic seaboard to see the sunrise.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Road salt seeping into drinking water changes its flavor, and supplies the excess dietary sodium associated with hypertension.

By Jeffrey Page
This encounter left me wondering: Do I turn down the $5 in the name of volunteerism? Or do I accept it in the name of helping someone maintain her dignity and self-respect?

By Carrie Jacobson
The bluebirds have showed up!

By Jason Poggioli

To be clear, the bills are coming from good intentions. It’s understandable that creators of content, whether it be books, movies, music, or anything else, should want to make sure their product isn’t getting passed around for free. However, the way these bills are going about it is not only wrong but have been drafted inside staggering clouds of ignorance regarding how the Internet works.