By Shawn Dell Joyce
At some point today, you will probably be faced with the choice to use a disposable cup or not. … Nothing is really disposable. Many of the things we consider disposable, will probably outlive humanity as a species.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Painting of the ubiquitous watertower in Montgomery. This pastel painting is one of a series of paintings depicting Montgomery on its 200th anniversary. Celebrate the bicentennial with me and Carrie Jacobson at our art show at Wallkill River School and Art Gallery on March 13, 5-7pm

By Carrie Jacobson
On the eve of a show’s opening, your intrepid pet painter takes up a challenge. Paint fast!

By Rich Gigli
WELCOME SPRING - Maybe not yet. According to Punxsutawney Phil’s Groundhog Day 2010 prediction was six more weeks of winter, as he did see his shadow. Oh well, what do groundhogs know?

By Jeffrey Page
Changing history to make it safe for the GOP

By Bob Gaydos
The Obama administration has hemmed, hawed, stumbled and bumbled its way through the process of getting the confessed 9/11 mastermind out of prison at Guantanamo Bay and into a United States courtroom.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Local municipalities have the opportunity, through a new state law, to create green jobs at a level that this year’s high school graduates can take advantage of and that will benefit individual taxpayers as well. It attaches the cost of energy upgrades to home mortgages.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Heirloom Peppers, a pastel of all the varieties of peppers grown on local farms. Notice how brilliant and colorful our fresh produce is. These local peppers are in season in the late summer.

By Carrie Jacobson
In the woods along the banks of the Neversink, in the Myers Grove area of Cuddebackville, moles and voles and mice and squirrels multiply. Killing them is Eunice’s sworn duty.

By Rich Gigli
BOTTOMS UP - Swans feed in the water, obtaining food by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems, leaves and aquatic submerged plants.