By Gretchen Gibbs
What does a psychologist have to do to get ahead?

By Max Gaydos
A second Iraq War veteran was seriously injured last week in Oakland after a run-in with police using tear gas and other riot control measures in connection with Occupy Oakland. This is a Pine Bush High School graduate’s first-hand account of the man’s treatment in an Oakland jail.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
The Ten Percent Challenge is a growing movement across Orange County to reduce our energy usage by ten percent in the coming year. More and more municipalities and businesses are signing on. Recently, the Josephine-Louise Public Library took the pledge and saved ten percent of our tax dollars.

The dawn of a new snowy day in up-state New York.

By Genie Abrams
During the power blackout in Newburgh last weekend, I took the opportunity to walk around the neighborhood in the almost cruelly bright, icy sunshine Sunday morning and found a whole lot going on …

By Jeffrey Page
It was a major storm but the Times was concerned with what the snow would do to Halloween.

By Shawn Dell Joyce

Right now many of us are planning our Thanksgiving Dinner. We have a big decision; to sit in front of a meal of imported ingredients, grown around the world in places the Pilgrims never set foot, or, skip the supermarket and source all the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner from local farms, mills and growers.

By Jean Webster
We both wore protective gear: a lightweight one-piece suit, long gloves and a pith helmet with netting over it. This outfit made it difficult for a rebellious bee to sting us.

By Bob Gaydos
As a rule, most of us pay too little attention to figuring out how to end something, perhaps because we just don’t like to think about it when we‘re in the middle of whatever it is.

By Michael Kaufman
Why hasn’t the governor signed a bill that benefits consumers and local small businesses, and which passed with overwhelming popular and bipartisan legislative support? The answer isn’t exactly hard to find. Opposed to the legislation are big pharmaceutical companies, managed care companies and big business in general.