By Shawn Dell Joyce

Almost half of our energy use goes into heating and cooling our homes. We are already paying an average of 20 percent higher home energy costs, so reducing your energy usage by ten percent will pay for itself. A professional home energy audit costs $100-$300, but is free to homeowners if you sign up through NYSERDA at www.getenergysmart.org.

By Jeffrey Page

By Carrie Jacobson
Painting sunflowers is about as fun as it gets.

By Bob Gaydos
A stroll through the headlines, from Bachmann to Obama, Posada to Tiger’s ex caddie, and from London to outer space.

By Jeffrey Page
Surely I’m not the only one having nightmares about such expressions as “President Perry” and “President Bachmann.”

By Shawn Dell Joyce
The Town of Montgomery voted at the last Board Meeting to accept the Ten Percent Challenge, making the entire Town of Montgomery and the three villages officially on board. This means that we need to reduce our energy use by ten percent at a municipal level, as well as encourage ten percent of our residents to do the same.

Mulholland Point Lighthouse was built in 1885 and is the only lighthouse shared by the United States and Canada. It is located in Roosevelt Campobello International Park.

By Jeffrey Page
For all the yelling in the debt limit debate we’re about where we started when it all began, and that’s no place to be.

By Bob Gaydos
If Amy Winehouse was inclined to use alcohol and drugs to deal with stress to begin with (and her music suggests as much), the inescapable presence of alcohol and drugs in the pop music industry could have been enough to drown out any voices of reason coming from loved ones.