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.

By Jeffrey Page
On taxing a nasty product that brings pleasure to millions of people.

By Michael Kaufman
The Santa Anita racetrack came up with an intriguing way to commemorate the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. This one’s for you, Dr. King.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
We must create our own economic stimulus if we are to weather the current economic climate. One way that we can all do this is by interweaving our businesses and households with other local businesses and farms — keep our money flowing in the local economy passing through local business after local business.

By Carrie Jacobson
I wonder, sometimes, about what we don’t know that we know.