By Jeffrey Page
Recalling a time when Route 211 in Wallkill was a quiet country road without much traffic at all.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
It’s hard to think of global warming when our region is blanketed in new-fallen snow and looks like a winter wonderland. But right now, delegates from around the world are converging on Copenhagen to hash out a global climate treaty that will affect all of us, and our future generations.

By Carrie Jacobson
As Saturday afternoon waxed into Saturday evening, the first snow of the year spun down from the sky and fell, flakes huge and sticky in the 33-degree dusk, and then, overnight, piled on limbs and lawns and the soft branches of fir trees.

View on Clinton St. in the village of Montgomery after a recent snowfall. You see the Presby church to the right, preschool to the left, Fireman’s Museum next to it. I’m currently painting an interior view of the Fireman’s Museum. See more of my work or buy at print at www.ShawnDellJoyce.com take a class with me a www.WallkillRiverSchool.com

By Jeffrey Page
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term,” Perino said.

A heartwarming painting of our promise to our descendants to pass down a world that can sustain them-not a national debt that will drown them. See more of my work at www.ShawnDellJoyce.com and take a class with me at www.WallkillRiverSchool.com

By Shawn Dell Joyce
It seems as if after Thanksgiving, the major news in our country is shopping and whether retail sales will top last year’s sales. And spend we will! We spend an average of $856 per person on the holidays, according to the American Research Group.

Unfortunately, most of our hard-earned dollars will go straight to China because more than 70 percent of the goods on store shelves are from there. If we multiply that by the current U.S. population, that’s about $180 billion leaving home for the holidays.

By Carrie Jacobson
And so, December starts, and in this month of long, dark nights, we feel our age in the early sunsets, and our losses in the lateness of the dawns.

By Rich Gigli
FLYING EAGLE – Did you know that in 1782, the Bald Eagle became the national bird and political symbol of the United States of America? However, it wasn’t without opposition from Benjamin Franklin, who proposed the turkey as the national bird. Could you imagine having a turkey on top of a flag pole, or an American Gold Turkey coin? The photo was taken along the Willowemoc River in Livingston Manor, N.Y.

By Bob Gaydos
Remembering a sad Thanksgiving 46 years ago and giving thanks today for another smart, cool, young president my sons can admire.