By Michael Kaufman
Two followers of Lyndon LaRouche, described as “the most recent incarnation of totalitarian fascism,” were in Warwick Saturday, using Nazi imagery to depict President Obama and oppose his healthcare reform plan.

By Jeffrey Page
Socialism, death panels and euthanasia? People at town hall meetings, including one in Greenwood Lake, are misinformed and afraid.

By Beth Quinn
Those of you under the age of 30 might have never heard the word “layaway.” It means “pay for something before you bring it home.” Weird, huh. But our nouveau poverty is making the idea of layaway cool again.

By Carrie Jacobson
Chapter 10
“The Travels of Zoe, the Wonder Dog” is a fictional serial that follows Zoe, a mostly blind lhasa apso, as she looks for love and a home in the mid-Hudson Valley. This is a fictional serial. Though it takes place in the Mid-Hudson, and many of the places are identifiable, the story and the characters in it are fully fictional. Any resemblance to real-life people, events or businesses is purely coincidental.

By Carrie Jaconbson
I made this painting of the Black Dirt Region in December; it will be one of the paintings in the show I’m having with George Hayes in September at the Wallkill River School Gallery, Route 17K, Montgomery.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
“Mist over Rogowski Farm” (Pine Island) Painted en plein air with the Wallkill River School in the black dirt region of Orange County. Come and paint with us!

By Shawn Dell Joyce
“Reduce, reuse and recycle” is the new mantra, but we also must add “rethink” and examine our disposable mentality.

Photography by Rich Gigli
“I Have a Dream”

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Imagine if beings from outer space knocked on your door looking mighty hungry. You would show them the refrigerator, pantry and cupboards, and they would throw up their handlike appendages in dismay and mutter, “All you have to eat is corn?!”

Photography by Rich Gigli
Rain