By Carrie Jacobson
Chapter 7
“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.

Photography by Rich Gigli
The Three Tenors

By Shawn Dell Joyce
“Benedict Farm” (Montgomery, NY). This park is the outdoor classroom of the Wallkill River School. We can often be found dotting the landscape with our easels and painting almost any day of the week. Come paint with us at www.WallkillRiverSchool.com.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Most Americans rather would invest in Main Street than Wall Street, but the current economic system tends toward globalization instead of localization.

By Michael Kaufman
Judge Sonia Sotomayor isn’t supposed to have a meltdown while facing hostile questions from right-wing Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. So I will vent on her behalf.

By Jeffrey Page
In 16 months, it’ll be time to vote all of them out and start over.

By Beth Quinn
Well, fellow fussbudgets, here we are together again. You may recall that, back in 2004 (Holy Hyphenator! – Was it really that long ago?), I formed the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Apostrophe Preservation Society. Today, I renew the call to arms for my fellow picky punctuators. Come one, come all – the depostrifizers and the repostrifizers, the dequotifiers and the … well, I don’t know … shall we call them the spellies?

By Bob Gaydos
This was supposed to be about a nice visit to the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts. But the world is still too much with me. Cheney, Palin, New York senators — a pox on all of them for dragging me back into their world of deceit and ego.

By Carrie Jacobson
Just outside of downtown Otisville, there’s a lovely new park where people play and exercise and relax. As the sun goes down, blue shadows reach across the lawn, cooling the afternoon.

By Carrie Jacobson
Chapter 6
“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.