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By Clark Putman, State Executive Director, New York Farm Service Agency; and Blake Glover, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service At USDA, we celebrate Earth Day 2019 by offering big thank-yous to farmers here in New York for all they do. Every day we see their efforts to conserve natural resources while producing food, […] 
He was a man amongst men: A true local February Civil War story Hobie Morris By Hobie Morris For many years the handwritten letter is a treasured family keepsake. Then sadly it burned in a family farm house fire. The recipient of this letter is a Civil War soldier named Maurice Vaughan from this […] COLUMN: The Human Condition 012519 08:53 a.m.: After some sleuthing the past couple of days, Captain Michael Teneyck of Troop T out of Syracuse tracked down the the guy who stopped to help me earlier this week. Thanks go to Trooper Dylan Goodrich and a friend who saw the post on Facebook and […] 
Walls It was not long after we arrived that we heard that the spot with the action was along Unter den Linden. So, of course, as soon as we got a bit of time off, we hounded the “old hands” who’d been there before us to guide us to that storied venue. Several of […]
By Harry Hood In Viet Nam I was in a battalion recognizance platoon. I had no rank. I was not even a squad leader, as I remember. Thus, I really had very little or no knowledge of where and what the platoon was doing, where were we going, what area were we to work […]
Hobie Morris Reaching for the Stars at Christmas By Hobie Morris Earth: a beautiful blue orb flying through the universe. I often wonder what we must look like to other beings watching from deep space…what does the light emitting from earth show today? When people see our past will we be proud of […]
COLUMN: A Confederate Yankee Have a cookie and behave yourself, Donald For several days, the house was filled with astronomically delightful odors. Peeled, cored and chopped spies, sugar, cinnamon and cloves simmering in the crock-pot overnight produced 27 pints of apple butter, most of which goes as gifts throughout the year. For a […]
COLUMN: Musings of a Simple Country Man A Mysterious Christmas Dream The story that follows came in an early December dream. You must decide its meaning. Is the dream’s timing coincidental or a special message with purpose? This is what I remember. Hobie Morris The landscape is barren and brown. Nature’s inevitable cycle of […]
COLUMN: A Confederate Yankee Why in Hades? So the madness in Pittsburg has struck like a rattlesnake, leaving me and so many others chilled to the bone. Steel City is tough, but this? What the pluperfect hell? How do certain people rationalize such behavior? If it’s not Jews, it’s black folk, Muslims, Native Americans – […]
Hobie Morris A Profile in Political Red Rose Courage By Hobie Morris If Lincoln were alive today he would be turning over in his grave. – President Gerald Ford When a political movement goes off the beam and wanders too close to the edge of demagoguery and fear and fear mongering becomes too […]
Hobie Morris COLUMN: The Musings of a Simple Country Man Putin, no: Petrov and Arkhipov, YES Unless an unexpected miracle happens, the chances for a life like statue of beady eyed Vladimir Putin watching over Main Street, Brookfield is about as remote as this simple country man becoming the second trillionaire in world […] 
Jim Coufal COLUMN: From Here and Back Again Take a second look before believing political ads Tis the season – for political campaign ads designed to influence your vote. They can be annoying, disgusting and even truthful and enjoyable. They are made in written form, on radio, television and especially now on social […] |
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