Going back to the VFTB’s narrative of three weeks ago and piggy-backing off of the Smith-Barney Investment Agency narrative, we look to the celebration of the upcoming federal holiday, which many seem to celebrate as just a day off from work, and many do not celebrate as the day we honor ...

My Dear Richard has wide feet. I sympathize as he searches for the right shoe in size 10 EEEE. Shoe stores have very little for him. He scored once, fourteen years ago in New York City, and once in Canada in 2015. Mostly, he searches the catalogues, but finding handsome tassel loafers in ...

Although it has been over twenty years since I retired from my job of teaching school, I still feel nostalgic when it is time for school to begin. I guess the saying “once a teacher always a teacher” applies. I have used my skill of teaching off and on during those years, but nothing ...

How did you find me? “I Googled therapists in your area. Are you taking new patients? You see, I need to tell you that only a Saturday appointment would suffice. I work Monday through Friday. Can you arrange a Saturday morning to see me?” Yes, sir. We made an appointment for the ...

A recent article in your publication regarding a proposed housing purchase by the Rak family has prompted this letter on behalf of the New York State Wine Grape Growers. Labor is an extremely important resource for all farming and particularly vineyard work, so consequently, we are very ...

My sister finally came north for a week — she couldn’t take the oppressive heat in South Carolina anymore. However, I thought, until recently, that our biggest weather story of the summer had been the many, unusually hazy days we have had caused by wildfires burning in Canada and in the ...