Dems on display It was a fine night for the Woodstock Democrats on Tuesday, September 6 as candidates debated the local issues, honing in on some, glossing over others in their quests for party nominations that wi...
Learning to live all over again “I don’t think the electricity had been on for half an hour all that month. When it did come on it was always at some time you least expected it, before you could do something useful with it, like ...
An Independence Day of our own We’re into the last blast of summer, though according to the calendar there’s still a month to go. But folks are getting ready for school, football is in the air, the nights are cool, starting to s...
‘…only the government you need…’ The stock market tumbles. The Dow crumbles. No funds for extensions of unemployment, the jobless rate holds at a high rate. The right seeks a way to chip away at Medicare and Social Security. The l...
1937 again Slowly, with great pain, the New Deal had been inching the Depression, the one that began in 1929 with the stock market crash that unregulated banks had wrought with their reckless behavior, back i...
Money under the bed I have thought about going and getting every modest nickel I have invested out of my meager retirement plan and stashing it…where? Under the bed, where it would fit in a small shoebox? Would it be ...
Bumbling toward a building permit The town board and the planning board realized that the town had issued a building permit to RUPCO before all the conditions required in the site plan approval had been met. So they will attempt to...
Oh, well… In Austin, Texas, the temperature has hit the 100 degree farenheit mark for eleven days in a row. The forecast calls for several days of cooling weather there, with the temperature not getting over...
Required items In our story last week, we reported that RUPCO’s Guy Kempe said that the building permit for the agency’s proposed project behind Bradley Meadows and the curb-cut approval, which would be issued, r...
A farewell to Billy Costello You can always call a guy who won a world title in boxing, ‘Champ.’ They never get tired of hearing it. You could call Billy Costello ‘Champ’ and you might see him, almost imperceptibly, swell with...
