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Zoning can be changed to promote agriculture

New Scotland has a golden opportunity to plan for its future. Lost in all the rhetoric as citizens for more than a year have battled over the fate of the Bender melon farm is this: Residents care; they are energized.

What does it mean to be a hero?

Cindy Pollard is hosting a 100th birthday party for an American Hero. That’s how she bills it.

As the Hudson River flows on, Bowen explores the places and people that fill its valley

In this year of the quadricentennial, much is being written in our valley about the river explored by Henry Hudson.

We smell a rat!

Citizens are up in arms about poison used to kill rats around the Rapp Road landfill. They should be.