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Alcoholism is a disease that can be treated

Our heart sank when we learned this week that Mary Petrilli had been arrested again. We still remembered her as the dedicated teacher and competent principal we had covered years before at Berne-Knox-Westerlo.

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Empire Zone loopholes strangle hard-hit communities while profiting big business
 

Turn the tide on pollution

The earth would be a lifeless planet without water. It is not only essential to plant and animal life but it has defined human civilization.

Taking the temperature of safety at the Bethlehem water plant

In January, we called for a public accounting of what went wrong to allow repeated mercury spills at the Bethlehem water plant in New Scotland. None was forthcoming.