We pause here to wish a speedy recovery to a Kent neighbor from Farmer's Mills Road who surprised two burglars in his home last week and and was found badly beaten and semi-conscious several hours later by coworkers wondering why he'd not come back from lunch. He's currently in hospital but late reports say...
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In yesterday's edition of the New York Journal News they ran 5 full pages of incidences from police reports. Imagine how different our communities would be if they ran 5 full pages of the positive things we do, our successes? Graduations, accomplishments, births, projects completed... There is more to life than drunk drivers and...
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“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer's money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive. “People are losing their homes, their jobs,...
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Hall secures final approval for Lake Oscawana cleanup funds WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday for final approval of $400,000 to improve the water quality of Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley. Rep. John Hall (D-Dover) worked to insert the funding into the fiscal year 2010 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. Without federal funding, the Town...
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Beach ranking not kind to Myrtle Beach area By James Rosen Washington Bureau The quality of South Carolina’s beach waters and their maintenance fare poorly compared with those off the coasts of neighboring Georgia and North Carolina, a national environmental group said Wednesday. Among 30 states reviewed in the new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, South...
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Steps toward a healthier lake There is little doubt about what needs to be done to restore the health of Putnam Valley’s Lake Oscawana, a scenic glacial lake so saturated with phosphorous that in February the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared it an “impaired water body,” meaning remediation is required. “For 29 years we...
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