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DOING THE WRITE THING: Mankind is my business

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Jackie Augustine Writethingcolumn

IN AMERICA: Got an opinion? Step up.

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Pete Mitchell

PUB CHAT: A close call with a stocking

PUB CHAT: A close call with a stocking

Do you recall your most memorable Christmas? Obviously, so many things can make it The Most Memorable: a special gift … a noteworthy sermon at...

20.12.2025 2

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

TIMELY MATTERS: A magical time of year

TIMELY MATTERS: A magical time of year

“Star of wonder, star of light Star with royal beauty bright Westward leading, still proceeding Guide us to thy perfect light” — “We Three Kings,”...

20.12.2025 4

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Dan Hennessy

GUEST APPEARANCE: Christmas reflections — old films, photos lead to flood of memories

GUEST APPEARANCE: Christmas reflections — old films, photos lead to flood of memories

Christmas is truly a time for reflection. This year, we took a nostalgic journey by revisiting all our old holiday videos. I started filming...

20.12.2025 1

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John E. Norvell

GUEST APPEARANCE: Dialogue in 2025 is a funny thing — A simple email exchange revealed just how hard it is to talk honestly about housing, wages

GUEST APPEARANCE: Dialogue in 2025 is a funny thing — A simple email exchange revealed just how hard it is to talk honestly about housing, wages

The backdrop of this column is important. Before getting into the exchange that brought us here, I want to quickly talk about the data that made...

20.12.2025 1

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Josh Durso

GUEST APPEARANCE: Hey MAGA, when exactly was America great?

The “Make America Great Again” movement undermines America’s moral and civic foundations by promoting loyalty to one man over truth and virtue....

20.12.2025 1

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Nathan R. Kollar

BIGGER PICTURE (Part 2): Special deliveries

BIGGER PICTURE (Part 2): Special deliveries

Local midwife Elizabeth Catlin was arrested two times. Both times, the senior investigator for the New York State Police with over two decades of...

19.12.2025 3

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Spencer Tulis Nmyp2904

POSITIVE VIBES: The positivity of clutter

POSITIVE VIBES: The positivity of clutter

We’ve lived in our house now for close to 30 years. We bought it literally right after we moved back to Geneva from California. Our plan was to...

18.12.2025 1

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John Zakour Johnzakour

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’

Since the past weekend’s highest-grossing as-yet-unreviewed theatrical film, the 205-minute Indian actioner “Dhurandhar,” is playing on only 377...

18.12.2025 2

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Bob Garver Rrg251

DENIM SPIRIT: A metaphor for our traits

All I’ve got this week is an eagle. It keeps flying around in the dark behind my eyes as I search for something noncontroversial to write about....

17.12.2025 3

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Cameron Miller

BIGGER PICTURE (Part I1 Special deliveries

BIGGER PICTURE (Part I1 Special deliveries

On Nov. 16, 2018, what seemed like an innocuous police brief from State Police was published in the Finger Lakes Times. Items like this appear...

17.12.2025 5

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Spencer Tulis Nyp2904

YOUR PET'S HEALTH: Rabies prevention easier than treatment

What is rabies? Rabies is a potentially fatal viral disease that is transmissible to all mammals, including humans. It infects mammals when the...

17.12.2025 1

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Cheryl Ragalevsky