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DENIM SPIRIT: The shadow knows

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Cameron Miller

SIMPLE STUFF: Doing the obits

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Louise Hoffman Broach Lbroach

GUEST APPEARANCE: Renewing the fight for more responsible government

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Tom Omara

PUB CHAT: An earth-shattering holiday — Thanksgiving 1980 turned into an extra special celebration

PUB CHAT: An earth-shattering holiday — Thanksgiving 1980 turned into an extra special celebration

I realize as you read this that Thanksgiving is behind, and we are barreling full steam ahead toward the Big Holiday Season. As I write it on...

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

GENEVA IN 1900: Hullabaloo, vote buying, piercing whistles, and weird wagers: The 1900 Presidential election in Geneva

GENEVA IN 1900: Hullabaloo, vote buying, piercing whistles, and weird wagers: The 1900 Presidential election in Geneva

The Geneva Daily Times paints a vivid picture of Genevans’ responses to the 1900 Presidential election that pitted Republican President William...

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Linda Robertson

GUEST APPEARANCE: Why ‘good old days’ aren’t coming back without new neighbors

GUEST APPEARANCE: Why ‘good old days’ aren’t coming back without new neighbors

Small businesses don’t fail because New York suddenly became more expensive. They fail because the communities around them have fewer people than...

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Josh Durso

ALTERNATE ENERGY: Are these batteries worth their salt?

ALTERNATE ENERGY: Are these batteries worth their salt?

Salt batteries are starting to shake the market, and though most “salt batteries” don’t use the salt in your salt shaker, they are salty...

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Jim Bobreski

GUEST APPEARANCE: Yes, we all hung together

GUEST APPEARANCE: Yes, we all hung together

For anyone who attended Catholic school in the 1950s, you know it was just about now that the pictures you had crayoned for Thanksgiving came down...

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Donald Melville

GUEST APPEARANCE: Holiday sparks memories — Remembering a friend at Thanksgiving via film

GUEST APPEARANCE: Holiday sparks memories — Remembering a friend at Thanksgiving via film

During this time of year, I fondly recall when I organized a movie premiere in Geneva. It was fall 1995, and we arranged for Stuart Kleinman, the...

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John E. Norvell

POSITIVE VIBES: Humor for the holidays

POSITIVE VIBES: Humor for the holidays

Since... John Zakour lives in Geneva. He is a freelance humor writer with a bachelor’s in computer science from SUNY Potsdam and a master’s in...

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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wicked: For Good’

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Wicked: For Good’

Previously, in “Wicked”: Aspiring witches, green-skinned outcast Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), and pink-and-popular Glinda (Ariana Grande) started off...

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DENIM SPIRIT: Gratitude, it’s complicated

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. We can wish almost anyone a “Happy Thanksgiving!” without concern for offending sectarian or atheist...

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Cameron Miller

DOING THE WRITE THING: More Finger Lakes extraction

DOING THE WRITE THING: More Finger Lakes extraction

In... Jackie Augustine lives with her three children in Geneva, where she served on City Council for 16 years. An ethics instructor at Keuka...

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Heartbreaker'

BOOK REVIEW: 'Heartbreaker'

From the band’s inception in 1976 to Tom Petty’s drug overdose death in 2017, Mike Campbell was the lead guitarist, co-songwriter, and co-producer...

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Joel Freedman

IN AMERICA: The man on the train

You remember that story, don’t you Pete? The one about how Mom was on a train during the war and the engineer stopped it in the woods in the middle...

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Pete Mitchell