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PUB CHAT: Of love stories ... and bathrooms

PUB CHAT: Of love stories ... and bathrooms
15.02.2025 4

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Planes, trains and automobiles — and even Christmas ornaments

19.01.2025 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Vikings redux

11.01.2025 9

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: A 55-year love affair

Through exhaustive calculations — that is, my finger pointing at a map of the United States — I have learned that I have visited and spent time in...

05.01.2025 2

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Xmas traditions — from smelt to IAWL

Absolutely no holiday or observance has as many traditions, tales, myths and songs — especially songs, whew the songs — than Christmas. And it’s...

15.12.2024 3

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PUB CHAT: Meet you in Venice

I have written previous “Pub Chats” about coincidental or serendipitous moments and events that have made me go “Huh?” They happen to me fairly...

07.12.2024 4

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

COMMUNITY GIVING: Special praise for special people, agencies

In the daily pages of the Finger Lakes Times, we are pleased to publish stories about people going above and beyond and doing exceptional things...

07.12.2024 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: 'Tis the season — for a chocolate eyeball or two

Don’t you love it when the calendar finally flips to catch up with real life? By that I mean now that we have zoomed past Thanksgiving in all its...

30.11.2024 2

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PUB CHAT: Time to count blessings

Here I am, Pete. I have a buddy in Lyons, Pete Kitchen, who loves to chide me when I don’t have a “Pub Chat” in the paper for a week or two. “There...

23.11.2024 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Election season upon us

19.10.2024 2

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Experiences through travel

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ― St. Augustine Saint Augustine was born in 354 in the Roman province of...

12.10.2024 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Rebirth of the Legion — Commander Fratto, dedicated team getting organization back on its feet

If you know AJ Fratto, you know it doesn’t take much to get him wound up. The current commander of Geneva’s American Legion Winnek Post 396 is a...

21.09.2024 3

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PUB CHAT: Three strikes, you're out!

I love baseball and, by extension, baseball movies. And, don’t worry. If you’re not a sports fan, this “Pub Chat” is not really about sports, so...

14.09.2024 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

GUEST APPEARANCE: How to lose 100 pounds — and still be (very) happy

I lost a hundred pounds. It began on a commercial airplane about two years ago. I couldn’t get the seat belt to reach all the way around my lap....

07.09.2024 3

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: On Labor Day, here's to the butcher

(Publisher’s note: Is it officially stealing if you steal from yourself, or copyright infringement when you infringe upon yourself? I’m not quite...

31.08.2024 2

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Latest industry developments

My prediction is this will be one of the lesser-read “Pub Chats” I’ve produced in a while, but I want to touch on a couple of developments that are...

17.08.2024 4

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PUB CHAT: Inspiring Olympic stories

I don’t know about you, but for me, nothing is as inspirational as the Olympic Games, especially the summer version. There’s just something about...

10.08.2024 1

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo

PUB CHAT: Olympian memories

I have always been a fan of the Olympics — especially the Summer Games. The allure for me is a combination of the pageantry of the Opening and...

27.07.2024 1

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Mike Cutillo Mcutillo