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by Bill Batson The fight over fracking in New York State is reaching a fever pitch. Natural gas advocates claim the drilling technology is...
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by Bill Batson Dr. Lori Martin helped erect this street sign that honors the memory of Cynthia Hesdra. When she published The Ex-Slave’s Fortune: The...
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by Bill Batson Richard Anderson found a vessel for all of his dreams, the nation’s oldest surviving passenger steamship, the SS Columbia. Anderson, who...
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by Bill Batson Kajogo Iguna imports crafts from Meru, Kenya to support families in that country being ravaged by AIDS and Malaria. The fact...
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by Bill Batson Every time I passed this sign, I struggled to decipher the mysterious acronym. Not knowing the meaning of the hieroglyphic written...
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by Bill Batson Mohamed Mahmoud opened his store in 1993 at the tail end of the antiques boom in Nyack. Mohamed moved his wares...
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by Bill Batson I spent four nights at my 91 year old father’s bedside last week. Before his hospitalization, I had already decided that...
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by Bill Batson Would you be surprised to know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a concealed carry gun permit? In his...
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by Bill Batson For the first 17 days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the flag at the...
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by Bill Batson Every ornament, toy and clock at Hickory Dickory Dock tells a story. Once you pass under the canopied entrance of 43...