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Our ancestors didn’t have to worry about putting aside an hour a day for exercise. They were too busy chasing antelopes or walking miles to find a good patch of blueberries. Exerci[...]
Hurricane Sandy, the huge destructive storm, slashed across the Hudson River villages. It brought down thousands of trees; heavy poles holding transformers snapped like match stick[...]
Cheesecake, plain cheesecake, cherry cheesecake, chocolate chip cheesecake—I have always loved cheesecake. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, the only dessert my family ever ordere[...]
Back in the fall of 2010, the NY State Dept. of Transportation presented the official design proposals for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge. The proposal made these points: New publ[...]
Christmas Trees In an effort to promote American fresh-cut Christmas trees and counter the rise in sales of mostly imported artificial trees, the real- tree group decided to impose[...]
Scattered around our office are eight Macintosh computers, all chugging along to produce the words, photos, e-mails and bookkeeping that make publishing The Nyack Villager possible[...]
I have always been proud of the fact I helped win WW2 with the aid of my little brown wagon. Back then, we all learned about WW2  from baritone voices on the radio. The radio voice[...]
Jan, my wife and the editor of The Nyack Villager, was born in March. So was my mother, my brother and my son-in-law—as was Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Harriet Tubman, Houdini a[...]