Fog and the vast dark nebulae
It’s now dark and moonless. October weather tends to be clear. It all adds up to our final optimum astronomy
Voices
Kids’ Almanac (October 16-23)
“Thinking of buying an orange flat sheet, throwing it on top of the laundry peak and going with the Great
Six easy pieces
Every autumn holiday brings to the Hudson Valley a swarm of upwardly mobile creative visitors of every level of success.
Mark Sherman: Door dilemmas
“Be an opener of doors” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) We hear all the time about how civility is
Hugh Reynolds: Gibson and Eldridge, face to face
Raucous groups of partisans emitted whoops, yells and hisses at the first public face-off between Congressional candidates Chris Gibson and
Take the new science knowledge survey
It’s 40 years since this weekly column began. It was a different world then, in the mid-’70s: No space probe had
Letters (October 9-16)
A vote for equality I am voting for Sean Eldridge for Congress in the 19th District. Since Reagan’s nonexistent “Welfare
Kids’ Almanac (Oct. 9-16)
“There once was a middle-aged woman that lived in a van, who had so many passwords to remember, she thought
Letters: WiFi’s hazards, Niagara Bottling, CMRR
Drop the CMRR suit Ulster County Legislature Resolution 273 to drop the litigation with the Catskill Mountain Railroad did not
Keeper’s Log: Due south
The tempo of cricket chirping slows as the temperature drops on autumn evenings, inducing a calm, observant mood along the