Saugerties Times letters (8/30-9/5)
Library budget and trustee vote; Saugerties – a future Long Island?; vote for VanBlarcum; thanks for the tree work; why do we need signs in school zones flashing car speed over the summer?; McCain the hero.
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Saugerties Times letters (8/23-30)
Topics include: emergency access to Riccardi Elementary; thanks to veterans; John Faso – outsider; Delgado for Congress; Faso & Trump; 19th tossup.
Saugerties Times letters (8/16-22)
Selections from this week’s print edition.
Saugerties Times letters (8/9-15)
Facing the facts on the Vietnam War; Saugerties solar project; concentrate power locally; worrying about children.
Saugerties Times letters (8/2-9)
Where should solar panels go?…Clarification from artist on bows…Figueroa for Sheriff…Scott for Library Board.
Creature comforts
State wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could (and does) chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. If a woodchuck could chuck wood, Thomas estimated, it would chuck an amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds, which is a big pile.
Saugerties Times letters (7/19-25)
Term limits being pushed by Mercer family, enough with Hugh Reynolds, Delgado’s socially conscious rap, Saugerties solar installation is an industrial use, Friends of Historic Saugerties mourns Myles Putnam, kelp/seaweed farming good for planet.
Saugerties Times letters (7/12-19)
Topics include: Saugerties tourism, opposition to Title IX gag rule, hats off to DPW, no solar farm.
The Eagle’s View: Change comes slowly to Saugerties
Town GOP chair to step down; Seth Turner heads to Long Island; Myers versus Kraft for town justice?; Free ride for town board?
Living with chipmunks
It is the year of the chipmunk. These pocket-sized creatures are having a banner year, invading my yard in great numbers. I have a spending posse. As a group, they’re officially named a scurry.