Category: Local Culture

  Communities along the Upper Delaware River are gearing up for the sixth annual Upper Delaware Litter Sweep this April. Organized by the Upper Delaware Council, this popular community cleanup event brings…

Our resident science guy Joe Johnson brings us stories that caught his eye recently: Can particle accelerators make nuclear waste safe in 300 years? Spent nuclear fuel rods remain dangerously radioactive for…

Fifty years is a long time to keep a band together. For Randy Jackson of Zebra, the math is straightforward, if a little morbid. “We’re all in our 70s now, so statistically…

For decades, residents of Sullivan County’s Cochecton area knew Dean Scharf as the man behind Dog Mountain Lodge, the beloved kennel he co-founded. But before the dogs, before the boarding runs and…

Spring allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer than in previous decades, and physicians are urging people who suffer from seasonal allergies to begin treatment before symptoms strike. Dr. Michael Mandarino…

Every spring, millions of Americans haul old furniture to the curb, scrub forgotten corners, and throw open the windows. Dr. Melissa Weintraub thinks our refrigerators deserve the same treatment. “Spring for all…

Country Joe McDonald, the singer-songwriter whose antiwar anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became a defining voice of the 1960s counterculture, has died at 84. His wife of 43 years, Kathy McDonald, said he passed…

The Trans + Support Initiative of Sullivan and Wayne Counties (TSI) is launching a free community screening series called “Entertainment, Popcorn, and Education” with the hope that a local theater, a bag…

  Justin Cole doesn’t always know where a song starts. Sometimes it’s a single line that lodges itself in the back of his mind and waits. Other times, it’s a guitar figure…