The first Farmer’s Market of 2025 was damp and chilly, with threatening thunderstorms. The weather kept some of the regular shoppers away. It was good to see old familiar faces again. A few were missing. Blue Pepper Farm wasn’t there with their delicious sheep yogurt. There were some new ...
Twelfth-century buildings are still used as hotels, walled cities are vibrant towns, and 14th-century castles are repurposed as wineries and wedding venues. Rosemary plants grow as shrubbery, caper plants hang from tower bricks, and artichoke fields line the roads. While I was fortunate enough ...
My kids have talked a lot about pay, work and value. Though it would be nice to determine our worth, when we are working for someone else, there is sometimes a fine line between how we view ourselves and how our bosses value us. I quip that they are lucky to be paid a salary and not in ...
For much of the public, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is synonymous with vehicle safety research, but it’s far from the organization’s only focus. Jessica Cicchino is a Senior Vice President at IIHS. She directs the Institute’s research on road user behavior and ...
It is difficult for me to understand why so many Americans seem to like seeing our country divided into factions on social terms (friends/enemies), by racial background (white, black, brown, blended etc.), by gender and sexuality (male/female, straight, LGBTQ-plus, etc.), socioeconomic status ...
To the editor: The new New York state budget is good news for the Adirondack History Museum and other organizations like us. We rely on a combination of individual supporters, charitable foundations and government grants to pay for local exhibits, to sponsor local historians and ...