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Performance engages spectators in adventure

August 17, 2018 Jason Kaplan

Wanderland Productions, a new venture by Livi Perrone, offers an interactive theater experience. On Aug. 6, about 20 children, along with their parents, were transported to Never Never Land to help the characters of “Peter Pan” find missing pages from a book.

Film-maker has message for teens

June 1, 2018 Editorial Staff

Mr. Bailey is not a film-maker by trade or avocation. His sons have created videos and they’re more at home in the digital world than he is. But he had a message to share with young teens. So he learned to work with a new medium.

Jasper Haase, J.T. Geraci, and Nicholas Conti

Young authors display work at library

August 25, 2017 Jason Kaplan

The Art of the Story is a new display in the Cornwall Public Library Community Room. Over the course of four to six weeks, 25 kids wrote and illustrated short stories during a series of workshops led by Alaina Enslen.

Professor recalls childhood eclipse experience

August 18, 2017 Ken Cashman

Dr. David Kashinski is a professor of physics at West Point. When he was eight years old he viewed an eclipse without any protective glasses. That night he experienced the traditional symptoms — light sensitivity, watery eyes, blurred vision.

State parks offer dozens of circuit hikes

June 30, 2017 Ken Cashman

The good thing about a circuit hike is when you’re finished you’re back where you started. You don’t have to turn around and retrace your steps or arrange for a ride back to your car.

Mumford Poetry Contest

June 1, 2017 Ken Cashman

The awards ceremony for the Timothy Mumford Poetry Competition drew a large audience at the Cornwall Public Library. The award winners and their parents were there. But they weren’t the only ones.

Doctor: “Lyme prevalent but curable”

May 26, 2017 Ken Cashman

“I didn’t expect such a big turnout,” Dr. Margarita Kogan admitted as she greeted the guests in the library’s Community Room. St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital has been sponsoring educational sessions in local libraries. As part

Mary Lou Carolan and Assemblyman James Skoufis

Skoufis hints at future hospital scoop

May 19, 2017 Editorial Staff

Assemblyman James Skoufis had a scoop for the audience at the Cornwall Public Library. “You’re going to see something positive on the Cornwall Campus of the hospital,” he said. But he wouldn’t divulge what it was.

Teens create a carnival at the library

February 10, 2017 Jason Kaplan

Saturday started as the coldest day of the year and some might say it was too cold to enjoy a winter carnival, but not if it was indoors, in the confines of the Cornwall Public Library.

Chapter shares Tuskegee memories

February 3, 2017 Editorial Staff

Glendon Fraser remembers the first fund-raising events for the local chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. Some of the original airmen would attend. They were good dancers, despite their age. And they were wonderful story-tellers, who would sometimes embellish their tales.