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News | February 4, 2026
MIDDLEBURGH - It may have been frigid outside but the races were hot on the inside of the Middleburgh Community Center Saturday at the annual Savannah Speedway Middleburgh Girl Scout races. The winners in the three heats were: * 10am: 1st Madeleine Porter, 2nd Iris Meyers, 3rd Julia Tyler. * 12pm: 1st Rosie Zurek, 2nd Sadie Goldstein, 3rd Alexis Krueger.
The Mountain EagleNews | February 4, 2026
MIDDLEBURGH – Caroline Andrew, FNP, Family Nurse Practitioner at Bassett Healthcare Network’s Middleburgh School-Based Health Center, has been recognized by her peers with the 2025 Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) Award of Excellence. Bassett established its Advanced Practice Clinician Award of Excellence to recognize an outstanding practitioner who demonst
The Mountain EagleNews | February 4, 2026
With this winter weather we are experiencing, the Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club is looking to get in some hard water racing on Sunday, February 1. As of Monday, the conditions on Pecks Lake were questionable, and they were hoping to have a better idea of the situation by last night. To race, you must pre-register and purchase a current membership through
The Mountain EagleNews | February 4, 2026
GALLUPVILLE — Roughly one hundred guests braved the frigid temperatures on Saturday to stop by the Gallupville House for the "Oh Man Chili Cook-Off." Eleven contestants vied for votes to claim chili victory by offering their special recipes, with many on the spicy side, along with cornbread and lemonade to wash it all down. Last year's winner, Hilda Blevins,
The Mountain EagleNews | February 4, 2026
MIDDLEBURGH - A possible 10.5 percent increase in health insurance costs at Middleburgh Central School could cause a budget shortfall of more than $936,000 for the 2026-27 school year. Health insurance costs will not be finalized until March, but business administrator Robyn Bhend warned school board members at their January meeting that rising heath insura
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Feature | January 28, 2026
There is a kind of idea that seems too simple to require much explanation. Ubuntu is often expressed in English as something close to: “I am because we are.” The phrase is short enough to fit on a poster, which makes it easy to treat as either obvious wisdom or pleasant sentiment and move on. I think it's more interesting if we resist doing either. The ph
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Feature | January 27, 2026
I've been thinking about centralization for a long time. Years ago, I thought I understood the direction fairly clearly. Large centralized systems were becoming brittle. Networks were making it possible to distribute capabilities that once had to live in one place. Eventually, I thought, the same organizational change we had seen in computing would appear
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Feature | January 27, 2026
I spent a lot of time as a kid walking fields and creek beds looking for arrowheads. Finding one changes the ground a little. A field you've crossed a hundred times is suddenly also a place where somebody stood a very long time ago, picked up a piece of stone, worked it into a tool, and eventually lost or left it somewhere that allowed you to find it centuri
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Feature | January 27, 2026
A friend of mine has spent years metal detecting around this part of upstate New York, and occasionally he'll show me something that came out of a field we've probably driven past hundreds of times. Some of the finds are ordinary enough: old copper coins, buttons, bits of hardware and tokens from businesses nobody remembers. Others reach surprisingly far ba
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Feature | January 27, 2026
One of the first things we learn about the world is that it doesn't negotiate with us very much. Touch something hot and your hand moves before you've had time to develop a theory about it. "Ouch. Hot. No touch." For a small child, that's enough. The lesson becomes more complicated as we get older because consequences become harder to interpret. I try so
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Feature | January 27, 2026
Let's say the asteroid hits. Not metaphorically. The building containing the PostgreSQL primary is gone, along with the local cluster, its storage and everything else that normally makes the site authoritative. Fortunately, there is a remote replica somewhere else. Now we have to decide when that replica becomes primary. At first this sounds like an ordi
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Feature | January 27, 2026
Adding PostgreSQL changes what a Kubernetes cluster is being asked to do. Until this point in the build, most of the workloads have been relatively forgiving. A web service disappears, Kubernetes starts another one. An ingress pod moves to another node. A container is replaced from an image that already contains everything necessary to recreate it. That do
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