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Feature | January 20, 2026
Some things fail all at once. A component burns out. A company loses its largest customer. A relationship ends after a particular event. A software deployment introduces a defect and the service stops working. Other failures are harder to locate because there is no moment when the thing clearly broke. What worked last year works a little less well this yea
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Feature | January 20, 2026
Most conversations aren't only exchanges of information. They're also interactions between people who arrive with expectations about what happens next. Someone expresses uncertainty and the other person offers an answer. Someone becomes upset and the other person tries to calm things down. One person challenges and the other begins defending. None of this i
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Feature | January 20, 2026
This started, as many things do, as a practical problem. I wanted to translate something expressed in one domain into another without flattening it. Color into language. Language into music. Music into something resembling ethical posture. Producing analogies was easy enough. The harder question was whether anything recognizable could survive the passage.
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Feature | January 20, 2026
One of the most interesting things about The Lord of the Rings is how often the people we might expect to exercise power are instead asked to refuse it. Gandalf refuses the Ring. Galadriel refuses it. Aragorn spends much of the story exercising restraint long before he openly exercises authority. Faramir rejects an opportunity to take the Ring even after le
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Feature | January 20, 2026
We tend to remember conversations by what was said. Someone made an argument. Someone told us something important. We disagreed about a decision or finally talked about something we'd been avoiding. When we describe the conversation later, we usually reconstruct it from those pieces of content. Yet two conversations containing very similar words can go ver
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Feature | January 20, 2026
There is a recurring temptation when solving difficult problems: decide what kind of problem we're looking at as quickly as possible. Sometimes that's exactly what we should do. A server is down, a pipe is leaking or a deadline is approaching. We know enough to act, and additional reflection may simply increase the cost of waiting. Other problems punish ea
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Feature | January 20, 2026
There is a common assumption that things persist by remaining the same. We imagine continuity as sameness stretched across time: the object that endures, the institution that keeps its traditions, the person who remains recognizably themselves. When something changes enough, we begin asking whether it has become something else. Sometimes that question has a
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Feature | January 20, 2026
Not everything that happens to us stays with us. Most moments pass without leaving much that we can later retrieve. Others remain strangely available. Years afterward, a place, a sentence or even a particular quality of light can bring something back that we hadn't consciously thought about in a long time. What returns is rarely the whole experience. Consi
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Feature | January 20, 2026
Most of us have experienced moments when something simply felt right. Not correct in a technical sense, and not necessarily easy or pleasant, but accompanied by a kind of recognition that arrived before we could explain it. The opposite happens too. A decision looks sensible on paper, the arguments supporting it seem sound, and yet something bothers us. We
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News | January 19, 2026
CATSKILL - The old adage about something or someone moving slower than molasses in January cannot be applied to the Greene County Legislature and construction of the new Justice Center. Mid-winter is traditionally a sluggish news period, legislatively speaking, taking care of routine annual designations and appointments.. Those details are being mundanely
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News | January 19, 2026
Summit ice by Lynn ReightmyerWoke up to a skating rink for a driveway on Wednesday January 7th. Had to get sand down just to walk 25 feet across to the chicken coop.Went to the do-it-yourself car wash in Warnerville on one of the nice days and even though the roads were fairly dry the car looked almost as bad as before the car wash when we got home.New Summit town clerk hours Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 12-3pm, Saturday 8-10am through January and 3rd Thursdays 4:30-6:30pm.Sad to hear that the Br...
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News | January 15, 2026
DELHI — Delaware County Public Health Services, in collaboration with local hospital partners, announces the release of the 2025-2030 Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). The CHA reflects the prevailing health and social support needs expressed by Delaware County residents and professionals who offer health and soc
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