I learned last week that Howie Hawkins frequents the regional market downtown and although I never encountered him throughout my summer of Saturday visits to the market, it struck me that the final weekend before Election Day would probably find Hawkins and many other local candidates downtown campaigning. So I went this morning with grocery list in hand and a secondary mission of seeing how many candidates I would run into.
The unexpectedly low number: two, technically three.
Steve Paquette, running for Surrogate's Court Judge, and congressional candidate Dale Sweetland were physically present while I shopped, from around 9 to 10:30 this morning, while representatives for Tom Cerio's state supreme court campaign were handing bags of Cerio-themed goodies to passersby...

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TAGS: campaign, ignored

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The peak of farmer's market season has certainly passed, but I do like a good challenge. That's why I'm all gung ho about cooking up a homemade and home grown Thanksgiving feast this year.
I mean, it's the first Thanksgiving dinner I've ever had the opportunity to tackle, so why not make it as difficult for myself as I possibly can?
Since Christmas presents a problem for my fiance and I - in six years we still will not have had a Christmas together, our families being spread out as they are - we try to go all out for Thanksgiving...

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TAGS: local, thanksgiving

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For two weeks, Miranda Pennock, editor of the Skaneateles Press and Marcellus Observer and I have been digging deeply into the apparent epidemic of middle and high school students abusing prescription drugs.
And it's frightening.
In college, it was the norm to hear about classmates or roommates or study partners self-medicate. Whether it was a cup of coffee or an energy drink to stay awake through a monotonous three-hour Power Point lecture, or less legal methods - buying a neighbors' Adderall, for example, because that 20-page paper was not going to write itself the night before deadline. The latter was not something I personally saw a lot of, but I knew it went on...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: prescription drugs, drug abuse, youth, students

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