Oksana Ryabinkina (photo by Maria Pianelli) While working as a makeup consultant at My Market in New Paltz, Oksana Ryabinkina...

Jim Ottaway (right), longtime volunteer for the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, working on the Rosendale railroad trestle during the spring...

Jim Ottaway. (photo by Maria Pianelli) As a boy, James Ottaway, Jr. listened to his father share stories about his...

Jaklin Levine-Pritzker at an internally displaced persons camp in Kenya. (photo provided) At age 14, most teenagers are focused on...

Photos by Lauren Thomas   This isn’t New York. The thought rushed through my head several times during my two-hour...

Kira Magnani with Cabot. (photo by Diane Magnani) In the summer of 2013, the Magnani family had a cat, rabbit,...