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The entries have been copied from the March issues of the New Paltz Independent.

Each person, to quote Bob Dylan's great anti-war anthem, wants to believe they have “God on their side."

Polar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to...

An A-bomb blast like this one, but over Hiroshima, gave survivors one mile from ground zero the same radiation you’d...

Two friends, people I still love, are no longer my companions. I hope the relationships are suspended rather than over...

Pre-settlement and up through the settlement era, there were many wolves (mostly grey, I believe) still in the northeast until...

The spectacular April 8 total solar eclipse just three months away...

The entries have been copied from the January issues of the New Paltz Independent.

Few objects are darker than the Moon.

In hush-hush astrophysics circles there are seldom discussed lists of impenetrable cosmic mysteries. These are the tantalizing enigmas that will...

As our Earth spins on its journey around the sun, this is the time that the northern hemisphere is tilted...

The entries have been copied from the December issues of the New Paltz Independent.

In 2017, this page offered good portable telescopes to anyone who’d explain why they want one. Both found grateful new...

Half of the visual field consists of everything from eye level downward: the contents of the world.

Autumn winds — Winds of seasonal change blow across these ancient hills, lifting dry leaves from their now sapless branches,...

The entries have been copied from the November issues of the New Paltz Independent.

On Sunday, October 8 I had an opinion. My viewpoint was published in the October 20 edition of Hudson Valley...

It’s featured in the current Scientific American. So it’s finally mainstream, at least scientifically.

Was it at a workshop? Or did I read about it? Maybe I saw a YouTube video. Possibly someone just...

I think we’ve seen the last Hummingbirds and Monarchs (what relatively few there were) for the season, with a few northern...