See the year’s best meteors this weekend
This Sunday night, December 13, we’ll see the year’s finest meteor shower. These are the Geminids and they deliver a meteor a minute.
Voices
Letters to the editor (12/9/20)
Topics include: Vote yes for the capital project in Saugerties; Quakers support BLM; Thankful for soup and bread; Speed on DuBois Drive; and more.
Letter: An apology from Officer Sisco
The New Paltz Police officer whose self-recorded rap video led to accusations of transphobia earlier this year penned a letter of apology to the community this week.
Letters to the editor (12/2/20)
Topics include: An apology from Officer Sisco; Rochester solar farm; Metzger’s accomplishments; Inevitable second wave; and more.
Letter: Silence is assent
“Parents and teachers need to organize and demand the return of our children to schools which focus on education: teaching our children that they can learn, think and create in ways special to them,” writes a reader.
Night Sky: God and the geniuses
I’m periodically asked if I’ve seen evidence among the stars of a Creator. I always dodge such questions, directed my way for over 30 years. They arise because many, when searching for the Big Picture in this huge confusing universe, think astronomers may have a heightened perspective of what’s going on.
Susan Slotnick: What was to come
How could I have known what was to come the day the drive over the mountain, through the Hudson Valley
Letters to the editor (11/25/20)
Topics include: Design for Henry DuBois Drive; Quarryville safety tower; Remembering JFK; An election for the ages; and more.
Gloomy mysteries of November
Many feel ‘downbeat’ starting around now, with a strange heaviness striking a large minority of the population in November. Its underlying mechanisms are fascinating.
Letters to the editor (11/18/20)
Topics include: Reinstate the climate accord; Woodstock Library compromise; What is Covid-19 teaching us?; Local gyms deserve support; and more.