Archive for February 2009
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ON NOT HAVING A PET
By Mary Tucker
Animals were a big part of farm life and they were not considered pets. Each was owned for a specific reason; horses were used for plowing, haying, and bringing the milk cows to the barn morning and evening.
WINTER TREK
By Jack McShane
I am just down from a two-hour hike up along the top ridge here in Bussey Hollow snow country. With three inches of fresh tracking snow, twenty-five degrees, windless (the key to comfort), it does not get better than this for a wildlife fanatic who had not been out for two days because of a wind chill factor near zero.
THE WAY WE WERE – February 2009
Jim Andrews comments on an article in the February 1909 issue of The Andes Recorder which reported the death of prominent Andes citizen and businessman, Henry A. Hotchkiss.
BARGAIN BRAGGIN’ IN ANDES
By Judy Garrison
Believe me, I’m no expert in bargain-hunting. Nor super-thrifty for that matter. I’m the first to get pleasure from an occasional splurge, like treating my daughters and myself to dinner and the theater in NYC. And for something important I don’t think twice about a liberal outlay. But like most people I know, I receive special satisfaction when getting great value with minimal payout.
OUR READERS WRITE – February 2009
A Gazette reader responds to reports about mountain lion sightings.