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A QUIET WINTER SPORT
By Mary Tucker
The Andes area is well known for a variety of winter sports. We all know about snowmobiling, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, tubing, and if the weather is just right, ice skating. And then there is ice fishing, more solitary than the other sports.
COYOTES AND MORE
By Jack McShane
There has been a lot of interest in the increasing population of coyotes in our area and in the Northeast in general. They now populate the whole area both rural and suburban excluding Long Island, and I predict that area will eventually host them.
SENIORS ON THE GO – April 2009
By Mary Tucker
At our March 18th meeting, the Margaretville Hospital Mobile Health Van was parked in the Andes Methodist Church driveway. Due to the mud, RN Michael McDermott brought his equipment inside where he explained that the purpose of the Health Van is to bring health care to the rural areas of the county.
OUR READERS WRITE – April 2009
Dear Editors:Bill Tubbs and I saw a mountain lion at Beech Hill Road & Route 30 on the Pepacton Reservoir in the summer of 1989. We watched it for over a minute. Tail was 2 ½ feet long. The cat was approximately 3′ in height, 3-4′ in length, about 40 to 60 lbs.
Don Liddle
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