FROM THE QUIET OF COPAKE FALLS TO THE NEXT FRONTIER OF SPACE
At exactly 12:49pm on January 28, 2026, the call from NASA came in on my cell. From NASA!
Rob Dyson: Driver, Owner, Collector
In retrospect, it was a fairly straightforward love story. The young man was 14, just coming of age. The object of his affection? A 1931 Model A Ford offered for sale by a local farmer. The price? The princely sum of $50, which in 1959 was real money to a 14-year-old. It didn’t run … […]
Moving Honors national tour honors Copake EMT, Claverack firefighter
Above: Community Rescue Squad’s ambulance, followed by New York State EMS personnel, the Red Knights riders, Moving Honors ambulance, and fly car led the procession down the Taconic Parkway near Chatham. Photo by Richard E. Lindmark.
National events do not happen often in quiet, rural Columbia County. But on June 28 and 29, the […]
Veteran Profile: Troi Cookingham
Pine Plains, NY, native Troi Cookingham enlisted in the Army in September of 2020. “My uncle served in the Army and passed away in 2015. I knew it was something that I had to do. When I enlisted, I had this surreal, ‘What did I just do?’ type of feeling. However, I felt […]
Veteran Profile: Charles K. Seymour II
When Claverack, NY, resident Charles K. Seymour II was a senior in high school, his class rank had dropped significantly from his junior year. Although he was accepted into the College of Basic Studies at Boston University, he was, as he puts it, “definitely not an academician,” and dropped out of school, “much […]
Veteran Profile: Dan Hoysradt
Pine Plains, NY, native Dan Hoysradt enlisted in the Army National Guard in 2009. He served in the state of New York for four years, and since 2013, has served in the state of Connecticut.
“At the time that I enlisted, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do,” Dan said. […]
Meet the 2024 Top Nurse of the Year, Rich Tamburrino
Mr. Pine Plains baseball – also known as Rich Tamburrino – sat down with me last week to discuss all things Pine Plains, baseball, and what it’s like to be voted 2024 Top Nurse of the Year.
Scrubbin’ up
Rich went to college for pre-med at SUNY Cobleskill and later transferred to Cornell […]
Hometown Heroes: Jacqueline Rice
Jacqueline Rice is Chief of Service of the Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance based in Salisbury, CT. She first took the EMT class in college in 1978, and after that, she joined the Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service.
“My neighbors, Michael and David Brenner were on the ambulance squad already and they encouraged me to […]
Hometown Heroes: Dawn Klingner
Dawn Klingner has been a member of the Amenia Fire Department since 2006. She first started as the fire district’s secretary, and after some encouragement from the fire chief, she decided to join as a volunteer member. “I started by taking the fire police class and loved it,” she says. “After that, I […]
Hometown Heroes: Jeff Galm
Jeff Galm is the chief of the Milan Fire Department, which he initially joined when he was 16 years old. “I had some older friends who were members of the department and my dad had been a volunteer firefighter, so I was raised with the concept of helping others.”
Being a part […]