SMALL NEWS IS BIG NEWS
Adam has worked in the local news industry for the past two decades in Westchester County and the broader Hudson Valley. Read more from Adam's author bio here.
One bleary-eyed night in the bleary-eyed year that was 2020, I was poking around Facebook trying to determine how to get our Examiner Media business page verified. One link led to another until, somehow, my journey through a late-night rabbit
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I don’t know about you, but doubts regularly creep into my mind over my own views. If my bent is slightly different today than when I was younger and different from the shape it’ll take in older age, how much
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Claire was a young woman in love, with her whole life in front of her, a life with her handsome fiancé, her future husband, and presumably their future children. But then it happened. The unthinkable happened. Her fiancé Carl (Karoly
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The youth softball player cuts the shape of a young pro, strutting to the on-deck circle with quiet confidence, twirling her bat for fun with the ease and dexterity of a baton artist. She unleashes a series of fierce and fluid practice swings. Sporting
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(Editor’s Note: Subscribe to Examiner+ to join and support our community: https://www.examiner-plus.com/subscribe) Inside the suffocatingly crowded work session meeting room in Peekskill City Hall, a fellow weekly newspaper reporter plops down next to me on the comfortless seat where my
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It would have been impossible and absurd last year to forecast that Examiner Media, having just survived a life-threatening storm, would soon be picked to help pioneer the future of local news on a global stage. Nevertheless, here we stand
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By Adam Stone Download the PDF – Examiner-Special-YSBA As we head into summer, optimistic about better, healthier, more normal days ahead, it seems fitting to salute the successful efforts of business owners across the area in navigating the treacherous terrain
Read moreAttention progressives: America, in many critical ways, is a better place than it has ever been. In the 1600s, indigenous people were trampled. In the 1700s, we seeded our nation with slavery. In the 1800s, we endured a great Civil
Read moreIn this historic moment of American carnage, you’re probably wrestling with how to spend your emotional energy. But it’s tough. You understand that your weird cousin will continue to believe and spread wild and debunked conspiracy theories. You know that
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It was the type of text that rocks your world, triggering a thousand thoughts at once. “My diagnostic test came back positive this afternoon,” my longtime colleague and friend Martin Wilbur, The Examiner’s Editor-in-Chief and founding journalistic voice, wrote me
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