By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I have occasionally been asked what I consider the most important aspects of showing a home for sale at its best. Number one on my list is always the first thing one encounters when
Read MoreBy Brian McGowan This week, our Woman of Ireland focus is on Countess Constance Gore-Booth Markiewicz, who played a major role as a rebel commander and combatant in Ireland’s ultimate struggle for freedom. Wife of a Polish nobleman, she bore
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel The Hudson Valley is full of surprises. One that isn’t obvious to the casual viewer is the migration of thousands of raptors over the great river each autumn. Taking advantage of thermals and convenient geography, a
Read MoreIn your travels, either locally or further afield, have you walked into wine shops and noticed how many similar wine labels adorn shelves and displays? That’s true, especially for wines produced in the United States. How is it that the
Read MorePong Records, Peekskill Apartments, Solar Energy, Staffing Local Job Market From our Examiner+ member newsletter Before I get into this week’s local news roundup, three quick interconnected Examiner sports shoutouts. First, to Examiner Sports Editor Ray Gallagher, who earned his Ripken nickname
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera If your house is on sewer, you may think that this piece about septic systems has no application to you. But as I understand it, as many as one-third of us within the reach of this newspaper
Read MoreThe concept of unintended consequences has always fascinated me. As modern society has sought to improve lives – medically, economically and technologically – unforeseen outcomes have affected us as dramatically as the original intended results. Examples abound, and seem to
Read MoreMy Friend Deserves Your Vote; ‘Supremely’ Qualified It was more than 20 years ago, and I was at a local restaurant/bar, about to meet my wife’s (then girlfriend) old high school friends for the first time. Alyson introduced me
Read MoreMembership Program Launches After 30 months of tweaking, fiddling, and ultimately fundamental change, we’ve finally arrived at a place I can foresee (generally speaking) as our new normal. The Examiner has always been a fun but bumpy ride with many
Read MoreThe 16-year-old young man stepped up to bat four years ago, knowing only swings and misses in his baseball career. Almost every spring and fall Saturday for a decade, since he was seven, he’d failed to make contact. After 10
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