winter mixer 2011

We’re set to go again! Join us downtown on Friday, December 16th for Santa’s visit, music, food, fun and fellowship. I’ll update as details become available.

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bruce

This one ages better than wine. Thunder Road The screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey that’s me and I want you only Don’t turn me home again I just can’t face myself alone again Don’t run [...]

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we win.

Thank you to all of the good people that helped me, supported me, and spirited me through this difficult process.

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poem

The White These are the moments before snow, whole weeks before. The rehearsals of milky November, cloud constructions when a warm day lowers a drift of light through the leafless angles of the trees lining the streets. Green is gone, gold is gone. The blue sky is the clairvoyance of snow. There is night and [...]

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duet

I’m so sad that Amy Winehouse was lost to us. This duet is all the more touching.

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11.11.11

Veteran’s Day Remembrance Ceremony 11.11.2011 Thank you to all of you that have joined us today to stand in legion with individuals that have served us so well. It is fitting that on this day, the clouds move with a swift wind and stir in us a solemnity that is befitting of this occasion. It [...]

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four years seem like four score

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sleight of hand

Much has been made of the recent campaign mailing from my opponent’s camp. In this case, the offenders feign innocence and the local media moves on. It is what it is. Copyright issues aside, I am baffled by the claim that Joe Emanuele is paying for his materials, when his NYS Board of Elections Campaign [...]

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