May 2025 Edition
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Featured Stories
Dyes, chemicals, additives
By Rachel Zuckerman | Manor Ink
Sullivan County, NY – Are you sitting on your couch watching TV and eating your favorite chips? Have you read the package’s label? Are the chips heavily processed? Were they produced using chemicals? Well …
RCSD budget goes to a vote on May 20
By Erick Slattery | Manor Ink
Livingston Manor, NY – Voters officially decided in December that Livingston Manor and Roscoe would combine into a single school district. The seven members of the merged Board of Education were elected in …
Mountainkeeper urges ‘innovative’ plan
By By Aidan Dusenbury-Dalto | Manor Ink
Livingston Manor, NY – The Quickway, Rte. 17, can be a boring topic – that is, unless you’re fighting for it not to expand. A critical transportation debate is unfolding. The proposed $1.4 billion Rte. 17 highway expansion ...
Hundreds protest Trump policies
By Anahi Rodriguez | Manor Ink
Monticello, NY – “We’re cold, we’re wet, it’s time to cancel student debt!” So cried the protesters in a chant led by activist Sandy Cuellar Oxford. Despite a chilly rain, the shouts of about two hundred people at a ...
Community Foundation turns 25
By Amy Hines | Manor Ink Mentor
Sullivan County, NY – It’s been giving away money for 25 years to strengthen Orange and Sullivan counties. Its plans aim to grow its reach and impact for the next 25 years as well. To celebrate, the Community …
Alums return for concert
By Erick Slattery | Manor Ink
Livingston Manor, NY – On Tuesday, May 20, the Livingston Manor Central School Concert Band will take its final bow as an LMCS group. But it will be going out with a bang. To celebrate the band’s final concert ...
All about the day for mom
By Rachel Zuckerman | Manor Ink
Have you ever thought about how Mother’s Day came to be? Well, if not, I have. So that’s why, my dear readers, I’m telling you how we celebrate one day of the year devoted to our lovely mothers. Mother’s Day can be …
The image as an expression of individuality
By Adriana Serafino | Manor Ink
Catskills landscapes are full of natural splendor that inspires both community members and tourists. Photographer Marika Robak is no exception. She shares her perspective on those landscapes with …
Outfoxed by a photograph of a ‘peccary’
By Zoey McGee | Manor Ink
Jake Eavey, an outdoorsman and wildlife tracker, recently found himself fooled by a convincing optical illusion. One day, his trail camera captured an image that appeared to show a collared peccary, or a wild piglet …
May puzzle answers
By Ink Puzzlemaster
Stuck? Can’t figure out that one word in the Crossword? Jumbled over the letters in the Jumble? Can’t complete that last line in the Sudoku? Fear not – the Puzzlemaster’s answers are just a click away …