The staff of two here at The Shandaken Bugle decided that enough was enough. We wanted to hear of the daily goings on in Shandaken and not the bi-weekly going on’s, no offense to “The Phoenicia Times” and their staff of editors, writers and publishers is intended. As previous newspaper men and women we all understand deadlines and publication costs as well as overhead and the like.
We moved to this lovely burg some 3 years ago from the big city, we do not think we know it all, nor do we think that the natives of this beautiful town are idiots, and we hope that you don’t think the same of us. We came across some political blogs and we were a mite bit disgusted. We are not here to dwell on these blogs of poor taste or any other blogs for that matter. My wife and I hope to spread the news throughout the world wide web and of course to the good people of the Town of Shandaken and all of her hamlets.
We relish in our privacy, we are social people but when I say relish, I profusely insist that our expectation of privacy is our motive for moving from the city that never sleeps to the town that moves at a much slower pace. What I am trying to say, and not well at that, is that we are writing this blog under ghost names. Terribly sorry to offend if I have, but we do not require more publicity, we have had enough, we don’t need any more dirty looks and scornful remarks in front of AND behind our backs. We wish to be benefactors to our new found community and hope that we will receive back, in kind.
We hope to provide you, our readers, with some links of interest, links to additional blogs highlighting our wonderful area, to provide links to service providers, but alas, we may not be able to, due to wordpress.com’s terms of service. We wish to deliver daily updates but please provide us with some latitude, we have things we like to do other then blog.
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Welcome! We’re delighted you’re blogging about Shandaken–and we rolled out a scrap of red carpet for you over at the Watershed Post:
http://www.watershedpost.com/2010/new-blog-block-shandaken
I wish every little town in the Catskills had a blog like the one yours is shaping up to be. Though that day might not be far off–we’re finding new ones all the time.
Welcome to the neighbourhood!!!…question for any and everyone….who took “Branch Manager” Chip’s stuff off the lawn of Mama’s Boys late last week and made them surreal pedestrians in and around the thoroughfare?
Not sure, Jay. Heard stories of this happening and thought it would have been a great picture.
Thanks for the little 2×2 inch scrap of red carpet Lissa.