Daily Archives: December 29, 2016

Great Story on Sunday Walk and DeKorte!

Lapland Longspur Credit: Ron Shields

Lapland Longspur
Credit: Ron Shields

Check out Jim Wright’s Birdwatcher column in today’s Record, all about DeKorte Park being a great place for birding and Sunday’s New Year’s Day Walk at DeKorte with the Bergen County Audubon Society. The walk is from 10 am to noon. For more info call 201-230-4938 or email greatauk4@gmail.com.

Please note: The park is open Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. only. DeKorte is open all day on Monday.

Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: Wishes, Hopes and Resolutions for the New Year

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New Year’s Day is traditionally the day we reflect on the year gone by, and although I have never been a fan on making resolutions we all have things we might like to change or improve for the upcoming New Year.

Sometimes it is also a day for wishes, hopes and dreams. We daydream of seeing visions for a better future for the environment and our definitive optimism of the coming year. Those special hopes always seem amplified for all the good folks that care about the earth and for those that work all year to make our environment a better place for everyone.

With those many people and their aspirations in mind I thought I would ask them what their wishes would be for the for 2017.

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