Day: August 21, 2024

SPOTLIGHT PA: Without Cuts or New Revenue, PA’s Budget Surplus is on Track to Run Dry

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s multibillion-dollar surplus will soon be halved according to a projection by a state budget watchdog, the result of a long-running structural […]
SPOTLIGHT PA: Without Cuts or New Revenue, PA’s Budget Surplus is on Track to Run Dry

New Stretch of the Sullivan O&W Rail Trail Opens in South Fallsburg

A new 1.1-mile trail has opened up in South Fallsburg, where visitors can wind around the partially collapsed Fallsburg Tunnel and take a scenic stop overlooking the Neversink River on a moderately hilly, unpaved path. It’s part of an ongoing project to transform stretches of abandoned railroad tracks throughout Sullivan County into the 50-mile-long, multiuse […]
New Stretch of the Sullivan O&W Rail Trail Opens in South Fallsburg

A Music, Art and Wellness Festival That’s All About Free Expression

The 4th annual All Things Good Festival is a music, art and wellness event created and produced Sullivan County native Ariana Kaminski. As a person of color and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Kaminski founded the festival when she says she recognized a lack of safe spaces for individuals to express themselves freely. Tim […]
A Music, Art and Wellness Festival That’s All About Free Expression

Falun Gong Global Movement Moves in on Middletown

Falun Gong, a religious movement born in China in the early 1990s, today has its headquarters at a 400-acre estate in the woods of Orange County, near Middletown. And, according to new reporting in New York Magazine, Middletown is experiencing a slow-motion annexation by the sect. Investigative Journalist WIll Bredderman reported on Falun Gong and […]
Falun Gong Global Movement Moves in on Middletown