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Soup Time It’s that time of the year again...soup time! Wednesdays at the Philmont Public Library will be the place to go if you want delicious homemade soups, casseroles and desserts... Read the Story >>

Pine Haven Proposed Building Designs Over the last year and a half a subcommittee of the Board of Supervisors has been working with the architectural firm to design a new nursing home. The design is a great meshing of the most current thinking in Nursing Home design... Read the Story >>

December Village Board Minutes The December Village Board meeting minutes are online. Keep up to date on Village Gov't... Read the Minutes >>

The Art of Marlene Y. Caller Vidibor on Display The Philmont Library Cultural Center hosts fiber artworks and collages by Ghent resident Marlene Vidibor. Vidibors’s works will be on view beginning November 30, 2011 through January 20. A reception and artist talk will be held Sunday, December 11th... Read the Story >>

Food Pantry News The Philmont Library will be collecting donated food items for the Mellenville-Philmont Food Pantry. The food pantry relies on donations from the public in order to provide food each month to many families who seek help with their food budget. Requests for assistance have increased dramatically in recent years... Read the Story >>

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Veterans
by Charles R. Nichols

The word ‘Veteran’ means to me anyone who ever served our country in the Armed Forces in any capacity. It’s not defined by what you did, where you did it, and when you did it – you still gave some time out of your life for a larger cause.

It seemed to me I should write this article by writing about our recent major wars in some kind of order.

Keeping in mind that this article relates to Philmont, the appropriate starting would seem to be the Civil War. Earlier wars have such a dearth of local sources of information as to make it almost impossible to account for our Village’s history in them...
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