Alright staff member Zack Higgins, I guess I will be no longer sharing my ideas for columns and stories with you anymore since you ‘stole’ one of my ideas. ; ) I am just kidding, don’t worry,...

I want to do everything perfectly. If I mess up during a volleyball game, I tend to get in my head and bring myself down easily. My grades have to be perfect. I am not content with a B+, it has got...

I could feel my blood rushing and my lungs getting heavy. The sound of my heartbeat was so loud and fast that I could feel it throbbing in my ears.  How ironic.   Once I got into a...

Like many, I woke up on Mar. 30 to the troubling news from the Daily Voice. A kangaroo had gone missing from a local animal shelter in Goshen, New York. Not only was the Kangaroo named Rocko missing,...

The day we met, we instantly clicked, she was a familiar soul to me, probably long-lost sisters who got to meet in another life, in another alternate reality. From sixth grade through 10th grade, we were...

Mahamed Keita, a Mercy College alumni who graduated in 2019, doesn’t see himself as a hero. Even though everyone around him does.  The night of Jan. 9 is when Keita earned his new title. He...

Gunther Tiedemann was born on Feb. 17, 1916; Four days and 83 years before my own birthday. He would die on Dec. 29, 1943, at the age of 27. A little over four years older than I am now. He was one...

Those four words truly became something to live by. It was my first month out of the Navy, and like many other veterans, the transition from active duty back to civilian life strikes similarities to...

If you haven’t seen the news on NFL player Henry Ruggs III this week, I’ll politely tell you that you’re living under a rock. In the wee hours of the morning of Nov. 2, Ruggs, an up-and-coming...

Reporting someone for domestic violence and not having marks to prove it. Who will believe it, and why should they? These are dangerous thoughts. Verbal and emotional abuse if not reported could lead to...