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BATTLE OF PLATTSBURGH Whispering Maples repairs to begin State-funded project to renovate ailing mausoleums will cost at least $1.8 million
PLATTSBURGH | Work to fi x a pair of neglected mausoleums in northern New York is scheduled to begin within the next few By Pete DeMola weeks. • EDITOR • “Construction staging and activities will begin shortly,” said Town of Plattsburgh Supervisor Michael Cashman in a statement. » Mausoleums Cont. on pg. 5 Love Us? Like Us.
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Local tarot reader lets the cards fall Photo by Teah Dowling
couch, a deck of ornate cards sprawled PLATTSBURGH | Everyone, at across the table before him. one point or another, needs help. When he first started, Byrne did That’s why Plattsburgh resident readings for free. At the prompting Chris Byrne, a former operations of friends, he began doing readings specialist in the U.S. Navy, offers tarot card readings to anyone inter- By Elizabeth Izzo on a donation basis. • STA FF W RITER • ested in one. “But some people can’t pay,” he said. “I just say: ‘That’s okay. Do you “I do this because I want to help need a reading?’” people,” he said. Tarotology goes back centuries. DivinaNestled in a small corner of the Koffee Kat, a popular coffee shop in downtown tion using playing cards is recorded as early Plattsburgh, Byrne spoke with a reporter as 1540. last week while sitting on a brown leather Despite what some people may think, tarot
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readings don’t tell you your future — the future is never set in stone, he said. Byrne likened the readings to offering a third party’s perspective on your present life. “You see yourself in the mirror everyday, and you think you know yourself and what’s happening in your life right now,” he said. “Until a third party steps in and tells you something about yourself that you hadn’t realized is true — but it is.” He takes the deck of cards in his hand and flips them over one by one, taking a moment
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