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At the New York Fungus Festival, mycophiles gathered to drink mushroom ale, sniff soil-scented perfume and, of course, admire some fungi.

100-year-old veteran receives N.J. medal for his WWII service Today 12:00 PM In all of Sidney Finkle’s 100 years, there aren’t many people he’s met that he doesn’t like. “I met a couple of people with guns I didn’t like,” he said recently, recounting wartime stories from the early 1940s, when Finkle enlisted and served as a Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class during World War II. “Outside that, there wasn’t anybody I didn’t like,” he said. “Everybody’s nice.” The comments came at a ceremony last month when Finkle was presented with the New Jersey Distinguished Ser...