Lakeville Journal Editorial

As promised last week, here is more on the way this newspaper will continue to find ways to maintain a viable business model for local journalism. As noted, this is the first week The Lakeville Journal Company is instituting a price increase for single copy sales at dealers, as well as for print and online subscriptions.

What was life like all the way back in 2003? It wasn’t all good and it wasn’t all bad, but it was surely different from what we are experiencing right now. Then again, what wasn’t?

Here it is Oct. 1, and we Americans have already been in deep and contentious discussions about the logistics of voting in the Nov. 3 election for months. It’s a combination of factors, but at the root is the supreme challenge of voting during the COVID-19 pandemic safely.

“Serving on this Court is the highest honor, the most awesome trust, that can be placed in a judge. It means working at my craft — working with and for the law — as a way to keep our society both ordered and free.”

— Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1993

Most school years, or really, let’s be honest, every other school year in memory, the system for opening has been pretty much the same as the years before. There may have been some small modifications in response to changes in the student population.

Two beloved Tri-state region arts/entertainment institutions have joined forces to try and make it through the COVID-19 quarantine. 

Sharon Playhouse will screen movies this month in partnership with The Moviehouse in Millerton.

The nation is divided on so many new issues, from who should be elected president to whether masks should be worn in public. That doesn’t mean that the old schisms no longer exist.

After a week without electricity (and with the threat of a hard winter coming) the strength and reliability of electricity distribution is on everyone’s minds — especially state government officials, most of whom also went without power for many days and all of whom received phone calls day and night from constituents and town leaders who wanted