Lakeville Journal Editorial

This is the time when traditionally many of the area nonprofit organizations have held their annual fundraisers, some high-profile and highly profitable, some low-profile and only moderately so.

The naming of the ball field at Housatonic Valley Regional High School after the late teacher, administrator and coach Ed Kirby could be the most appropriate action ever taken.

The Tri-state area has over the years been home to reliably annual gatherings that have happened here every Memorial Day.

Conflict is an unavoidable part of the human condition. And many of us don’t want to avoid it, but rather thrive on it. It happens at all levels of societal interaction, between nations and between individuals.

For many families in the region, Mother’s Day this year was very different from that day last year. The same can be said for upcoming Memorial Day  activities and Father’s Day celebrations, all the way to the Fourth of July and beyond.

Towns in the Tri-state area are starting to feel the full effects of high vaccination rates following the year of pandemic. One of the welcome parts of it is how few vacancies there are in shops and storefronts throughout the Northwest Corner.

When The Lakeville Journal Company undertook its initiative in October of 2019 to ask for community support, in dire straits then and looking for a way to survive, the response of our readers in the Tri-state region was beyond generous and supportive.

If anyone reading this still doubts that more affordable housing is needed in Northwest Corner towns, and really in all 21 towns covered by the Northwest Hills Council of Governments (NHCOG), now is the time to change that opinion.