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Last week the NorthEast-Millerton Library’s Annex on Century Boulevard was the setting for Expo ‘23, an exhibit that focused on housing challenges for people of moderate incomes. The multi-day event attracted more than 50 attendees.
Last year at this time the outcry following the tree-cutting at Housatonic Meadows State Park in Sharon was heard all the way in Hartford. The call for oversight on the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), which had cut more than 100 trees in the popular riverside park, evolved into proposed legislation.
This is the week that I trade places with our new publisher and CEO, Susan Hassler. If readers saw the donor page last week in this publication, they will be aware that their support for their local newspaper has meant everything to its survival.
Since 2019, this newspaper has found its viability not only from advertising and sales of newspapers (on paper and online), but also in the extremely generous donations that have come in from our readers and supporters.
One of the most interesting and enjoyable tasks of my tenure has been editing the opinion and viewpoint pages of The Lakeville Journal, and overseeing those of The Millerton News.
If readers take note of a small item in last week’s column by Norma Bosworth, Turning Back The Pages, they will notice that I am celebrating the beginning of my tenure (this time around) at The Lakeville Journal.
It has been fantastic to see our schools and area nonprofits and businesses back to holding open events, creating more face-to-face connection than has been the case for the past two-plus years of pandemic life. Isn’t it great to have school sports back full steam for all levels of competition?
What is more basic to the ability of humans to thrive than having a place to live? Maybe good health, which is always a variable. But a home is something that is more controllable if society takes it seriously for all of its members.
While many professions have had unique challenges during the pandemic, teaching is one that all of us should pay close attention to now. It has become harder and harder to recruit new people to teach (though Region One has been fortunate to find many new teachers for the 2022-23 school year).
On Dec. 6, a marathon hearing took place in Hartford and by Zoom, with the fate of Sharon Hospital’s labor and delivery services at stake. On one side, in favor of closing, were the evasive leaders of Danbury Hospital, which has morphed into something called “Nuvance,” and currently owns Sharon.
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