Lakeville Journal Editorial

The loss of Lakeville’s Donald K. Ross this week has touched many lives in the Northwest Corner, including those who served with him on the boards of the Salisbury Association and the Salisbury Forum (see appreciations this week.) But none valued his support and dedication to shared ideals more than we at The Lakeville Journal.

It’s not that often we can celebrate around the topic of affordable housing in the Northwest Corner. Yet here we are.

There are so many parts of our lives that have been changed by COVID-19 and its variants over the past two years. Feel as if you’ve read that sentence here and elsewhere before? Yes, no doubt you have. But repetition doesn’t make it any less true.

You will see in the pages of this newspaper, or online (click here for more), a listing of events from The Lakeville Journal unlike any you have seen before. That is because this company is now owned by The Lakeville Journal Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

There are few things in life as final as the cutting of a tree. Once it’s done, there is no going back. The only way to have the benefit of the presence of a tree in the same location is to plant one and wait years for it to come up to the size of the original one.

It may seem as if we’ve been here before: welcoming a new Lakeville Journal editor, thanking another. And we have, but the last one was a short term kind of thing. This time it seems to have taken.

When is the last time you found yourself thinking about something else besides the road and the cars around you while you were driving? After all, with the many ways COVID-19 has changed our lives in the past couple of years, the distractions of everyday life have increased exponentially.

The health of the area child care centers in the Northwest Corner can be seen as a good bellwether of the health of the entire region as far as social fabric goes.