Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

It’s a natural to be grateful for many things at this moment, and not so grateful for others. The facts of exactly how a worldwide pandemic became the defining reality for 2020 are still unclear, but the results for all of us are all too inescapable.

100 years ago — May 1920

Why would you head straight for the moose?

When, in March, the leaders of the General Assembly suspended its regular session and then, last month, canceled it entirely, they were frightened of the virus epidemic. But now, after weeks of doing nothing except watching impotently, legislators are starting to seem more frightened of their own responsibilities.

I’ve been uneasy about the “balance” that our President and a number of governors are expressing between saving people’s livelihoods and rescuing our economy, on one side, and keeping down the terrible illness and death caused by coronavirus, on the other.

Like so many other businesses in the Tri-state region, The Lakeville Journal Company applied for a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, or, hopefully, grant. Like some, but not all, that applied, this company was approved to receive money from the program.

100 years ago — May 1920

LIME ROCK — M. Merriman and wife of Torrington were in town Sunday.

Leonard J. Nickerson of West Cornwall has been reappointed by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb to be prosecuting agent of the Connecticut Humane Society.