Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

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.

I’ve been lucky enough to feel the peace of a long COVID-19 summer spent mostly in the safety of my own home and garden. But this peace is increasingly threatened by my agitation about the upcoming election.

Right time, right place, right size in Falls Village

The Falls Village Housing Trust has state funding to advance River Road Homes. This is the time, the right place and the right size for Falls Village. This iron is hot!  

100 years ago ­— September 1920

SALISBURY — Miss Clara Stone goes today to Hartford to take an excellent position with the Phoenix Insurance Co.

LAKEVILLE — Father Donohue, Harry Judd, Edw. Stuart and Michael Larney are painting the roof of St. Joseph’s Convent.

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.

100 years ago — September 1920

The Federal Suffrage Amendment has been ratified by the necessary thirty six states. The proclamation has been issued at Washington. The women of the United States have at this minute the right to vote.

SALISBURY — Miss Sarah Everts has returned to her school duties in Seymour.

Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are the widgets of the big information industry. By contrast, indicators for our society’s democratic health are not similarly compiled, aggregated and reported. Its up and down trends are presented piecemeal and lack quantitative precision.