Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

In looking through this newspaper’s coverage over the past weeks, much of what wasn’t taken over by the need-to-know details of the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic was information gathered by our reporters on the Northwest Corner towns’ municipal and education budgets.

Voting by absentee ballot in Connecticut

100 years ago — May 1920

SALISBURY — Mrs. Cora Pulver visited friends in Torrington and Winsted last week.

SALISBURY — A valuable cow on the Willard Farm sustained a broken leg one day this week and had to be killed.

We live in evolutionary competition with microbes — bacteria and viruses.  There is no guarantee that we will be the survivors. The aphorism from Joshua Lederberg, a founder of molecular biology, is remarkable for its humility and for the challenge it defines.

As the administrator of Sharon Health Care Center in Sharon, I wanted to write to say thank you to the countless community members who have supported our center during our transition to a COVID Recovery Facility. To those who donated food to us at the start, whose names are endless.

It was a story taxpayers, especially those laid off or furloughed by the pandemic, must have found quite interesting, not to mention the loan-burdened UConn students and their parents.  

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.