Webutuck welcomes new health clinic
This past Saturday, May 14, the North East (Webutuck) Central School District (WCSD) celebrated an important moment in its history, as it celebrated the grand opening of its brand-new on-site health center.
This past Saturday, May 14, the North East (Webutuck) Central School District (WCSD) celebrated an important moment in its history, as it celebrated the grand opening of its brand-new on-site health center.
Our beloved Girl Scouts are dealing with a serious cookie crisis this year, due to a confluence of issues due in no small measure to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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.
During the past two-plus years since the coronavirus hit our shores, there have been many people in our midst who have shown themselves to be stellar human beings. Certainly, here in our Harlem Valley community, there are more than a few shinning examples.
We all know the adage, in order to preserve what you have, you have to protect it.
That can easily be applied to why a junior U.S. senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, created Earth Day in 1970. He was concerned about how rapidly the environment was breaking down and wanted to raise public awareness about water and air pollution.
With more than 19 years of experience as the chef proprietor of the Hudson restaurant Charleston, Carole Clark was more than familiar with what it took to make a person feel satiated.
Governments are constantly striving for transparency these days — especially when it comes to tough topics dealing with issues like whether a community should do away with its own local police force and instead contract with the county sheriff’s office.
Our Dutchess County Government provides a sundry of essential services that we support through taxes, from its Departments of Transportation and Public Works to its Sheriff’s Office and Division of Veterans Services to it Emergency Response, Parks & Rec, Public Transit and so much more.
It’s the year 2022 and statistically, a woman only makes 82 cents on the dollar compared to what a man earns. That’s according to www.payscale.com; the U.S. Census Bureau has the average working woman getting paid about 83% of what a man gets paid.
There is no better time to think about open government and transparency than now, as we are all watching the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia happening in real time.