Millerton News Editorial

There are times when we, as human beings, question what we’re seeing with our very own eyes. We perhaps doubt that what we’re witnessing is actually what we are witnessing. Could it be an illusion, a trick, a mirage? Wednesday, Jan.

We’ve finally made it. After 12 exhausting, seemingly endless and torturous months, we’ve managed to put 2020 — a year of death and tragedy — the year of the global coronavirus pandemic — behind us.

There’s been a lot of chatter on social media in the Tri-state region, and especially in Millerton, about face masks in the past couple of weeks. In fact, more than 130 comments were posted on one Facebook page, plus nearly 100 emojis — and that’s just on a single page.

Last week we wrote about an incredibly important issue: The debate over whether people should wear face masks during the current second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, and a local business that has taken an anti-mask stance (although its workers are now wearing masks after being fined for violating the state mandate by the Dutchess County Depa

To mask or not to mask? That seems to be the question on millions of Americans’ minds these days, as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the nation, killing hundreds of thousands of our men and women who only months ago were leading vibrant lives surrounded by their loved ones. 

The Lakeville Journal Company has many reasons to be grateful this year as Thanksgiving is upon us. With so many things so very different from last year at this time, how can that be? 

Believe it or not, this year, we actually still have much for which to be thankful — now and, we hope, in the near future. Yes, the world is in the middle of a deadly pandemic. As of Monday, Nov. 23, 1,396,579 people have died across the globe from the coronavirus.

After 20 years of dreaming of what it would be like to be able to step off from Main Street in Millerton and end up at Beilke Road in Ancram, the Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association (HVRTA) finally has its answer.