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The challenge of keeping any business or service going for 125 years cannot be overstated: As times change, needs change, and there are no easy answers to remaining relevant. So for a small community weekly newspaper like The Lakeville Journal to have continued over all these years was not a given.
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro announced on Tuesday, July 26, that the county will be injecting more than half a million dollars — $526,763 to be exact — into three of our Harlem Valley communities shortly, thanks to the Municipal Investment Grant (MIG) Program.
This month, on July 8, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) made public news of a highly sought after designation by municipalities throughout the Empire State.
It’s been a tumultuous time for the village of Millerton, the Millerton Police Department (MPD) and the citizens of both the village and the town of North East that the MPD protects, as the Village Board has been hashing out whether it should keep the local, part-time force or abolish it and instead hire the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office (DCS
We all know our local libraries are some pretty magical places. Same goes for our community centers, in the towns and villages where we are lucky enough to have such organizations.
The Associated Press (AP) published a frightening article — at least to this editor — on Thursday, June 30, about a recent study conducted by the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications.
When the Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old landmark decision Roe v. Wade on Friday, June 24, which had up until then protected a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion, it reversed vital precedent.
‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If ever there was a story that got this editor revved up, it has to be the front-page article about the training exercises that just wrapped up after taking place at Millerton resident and inveterate volunteer Jennifer Dowley’s home during the past month-and-a-half or so.
The reason being, simply, is that enthusiasm is contagious.
June is Pride Month, when the world recognizes and celebrates all genders for being themselves — whoever that may be — and the LGBTQ community around the globe revels in the fact that it has finally found the freedom to be itself, 53 years after the 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC, also in June.
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