Millerton News Editorial

We all know that historically speaking, municipal elections don’t tend to draw huge voter turnouts — especially when they’re during the summer versus the prime fall election season.

After more than seven decades of monthly dinners, holiday parties and silent auctions; years of planning and hosting carnivals and circuses for enthusiastic villagers and their guests; countless seasons of holding Little League practices and games; who knows how many hours preparing for bake sales, barbecues, flea markets, food drives and raffle

It’s nice to see when a project comes before a board, in this instance the Pine Plains Planning Board, and even when it meets with opposition, matters can be worked out and consensus reached.

Congratulations to our graduates!

There were many elements to the coronavirus pandemic that were difficult to witness — the worldwide death toll that, while it has thankfully slowed, continues to inch upward. As of Tuesday, June 15, it had reached 3,829,463 across the globe; in the U.S.

With the sun beating down and the thermostat rising, it may seem like we should be grabbing our towels and sunscreen and heading to the beach rather than our grabbing our IDs and heading to the ballot box, but for some folks living in these parts, not so fast…

Commemorating Memorial Day during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been easy for the Harlem Valley.

COVID-19 hit New York hard, along with the rest of the country and the world. That includes those of us living right here in northeastern Dutchess County.