Millerton News Editorial

Rarely does a single issue so inspire this newspaper to pen an editorial about everyday citizens moved to take action for a cause near and dear to their hearts as the one you are about to read here now. 

When The Lakeville Journal Company undertook its initiative in October of 2019 to ask for community support, in dire straits then and looking for a way to survive, the response of our readers in the Tri-state region was beyond generous and supportive.

We’ve all heard it before: “We only have one earth, so let’s do our best to take care of it.”

The Millerton American Legion Post 178 has a reputation for doing good works, and even though its Community Pop-up Vaccination Clinic with the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral & Community Health (DBCH) on Friday, April 16, planned from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The best thing about Navy 3rd Class CS3 veteran Madison Fletcher’s promotion to commander of the VFW Post 5444 in Dover Plains is probably that she “never really considered it being about male versus female.”

Here’s to taking the ball and rolling with it, because that’s exactly what the town of Pine Plains has done, motivating a number of other Harlem Valley communities to follow suit. 

Rarely do we report on a story that pulls at the heartstrings and then have the pleasure of following up with a happy ending, but such is the case with the Willow Roots food pantry in Pine Plains. 

This year, 2021, it seems especially important to make mention that March is Women’s History Month. After all, in 2021, the United States marked the very first time in its 244-year history that a woman — a woman of color and of Asian descent — was elected to serve as vice-president, the second-highest ranking office in all the land.