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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.
War highlights the worst in humankind. Yet it can also bring out the best.
Many of our Millerton readers were probably over the moon to read last week’s article entitled, “Hopes for Millerton grocery store look bright, Trotta goes on the record: Plaza is under contract.”
If there is one thing Millerton’s Climate Smart Task Force (CSTF) wants, it is for residents of the village of Millerton and the town of North East to take its survey.
As COVID restrictions are now beginning to become past, not present, and hopefully not future, it is good for all of us that some events are happening that bring us out of the shells in which we’ve been encased, off and on, for the past two years. If we are looking for reasons to be hopeful, such activity can be held up as inspiration.
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