Millerton News Editorial

There are times for all communities that are tipping points, when some centers that shape their residents’ lives in profound ways change or are at such dramatic risk that there is no turning back to what once was. We’ve all seen or know about such places.

The village of Millerton is in mourning this week, and it likely will be for a long while, after it lost two of its residents to an early-morning inferno that fully engulfed the home of Golden Wok restaurant owner Amy Yang at 5902 South Elm Ave. (Route 22) on Saturday, Nov. 6.

There is no question that the North East Community Center (NECC) provides essential programs and social services, not just for its hometown village of Millerton, but to the many communities it serves throughout the Harlem Valley.

Despite the nearness of timing this editorial has to Halloween, and the fact it’s based on a graveyard, there is absolutely nothing ghoulish about our singing our praises for the newly designated not-for-profit Friends of Spencer’s Corners Burying Grounds (FOSCBG) — and our wishing them happy hunting as they dig around the approximately 320-year

When Tuesday, Nov. 2, arrives, voters around the United States will head to their polling places to cast their ballots — as it will be Election Day.

After a year’s hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic that shut down everything we love about the Harlem Valley and all of the local traditions in our neighborhood communities, the Pine Plains Central School District (PPCSD) welcomed back one of its finest traditions this past weekend: the FFA Fall Agricultural Fair.

This is a new era for The Lakeville Journal Company and all our publications, online and in print. 

The Millerton News is so pleased to be sponsoring a Meet the Candidates forum, which the impartial New York State League of Women Voters (LWV) will be moderating, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at Webutuck High School.