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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.
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.
We only wanted it to be as simple as following a doctor’s order to figure out if we still had to wear face masks in the state of New York, as the coronavirus pandemic thankfully appears to be waning, after the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle P.
There are many synonyms for the word evolution: development, advancement; growth, progress, expansion — and the northeastern Dutchess County village of Millerton has definitely evolved during its 146-year history.
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.
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