Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

In March 2020, Congress passed President Biden’s coronavirus bill prohibiting state Medicaid agencies from disenrolling beneficiaries until a month after the end of the public health emergency (PHE).

Agree with John Walter on the energy crisis

In response to Millerton resident John Walter’s letter to the editor about the national energy crisis that is hitting close to home that ran in The Millerton News on May 12. Kudos and well done, John.

You honestly voiced the concerns of most common-sense folks.

Our beloved Girl Scouts are dealing with a serious cookie crisis this year, due to a confluence of issues due in no small measure to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

National energy prices are also a local concern

This week I was shocked to learn fuel oil has topped $6 per gallon. Since many area residents rely on oil heat, this could very well become a budget buster this fall. Hopefully we’re looking at an anomaly that will correct itself soon.

There are so many parts of our lives that have been changed by COVID-19 and its variants over the past two years. Feel as if you’ve read that sentence here and elsewhere before? Yes, no doubt you have. But repetition doesn’t make it any less true.

Ever had one of those dreams where, on waking, you cannot, for perhaps a few seconds, know if the dream was real or not? People having hypnotherapy sometimes confuse dream memory or fantasies with what really happened. Usually the difference between what really happened and what you imagined can be thought through, reality reaffirmed.