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Mar 20, 2024
Help Wanted
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center: is a year-round 120-person retreat facility that is located in Falls Village, CT. Want to work at a beautiful, peaceful location, with great people? This is the place to be! We are currently seeking positions for a Sous Chef, Retreat Services Associate (front of house), dishwashers, mashgichim (f/t and p/t) and lifeguard(s) for our summer season. For more details please visit our website at adamah.org/about-adamah/careers/ or email a copy of your resume to jobs@adamah.org.
Canaan Child Care Center Looking for a Teacher: Responsibilities include providing a safe environment, planning engaging programs, communicating with families, observing using Creative Curriculum, participating in professional development, and supervising staff. Will consider qualified candidates working toward a degree in Early Childhood Education or similar study. Must interact well with preschool children, and enjoy being outside. Benefits include personal/sick days, vacation time, insurance. Please call Fran Chapell at 860 824-0597 or email at canaanchildcarecenter@gmail.com Canaan Child Care Center is a non-profit, NAEYC accredited center and School Readiness Site. We are committed to providing the highest quality early care and education to children ages 2 years eight months to 5 years of age.
Full-time Bookkeeping position available: Monday-Friday 9-5. Must be proficient in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office. Individual must be organized, work independently and reliable. Please call 860-824-9955 ext. 105 for more information or email resume to amy@lamricaccounting.com.
Warehouse/shipper: wanted full time M-F 8 am to 4:30 pm in a friendly working environment. Training provided, no experience necessary. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Call Mike 800-245-8222 Sharon, CT.
Services Offered
Carpenter / Builder David Valyou: Canaan CT. Renovations & Repairs of Old homes and Barns, Historic restoration, remodel, handy man services, painting, masonry-tile-landscaping. 20 years + serving tri-state area. Licensed and insured. davidvalyou@yahoo.com.
Carpenter and tile setter: now offering handyman services. Over 35 years experience. 413-229-0260 or email at tylerhomeprop@yahoo.com.
Lamp repair and rewiring: Serving the Northwest Corner. 413-717-2494.
CLEANING SERVICE: Do you need help cleaning your house? Let me help you!! I’m reliable, honest, experienced and thor- ough. I offer weekly, bi-weekly or monthly services. Call, Text me at 413-717-0557 or send me an email at casascleaning959 @gmail.com. References available upon request.
Hector Pacay Service: House Remodeling, Landscaping, Lawn mowing, Garden mulch, Painting, Gutters, Pruning, Stump Grinding, Chipping, Tree work, Brush removal, Fence, Patio, Carpenter/decks, Masonry. Spring and Fall Cleanup. Commercial & Residential. Fully insured. 845-636-3212.
SERGIO HOME SERVICES: Lawn mowing. Tree and plant trimming. Mulching. Fencing and much more. Carpentry can also be done. Call today for your estimate. 203-826-4744 or 203-207- 1330.
Firewood, Wood Stoves
Seasoned Firewood: Fully seasoned. Mix of hardwoods. $300 cord, $175 half cord. Free delivery within 10 miles of town center in Sharon. 860-364-0142.
Building Materials
ATTENTION CONTRACTORS / HOMEOWNERS: 1300 BF of prime cherry, rough sawn 5/4” thickness, (some 1/4 sawn) Random widths 6” to 15”, 10’ lengths +/- Air dried 4.5 yrs. $4.50/BF. Call Tom @ 860-307-8142.
Real Estate
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: Equal Housing Opportunity. All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1966 revised March 12, 1989 which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color religion, sex, handicap or familial status or national origin or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. All residential property advertised in the State of Connecticut General Statutes 46a-64c which prohibit the making, printing or publishing or causing to be made, printed or published any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, age, lawful source of income, familial status, physical or mental disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.
Houses For Rent
MT RIGA: Two Bedroom LAKEFRONT log cabin. Private beach, canoes and kayaks. $1350/Week. 585-355-5245.
1b/1b home on a private lake: Avail 4/1/24. Yearly. $2750. Furnished, weekly housekeeping, garbage, water, ground maint. included. utilities addtl. 860-309-4482.
3b/3b Home:Avail 5/15/24. Yearly.$5000.00/Furnished, weekly housekeeping, garbage, water and ground maint. included-Utilities addtl. 860-309-4482.
Tag Sales
Sharon, CT
TAG SALE: Saturday, March 23, 9 to 4. 331 Calkinstown Rd., Sharon.
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Legal Notices - 3-21-24
Mar 20, 2024
Legal Notice
Notice of Formation of Jennings Cabin LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/26/2023. Office location: Dutchess County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to John Bolus, 112 E. Chestnut Hill Road, Litchfield, CT 06759. Registered Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served: Anthony C. Palumbo, 365 Dover Furnace Rd., Dover Plains, NY 12522. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
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Bridget Starr Taylor
SHARON — Connecticut’s Office of Health Services (OHS) has denied Sharon Hospital’s appeal of its final decision mandating that the hospital maintain its Labor and Delivery Unit.
OHS released a Final Decision on the question of Sharon Hospital’s application for a Certificate of Need (CON) to terminate labor and delivery services at the hospital.
In response, Sharon Hospital filed a petition requesting to appeal the final decision Feb. 20. The petition reiterated arguments that the Hospital, owned by Nuvance Health, had made in its appeal of OHS’s Proposed Final Decision Oct. 18, 2023.
In response to the hospital’s petition, OHS released a two-sentence letter signed by Deirdre Gifford, OHS’s executive director, Monday, March 11.
The second sentence reads, “Having reviewed and given due consideration to the Applicant’s submission, the Petition for Reconsideration is hereby DENIED.”
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Sean T. McMann/Dutchess County Government
RED HOOK — Dutchess County Executive Susan Serino delivered her first State of the County address — and slide show — in the darkened auditorium of Red Hook’s High School last Thursday, March 14.
Introduction
Before Serino herself took the stage, Red Hook High School student Nora Callaghan-Jurgens sang “I Have Confidence,” which she had recently performed in the school musical, a teen-friendly “Chicago.”
Attendees were asked to stand to hear Desiree King sing the national anthem and to pledge allegiance to the flag and the republic for which it stands.
Attendees were asked to remain standing for the prayer, delivered by Apostolic Bishop Debra E. Gause of Holy Light Pentecostal Church, Poughkeepsie. After inviting the Heavenly Father to be the “esteemed honored guest” at the event, Gause prayed that God grant Susan Serino “divine wisdom.”
“Father caused this county of Dutchess to be the leading county of this region,” she said. “Help each of us to do our fair share and find ways to embrace our differences.”
Affordability and youth opportunity
Serino’s address consisted of some 7,000 words spoken over 40 minutes — “Probably longer than I’ve ever spoken,” noted the executive as she closed in on the final sections.
With a paean to cross-aisle cooperation and community outreach, Serino directed her words at what she described as the county’s “affordability crisis,” which she noted has only gotten worse since the pandemic:
“I have to tell you, I talked to so many seniors who are living on this income, a less than $20,000 a year. Just wrap your head around that. It’s those seniors and so many other individuals who are struggling to make ends meet. It’s them I’m thinking about every time I’m faced with a decision in the county,” she said.
“You know, when I think about our children and our grandchildren, my goal is to make Dutchess County a place where they want and can afford to live, not one that they want to leave.”
While the affordablity crisis cropped up throughout the speech, it was only directly addressed by one initiative: the launching of the Dutchess County Food Security Council in partnership with Dutchess Outreach and the United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region. Serino said, of developing children’s opportunities:
“We need to focus on issues outside of the classroom, and at the most basic level. Our children need to be free from hunger to be successful.” Dutchess County pantries have reported a record number of “individuals seeking resources,” she said.
The Council will work by “bringing the right people to the table to provide guidance to policymakers on how best to address hunger,” she said.
Her administration will also be focusing on getting young people to work, through training programs in the trades and by partnering with Wappingers Central School District on a “Career in the Skilled Trades” job fair.
Serino recalled talking with county youth “about careers like plumbing and welding — and wow, just seeing their eyes light up about the possibilities and opportunities that come with a career like that,” she said.
She also asked, “How do we empower our workforce to help parents?”
Mental and behavioral health
In her various roles, Serino, who lost her brother to suicide, has consistently concerned herself with mental health.
In Poughkeepsie, her administration is dividing the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health into two: a community health department to be run by current DBCH Commissioner Dr. Livia Santiago-Rosado, and a separate Mental Health department to be led by Jean-Marie Niebuhr.
Serino announced the county’s support for two treatment centers — the Dutchess County Stabilization Center in Poughkeepsie, a partnership with People USA, which just became the first licensed Supportive Stabilization Center in New York State, and the Empowerment Center, also in Poughkeepsie — and for the Oxford House group, a line of sober houses.
Serino also emphasized her administration’s reliance on law enforcement to deal with mental health and drug-related homelessness as well as the county’s addiction crisis.
The slide illustrating law enforcement pictured a couple small bags of pale powder, a couple guns, and a Drug Task Force Police patch that featured a hooded Grim Reaper.
EMS crisis
Another heavily emphasized topic of the address was the county’s EMS crisis.
“Our team has made it a top priority to create a plan to help solve this crisis, and we’ve developed a multi-pronged approach to tackle this issue and are getting started on the first step now,” she said. “We’re currently looking for interested agencies who can help fill the points of service by offering supplemental coverage.”
She also emphasized recruitment: “We also need to empower a shrinking workforce and think creatively to recruit and retain talent,” she said.
Seniors and conclusion
Fittingly, her discussion of senior living was one of the final segments.
Serino remarked at one point that “by being mindful of the obstacles our neighbors are facing and addressing them head on with practical and common-sense solutions.”
One of her preferred practical solutions is job fairs and job training pipelines — to address EMS shortages, opportunities for young people, mental health issues and increasing accessibility for people with disabilities.
Another preferred solution is volunteer peer-to-peer support programs — for trauma responders, for veterans (Vet2Vet) and, for seniors, the Friendly Calls from within the Office for the Aging (OFA).
She also announced a new grant that will expand ride services offered in partnership with OFA.
“I’ve heard from countless seniors about how difficult it can be when they no longer drive, specifically when it comes to finding rides to medical appointments.”
She went on to announce that her administration “will be working with partners to find additional ways for seniors to enter the workforce again. I want to do with seniors a trade event,” she said. “Isn’t that great?”
She concluded her address, “Our community truly is a great place to live and work, and by working together, I know we can do so much more.”
The full text and video of the speech can be found on the county website: www.dutchessny.gov
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