Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

Tough to keep track of IRC and its tasks

The creation of election districts for the Dutchess County Legislature by an independent (i.e. not controlled by a party) process is what the voters of Dutchess County want and what we voted for. 

It has been years now that we all seem to be lurching from one crisis to another. On the anniversary of 9/11 we have a painful look back at that calamity and, if you stop and think about it, those scars, feelings and dread are bubbling away in your everyday life — how many of us wonder if a similar event is just around the corner?

Fall begins on Wednesday, Sept. 22. The Office for the Aging (OFA) marks the season change every year with Fall Prevention Awareness Week, Sept. 20 through Sept. 24, in conjunction with New York State Senator Sue Serino (R-41), Lower Hudson Valley Falls Prevention Network and Vassar Brothers Medical Center Trauma Department.  

It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around the fact that come this Saturday, Sept.

Dear EarthTalk: Is so-called “Off-Earth manufacturing” really the environmental panacea that Jeff Bezos and other proponents say it is? 

— M. Traney, Smithfield, R.I.

Support helped libraries ace first ever golf tourney

In August, the NorthEast-Millerton Library and Amenia Free Library had our first, and now annual, Amenia vs. Millerton Golf Tournament at Undermountain Golf Course in Copake, N.Y.  

Poor people probably pay about 25% or more of their earning in tax. In America, and most of Europe, the lowest 10% of the population pay disproportionately more tax than the richest 90%, family by family, taxpayer by taxpayer. How is that possible I can hear you ask?