Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

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.

Thanks for Earth Day support

I would like to acknowledge the following contributors, on behalf of the NE/Millerton Climate Smart Community Task Force, for making Millerton Earth Day 2022 possible:

The Millerton Inn - For the gracious use of their Great Lawn

The Black Sea, which recently received in its depths the Russian battleship Moskva, on its way to join the battle against the Ukrainians, was anciently the setting of another Black Sea voyage that did not end well. This was the voyage of the Argo, celebrated in the third century BC epic Argonautica, composed by Apollonius Rhodius.