Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

Thanks, DOT, for clearing all that snow

Nope, it’s not a “Star Wars” movie about Luke Skywalker defending us from the Galactic Empire, but rather the story of a modern-day hero who organized and assembled a precise and what I consider successful offensive to destroy a brutal invading virus unleashed by a foreign land.

Many people are angry over the trial held in the Senate. The problem is in the word “trial.” This was not a legal trial, no current laws of jurisprudence hold.

The 95-year-old tradition of having ski jumping in Salisbury in February continues this year, despite a worldwide pandemic and the tough economic challenges that all businesses face, including those in the Tri-state region that support the volunteer-run event in so many ways.

Dear EarthTalk: What’s the latest on efforts to reintroduce Grizzly bears back to the Lower 48?

— J. Whitaker, Silver Spring, Md.

This is the last in a series of pedestrian safety columns that was first printed at the end of 2020, prepared in conjunction with Dutchess County Transportation Council Senior Planner Emily Dozier and Senior Public Health Education Coordinator of the  Dutchess County Department of Behavioral & Community Health Aisha Phillips.

Nothing is more important to airlines than landing and terminal slots. Each airport only has so many, each airport has a tight schedule, every airspace over towns and cities have noise and access restrictions. When COVID hit (along with the Boeing 737 Max being grounded), many airports went under used and went looking for new business.

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