Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

Always be skeptical of politicians who claim to want open government and transparency. What they want is leverage and finger-pointing control in the very government they claim needs airing in public.

It’s not always that the state is praised for spending taxpayers’ hard-to-earn and harder-to-save money. In the case of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) decision to conduct two $50,000 studies, with funding coming from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), we consider it money well spent.

The FBI conducted an “armed raid?”

Nonsense.

They negotiated for six months to get papers back that had been removed 18 months before. Yes, 18 months.

They got an official lawyer from Mar-a-Lago to attest they had received everything in June. Oops, 12 more boxes, some of them full of top (or worse) secret files.

Moviehouse elevator like a gift from above

Just a note of sincere thanks to the community, the owners, and all of the people who funded the elevator now in operation at the Millerton Moviehouse theater!!! I had no idea that this wonderment had been completed, and this device literally saved the evening for my party!

For those readers who are unaware, The Millerton News is a local, independent community weekly newspaper, a rare thing these days. It is owned by The Lakeville Journal Foundation based in northwest Connecticut, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 2021 that also owns The Lakeville Journal, its sister newspaper in Connecticut.

Christians believe that more than 2,000 years ago, God sent Jesus Christ among us to save us from self destruction. Jesus gave his life in that endeavor, hopefully not in vain.

For centuries, in a sincere effort to categorize illness to affect a better treatment, the medical industry has developed a system of labels to identify illness and medical conditions. And, yes, over the past century, many of the historic labels have been dropped and ridiculed — for good reason.