Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

When Chernobyl went up, the cloud caused the destruction of all milk, food and consumable product across Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy. Where it went from there, no one is absolutely sure, but the Sahara is a good bet. Untold tons of food were wasted, destroyed and treated as radioactive waste (buried deep underground).

The Lakeville Journal Company has many reasons to be grateful this year as Thanksgiving is upon us. With so many things so very different from last year at this time, how can that be? 

This is one of a series of pedestrian safety columns, prepared in conjunction with the Dutchess County Transportation Council and the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral & Community Health.

Please pay attention to safety and cleanliness

I have noticed for quite some time a number of people walking, jogging, bike riding on the sides of the roads either wearing black, or dark clothing.  

Don’t get me wrong, I am an environmentalist and I want us to move from carbon fuels as much as possible to electricity. Take a car, for example, a normal family car uses 10-plus barrels of oil a year to run. The same car with batteries only uses 1.2 barrels of the equivalent of oil (gas, coal or oil burned in generating plants).

Believe it or not, this year, we actually still have much for which to be thankful — now and, we hope, in the near future. Yes, the world is in the middle of a deadly pandemic. As of Monday, Nov. 23, 1,396,579 people have died across the globe from the coronavirus.