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Equus Effect’s Jane Strong (with Dutch Boy Paint) has planned a COVID-19-safe gala at the Amenia drive-in for Sept. 12. Photo by Leila Hawken
SHARON — Bucking the trend of fundraising cancellations due to COVID-19, The Equus Effect in Sharon has instead reimagined its fall event, planning a gala fundraiser at the drive-in on Saturday, Sept. 12.
Allison Black intends to pursue tornadoes, thunderstorms and her passion for meteorology when she starts college this fall. Photo by Eileen Black
SHARON — “When I was young, my parents and I would sit outside on our front porch whenever there was a thunderstorm,” said Allison Black, 18. “They didn’t want me to be afraid of thunder.”
Although they could not have anticipated it at the time, this planted the seed for her love of meteorology.
SHARON — Traffic and speed along Hilltop Road led residents to repeat their concerns at the regular meeting of the Sharon Board of Selectmen on Tuesday, July 28.
SHARON — Attendance was sparse at a July 16 town meeting to approve expenditures and tweak the wording in a road construction ordinance.
The plastic sheets that once covered the greenhouses at Paley’s Farm Market lay in tatters after being hit by a tornado on Sunday, Aug. 2. A major storm, Isaias, was also heading for the region Tuesday at press time. Photo by Hunter O. Lyle
SHARON — As the sun rose over Paley’s Farm Market on Route 343 in Sharon on Monday, Aug. 3, Chris Coon pulled into the parking lot of his business, where his employees were already working to clean up the aftermath of a tornado from the evening before.
SHARON — At a time when anxiety about health care is at an unusually high level among Tri-state region residents, the Nuvance Health medical system has announced that it will now split Sharon Hospital President Mark Hirko’s time between two facilities.
SHARON — The Sharon selectmen voted unanimously at their meeting on Tuesday, July 14, to approve funding for a project to make additional years of land records available online.
SHARON — Capping eight years of discussion, planning and eventual regrading, the work on the town’s showcase Green has been completed, according to an official report provided to the Sharon Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting on Tuesday, June 23.
An ingenious flow system, installed in June to foil beavers, is protecting a culvert along West Woods Road #2 in Sharon, keeping the water flowing and preventing road flooding. Photo by Leila Hawken
SHARON — Beavers are unquestionably cute and great for ecosystems, but they are also pesky. Their dams interfere with the town’s drainage culverts and flood roads in some instances. They contribute to erosion and washouts in other places, particularly on gravel roads.
SHARON — It was a homecoming of sorts for veteran cardiologist Dr. Daniel J. O’Dea, who joined the medical staff at The Heart Center, a Nuvance Health affiliate located at Sharon Hospital, on Monday, July 13.
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