WOTS – Word on the Street
Special Newsletter Provides Hillsdale Residents with Updates and Relief Efforts in Response to COVID-19
As May draws closer, and questions remain as to how long state-mandated shutdowns will remain in place, the town of Hillsdale provided a wealth of updates and resources for its residents per its newly scheduled Special Weekly Newsletter. Despite the spread of the coronavirus pandemic bringing the area a spring season that nobody anticipated, Hillsdale Town Supervisor Peter Cipkowski and [...]
Local Diner serves Free Meals to Families in Need
Millerton, NY- Despite the financial vice currently gripping the nation’s small businesses due to ‘social distancing’ mandates initiated as result of the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, in Millerton, NY one local diner remains steadfast in its commitment to propel its community forward by offering free meals to families in need. Beginning on Thursday evening The Oakhurst Diner, located just [...]
Hunt for Rainbows brings Hope to Area Residents
Despite the inherent stress, underlying fear, and instinctive pessimism brought on by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic causing the shuttering of daily life across the region, hope springs eternal for area residents and families in the form hand-made rainbows that have begun to dot the landscape. The rapidly growing 518 Rainbow Hunt Facebook group has connected the figurative hands [...]
School Closures could Spawn New Era of Distance Learning for Educators
The sudden and unprecedented arrival of the COVID-19 virus resulting in the onset of wide swaths of school closures across our area has understandably sent many educators and families scrambling to find solutions to problems that were unimaginable mere weeks prior. Now, in the throes of pandemic, many questions still linger for local institutions as well as the students who [...]
Adapting to Aid- Lakeville Interiors Restructures around Helping those in Need
In just a few short weeks, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic throughout much of the tri-state region has forced many small businesses to change the way they operate and adapt to an uncertain economic present. Those who have not been deemed ‘non-essential’ and have not been mandated to temporarily close their doors have had to shift their mode of [...]
