WOTS – Word on the Street

For over a century, the Salisbury Visiting Nurse Association in Salisbury, CT has been at the doorstep of area residents in need of home health or hospice care. In the years since its inception, the Salisbury SVNA has effectively become the oldest and most comprehensive home care, hospice and private care agency serving all of the Northwest Corner of Connecticut. [...]

On Friday afternoon, just hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his new mandate for all non-essential businesses in the state to keep 100 percent of their employees home effective Sunday evening, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro held an hour long telephone town hall with local business owners and leaders addressing the County’s response to the evolving Coronavirus pandemic. Executive Molinaro [...]

As government and local officials continue to urge citizens to work from home in an effort to encourage self-quarantine, large gatherings and sporting events continue to be postponed or outright cancelled and the term ‘social distancing’ embeds itself firmly into the American lexicon, local businesses have justifiably begun to panic. On Monday morning Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo issued [...]

Nuvance Health, New York and Connecticut’s massive healthcare network that currently manages some of the area's largest facilities including Sharon Hospital in CT, and Northern Dutchess Hospital in NY has temporarily restricted visitor access to its hospitals across the region. In a statement released Monday morning, Nuvance had the following to say in regard to the new policy:   To [...]

As your justifiable concerns over recent reports of the COVID-19 virus in our area are hopefully met with the healthy, preventative measures, and helpful advice from our great community of health professionals, we here at Main Street Magazine wish to impart one sentiment: we are here, conducting business, and bringing you the news.  We too are taking preventative measures while [...]