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Month: October 2020
Listen: Sabrina Artel’s Trailer Talk – Liberty Rally to Vote and Be Counted
The Sullivan County Young Democrats held a “Rally to Vote and Be Counted” in Liberty’s LaPolt Park on September 26th – focusing on the upcoming election and the soon-to-end 2020 Census. Sabrina…
Listen: Owen Walsh, The River Reporter – PA Housing, COVID Occupancy Guidelines
In Pennsylvania, Governor Tom Wolf released new venue-size percentage-based guidelines for large public gatherings. There’s a house-buying boom even as homelessness concerns rise in NEPA. Owen Walsh of The River Reporter has…
Listen: Krystal Grow, Narrowsburg Union’s Photography Exhibit Opens October 10
The pandemic has changed the world and what it hasn’t changed sure looks different. Krystal Grow, Curator of Galleries at The Narrowsburg Union, figured the best way to show that was to…
Listen: Work Shift with James B. Huntington – No Stimulus Until After the Election?
After months of on-again, off-again negotiations over the next round of pandemic relief money and just hours after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned too little relief will result in a “weak…
Listen: Ashokan Center Talk—Racism in our local history
(OCT 5) This coming Sunday, historian and author Susan Stessin-Cohn and educator Albert Cook will share and discuss an often-missing chapter of our local Catskills and Hudson Valley history. The virtual talk:…
Listen: Sullivan County Gov Update
(OCT 5) For this week’s update from the Sullivan County government, Robert Doherty, Chairman, Sullivan County Legislature joined us to talk about the budget (it’s tricky), the census (it’s incomplete and the…
Listen: It’s National Midwifery Week
(OCT 5) Patricia Konzman, Certified Nurse Midwife at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale, PA, tells us that this year’s theme is “Midwives for Equity,” making the case that every person has a…
COVID-19 Check-Up on Risks from the NYS Office of Aging
The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) has launched “CV19 Check-Up”, an anonymous, personalized online tool that evaluates an individual’s risks associated with COVID-19 based on their life situation and…