Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Orange County’s 4-H Youth Development Program seeks children to join a club or program and adult volunteers. 4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. Youth are provided opportunities to gain self-awareness about personal health and well-being and […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
On January 4, 2021, the Home Energy Assistance Program’s (HEAP’s) Emergency Benefit program will begin accepting applications for Sullivan County residents.. Emergency benefits are available to assist eligible households with a heating emergency or a heat-related domestic emergency. For more information call 845-807-0142.
Emergency Heating Benefit Available
As 2020 comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to a hopefully better 2021. WJFF got a chance to sit down, virtually, with some town supervisors of Sullivan County to see how this year went for them and what they are looking forward to in 2021. Patricio […]
Listen: Year in Review, Town of Callicoon Supervisor, Tom Bose
We continue with our series, Year in Review, as 2020 comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to a hopefully better 2021. WJFF got a chance to sit down, virtually, with some town supervisors of Sullivan County to see how this year went for them and what […]
Listen: Year in Review, Town of Fallsburg Supervisor Steven Vegliante
As 2020 comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to a hopefully better 2021. WJFF got a chance to sit down, virtually, with some town supervisors of Sullivan County to see how this year went for them and what they are looking forward to in 2021. Here, […]
Listen: Year in Review: Town of Bethel, Dan Sturm
According to the county’s dashboard, there are 201 active cases in Sullivan County as of December 21; COVID-19 cases are rising. The last time we had this many cases was in June. Sullivan County’s Public Health Director Nancy McGraw talks about COVID-19 cases in Sullivan County and the upcoming vaccine […]
Listen: Nancy McGraw talks COVID-19
(DEC 18) You need land to farm, but access to land is wildly unequal. While roughly 60 percent of agriculture workers are people of color, the vast majority of farm owners are white. How can this deep-seeded inequity be fixed? The National Young Farmers Coalition released a new report, “Land […]
Listen: National Young Farmers Coalition: Making farming more accessible
(DEC 18) Some of the very few school sports that are allowed to happen can’t find a venue. Indoor Track may move outdoors. Fall school sports were delayed until the winter. And major winter sports can’t happen at all. To make sense of all of this, we turn again to […]
Listen: School sports update
(DEC 18) Before the weekend, Congress passed a bill to avert a federal government shut down…for two whole days. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA 8) is tired of the congresspeople who keep waiting until the very end of the negotiation process to voice their concerns, undermining the effort to find a […]