Even before the pandemic, many people with low income and high energy costs were faced with the difficult choice of cutting back on other necessities to afford their utility bills. Add the…
Category: Local Help
Listen: Boys and Girls Club The Giving Tree
Have you heard of The Giving Tree Program? Every year the Boys and Girls Club of Wallkill puts it on in Orange and Sullivan Counties. It’s like an all-request toy drive for…
Listen: Catholic Charities, Substance Abuse, “Epidemic within the Pandemic”
They refer to it as the epidemic within the pandemic: the opioid crisis has more complicated deadly during the pandemic. Shannon Kelly, Chief Operating Officer of Catholic Charities of Orange, Sullivan, and…
Listen: Shippageddon!
With many people staying home during the pandemic, there’s been an increase in internet shopping versus in-person shopping. As the holidays approach, this could lead to a strain on the supply chain…
Listen: County Sports Update, Sullivan County Democrat
Joe Abraham, Co-Editor of the The Sullivan County Democrat, joins us with the latest Local High School Fall Sports Update. They’ve been moved to the Spring due to the pandemic. …
Listen: Sean Welsh, Sullivan CCE, on New Energy Taxes and How to Save
A newly imposed 4% energy tax went into effect September 1 for Sullivan County residents. Sean Welsh, Energy Resource Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County, says this would be a…
Listen: Dream Tank
Judge Josephine Finn founded Dream Tank to help disadvantaged youth find themselves and avoid her Sullivan County courtroom. She tells us what Dream Tank is all about, how they’ve dealt with the…
Listen: Bodhi Talk
Doug Bill joined us for his last-ever Bodhi Meditation Moment Thursday afternoons during the news. But don’t worry. Doug will be back with a full-length “Bodhi Talk” every Saturday Morning at 6am…
Listen: Brent Hales, Director of Penn State Extension and Associate Dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences
Want to add solar to reduce your energy costs? Need to learn to milk cows en Español? Wanna build a carnivorous bog?? Penn State Extension webinars and online classes have got what…