Much can come of small acts of kindness, gratitude and appreciation. We can help one another feel valued. We can model for young people how to lift each other up. We show hard-working and devoted members of our community how much they mean to us.The.
Morristown Daily Record
MENDHAM TWP. Town officials appointed a former deputy mayor to the town s sewer committee three years after he was forced to resign over a Facebook post that compared immigrants to rabid raccoons.
Township committee members voted 4-1 to appoint Rick Blood to the township s sewer advisory committee comprised of residents and town officials. Amalia Duarte, the township s first and only Democratic committee member, opposed the nomination and recommended having a fresh face on the committee. I had found a really good candidate who seemed to be a good match for this committee and there was a new person who hadn t been involved in our town government before, Duarte said. I was looking for new people to get involved. It s good to have different perspectives and fresh faces.
Our pandemic year: Valley News photos captured life as it was changing in the early days of the pandemic
Shawn Caffrey, of Cornish, N.H., arranges items in the back of his truck after shopping at a big box store in West Lebanon, N.H., on Monday, March, 2, 2020. Caffrey was shopping with his mother, Susan Williams. They said on this shopping trip they bought extra soups and larger quantities of their regular shopping items, keeping the coronavirus in the back of their minds. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.