Liberty, NY – Sullivan County Public Health Services is pleased to announce that it will begin offering the “booster” shot (third dose) of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week.

Liberty, NY – The 2021-2022 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) season starts this week.

“HEAP’s Regular component – offering a one-time payment to help buy fuel to heat a home – begins Friday, October 1,” notes Sullivan County Director of Temporary Assistance Giselle Steketee. “The Heating Equipment Repair & Replacement (HERR) and the Heating Equipment Clean & Tune (C&T) components have already begun. They provide funding to have trained professionals inspect, service and even replace furnaces, boilers, stoves and other heating equipment.”

Liberty, NY – Sullivan County and its new operating consultant for the Care Center at Sunset Lake, Infinite Care Management, have agreed to a deal to pay $226,000 in school taxes due on the Care Center property for 2021.

“We were in talks with the Town of Liberty about remaining tax-exempt. The Town opted to assess the tax for the first time on that property in nearly a half century,” Legislature Chairman Robert A. Doherty explained. “We discussed this with Infinite Care, and they said they were willing to pay it.”

Monticello, NY – Local village and town government officials are encouraged to sign up for an important seminar about the legalization of cannabis (marijuana) in New York State and the impacts thereof.

This picture of a fawn, taken by local photographer Martha Tully, hangs in one of the Government Center’s hallways in Monticello.

Monticello, NY – Curator Gene Iovine of the Sullivan County Homegrown Artists Exhibition Program is looking to add more local artists’ work to the walls and halls of the Government Center in Monticello.

Liberty, NY – The Sunset Lake Local Development Corporation (LDC), Sullivan County and Infinite Care Management formally signed an agreement this week to operate the Care Center at Sunset Lake in Liberty to Infinite Care for the next 20 years, renewable if the parties agree.

“This was a complicated endeavor but a worthwhile one,” affirmed LDC Board Chairman Lowell Feldman. “I am pleased to predict that the future for the Care Center, and for the people of Sullivan County, looks very bright.”

The Fallen Comrade Table, present at every Sullivan County POW/MIA Recognition Day, features a specific set of items designed to remember American servicepeople who were/are prisoners of war or missing in action.

Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Veterans Service Agency will have a special ceremony in honor of POW/MIA Recognition Day at 1 p.m. on Friday, September 17, 2021 at the Veterans Memorial, located outside the Sullivan County Government Center, 100 North Street, Monticello.

Monticello, NY - Village of Monticello, Town of Thompson and Sullivan County residents are invited to a virtual public meeting to demonstrate support for the Town and Village’s joint application to compete for a $10 million grant from New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI).  

The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. on the ZOOM platform. To join, log on to the ZOOM app or go to www.zoom.us/join and enter the meeting ID# 857 4861 1221. 

Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Office for the Aging continues to provide shopping bus services on a modified schedule. All riders are required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status.

“The shopping bus provides round-trip transportation from seniors’ homes to Monticello shopping,” says Office for the Aging Director Lise-Anne Deoul. “Registration with our office is required. The suggested contribution is $3 per round trip. Please dial 845-807-0244 to make a reservation at least 3 business days prior.”

Glen Spey, NY – The Sullivan County Public Health Department is advising residents that if they worked at or their child attended Camp Veritas at Lake Champion, 247 Mohican Lake Road, Glen Spey from August 14-August 19, 2021, they may have been exposed to COVID-19. Multiple cases of COVID-19 have resulted from exposures there during this timeframe.