EDITORIAL Turn On Porch Light For Hometown Heroes In New York City, folks are leaning out their windows beating on pots and pans at 7 each evening, an appreciative salute to the First Responders in our latest national trial: Healthcare workers, from ambulance drivers to surgeons, and everybody in between. In more sedate Cooperstown, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch had an appropriate alternative: the Porch Lights for Support campaign. (Thankfully: lawnmowers will be roaring soon enough.) The idea is for residents…
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Porch Lights For Support
MAYOR TILLAPAUGH DECLARES: Turn Your Lights On To Support Heroes Of COVID Pandemic COOPERSTOWN – In a proclamation issued this morning, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch established a Porch Lights For Support program, starting tonight. Before you go to bed, she asked Cooperstown residents, turn on your porch lights as “a visible way to show support for all essential workers…in gratitude for all those working to keep us safe.” The idea picks up on New York City folks making a ruckus…