The GreenvilleThe Greenville Pioneer Pioneer • Friday, • Friday, April 10, March 2020 12, 2021 1 1 Greenville • Windham www.GNHlumber.com FindPotato the perfect a mainstay color for any room in your home within Irish Ben Moore’s Cuisine tools! Get started at: Friday, March 12, 2021 • $1.50 www.GNHlumber.com/PickColorSee page 5 MEMORIES OF 2020 FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS COVID-19 death toll Schools Time capsules documentcould reach 240,000 pandemic See page 9 remain By Joanne E. McFadden Friday,The Greenville April Pioneer 10, 2020 • $1.50 A few months ago, Sue Neal of Freehold closed was wondering what gift to give her grand- By Andrea Macko daughter for the child’s fi rst birthday. She re- Greenville Pioneer membered a project her Prospect, Connecti- cut school completed when she was in eighth GREENVILLE—Schools grade. Students fi lled out a form answering will remain closed statewide questions about themselves and their lives, through mid-April and the state’s and teachers collected the questionnaires and fi rst temporary hospital was buried them. The time capsule is scheduled to completed in New York City on be opened in another six or seven years. Friday as New York remains the “I started thinking about that and about nation’s epicenter for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. the way the events of this world have been Schools will now remain this year,” Neal said. Then she Googled closed statewide through April “time capsule for baby,” and found a host 15. Schools across New York of offerings. She was drawn to the Hubert, were ordered closed March 18 North Carolina-based company Sweet Caro- through April 1 to be reassessed lina Collective LLC that offers personalized every two weeks. The state’s time capsule boxes in three different types of waiver was extended for school wood. districts to receive state aid with- Neal chose English Oak for the time cap- out holding physical classes for sule box that is just over a foot square and 180 days. 10 inches deep. The time capsule is inscribed During this time, schools are on the front with “Time Capsule for Evelina still required to provide continu- Rose, To be opened on your 18th birthday ity of instruction, meals for stu- on March 3, 2038.” Neal’s daughter-in-law, dents and information on avail- Malin Neal, is from Germany,Trash so she will can pose able childcare resources “We understand the challeng- See TIME, page 15 es the school closure creates for families. Hopefully, this extend- ed closure will help keep our stu- dents and community healthier,” COVID-19 risk said Greenville Central School District Superintendent Tammy PHOTO CONTRIBUTED Sutherland. “When the DistrictCONTRIBUTED PHOTO Trash is a possible danger when it comes to spreading COVID-19. Evelina Neal with the time capsule her familyreceives gifted heradditional for her fi rst birthday.guidance concerning the Governor’s Ex- ecutive Order, we will be able Greenville Recycling Center reduces hours to share more details and answer Time Capsuleadditional Tips &questions, Resources including By Melanie Lekocevic nications for Carmen Barbato, you have been cleared by your mize the amount of ‘touch’ our those surrounding spring break, Courtesy Columbia-Greene Media Inc., a waste disposal company doctor,” she said. drivers• have Choose on garbage.” stable items thatgrading, will notand damageother regulatory other serving Greene, Columbia and But everyone is asked to When putting your trash to- requirements. We recognize the GREENE COUNTY― items by corroding, exploding, or decaying. Berkshire counties, said there take steps to prevent possible gether for disposal, you should diffi culties faced by our students Everyone is aware by now are things everyone should be transmission, infected or not. double• bag Include it and makea letter sure to it thoseand who families will and open ask forit in patience the of mandates to practice so- doing to prevent the spread of “To keep our drivers and fi ts securely future in your about trash what can. yourduring world these is like unprecedentedand what you cial distancing, hand hygiene the coronavirus through the the community safe, we ask There should hope be or no think loose gar-the futuretimes.” will be like. Use permanent and other ways of preventing trash. that households please make bage, no loose tissues or paper “Our teachers, staff, stu- transmission of the coronavi- towels includedink on withacid-free recycla- paperdents and and enclose families in havean archival done an rus, but here’s a possible dan- bles, and plastic trash cans sleeve. should not amazing job working together to ger you may not have thought be overfl owing. Drivers will keep our students engaged while of — spreading the virus “To keep our drivers and the community safe, we ask only collect• If you trash include that is stored anything schools that requiresare closed. technology, Our caring through your trash. that households please make sure they are bagging all in the tote,such Carmen as a thumb Barbato drive community or CD, be sureinspires to includeme with the Trash disposal was deemed garbage so it makes it to its destination, and refrain from said. their dedication to our students an “essential” service by Gov. equipment that someone would need to access the overfl owing your totes. As we know, the virus remains on All recyclables should also and families,” Sutherland added. Andrew Cuomo when he put be rinsed information clean, and all or liq- recordings“We on understand it. the challeng- strict regulations in place in household garbage for days, depending on the carrier OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY uids should be emptied before es the school closure creates for the battle against COVID-19. President Thornwell Jacobs with amaterial. photo of his For Crypt that of Civilization. reason, together we need to minimize being placed in the garbage. families. Hopefully, thisSee TIPSextend-, page 15 But waste-disposal experts say the amount of ‘touch’ our drivers have on garbage.” Customers are asked to wear ed there are risks if garbage is not gloves when handling their closure will help keep our stu- handled and packaged proper- — CARMEN BARBATO JR., OWNER OF CARMEN BARBATO, INC. trash cans, and sanitize them dents and community healthier as ly — and that is a concern for Be a part of history! The Smithsonian’s Nation- tumultuous pandemic year, peopleregularly. can sub- list of questionswe look to help forward get contributors to getting start-past them. al Museum of American History is compiling a mit written recollections up to 500 words,“People up toare not bagginged. To contribute,this pandemic visit https://americanhistory. and getting back In Greenville, the town People who are infected, or sure they are bagging all their garbage — there are loose to our normal routines,” said recycling centerdigital is time open, capsule but ofmay 2020. be, To are document asked to the take ex- garbagefi ve photos so it and makes one video.it to its The website has a si.edu/story-submission. things like tissues and paper Cairo-Durham Superintendent of with limited hours. Town res- tra precautions to protect both destination, and refrain from towels in with recyclables,” Schools Michael Wetherbee. idents needing to dispose of sanitation workers and the overfl owing your totes,” said Mary Barbato said. “That is “I am incredibly proud of trash or recyclables can stop community at large, Barbato company owner Carmen Bar- not sanitary, and it doesn’t be- our teachers, staff, students and by the center from 8 a.m. to said. bato Jr. “As we know, the virus parents who have done such an long with recyclables. People noon on Wednesday and Sat- “If you have the corona- remains on household garbage amazing job working together to are overstuffi ng their totes — urday only. virus orBRINGING suspect you do, we for days, IRELAND depending on the TO AMERICAkeep educating our community’s please refrain from doing that, Mary Barbato, vice presi- ask that you don’t put your carrier material. For that rea- children while school is closed,” dent of marketing and commu- garbage out until a week after son, together we need to mini- See TRASH, page 10 Wetherbee added. “The innova- tive ways teachers and staff have By Joanne E. McFadden and aunt were living. It was used to teach, the commitment The Greenville Pioneer a decision “for the want of Radio host nourishesour students the have demonstrated Irish employment and money,” ActYou can takewould the man Fallon said. abolish “I was working local voice See SCHOOLS, page 10 out of Ireland, but you can’t at the time, but I realized on both sides of Atlantic take Ireland out of the man. that there wasn’t much fu- Tony Fallon,in owner ofsolar Tony ture. The prospectsreview of ever process Fallon Hardware in Cairo, buying a house were rather To our readers, has been promoting Irish Byslim.” Nora Mishanec Cuomo. and should it pass, the state Oculture cials and are connecting Ire- CourtesyFallon of Columbia-Greene joined over Media 4.5 “It is impossible to say will have complete authori- We hope you and your fami- landers living in the United million other Irish immi- if anything outside the ty to override town zoning ly are staying healthy and well. concernedStates with that their the homeland grantsGREENE before COUNTY―A him in the normal will get done, but laws,” he said. “If you take News about COVID-19 is chang- proposed budget amend- proposedin a variety changes of ways since U.S. and began to make renewable energy siting is away a town’s right to have ing every day. We do our best to he moved to New York menta life that for would himself.