The Lakeville Journal Editorial

Not all of us find a calling in life, something that is clearly a motivating factor in every life decision. Some of us aren’t even particularly looking, but still something takes hold of us. Then, a certain path becomes undeniably the only way to go.

When The Lakeville Journal moved its quarters from its longtime home in Lakeville to Falls Village in October of 2017, there was quite a lot of stuff to move out of that old location that would not fit into the new one. Much of it, like vintage desks, tables, chairs and cabinets, became scrap metal. Some of it was repurposed for our new space; community weekly newspapers aren’t known for purchasing a lot of new stuff, let’s face it.

Every year when Sunshine Week rolls around, it seems there is some open government issue under discussion that is of great importance to the public. In Connecticut this year, the freedom of information issue under statewide discussion is a bill pending in the Legislature that if passed would reduce the information available to the public from police investigations. 

One bit of inspiration, absorbed by the right person, can change the course of many other people’s lives. This is the root of the story of the 21st Century Club for Housatonic Valley Regional High School. The right person was the late John L. (“Jack”) Mahoney, who was the high school’s principal back in the 1990s when he took a sabbatical to visit highly successful schools across the United States to see what they were doing differently.