Thank you!
Your support is sustaining the future of local news in our communities.
libraries

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide offering free assistance in the Annex

MILLERTON — The NorthEast-Millerton Library is participating with AARP Foundation for Tax-Aide assistance on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with required appointments.

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Service provides free tax assistance to anyone, however, there is a focus on taxpayers with low to moderate incomes or are over the age of 50 years old. The program runs with Tax-Aide volunteers who receive training and are IRS-certified every year to ensure they are up-to-date on any latest changes to tax codes.

AARP Foundation’s mission has been to help reduce poverty not only for older adults, but with them as well. During the 10-week tax season, the foundation sends volunteers to more than 3,500 different communities to meet with taxpayers and maximize their tax returns.

The volunteers are able to help file a variety of income tax forms, yet need to stay within certain tax law and policies that are set by the IRS and AARP Foundation. Some returns the volunteers can prepare include: wages, interest, dividends, unemployment compensation, pensions, retirement income, Social Security, self employment, charitable cash contributions, qualified business income deductions and much more.

In 2023, according to the AARP website, the foundation was able to secure $563,947,534 through its Tax-Aide program, assisting tax refunds and credit to 918,774 older adults with low income.

For members of the community that struggle with low income, tax refunds can be one of their largest payments they receive all year. Last year, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide helped taxpayers secure an average refund of $905, which according to the AARP website, is equivalent to a year of cell phone service for an older adult with low income.

The program recently began on Friday, Feb. 7, and community members have the ability to use this service until Friday, April 11. Appointments will be held in the NorthEast-Millerton Library’s Annex, located across from the Post Office.

To ensure the volunteers can assist with your return, visit taxaide.aarpfoundation.org to learn more and to schedule an appointment dial 211 or call 1-800-899-1479.

Colleen Flynn
libraries

Latest News

Tri-Corner Real Estate - November 2026

Tri-Corner Real Estate - November 2026

Download directly

The Millerton News - October 29, 2026

The Millerton News - October 29, 2026

Download directly

A life reshaped by clay in “Matin”

A life reshaped by clay in “Matin”

Left to right: Hannah Wheeler, Matin Malikzada and Yonah Sadeh.

D.H. Callahan

On Monday, Oct. 26, a group of students, teachers and local residents gathered at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville for a screening of the new short documentary “Matin.” The film tells the story of Matin Malikzada, a seventh-generation Afghani potter making a new life in New Milford, Connecticut. The film was made by local filmmaker Yonah Sadeh, creator of the Video Wall at the David M. Hunt Library, and Berkshires-based potter Hannah Wheeler, who were both present for the screening, along with Malikzada himself.

As a member of the seventh generation of his family to master the art of pottery, Malikzada had done things the way his family had for over a century. Istalif, the village where his family has lived for generations, was known throughout Afghanistan for its pottery, with wares sent across the country for use as everyday cups, bowls, plates and other vessels. The pottery-making families of Istalif gathered clay from the same mountain, about 30 to 45 minutes away by donkey. Every July, they would head north toward the Uzbekistan border to gather ishkar, a plant they processed by hand to make their signature glazes.

Keep ReadingShow less
film
google preferred source

Want more of our stories on Google? Click here to make us a Preferred Source.

Meg Sher finds her calling among the stacks

Meg Sher finds her calling among the stacks

Meg Sher, executive director of the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village.

L. Tomaino

When Meg Sher came to Falls Village in 2006 from Old Lyme, Connecticut, where she grew up, she never imagined she’d someday be the executive director of the David M. Hunt Library.

Although, in hindsight, perhaps it makes sense.

Keep ReadingShow less
our community

Crescendo’s 23rd season speaks to the heart and mind

Crescendo’s 23rd season speaks to the heart and mind

Christine Gevert, founding artistic director of Crescendo, conducts the audience at a performance.

Steve Potter

For Christine Gevert, founding artistic director of Crescendo, music from centuries past is anything but a relic. It is a living, breathing art form, full of drama, emotional complexity and, occasionally, surprises. As the regional choral and period-instrument ensemble launches its 23rd season, Gevert is once again bringing forgotten masterpieces into the present.

“Early Music has been my lifelong passion and the focus of my specialization in Europe and South America,” Gevert said. “Bringing this repertoire to our audiences in a nuanced way that does justice to its incredible depth, intensity, and beauty is deeply important to me.”

Keep ReadingShow less
concerts

Close Encounters with Music celebrates 35 years of musical discovery

Close Encounters with Music celebrates 35 years of musical discovery

Close Encounters with Music’s 35th season opens with “Saluting the Clarinet” featuring clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein.

Provided

For 35 years, cellist Yehuda Hanani has been inviting audiences to experience classical music in unexpected ways. As founder and artistic director of Close Encounters with Music, Hanani has built a concert series that goes beyond the music itself, exploring connections to literature, history, politics and the human experience.

This year, Close Encounters celebrates its 35th season with “Celebration & Discovery,” a seven-concert series that opens Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.

Keep ReadingShow less
concerts
google preferred source

Want more of our stories on Google? Click here to make us a Preferred Source.