I want to correct a factual inaccuracy about the energy plan for Norwich’s Tracy Hall that was repeated in the recent Valley News article on that subject (“Tracy Hall energy plan gets revote,” July 14).
The article said that the “project would eliminate Tracy Hall’s annual reliance on 5,000 gallons of fuel oil and 870 gallons of liquefied propane, according to supporters.”
The project cannot eliminate Tracy Hall’s annual reliance on liquefied propane (LP), because Tracy Hall does not use any liquefied propane.
The town uses LP only at the public works building, which was changed from fuel oil to LP some years ago to save money and to reduce the town’s carbon footprint. LP is also used for the generator at the public safety facility, the generator at the communications tower and for heating at the transfer station. The fire station, like Tracy Hall, is heated with fuel oil. But no LP is used at Tracy Hall.
NEIL FULTON
Norwich
The writer served as Norwich town manager from 2011-2016.
Sept. 8 is the date of the New Hampshire gubernatorial primaries. I made up my mind about supporting Andru Volinsky for governor long before he even entered the Democratic race. I became passionate about his work as an executive councilor one fall afternoon after I heard him speak from the back of a pickup truck in support of working families, retired people living on fixed incomes, and students in poorer school districts struggling to receive an equally good education.
Volinsky is the candidate with the strongest climate action plan and the only candidate not accepting funding from energy companies and openly opposing gas pipelines in New Hampshire. Volinsky is supportive of a just minimum wage and has the vision and experience to intervene in the inequities that disproportionately affect Black, brown, and Indigenous people.
One reason you might have not heard much about him is that he has turned his political campaign into a tool for connecting with small-business owners, nurses and physicians, educators, mental health professionals and other communities heavily affected by the pandemic. He is listening to what they are experiencing and their concerns at this difficult time as a way to shape responses based on real needs.
So if you haven’t done so, please tune in to Volinsky’s remarkable work and join me in supporting him for governor.
MARTA CERONI
Enfield
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is ham-handedly relieved of his freedom, and his freedom of speech, and is rushed back into federal prison before he can speak with the press.
Why is Cohen the only man still in prison among the many corrupt people in Trump’s orbit? Roger Stone, a man with absolutely no personal integrity, is relieved of any burden of the jail time he so richly deserves.
It’s just like last month’s botched “Friday Night Massacre,” when Attorney General William Barr tried to fire Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, who — surprise, surprise — was investigating alleged corruption by the president’s allies.
Barr is nothing more than a shill for the president. Barr has proven time and time again that he is the newest Roy Cohn, for whom Trump has for so long pined. Trump has his man.
Our country is being ruined, if not invaded, by the most unscrupulous men we have seen since at least the Nixon cabal. This is no longer interesting or surprising and most certainly it is not in any way amusing.
If Trump is not run out of office, not merely voted out of office, we have only ourselves to blame. Perhaps his vulgar and illegal behavior has become so “normal” that some of us can no longer summon up outrage. If that is true, shame on us all.
For the sake of our country, prepare to vote by whatever means you feel comfortable with during these times. Our country can stand little more this corruption.
KAREN R. BLUM
Grantham