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Bill Staines performed at Roaring Brook Nature Center on January 12, kicking off the 22nd year of Roaring Brook's folk concert series. Photo/Robin Gourd. More ... Robert Rivers of Goshen prepares to launch the hill at Major Besse Park in Torrington on January 12. Photo/Robin Gourd. More ... In "Wild About Harry—Who's Really Breeding Atheists and Witches?" [January 11], Nicole Chardenet writes that she "find(s) it hard to believe that any kid is going to turn … Pagan because they read Harry Potter." This is because "the two biggest breeding grounds" for Paganism are (Protestant) fundamentalism and Catholicism, she claims. Besides, Chardenet asserts, magic and witchcraft are a central theme of the Harry Potter series only in the "same sense" that they are a theme in classic children's literature. Indeed, Chardenet informs us, "there are virtually no support groups" for former Wiccans, atheists or liberal Christians, but there are "a ton" for ex-Catholics and ex-fundamentalists. More ... Premiums for health care in the United States are expected to increase by 15% this year—a staggering sum, adding tens of billions of dollars to the more than one trillion dollars spent in 2001. The industry is rife with waste, duplication, mistakes, billing fraud and malpractice. Countless studies have documented these patterns, from the federal government's General Accounting Office to Harvard Medical School. More ... Roger Bruno and Ellen Schwartz of "Too Human" performed at the Canton Public Library on January 13. Photo/Robin Gourd. More ... Sam Sprague and Robert Rivers went sledding at Major Besse Park in Torrington on January 12. Photo/Robin Gourd. More ... Thomas Daly, curator of adult programs for the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, spoke at the Beardsley and Memorial Library in Winsted on January 9. Photo/Robin Gourd. More ... Peter Bujnowski and his son Nicholas enjoyed sledding in the snow at Major Besse Park in Torrington on January 2. Photo/Robin Gourd.0 More ... Those lines of hundreds of people, circling blocks of lower Manhattan near Ground Zero, are gone [Democracy’s Line, January 11]. On January 9, the City of New York instituted a ticket policy for the Ground Zero viewing platform. What had once been a three-hour wait was reduced to an hour on the first day of this new policy. More ... Those lines of hundreds of people, circling blocks of lower Manhattan near Ground Zero, are gone [Democracy’s Line, January 11]. On January 9, the City of New York instituted a ticket policy for the Ground Zero viewing platform. What had once been a three-hour wait was reduced to an hour on the first day of this new policy. More ... |
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