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Letters to the Editor 8/1

Thanking community for support of NECC

On behalf of the whole North East Community Center, its staff, volunteers, and board of directors, I would like to personally thank our local community for the incredible support we have received over this past weekend. Our 2024 Chef and Farmer Brunch at Mountain View in Pine Plains was a huge success thanks to those who gathered to celebrate our work and the vital programming we provide.

NECC would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to those who attended this year’s event as well as those who chose to support us in other ways. We are humbled by our community’s generosity and by the difference this community’s sustaining support makes in the lives of our friends and neighbors. Though donations are still being counted, we are beyond gratified to report that thus far, our community has helped us raise over $500,000 for our essential programs and services! These contributions are a testament to the area’s resolve for community betterment and the trust our supporters have in NECC’s work.

We would especially like to thank the volunteers and local businesses who participated in this critical fundraiser. Without the support of individuals, vendors, sponsors, chefs, farmers, and artisans we would not have been able to celebrate in such style! We encourage our neighbors to remember the businesses that reinvest in their community whenever shopping locally. Visit our website to see a list of sponsors and photos of this incredible event: neccmillerton.org/chef-farmer-brunch.

Thank you all for helping us celebrate the work of our vital programs! As always, we are moved by your generosity and dedication to making our community a better place for all to live.

Christine Sergent

Executive Director of North East Community Center

Millerton


Project 2025 critique criticized

The recent opinion piece (July 25) by Peter Riva regarding Project 2025 is irresponsible, over the top, and fear mongering in the extreme. Have we not learned anything from recent events about how inflamed rhetoric can result in aggressive and destructive behavior, as in what occurred on July 13? The obsessive use of the words “dictatorship” and “fascists” and “MAGA” are used to threaten readers into thinking that our world is going to end in fire and brimstone. Project 2025 is a conservative platform put forth by the Heritage Foundation. Anyone can and should look at their website and draw conclusions on their own rather than relying on Mr. Riva’s outrageous rhetoric. Shame on The Millerton News for printing it. What useful purpose does it serve to dedicate nearly half a page to this type of screed?

Margaret O’Brien

Amenia

The views expressed here are not necessarily those of The Millerton News and The News does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

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