Art meets the chainsaw in Southington

SOUTHINGTON – The sawdust has yet to settle, and it won’t anytime soon in Jared Welcome’s world.
Welcome is one of the few chainsaw carvers in the state and travels Connecticut putting his indelible touch on downed trees.
“I do this because I have a passion for it,” said Welcome, who works as a teacher in an area correctional institution.
Working at a house where Eversource was forced to cut down a tree that threatened power lines, Welcome was about a week into a pr