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‘No’ to fire/ambulance

We’re not sure what the voters of Milford said Tuesday when they shot down a plan to buy land for a new fire/ambulance facility, but we think they made a mistake. The town needs a new facility. The fire department is crowded, the ambulance bay …

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time to step up
On Tuesday, Milford voters have a chance to tell their firefighters and their ambulance personnel how much they appreciate them by voting to buy land for a combined fire/ambulance complex adjacent to the existing fire station. The Board of Selectmen, by a vote of 4-1, favors the purchase, as does …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Head goes here
Well, it wasn’t all that much of a storm last week but it still could have caused a lot more problems than it did if it weren’t for the people who take care of our roads. We all see the plow crews out and about once we’re out and about, …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
They shall not pass
Milford Selectman Nate Carmen is convinced that passing lanes on Route 101 in Milford – one over Route 13, the other closer to Wilton – should be eliminated because the road has a history of fatal accidents and at least a few of them have involved cars passing one another. …
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Let’s back this buy
We understand Milford Selectman Gary Daniels’ concern about the economy and people’s ability to pay increased taxes, but we think voters should agree in March to spend $850,000 to buy land adjacent to the current fire station for a combined fire department/ambulance facility. Four selectmen voted to support this warrant …
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Just ask, ‘How much?’
It’s the “something is better than nothing” point of view and it stinks. It stinks because it allows very clever people to make scads of money by promising to provide funds for good causes, like local police departments. Last week on The Cabinet’s Web page, and in this issue, Milford …
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Let’s do it
Kudos to the Milford School Board for trying, once again, to get a four-classroom addition to the Jacques School with the aim of housing public kindergarten. It won’t be easy. Last year, the project got a majority vote, but failed to get the 60 percent “supermajority” needed to pass a …
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Guest commentary
PSNH coal plant needs to be phased out
Residents of New Hampshire could be better served by the New Hampshire Energy and Climate Collaborative, launched by Gov. John Lynch in March. The collaborative’s mission, based on a statewide Climate Action Plan, is to track and help to implement efforts to address the effects of climate change caused in …
Thursday, January 28, 2010 | By JANET WARD Special to the Cabinet
Local issue, but …
Here, then, is a particularly local issue, but one that resonates outside the boundaries of Lyndeborough, where the issue is front and center. The town is forming a committee to decide where to place Lyndeborough’s two war memorials. They used to be at the library, but were moved to accommodate …
Thursday, January 21, 2010
History lost, history found
It’s sad when a small business like the Mont Vernon General Store closes, which it is scheduled to do Thursday. A little of our history closes with it; a little of what makes our towns special, too. Certainly, a small town can exist without a general store. There are supermarkets …
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Gay marriage First of all, let’s deal with the umbrella issue of gay marriage: Accept it, it’s here, and it’s right. The sky hasn’t fallen, the seas haven’t risen up in fury, and the Apocalypse isn’t hiding in the closet, ready to jump out and get … you. Then let’s …
Thursday, January 14, 2010
From the files of The Cabinet Jan. 13-20. 100 years ago, 1910 State Sen. Robert Bass was talked about as a possible gubernatorial candidate, but he was uncommitted. Ethel Arnold was to lecture in Concord on the issue of women’s suffrage. The title of her talk was to be, “Women …
Thursday, January 14, 2010
And now, an issue of vital importance
OK, friends, we’ve just come out of a pretty nasty year. So instead of starting the new year with, as Phil Ochs might have said, “Thundering declarations” about such things as gay marriage (we approve) or the horrors of the property tax (not a good thing), let’s talk about something …
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Stop first
Shortly after you read this – and let’s hope you’re not reading it while you’re driving your car – you will no longer be able to text or Twitter or type on a laptop computer or any other electronic device while you drive. Oh, woe is us. The law against …
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Irony alert
Sponsors are dropping Tiger Woods because of ... well, you know (it’s all way too boring now to repeat.) But in a commercial during Sunday’s Patriots game, there was Charlie Sheen. Yes, the Charlie Sheen charged with domestic violence. Now whatever you think about Tiger’s actions, as far as we …
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Where credit is due
Last week’s editorial praised Milford School Board member Len Mannino for making a motion to look at what cuts could be made to co-curricular activities to lower the 2010-11 school budget proposal before deciding on the superintendent’s proposed cuts. What the editorial didn’t point out – and what we want …
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Heroes, indeed
We were reminded once again last week of the danger facing police officers, even in our small more-or-less safe communities when two Milford officers – Sgt. Kevin Furlong and Officer Eric Wales – were honored for their actions during the early stages of the investigation of the murder and attack …
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Guest editorial
‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’
DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O’HANLON. 115 West 95th St. Virginia, your little friends are …
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Due diligence is right move
Thanks to Milford School Board member Len Mannino, he and his colleagues will at least look at possible cuts to co-curricular activities before making a final decision on how to trim $1 million out of the superintendent of schools’ proposed $36 million budget. Now that is not to say that …
Thursday, December 17, 2009
What a world we live in
What would possess someone to dump more than 100 tires in four spots around Milford? Stupidity? Laziness? A combination of both? We’ll probably never know because unless the public helps the police find this nitwit, he’ll get away with polluting four little corners of the world and forcing society – …
Thursday, December 17, 2009
What a guy
Gail Collins, writing in the New York Times: “The U.S. Senate began its groundbreaking debate over a national health care plan. In honor of this historic event, the Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire – who you will remember was so bipartisan a while back that President Obama wanted to …
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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