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If children are our future (yes, a cliche, but don’t cliches become cliches because, over the years, they have been found to be true?), then the teenagers involved in Community Action for Safe Teens give us hope. Recently, these kids from various high schools in …
Friday, February 3, 2012
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Kudos to the Brookline Women’s Club that recently purchased a refrigerator for the Town Food Pantry. That was the club’s 2011-12 community service project and they deserve lots of praise. …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tad Putney is a sidewalk guy. Here at the Journal, we first met him a few years ago when he was advocating for sidewalks near the local elementary school. Now, …
Friday, January 27, 2012
Dean Martin sang that, remember? Well, probably not if you’re younger than 50. “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.” It certainly is if …
Friday, January 20, 2012
Once again, the New Hampshire presidential primary was a worthy event, one that spotlighted the strengths and flaws of some interesting candidates, this year on the Republican side only because, …
Friday, January 13, 2012
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has suggested a nationwide ban on all cell phone use by people driving. Some people think this is a terrible idea. They are, of …
Friday, December 30, 2011
Let us all credit John Boucher with being not only a great teacher, but one with a certain amount of courage. Boucher is the Hollis/Brookline High physics teacher who lets, …
Friday, December 16, 2011
Every once in awhile, and probably more often that we actually remember, we run across someone who just gets it. Such a person is Hollis/Brookline High School junior Haley Barbour, …
Friday, December 9, 2011
It is a sad commentary on the state of our society that there are still people who can’t afford to buy warm clothing, but fortunately, we have the Brookline Lions …
Friday, December 2, 2011
Well, another Veterans Day has come and gone and on Nove. 11, in what our story last week called “a propitious calendar day,” we honored the men and women who …
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Recently we got a telephone voice mail message from a reader who wanted us to run a correction regarding her name, something we would have been happy to do. But …
Friday, November 18, 2011
A reader dropped by The Cabinet’s office on School Street in Milford last week to point out a disparity in the price of gasoline. He does a lot of driving …
Friday, November 18, 2011
If you read our story last week about the bizarre snow storm that smacked us, you’ll understand why people love small-town life. Our Hattie Bernstein wrote, among many other things, …
Friday, November 11, 2011
According to the National Fire Protection Association, nearly two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in properties without working smoke alarms. So, how many smoke alarms do you have? …
Friday, November 4, 2011
Need something to do on Sunday? Get into the woods. No, not with Stephen Sondheim. The Brookline Conservation Commission is sponsoring a morning hike beginning at Cider Mill Pond so …
Friday, October 28, 2011
Several local communities are taking part in the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 29, and you should participate. Here’s the drill: Anyone wanting to dispose of …
Friday, October 21, 2011
Those who are runners or, because of pounding on pavement for 30 years to the detriment of one’s knees, are former runners, can only admire the ultra runners who are …
Friday, October 14, 2011
Last week, the Globe carried a Page 1 story about people known as “Hypermilers” who, a headline said, “nurse every last drop of gas,” often by coasting. Now coasting, especially …
Friday, October 7, 2011
“Hey, you like apples?” Matt Damon in “Good Will Hunting” Well, sure, who doesn’t like apples? OK, perhaps the character in “Good Will Hunting” to whom Damon was speaking, because …
Friday, September 30, 2011
Need something interesting to do this Sunday? Something you can do with the entire family? Something that will help your community? Something that will make you feel good? Something that …
Friday, September 23, 2011
Dorothy said it to Toto a long, long time ago, but it still holds true today: There really is no place like home. And nothing like Old Home Days that …
Friday, September 16, 2011
The Hollis Primary School’s practice run for kindergarten and first-grade students, held the day before the official opening of school, is a brilliant idea. The purpose is to get children …
Friday, September 9, 2011
We wish hurricanes would stay where they belong: Bermuda, Cuba, Florida. You know, places where we’re not. But Irene came calling and we survived. You have to hand it to …
Friday, September 2, 2011
You probably know that Hollis Old Home Days nears, but we hope you’ve got it marked on your calendars. This is a truly fun time and it even includes a …
Friday, August 26, 2011
Once again the Brookline Lions Club, along with students from Hollis/Brookline Cooperative High School, is collecting school supplies for those who need them. It’s a great project, it runs through …
Friday, August 19, 2011
If ever there was a worthwhile endeavor, it is Sunday’s fundraising Kim’s Concert at Alpine Grove in Hollis that will raise money for the Kimberly L. Cates Memorial Scholarship Fund. …
Friday, August 12, 2011
We wouldn’t be surprised if Brookliners screamed if they read, in The Telegraph, one more story about possible issues with the town’s police chief, but a story that ran on …
Friday, August 5, 2011
So, Silver Lake got trashed during our recent heat wave. Surprised? We know people are careless or uncaring with their trash. We KNOW that. And if we know that, so …
Friday, July 29, 2011
Selectman Clarence Farwell made an interesting point when he defended his board’s decision to make Police Chief William Quigley III full time without seeking public input first. Farwell said, as …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Apparently things were a lot better, and a lot cleaner, at Silver Lake State Park this July 4. Last year, trash was a serious issue but the Hollis Police and …
Friday, July 15, 2011
One of the many things we like about small-town life is how people gather to celebrate their communities. In Hollis last week there were two events that underscored this: Beaver …
Friday, July 8, 2011
You’re struggling to make ends meet. Perhaps you have no job. Perhaps your unemployment has run out. Perhaps ... Well, you know. But cheer up. All is right with the …
Friday, July 8, 2011
The Cabinet Press newspapers have always had an interesting relationship with Jack Flanagan of Brookline. A few years ago, the then-editor could count upon the occasional telephone call from Flanagan …
Friday, June 24, 2011
So, now Brookline is going to post its audit reports on the town Web site. You know why? Because a guy named Dennis Skey bugged the heck out of them …
Friday, June 17, 2011
You can say this for Brookline Police Chief William Quigley: Fairly or unfairly, he is now the state’s poster boy for double-dipping. Quigley, as you probably know from stories in …
Friday, June 10, 2011
In an op-ed piece in a recent New Hampshire Sunday News, Speaker of the House William O’Brien tried to make a case for the inappropriately named Right to Work law …
Friday, June 3, 2011
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