To the Editor: In case you haven’t heard, a proposed Hess fueling station and convenience store of unprecedented scale has been proposed to be developed at 2 Hardy Road – at the intersection of Route 101 and Hardy Road. When I first learned about the proposed station at ...
To the Editor: The Jan. 19 Sunday News reported the House vote to legalize marijuana in New Hampshire. Three of Bedford’s representatives voted to legalize the substance. The Jan. 30 Union Leader reports the state is already counting the money it will receive if the drug is ...
To the Editor: Everyone knows that convenience stores carry an inherent risk of criminal activity that is not associated with other establishments. I find it troubling that Bedford is considering allowing a gas station/convenience store to be built at the intersection of Route 101 and Hardy ...
To the Editor: We’re writing to oppose the Hess Corporation’s application for a variance to Bedford’s zoning ordinance. The company’s proposed 20-pump, 10-island fueling station and 2,480-square-foot convenience store, at the northwest corner of Hardy ...
The death penalty isn’t right – or sensible To the Editor: Is the death penalty good for New Hampshire’s economy? If the current death row resident of the New Hampshire Men’s Prison, Michael Addison, is executed soon, it will have cost taxpayers ...
I have been blessed to have many titles in life: daughter, sister, wife, state senator – but my favorite one has been mother. I have two remarkable children - a daughter and a son. And it’s because of my role as mother that I am using my other role, as a state senator, to ...
I have been blessed to have many titles in life: daughter, sister, wife, state senator – but my favorite one has been mother. I have two remarkable children – a daughter and a son. And it’s because of my role as a mother, I am using my other role as a state ...
At first glance, people who don’t live in the Great Brook condominium complex in Milford might think that the controversy over the alleged actions of the condo board of directors has nothing to do with them. And they’d be wrong. Even those who don’t live in condos ...
Oh, now a major corporation is suddenly concerned about global warming. According to a story in the New York Times last week, Coca-Cola is worried about its bottom line (i.e., its profits) because of a serious water shortage in, of all places, India and other areas across the globe ...
100 years ago, 1914 George Stearns, of Mont Vernon, captured a large bobcat in Antrim. Later in the day, with the aid of Joseph Carleton and John Loveren, he captured another. Each weighed about 20 pounds. A state Board of Health official inspected stables and dairies of Milford milk ...
To the Editor: I would like to publicly thank the Trustees of Cemetery Fields for their integrity in trying to do the right thing with regard to the present controversy. I am sure they have felt the attacks are personal when people have demanded a portion of Cemetery Fields be left as ...
To the Editor: The huge amount of corporate money in our politics is tainting our democracy. Presently, any candidate for U.S. senator must raise $10,000 per day to be competitive. When candidates have to spend so much time raising such large amounts of money, they are going to be more ...
I have been blessed to have many titles in life: daughter, sister, wife, state senator – but my favorite one has been mother. I have two remarkable children – a daughter and a son, and it’s because of my role as mother. I am using my other role as a state ...
To the editor: Nine of the Hollis Happy Hookers had their Christmas party on Wednesday, Dec. 11. We went to lunch at Joey’s Diner on Route 101A. When we went to pay our bill, the waitress told us a gentleman had already paid it. What a wonderful surprise! We don’t know who ...
Thank you for my time on the School Board To the Editor: For the past six years, I have had the privilege of serving Bedford as a member of the School Board. After careful consideration, I have decided not to run for re-election. My term will expire in March. I want to thank my fellow ...
It’s a bit last-minute, we know, but if you’re reading this before 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, head down to the Toadstool Bookshop at Lorden Plaza in Milford and exchange views with Hedrick Smith. The former New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter will discuss his ...
We know it isn’t the most exciting thing to contemplate as we head into February. There is, after all, the Super Bowl and we still have to worry about frozen pipes and who knows if the Red Sox can repeat. But … We all really need to think about the decisions ...
100 years ago, 1914 The local Paving Cutters Union prepared a new schedule of prices, which they submitted to local manufacturers. The latter appointed E.L. Kittredge, Charles Tonella and S.A. Lovejoy to meet with the cutters. The cutters had struck for higher prices two years before. The ...
To the Editor: On behalf of the Duchesne family – Michelle, Matt, Jared, Colby and Braden – we would like to say thank you for all of the support, food and gifts during Michelle’s set back caused by her MS. A very special thanks to Markalyn Howard (what would we ...
To the Editor: Congratulations to all of the 16 spelling bee finalists who participated in the Amherst Middle School Spelling Bee on Thursday, Jan. 9. Spellers went 13 rounds, spelled 195 words – and, the winning word was “presumptuous.” The AMS champion speller ...