It turns out that Winston Churchill was in favor of a progressive income tax with a total exemption for the poor and a higher rate for unearned income, according to the biography, “Churchill: Walking with Destiny,” by Andrew Roberts. Wow, so am I. Bet I could rally Britain after Dunkirk, ...

Another fatal accident on Route 101 in the area between Bedford and Milford? This one was in Amherst. So, state of New Hampshire, what’s the plan? From what we can tell, there is no plan. Several years ago, after another fatal, then-Milford Police Chief Fred Douglas called for jersey ...

71 years ago, 1948 Farmers in Hollis and surrounding towns were contracted to grow 150 acres of pickling cucumbers for the R&S Pickle Works, Inc., of Boston. Herbert Blais of Milford was named president of Mask and Daggger, the University of New Hampshire’s dramatic society, where the ...

I am fascinated by hummingbirds, but until last week, I knew very little about them. Now, thanks to a talk at the Milford Garden Club, I know quite a bit more. I even learned all the dopey things I was doing and have seen the error of my ways. Correction is just around the corner, or, I ...

If you missed the Empty Bowls fundraising event for the Share Outreach Food Pantry, you missed a chance for some really great food and, of course, the opportunity to help an organization that is there to help people in need. The symbol of the Empty Bowls event is a large number of empty ...

Well, here we go again, a school board forced to look at paring its budget because voters aren’t happy. In this case, at least, the Souhegan Cooperative School Board budget actually passed in the March vote, but it was a narrow victory and it was won only because Mont Vernon brought in ...

71 years ago, 1948: The Milford Lions Club was discussing a swimming pool for Railroad Pond. Lion Andrew C. Elliott indicated that funds could be made available for the project and that water could be taken from the pond, chlorinated, and used in the pool. Nearly 18 tons of paper were ...

There were 12 bills voted on Thursday, April 4, 2019. Only those bills that were tabled, had a division or a roll call vote are listed. HB 564 – relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones. This bill prohibits carrying a firearm in a safe school zone. The amendment changes the ...

Baseball is sporting America’s way of saying, “Don’t you have something better to do?” Yes, I do. Anything is better than baseball. Boring, boring, boring and, as Phil Mushnick of the New York Post constantly points out, a game of many more strikeouts than hits, a game in which no ...

We were sad to read in our sister paper, The Telegraph, the news that Milford High School’s boys tennis team canceled its season because it couldn’t field enough players. As Tom King reported, this is the second straight year that the Spartans had difficulty getting enough kids onto the ...

Kudos to the board that handled the Milford School Board election recount. They did what was clearly a commendable job, one noted gracefully by Len Mannino, who had requested the recount after he and fellow board incumbent Bob Willette had been bested in March’s election by write-in candidate ...

71 years ago, 1948: Because of support from the Mont Vernon PTA and the assistance of the state Board of Health, 32 local children had their teeth examined and necessary dental work done. The dentist was Dr. A.D. Elkins of Wilton. Mrs. Livia Prestipino of Milford was working in the office of ...

In 1997, Peter Bragdon won a three-year Milford School Board seat by 27 votes over Jack Danhof, and the election was settled in a recount. In the photo, above, Bragdon is sworn in by then-school district moderator Gary Daniels, left. Bragdon picked up five more votes and Danhof one more vote in ...

Is it over? Finally? Because I’m sick of the Mueller investigation and the whole Russian thingy that apparently has gone nowhere, so let’s knock it off and start doing the people’s real business, which is to say enacting laws that help real people, not Donald Trump’s buddies who ...

I’ve followed with interest the story of State Representative Safiya Wazir, who at age six was a refugee from totalitarian Afghanistan. She eventually found safety and freedom in our great country and in 2018 was elected to represent Merrimack District 17 (Concord’s Ward 8) at the State ...

For more than 30 years, the Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce has been dedicated to serving the 11 towns of the Souhegan Valley by promoting regional business and community prosperity through advocacy, economic development, networking opportunities and business education. We also represent ...

Recently we heard an interesting take on living in a small, rural town. It was brought up at Lyndeborough Town Meeting by a man who was the only person to vote “No” on a series of warrant articles seeking funding for several of the town’s capital reserve funds, something that the town has ...

71 years ago, 1948 Milford Superintendent of Public Works Salvatore Grasso asked motorists to stay off back roads because the thaw was bringing frost out of the ground and making shoulders extremely soft. On several occasions, automobiles had been stuck and had to be towed. The Laughing ...

All the majestic elm trees on the Milford Oval succumbed to Dutch elm disease in the 20th century.

As far as I can tell to this point, Beto O’Rourke lives up to, or down to, that old Texas saying: “He’s all hat and no cattle.” Oh, he’s young and enthusiastic and handsome and well-spoken and perhaps he has some ideas, but nothing that’s grabbed me. I’m no huge fan of ...