We received a letter from someone who signed it with something that was obviously not a real name and as per our rules at The Cabinet, did not run it. The letter does not reach our criterion for running letters without a name and town. In the long history of The Cabinet, we have run a few ...

71 years ago, 1948: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a Commerce Department appropriations bill that included $10,425 for an airport in Milford. The bill then had to go to the U.S. Senate. The Latchis Theatre in Milford was showing “Cass Timberlane” with Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, ...

Patty Rotch took this photo of a horseback rider and dog making their way through high water in March 1977, along Boston Post Road in Amherst.

As soon as I read this, I emailed my friend Wendy to see if she and her daughters had any Girl Scout cookies left. I don’t eat cookies, but I want to buy some because of this nitwit’s attack on the Scouts: “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at a conservative writer who ...

Kudos to Brian Bagley, principal of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Middle-High School, for taking a strong stand against the use of electronic cigarettes, suggesting the installation of a system that would detect their use in the school’s bathrooms. It is a big problem, he said, with as many as 40 ...

You probably don’t have to be reminded that Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend. To be precise, it begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10, but it’s quite all right to turn your clocks an hour ahead on Saturday before you go to bed. That way, you won’t arise thinking it’s 7 a.m. ...