71 years ago, 1948 About 105 inches of snow had fallen in Milford so far, the most on Dec. 23 when 15 inches fell, followed by 12 inches on Dec. 26. Our Milford High School correspondent, Nancy Fitch, wrote that “stringent warnings” were being issued concerning “snowballing.” The ...

This question has probably been around since the advent of overhead power lines and perhaps especially since the great ice storm of 2008, but it comes up again because Eversource, our regional power company, has asked the Amherst Planning Board to host a public hearing on its plan to remove ...

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 ...