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Cabinet Editorials

Taking a stand against e-cigarettes

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 ...

Don’t forget to spring forward

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. ...

Thumbing the Files for March 7

71 years ago, 1948 The town announced Milford water was being chlorinated, although the chlorinator had been turned on by the water department a month earlier. The public works department delayed announcing the change to see if the public noticed anything, and there was no indication that ...

Believe what you want

The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were exactly like the Kansas City Chiefs: Got no defense, crank up the offense: Attack, attack, attack, ATTACK. Not a single Republican representative came out in defense of Donald Trump because, like the Chiefs ... well, you get it. So they ...

It’s time to tell our school boards, ‘enough is enough’

For years, the Amherst and Souhegan School Boards have failed to govern. This failure has led to less than stellar academic quality and incredibly high costs, in part because they have thrown money at issues that really call for other interventions. And we, the taxpayers, fearful of ...

Parking issues for businesses problematic

There is clearly a lot of faith in the economic future of Milford. Look at the restaurants going up at the corner of Nashua and South streets and at the old Souhegan Bank building on Nashua Street. And look at how well so many long-established restaurants are doing on the Oval. And now look ...