All right now, that’s enough ragging on Fox News for putting up a picture of Patti LaBelle when they should have put up a picture of Aretha Franklin who, after all, was the singer who died. The folks at Fox News SINCERELY believe that all black people are interchangeable so they keep around ...

71 years ago, 1947 The Milford Masonic Lodge was preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The Joslin Farm in South Lyndeborough was looking for apple pickers. The Latchis Theatre in Milford was showing “Beginning or the End” with Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, and Beverly Tyler. ...

Fire trucks move down the street during a past Labor Day parade in Milford.

What is happening between the school boards of Mont Vernon and Amherst is a lesson in cooperation from which everyone can take note. The two boards are working together to figure out a way to deal with kindergarten class size issues and when we say “working together,” we mean it. And ...

My wife had to deal with the howling beast known as Mandy while I was away for two days recently. She times the start of her day to when I get up - 4 a.m. If I’m not downstairs by then, she sits on the kitchen table - she’s forbidden to sit on the kitchen table, but we’re in bed, so she ...

Millions of people across the country have seen the Moving Wall honoring the more than 58,000 Americans who died during the Vietnam War. What they haven’t seen is this name: George Poor. George, a kid from Hillsdale, N.J., was killed only three months after arriving in Vietnam and his ...