Our story last week about Wilton’s Heritage Commission and Historical Society asking the Select Board to establish a right of way through private land to a 19th century cemetery brings into focus a dichotomy: When do the needs or rights of a town override the concept of private ...

Sometimes we are fortunate to have a week where there is lots of good news, not only locally but globally. Oh, there is always bad news, of course, and newspapers, as we well know, thrive on bad news, not because they like it so much but because it is usually the most important news – war, ...

75 years ago, 1943 Andrew J. Raymond, chairman of Amherst’s war loan committee, said the town was still far short of the quota assigned for war bonds. The Latchis Theatre in Milford was showing “X Marks the Spot” with Damian O’Flynn, Helen Parish, and Dick Purcell, the story of ...

In 1992 Milford officials held a Hitchiner Manufacturing Company Appreciation Week. From left, Town Administrator Lee Mayhew, Selectman Richard Mace, Hitchiner President Nicholas Babich, Selectman Peter Leishman, company Chairman John Morison and vice president Fred Lofgren.

Let me now tell you about my visit to Parnassus Books, the store owned by Ann Patchett who wrote “State of Wonder,” a book that is mostly brilliant but pretty scary once you get about halfway through Chapter 8. Parnassus is in Nashville, which is in Tennessee, which is somewhere I ...

We live in a time of increasingly sophisticated scam artists. Gone are the days when we simply got emails from Nigerian princes whose millions were stashed in a U.S. bank and could only be accessed by a U.S. citizen, and that citizen could be you, if only you would first send the prince $4,000 ...