75 years ago, 1943 Miss Adeline Chase, a former Red Cross nurse in Milford, was seriously injured when she was thrown from a horse in Philadelphia where she was supervisor of nurses at University Hospital. Lt. Charles Burpee, a 1933 graduate of Milford High School, led the first American ...

It is now the Wilton Select Board, and that is a victory – a victory for women, of course, but also a victory for common sense. How could it remain a Board of Selectmen when a woman has been serving on it? The 2-1 vote to change the name is welcome and, we hope, a precursor to other ...

Not too long ago, we wondered in this space if New Hampshire law enforcement officials had forgotten to enforce the hands-free law. The law forbids using a phone while driving unless one could do so without holding the phone in one’s hands – thus the term “hands-free.” We are happy ...

Well, here’s a song I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m gonna share it with you in what is a searching, but probably vain, hope that it will end up in YOUR head and leave mine: SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE By Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller One day while I was eating beans At Smokey ...

75 years ago, 1943 The Rev. Ramkdishna Shahn Modaks, a minister from Bombay, India, was stuck in the snow on the Mohawk Trail in North Adams, Mass., and didn’t get to Mont Vernon to deliver a scheduled talk. They managed to make it to Nashua the next day. The New Hampshire Council of ...

In the wake of the murder of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, any debate over increasing security measures at any New Hampshire schools should halt. To be opposed to increased security – cameras in the halls of Souhegan High School, for ...