The Amherst Town Ways and Means Committee is chartered to examine and provide an Outside point of view on all planned appropriations and finances of the town. To do so, W&M has spent the last several months reviewing records of the town’s revenues and expenditures and understanding the ...

At the close of a year, it is all together proper and fitting to reflect on that year. And it is right and good to give thanks where thanks is due. This is especially true of this time and place in the year 2017. As it did from the beginning, in 1971, the Milford Cabinet again in 2017 ...

The Milford School administrators, school board members and teacher’s union are currently finalizing the school proposed budget for the 2018/2019 school year that will start next July 1. As a Milford homeowner, I have concerns over the growth of the school tax rate, up around 26 percent ...

“It’s a Wonderful Life” here in Wilton. On Dec. 17, people streamed into the Town Hall Theater carrying food items for the Open Cupboard Pantry, the only admission charge. Like George Bailey and the Bailey Savings and Loan, Dennis Markaverich and his Town Hall Theater have always put ...

Milford’s Board of Selectmen, led by chairman Mark Fougere, has made another terrible decision by selling 10 acres of rare and valuable Appalachian oak-pine forest for a paltry $1,658 (after paying timber tax and forester’s fee). The townspeople of Milford need to know what natural ...

The Souhegan School Board has sought input concerning safety and security from many sources, including a Community Forum, Community Council, the Amherst Police, administrators and citizens’ comments. While we have not addressed specifically what actions to take next, we do feel it is ...