To the Editor: In last week’s Hollis Brookline Journal, Lynne Dougherty requested alternatives to Common Core state standards and expressed indifference for “local (parental) control of education.” I’d like to respond by recognizing that this issue ...

To the Editor: I share Normand Bleau’s disappointment to read the misrepresentations and accusations Representative Levesque makes in her letter to the editor in the April 4 issue of The Journal. I am also disappointed that at the recent three-night, record-turnout Hollis Brookline ...

To The Editor: Within the past several weeks, we have had two letters and articles in the Hollis Brookline Journal that represent emotional responses to the issues of our days while omitting important realities. Emotions are important because they can tell us when something does not feel ...

To the Editor: My name is Niko Martin, and I am a seventh-grade student at Hollis Brookline Middle School in Hollis. I am writing to you because I believe same-sex marriage should be legal in all parts of America. If I couldn’t marry the person I loved, I would feel like an outcast ...

To the Editor: It is most unfortunate that the Representative Levesque chose to personally attack my husband in her recent letter to the editor. Moreover, it is extremely troubling that she would think it is proper to outrageously assert that my husband, a newly elected co-op school board ...

To the Editor: I have never written to the local paper until today and knew very little about Common Core until the SAU presentation at the end of January. As I researched Common Core, I couldn’t help but notice online videos of parents across America speaking at school board ...