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Opinion

Taking a stand against e-cigarettes

Cabinet Editorials

Kudos to Brian Bagley, principal of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Middle-High School, for taking a strong stand against the use of electronic cigarettes, suggesting the installation of a system that would detect their use in the school’s bathrooms. It is a big problem, he said, with as many as 40 ...

Don’t forget to spring forward

Cabinet Editorials

You probably don’t have to be reminded that Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend. To be precise, it begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10, but it’s quite all right to turn your clocks an hour ahead on Saturday before you go to bed. That way, you won’t arise thinking it’s 7 a.m. ...

Thumbing the Files for March 7

Cabinet Editorials

71 years ago, 1948 The town announced Milford water was being chlorinated, although the chlorinator had been turned on by the water department a month earlier. The public works department delayed announcing the change to see if the public noticed anything, and there was no indication that ...

Believe what you want

Cabinet Editorials

The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were exactly like the Kansas City Chiefs: Got no defense, crank up the offense: Attack, attack, attack, ATTACK. Not a single Republican representative came out in defense of Donald Trump because, like the Chiefs ... well, you get it. So they ...

A step in the right direction

Cabinet Letters

On March 8, the New Hampshire House Commerce Committee votes on HB 560, a bill that goes a long way in addressing the wasteful proliferation of plastic bags in our state. New Hampshire is the only east coast state from Maine to Washington, D.C., that has not enacted a ban. Plastic shopping ...