To the Editor: This week, seventh grade students at Lurgio were given a survey titled “Search Institute, Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes & Behavior”. This survey was optional and names were not to be included. There were about 158 questions that even my own son ...
To the Editor: How would you react if someone approached your seventh-grader and asked her how many times she’s had “sexual intercourse,” “gone all the way” or “made love”? Any good parent would have them arrested as a ...
To the Editor: I watched with the usual disgust as the Bedford School Board refused to provide answers to parents and taxpayers about why an intrusive, completely inappropriate survey was administered to children as young as 11. Every single person on that school board, as well as the ...
To the Editor: After seeing the “BurmaShave” style signs on the way to the transfer station and knowing one of the 2013 Town Council’s goals was to increase recycling in Bedford, I decided to analyze my home’s waste stream in hopes of encouraging a ...
To the Editor: I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Rapsis’ “Basically Bedford” column about the good and bad of sidewalks. I was particularly entertained by his musing on litter – the debris that seems to multiply as the snow banks recede and the trash talk ...
To the Editor: Saturday, April 26, will be the annual spring work day at the Pulpit Rock Conservation Area, with a rain date of Saturday, May 3. Please join us beginning at 9 a.m. in the parking lot on New Boston Road. Please bring gloves, trash bags, loppers and hand saws. Tasks include ...
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 ...
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: 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: Have you ever driven past the Hollis Primary School and noticed the lovely Tee Pee that is set up every fall? This is a part of the Native American presentation that is an annual event for our first-graders. And it is funded completely by the Hollis Elementary PTA. As a ...
To the Editor: Another maple season has ended and Mother Nature made it a bit difficult with all her snow and freezing temperatures, but we made it through! We would like to thank Thom Davies and Pete Smith from Beaver Brook for giving us the unique opportunity to expand our hobby and educate ...
To The Editor: I have read with interest over the past several weeks letters to the editor that have vilified the Common Core state standards (CCSS). What has struck me is that for all the criticisms, there seems to be an absence of alternatives being set forth. When I hear rhetoric ...
To the Editor: The Merrimack Crimeline says thank you to The Granite State Conjurors for their performances on April 12 at the sixth annual benefit for the K-9 program. The benefit was a success for the 65th year in a row. Crimeline would as like to thank the American Legion Post 98 for their ...
BTA appears to have lost sight of purpose To the Editor: The Bedford Taxpayers Association (BTA) recommended a “no” vote on the bond to fix Bedford roads before our recent election. Once the bond was passed, they sent a letter to the editor dated March 27 suggesting ...
Thank you from Boy Scout Troop 5 To the Editor: Thank you! On behalf of Troop 5 of the Boy Scouts of America here in Bedford, I want to say thank you to the entire Bedford community for supporting our annual yard sale at Peter Woodbury School on Saturday, April 5. This year’s ...
To the Editor: State Sen. Peggy Gilmour, D-Hollis, should be congratulated for her prime sponsorship of a bill (SB 193) that would examine the pathways to oral health in our state. The EngAGING NH board of directors supports this legislation because we believe there are many barriers to ...
To the Editor: My name is AshLynn Hoey, and I am a seventh-grade student at Hollis Brookline Middle School in Hollis. My friend was diagnosed with cancer last year, and it really made a huge impact in my life because it made me aware about how it can affect someone so much. At my former ...
To the Editor: It was very disappointing to read the misrepresentations and accusations in Representative Levesque’s letter to the editor in the April 4 issue of The Journal. First, she described the discussion at the co-op meeting of the Common Core standards as a “very ...
To the Editor: It’s getting easier to understand why concerned parents are increasingly pushing back against the Common Core agenda being imposed upon their kids. Academic standards would be dumbed down as independent thinking is squashed in favor of left wing, politically correct ...
Here is an interesting dichotomy: Last month, many New Hampshire towns joined towns across the nation in voting to support the idea of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. That ruling by the Court essentially ...