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Opinion

Get ready for more logging

Cabinet Letters

Fourteen acres of forest at Milford’s Brox town land are about to be cut down to make way for future sand and gravel excavation. Logging is scheduled to start March 1. This 14 acre forest is east of homes on Ches Mae Lane, and just north of houses on Mason Road and the lovely Cold ...

Open letter to Erick Erickson

Cabinet Letters

In 2016 you said you could not support Donald Trump because “I found him to be an amoral man and an unprincipled politician.” Now in 2019 you say you are “ready to vote for him in 2020. So what happened?” It appears to me that you are willing to trade principle for a better paycheck. ...

Let’s make history together

Cabinet Letters

History isn’t just dusty old artifacts, yellowed paper or faded photographs, or nearly forgotten stories. History is happening now, changing daily, and constantly evolving. We invite you to join us in making history in Milford. The Milford Historical Society is celebrating our fortieth year ...

Change in start time a good thing

Cabinet Editorials

Too bad they have to wait a year, but starting in September 2020, students in Amherst middle and high school will be able to get a bit more sleep in the morning because school officials there finally decided to make start times later. We say “finally decided” because we can’t for the ...

A job well done

Cabinet Editorials

We do not know the name of the New Hampshire state trooper who, after last week’s snow storm, issued 17 tickets to drivers who had not bothered to clear the snow off of their cars, thus finding themselves in violation of Jessica’s Law, named for a young woman killed when flying ice hit a ...

Thumbing the Files

Cabinet Editorials

71 years ago, 1948 The three-story brick store and post office building in Amherst, owned by Andrew J. Raymond, was destroyed by fire. It was the only three-story building on town and had been a Village landmark since 1809. Also housed in the building were the IGA market on the first floor ...