To the Editor: May is Bike Month in New Hampshire and with the good weather you will be seeing more bicyclists out on the roads in town. Please be alert for them as you drive and remember that there is a law (RSA 265-143a) that requires motorists traveling at 30 mph to stay three feet away ...
To the Editor: With spring and warm weather arriving we are again faced with bicycles and automobiles sharing the road. Making this year especially hard is the horrible condition the roads are in after a severe winter. I am writing to remind drivers and bikers that there are laws in the state ...
To the Editor: In the Bedford Town Library is a display case containing an old book in which the names of its original subscribers from 1789 to 1848 are recorded. Filled with sepia ink that must have been written with quill pens, the book is really something to see! It always prompts me to ...
To the Editor: At the Bedford School Board meeting on April 21, the 2014 Developmental Assets and Attitude and Behavior surveys were the primary topic. The Attitude and Behavior survey, given to students as young as seventh grade, included questions, such as sexual behavior, drug use and ...
To the Editor: Last weeks’ satirical letter by Mary Zore was hilarious. As a longtime satire writer, I especially liked her powerful use of irony. She criticizes two previous HBJ articles as “emotional responses to the issues of our days while omitting important ...
100 years ago, 1914 A Maine sheriff and six deputies made what was believed to be the biggest seizure of liquor in the history of that state, taking the contents of a large box car in the Maine Central Railroad yards in Bangor. The lot was 2,502 gallons of whiskey, gin, rum, brandy and ...
To the Editor: We are all aware that the roads and bridges in Amherst and other communities throughout New Hampshire are in a dismal state. As a means to obtain additional funds to repair our state infrastructure, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 367. This bill increases the gasoline tax ...
To the Editor: We often forget the media’s responsibility to society is to report the news, not create it. When the power of the media abuses our nation’s reality for political reasons, the entire nation suffers and pays the price. When the news media became the ...
To the Editor: Your editorial critiquing Francis Gros Louis’ letter is spot on. I was tempted to write you a letter along the same strain, but then I thought, “Who am I to criticize someone as esteemed as Gros Louis?” I grew up in Wilton. Wilton folks are Yankee ...
To the Editor: Mr. Conrad’s letter re: “Mont Vernon Voters Turn Down School Budget” is inaccurate when it comes to the Budget Committee’s reluctance to segregate necessary repairs from desired or deferrable repairs. Stating that the Budget Committee was ...
To the Editor: It was a great day to run on Monday, April 21, at the 118th running of the 2014 Boston Marathon. I was so proud of everyone who participated in this special event, including my husband, Mark Linn. It was a great way to show the running world that we can come back and run ...
Editor’s note: We contacted Graham Smith, and he said Anthony Nino wasn’t invited to the event and he did not wish to respond further. To the Editor: Our Founding Fathers came together from many different walks of life to discuss, debate, argue and finally, reach a ...
To the Editor: When I read the good and bad from letters this week and found myself the subject of “odd news,” I wasn’t sure if the comments were a backhanded compliment to my investigative talents or a question about my honesty, which could result in negative ...
To the Editor: I couldn’t help but shake my head when I read a letter to the editor in your April 25 edition in which Ms. Laura Condon once again wrote about her opposition to vaccines, and the belief of her group that their choices to not be vaccinated are reasonable and should be ...
To the Editor: The Bedford School Board is currently gathering feedback from parents regarding the survey that was recently given to middle school students. It is important to identify the mistakes that were made, listen to honest feedback and make the necessary corrections. The first problem ...
To the Editor: At the Bedford School Board meeting on April 21, the 2014 Developmental Assets and Attitude and Behavior surveys were the primary topic. The Attitude and Behavior survey, given to students as young as seventh grade, included questions, such as sexual behavior, drug use and ...
To the Editor: The Friends of the Hollis Social Library will hold the annual Book Sale on May 10 at the Hollis Town Hall. This well-attended event opens its doors at 9 a.m. At 3 p.m., the last half hour of the sale, there will be an “all that will fit” $5 a bag closing ...
100 years ago, 1914 Because of the prevalence of scarlet fever in the area, Milford decided that children under the age of 15 would not be allowed at places of public amusement. The Star Theatre was among those notified not to allow admission to the children. An Italian child, age 5, was ...
To the Editor: Fifteen years after the town’s purchase of the Brox property, we agree with the editorial on April 17 that the buy was a good idea, just not for the reasons given in the editorial. Rather, the citizens are now owners of what is turning out to be a real gem of a ...
To the Editor: The editorial on April 17 that the purchase of the Brox property was a good idea for development is in stark contrast to an editorial published in The Cabinet on June 6, 2013. Last year’s editorial, referring to conservation of the Wilkins property in Amherst and Mont ...