Opinion
View From the River: Margaret Nelson – Time to relax and pay attention
December is filled with traditions, events, and expectations. The season can bring some challenges. I find that I can overreact, get worked up about getting things accomplished, place too much importance on things of little importance and in many...
Letter: Thanking businesses that gave back
In this season of giving, MDS would like to thank Brady’s American Grill, Monadnock Eats and Norway Hill Home Inspections for their generous donation of Thanksgiving dinners shared with many individuals served by Monadnock Developmental Services....
Letter: Reconsider the $44 million ConVal project
The School Board must go back to the drawing board on the proposed $44 million expansion of the ConVal CTE wing and theater.While I deeply value the benefits this program brings to our community, the single "all-in" price tag presented is excessive....
Letter: Thanks for tree-lighting help in Jaffrey
On Friday, Dec. 6, Jaffrey Parks & Recreation Department held its annual tree-lighting event at the gazebo on the Town Common. The Recreation Department wants to give a big thank you to Jaffrey Fire Department, Jaffrey Police Department, Jaffrey...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – Following the drama in Syria
There are certain events in the foreign policy realm that simply take the breath away. The scenes from Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8, signaling the fitting end to a half-century of brutal familial dictatorship in the heart of the Middle East, fall into...
Viewpoint: L. Phillips Runyon III – Memories of Richmond Hoxie at Peterborough Players
No, this isn’t an essay about the Confederacy’s retreat toward Appomattox, as much as that’s a pet topic of mine. It’s about an actor named Richmond Hoxie, who died recently and was a longtime member of the Peterborough Players acting troupe of the...
Letter: Judgments speak volumes
My letter (“Assessing Christian voters”) got harsh criticism from Corrine Joly (“Not very Christian”). She infers that judging is wrong, then proceeds to lambaste President-elect Donald Trump and, as I understand her, is thankful that she and others...
Letter: Thanks to Scott-Farrar
I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude for the extraordinary care and love that Scott-Farrar provided to my husband, Charlie, during his nearly two years as a resident of the memory care community.Words cannot fully convey my appreciation for...
Letter: Thanks for helping Mariposa
Thanksgiving is behind us, yet we at Mariposa Museum continue to give thanks: to the hundreds of people who visited us two weeks ago while monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery were creating a sand mandala; to our sponsor, Joseph’s Coat; and to the NH...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – Remembering halcyon days
Thirty-five years ago, the Iron Curtain collapsed. So ended a brief-but-tragic period in the European story first defined by Winston Churchill in a 1946 speech – “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended...
Letter: A vote to end democracy?
This paper has recently published letters about what the Christians say about Donald Trump. But let's remember what Trump said about the Christians.In his remarks to Christians at the Turning Point Action Believer's Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., on...
Editorial: Please donate to support local news
Many of the big decisions that impact your pocketbook, your family and your community get made in planning committees, school board meetings and State House hearing rooms across New Hampshire. And sadly, those decisions are often made in front of...
LOOKING BACK: Joseph D. Steinfield – My latest reunion and planning ahead
Some things remained etched in memory. One of them is being a “1L,” shorthand for “first year law.” It is one of life’s unique experiences – a mixture of fear and wonder, an introduction to a new vocabulary and a different way of thinking.Scott...
FINDING A HOME: Elizabeth Goodhue – Plenty of ways to give
I want to give on Giving Tuesday, but money is tight, and I cannot participate. However, Giving Tuesday is about generosity. Giving promotes change, be it through participating in a protest, volunteering, giving money or through advocacy. So, if you...
Letter: Proud of Jaffrey's revival
I have been a cheerleader for Jaffrey for 47 years, but never so proud as I was emerging from the special Town Meeting last Saturday. An overflow crowd of citizens unanimously voted to approve the purchase of the TD Bank for a town office. We are...
Letter: The actual housing discussion
I was disappointed in the article by David Allen about the Nov. 13 Peterborough Planning Board meeting. Definitions of workforce housing have been established law for years.What the board was discussing is much more interesting. This was a discussion...
Letter: Not very Christian
There have been many times over my past 26 years as a subscriber and New Ipswich resident that I have disagreed with my neighbor Brian Somero, but never more strongly than after reading his letter “Assessing the Christian vote.”First, he has no need...
Letter to the Editor: Parents deserve credit for road trip
I would like the reader to understand that I --and I hope my siblings would agree -- had nothing to do with the concept and most of the execution of our family’s adventure (“California, Here We Come”). I was simply a 10-year-old bratty child that went...
Letter: Thanks for supporting Run-Walk-Smile
This year’s 10th annual Monadnock Developmental Services Run-Walk-Smile had record-breaking attendance, as the community came together to ensure that adults with developmental disabilities get the critical dental care they need.Our thanks go out to...
Letter: Assessing the Christian vote
I’m sticking up for Christian folks in New Ipswich and Rindge who get plenty of negative vibes for their voting records. Here’s my assessment of why Christians vote the way they do. We believe in hard work, honest living and abstaining from alcohol,...
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