Sunday, May 19, 2013
Brief thoughts on some of the events making news from around Franklin County and the North Quabbin area: Dateline the region: We think it’s pretty amazing that a statewide bald eagle nesting survey shows there are 30 active nests in Massachusetts — including eight along the Connecticut River …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
I wish I could believe that lowering the blood alchohol limit for drunken driving, as has been recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board, would cut the number of fatalities caused by impaired drivers. I can’t. I think …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
On Tuesday night, at the Rowe Fire Station, we voters of Rowe will be asked to make a decision that will have an enormous impact on the town for decades to come — to appropriate $6,307,200 to build a new school in Rowe. We are asked to approve …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Grosnell was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of three babies. Why? Abortion is legal! What does the Philly judicial system think abortion really is, anyway? Is it not the crushing of skulls, poisoning, or severing the spinal cord of very little …
Friday, May 17, 2013
The United States Justice Department’s targeting of the Associated Press can only be described as a bow to those who subscribe to the philosophy that the means justify the ends. In the Justice Department’s view, the “ends” would be finding out who is responsible for certain leaks of …
Friday, May 17, 2013
An ordinary woman, fast approaching her 70th birthday, needs to rent a car. She is a sensible sort, preferring safety to style, the familiar to the new. She’d rent a tank if available, something to assure the invincibility …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Hussain Hamdan’s letter (May 9) saddens and surprises me. He is a young man with much promise who feels aggrieved for reasons which are not clear to me. He makes vague accusations against Hawley town government but refuses to name any of them. I do not think that …
Friday, May 17, 2013
We know there are more than a few Americans, no doubt even some living in Franklin County, that think these times we live in are, well, apocalyptic. Famines, earthquakes, plagues — we’re writing about the Seven Signs here — and then there were those insect invasions. If you’ve …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Greenfield Mayor Bill Martin’s efforts to purchase the former Lunt property on Federal Street may have hit another snag. The Greenfield Town Council learned this week that the town’s bond counsel has demanded that the funding vote be retaken and that it pass by a two-thirds majority of …
Friday, May 17, 2013
In her time on the Gill Montague Regional School District Committee, Marge Levenson has been an independent voice for the students, for transparency and for fiscal responsibility. I haven’t always agreed with her, but I’ve always known that she was speaking her mind and not pursuing any hidden …
