Sunday, June 16, 2013
“Disappointed” (Definition made unhappy by the failure of one’s expectations.) To the person or persons that dug up a beautiful bleeding heart plant across the road from my house at 31 Mountain Road, Erving. That plant started from a small piece that was tossed out inadvertently with weeds …
Sunday, June 16, 2013
I just read a great article on our state’s elected leader, Gov. Patrick. Seems after the Boston bombings, he got, in his words, “quite drunk” at a restaurant in celebration. What a great example for our kids from our state’s governor! He also states he was alone, so …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Community Health Care Initiative is a group of residents concerned about local access to quality health-care services in Franklin County, specifically at Baystate Franklin Medical Center. Many of these issues were also raised during a forum sponsored by the FMC nurses last March. Lack of an urologist, gerontology …
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Each morning meeting, we ask you to rise, remain still, place your hand over your heart and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but do you know why? What is the flag and why does so much ritual go along with it? What purpose is served by pledging allegiance? …
Thursday, June 13, 2013
A change in government — that’s what is on the Greenfield Town Council’s plate. Before those folks who want a return to selectmen and council form of government get too excited, the changes being considered have more to do with how the community elects people to the various …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The residents of the Town of Bernardston should be ashamed of themselves. May 29 was the annual town meeting and 74 of the 1,400 and some odd registered voters came to the meeting to vote in a $4.5 million budget. Having passed this budget, our tax rate goes …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The recent Memorial Day had me thinking of my late husband and I’d like to pass this along. The United States of America honors the memory of Carroll V. Mileski! Vietnam/Korean War Veteran Carroll Mileski awarded by a grateful nation with a new American flag and military certificate …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
I’m sure I’m at least the thousandth person to write to you about the gross error in today’s (June 6) editorial headline (and body text, so it isn’t just a typo). D-Day was 69 years ago today, not 79 years ago. How do I know this? In addition …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Curious to see our delirious (lefty) State Legislature pass a new regulation for ice cream vendors. Well intentioned, I may add. Except, in Massachusetts, it now takes more identification and documentation for a person to work on a Ding-Dong ice cream truck than to vote for the president …
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Just another of your long-time readers, WWII vet and former “Recorder-Gazette” home-delivery boy of the ’40s) who remembers D-Day — wagging a finger and expressing surprise at the 10-year inaccuracy in your lead editorial today. The Normandy invasion happened 69 years ago today — not 79. A detail …
