At their meeting on Wednesday, the Conway Public Library trustees discussed doing a memorial of some kind for Brooke Barron, the young woman who was killed when the truck in which she was a passenger crashed into the front columns of the library in 2022. Barron’s family is on board with the …
A man was lost. He wandered in the wilderness for a long while. From despair and confusion arose meaning, and he found himself.
To the editor:
The overhaul of American attitudes toward immigration has many fronts. One is the border, both the southern and northern frontiers. Another is workplaces — Mexican restaurants, manufacturing plants like the Hyundai facility where hundreds of Koreans recently were arrested — where the undocum…
Twenty-four years ago. Many of us recall exactly where we were and exactly what we were doing when we first heard the news. We remember with horror the images and the stories that shocked the world.
Taxpayers in the Claremont School District deserve our sympathy, but the school board and school administrators don't. Having overseen a financial fiasco strongly suggesting long-term inattention and incompetence, the superintendent and business administrator are now rusticating at home on f…
CONWAY — The radio station around here has a popular morning feature called "Talk of the Towns," and in the past week, the talk of the towns, and of New Hampshire more generally, has been Rudolph Giuliani's injury in an automobile accident.
A retired federal forester in Jefferson predicts a less than spectacular foliage season because of the ongoing drought. While science explains why leaves change color, folklore often shapes expectations for how vibrant they will be. For example, some say especially bright colors signal a col…
To the editor:
Know that my mother is rolling over in her grave at this moment over the wildly improper grammar in a title penned by her progeny. I’m grinning at the thought, as I’m certain there’s life in the old gal yet! I wonder if she’d be able to stomach a reading of Mark Twain’s definitive masterpiec…
Conway is at a point where many important decisions lie before us, and each one extends far beyond the boundaries of a single project. Whether we are considering the proposed Phase 2 of the Rec Path, the reuse of the John Fuller property, the long-term stewardship of the Saco River corridor,…
It has been my honor to serve the citizens of Bartlett, its guests and surrounding mutual aid communities. My last day as your fire chief will be Sept. 5, 2025.