Saturday, May 18, 2013
A Landowner’s Right to Sell To the Editor: The interstate went through the family farm, taking with it my parents’ way of making a living the way they wished. A token payment was made to them. They were told it was a good deal, for the remaining land …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
To the Editor: Apropos of the Great Gatsby controversy on your pages, I don’t think my students should listen to the music of Richard Wagner, not because he was an anti-Semite, but because his music is so much better than mine. Jon Appleton White River Junction …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
To the Editor: I was just driving on Beaver Meadow Road in Norwich and had to swerve to avoid a lady who was flossing her teeth while driving her SUV. Come on, really? Allen Albrecht Wilder …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Some of My Best Tax Attorneys ... To the Editor: I, too, was rather surprised at Ernest Hebert’s simplistic summation of The Great Gatsby and was gratified to see so many letters to the editor about it. But I was dumbfounded by Jeffrey Hart’s. He devoted an entire …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
To the Editor: With all of the recent crashes on Route 4 between Hartford and Woodstock, one has to wonder if the investigators happened to have noticed that in many places the center yellow lines are almost nonexistent, forcing drivers to guess where to drive on this already …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
To the Editor: This letter is in response to Kelli Pippin’s May 11 letter, “Why I Left St. Anthony’s.” St. Anthony’s, St. Francis of Assisi in Windsor and Our Lady of the Snows in Woodstock have merged to form one parish under the direction of two priests. The …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: James T. Shea’s well-written letter (“A Failed Strategy at Dartmouth,” May 7) suggests ways he hopes can finally move Dartmouth College off its history of status quo responses to campus sexual assaults. Some of us are planning an application to teach an ILEAD study class …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., a longtime prosecutor who served as our state’s attorney general, is someone who is widely respected by law enforcement at all levels from across New Hampshire. During her time as attorney general, she earned a reputation for working hard to …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: The uproar caused by Mitt Romney and his remark that 47 percent of Americans will not take personal responsibility for their lives seems mild at the moment. Romney’s statement that he couldn’t be concerned about the 47 percent because they would never vote for him …
Friday, May 17, 2013
To the Editor: In his May 8 letter headlined “A Particularly Malicious Column,” Justin Campbell of Norwich took exception to Jim Kenyon’s May 5 column, “Community Reflections.” In that column, Kenyon noted that the “Upper Valley is increasingly becoming a land of haves and have-nots.” Campbell does not …