Letter: A Mother’s Day Reminder

To the Editor: To raise awareness about gun violence and to ask our elected representatives to support background checks and common-sense gun legislation such as the measure proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, please send a Mother’s Day card to Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. Remind her …

Letter: Before Abortions Were Legal

To the Editor: A May 3 op-ed headlined “Abortion Industry’s Act of Self-Delusion” compares the pro-choice movement’s failure to recognize the harms of abortion to the emperor’s failure to recognize he had been duped and was wearing no clothes. Have the right-to-life and anti-gay movements failed to recognize …

• Column: Abortion Industry’s Act of Self-Delusion

Letter: Thanks to Head Start’s Friends

To the Editor: Lebanon Area Head Start would like to express its appreciation to The Paper Store, Pizza Hut, Ramuntos and Lebanon Village Pizza for donating goods for our end-of-the-year celebration on May 1. Given their generosity, we were able to have a wonderful luncheon for the 3- …

Letter: Closer Reading of Gun Study

To the Editor: I respond to Charlie Buttrey’s assertion that a 2009 article published in the American Journal of Public Health proved that, “People in possession of a gun are 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those without one” (“Firearms Don’t Save Lives,” …

• Letter: Firearms Don’t Save Lives

Letter: Misinformation About Guns

To the Editor: I am writing in response to the huge amount of misinformation or disinformation submitted by others in the Forum. We do not need more background checks on firearms; we already have them. If you go to a gun show, you have to pass a background …

Letter: A Threat to Hanover Rural Areas

To the Editor: Hanover rural landowners, take note. The Hanover Landowners Association strongly urges you to vote down Article 5, a petitioned zoning amendment on the town warrant. It attempts to modify a section of the code in the rural residential district so that non-household or farm animals …

Letter: Our Targets Were Fun, Safety

To the Editor: On May 5, the Grafton County Fish and Game Association hosted the first Ladies Only Range Day. We expected a response of 10 to 15 ladies interested in the sport of shooting. There were 62 ladies who attended the event, ranging in age from teenagers …

• Ladies at Home on the Range: Women Take to West Lebanon for Target Shooting Practice

Letter: Help Sturm, Ruger Expand in N.H.

To the Editor: Sturm, Ruger is looking for a new plant that will bring 500 to 700 jobs (“Sturm, Ruger Eyes Texas for Big New Plant,” May 5). Problem is, it is not looking in New Hampshire. That raises some troubling questions. Sturm, Ruger says it needs a …

• Sturm, Ruger  Eyes Texas for Big New Plant

Letter: Lessons in Listening

To the Editor: I’m tempted to tell today’s purist college students what it was like to be a student in the 1960s and ’70s. Administrators, deaf to “demands,” didn’t listen to students until the president’s office had been “occupied” by protesters; the term “civil disobedience” became a rallying …

• Dartmouth Looks Within: College Takes Break After Student Protest Uproar

Letter: Fair Warning Is Appreciated

To the Editor: I would like to thank Mitchell Ota for his May 1 letter, “Thank You, Sen. Ayotte.” His letter should serve as fair warning to all residents of Hartford to never walk on Maple Street. I, for one, will now avoid driving there as well. I …

• Letter: Thank You, Sen. Ayotte