Opinion
Viewpoint: Alan Edelkind – Learn about ConVal reconfiguration
By ALAN EDELKIND
The following is from a communication being sent to ConVal School District residents prior to a community forum on reconfiguration Monday, Dec. 11, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal High School.The ConVal School Board, Prismatic...
Margaret Nelson: View From the River – Thanks to the volunteers
I want to take this Thanksgiving season to highlight the wonderful work of volunteers.Volunteers often work behind the scenes, supporting the front-line work of nonprofit staff in so many ways. Whether they are on the board, take your ticket at an...
Viewpoint: L. Phillips Runyon III – Days that are etched in memory
By L. PHILLIPS RUNYON III
There are some events in our collective lives that are so momentous for our national identity that they're etched in our hard drives, and we recall their dates every year. Some are ones we've experienced ourselves, and for those we remember exactly...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – The ongoing tragedy of war
As we honor our veterans and celebrate the 105th anniversary of the end of the “War to End All Wars,” it is instructive to recognize the centrality of war in the international realm. From the Middle East to the bloody battlefields of Ukraine to the...
Viewpoint: Benji Rosen – My Israeli cousin was killed by a Hamas terrorist, but I still have hope
By BENJI ROSEN
When I was a young reporter cutting my journalism teeth in the Granite State during the 2016 presidential primary season, I cannot recall ever telling any of you this gut-wrenching piece of my family history: My cousin was the victim of a Hamas...
Viewpoint: State Rep. Molly Howard – Looking back on year one
By REP. MOLLY HOWARD
My first year in the New Hampshire Legislature has allowed me a chance to research, observe and network. I spent my time learning the lay of the land, listening closely to the debates that precede every vote and researching the background and intent...
Letter: Praise for Viva Bach
My interest in classical music began as a child, led by my dad playing 78s on a wind-up gramophone. Later, my life shaped into a career that did not include music; however, it was included as a leader in brain function and source of amazing and...
Letter: Schools are an essential service
The opinion piece, “School Business,” that appeared on Oct. 17, pushing the idea that public schools are a business, is wrong. Public schools are an essential service for maintaining a thriving, united, educated democratic society. How can you put a...
Letter: Degrading public schools is nothing new
Kath Allen’s Sept. 21 letter, “Reasons for enrollment decline,” while perfectly on the mark, should have pointed out that “degrading by defunding” of our public schools is and has been baked into the cake of policymaking by one of our major political...
Margaret Nelson: View From the River – Stop to enjoy the beauty
There is beauty all around us here in this corner of Monadnock we call home. The leaves are currently working their magic, begging for my attention, asking me to consider the wisdom they have to share with me.I recently passed a row of three trees....
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – Clock is ticking for Ukraine
Sept. 30 marked the 85th anniversary of the Munich Agreement, which gave Nazi Germany the green light to take over limited areas of western Czechoslovakia. The British prime minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain, hailed the agreement as “peace for...
Editorial: Share thoughts on ConVal study with us
What should the ConVal School District look like in the future? Prismatic Services wants to know what residents think, and so do we.Prismatic is conducting public forums for ConVal’s Strategic Organization Committee in each of the district’s nine...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – Lessons from Korea
On July 27, the 70th anniversary of the armistice that “ended” the Korean War was remembered by an ever-diminishing number of Americans. Sadly, it seems to have been totally missed by the majority of our fellow citizens, despite the fact that it was,...
View from the River: Stephanie Latini – Resources can help meet needs
Almost five years ago, I packed up my two small children and my Pennsylvania home of a decade, and trekked up to start a new life in Peterborough.A writer and educator originally from New Jersey, never having lived in New England, I felt like a fish...
Viewpoint: Michael T. Munhall – Joe MacGregor, a friend to all, retires
By MICHAEL T. MUNHALL
Bennington has gone through a significant transition. Bennington Garage has been sold, and longtime owner Joe MacGregor is taking a long-awaited retirement.He and his wife Leslie aren’t leaving Bennington, but he is going to take time for himself to...
Margeret Nelson: View From the River – Learning to go with the flow
Working at The River Center, it seems appropriate to talk about going with the flow.Who hasn’t thrown a stick into the river or stream to watch it make its way downstream? It catches on a rock until a current sends it on its way again, spinning in...
Mary Loftis: Finding a home –The importance of a garden
“From his perch in yonder treeAnd in my garden I’m as freeAs that feathered thief up there.”-- From “The Garden Song” by David MallettGardening connects us to the spot in which we live. For someone whose personal history has included periods of...
Joseph D. Steinfield: Looking Back -- My lost airplane and Daniel Ellsberg – an update
Daniel Ellsberg’s recent death at age 92 takes me back to my first Ledger-Transcript essay, “My lost airplane and Daniel Ellsberg.” I wrote it in 2006 while flying east from California, where I had met Ellsberg at a legal conference. For those who...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck -- Drama unfolds in Russia
While the recent events in Russia did not herald, as proclaimed by some analysts, the beginning of a bloody civil war, they did highlight the growing rot in the timber of Vladimir Putin’s leadership. By depending so heavily for military success in...
LETTER: Remember Monadnock Community Hospital
Recently I attended the Lunch and Learn at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture.Michelle Stahl, the executive director, made a very informative and entertaining presentation on the history of Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH). The Hospital...
