Editorial

Take a Lesson from Churchill

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I am often annoyed, even disgusted, by the movies promoted in the Coming Attractions at nearly every movie theater.

Editorial

Fall in New England

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Doesn’t everybody in New England love the fall season, even when it isn’t the most beautiful one on record?

Editorial

“No Second Paragraph”

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I believe that my parents and grandmothers started reading to me when I was a small baby and since then I have always loved reading and libraries.

Editorial

From Armistice to Veterans Day

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November is upon us and with it comes thoughts of upcoming holidays. For us of the baby-boom generation, one of the most special was one called Armistice Day – not a day full of shining ornaments or brightly colored wrapped gifts, but a very special day indeed.

Editorial

Paradise Found

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The sea lions, pelicans, iguanas, sea turtles, giant tortoises, and many other creatures on the Galapagos Islands live in peace together with “most” human beings.

Editorial

Icelandic Adventure

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Peggy and I have recently returned from a wondrous trip to Iceland, an island nation of 350,000 people with two million annual visitors.

Editorial

A True Community

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What is a community? The dictionary defines it as “a feeling of fellowship with others”; in biology, it encompasses “all of the organisms that inhabit a particular area.”

Editorial

Fond Farewell to Principal Dunn

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The staff of the Observer sends a fond farewell to Scott Dunn, Principal of A. Ward Spaulding Elementary School.