2013
Quote of the Day
“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.” Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993).
The way forward on guns
It’s clear we’ll renew the debate about gun laws in the United States. That’s progress. The price paid for even that progress is too high. Before Dec. 14, the issue of gun control wasn’t even on the back burner. Even the words “gun control” were liable to stop conversation, let alone legislation. But to mourn […]
The Democrat who voted ‘no’
WASHINGTON — Michael Bennet was supposed to be going off a cliff in Vail. But instead of his usual New Year’s trip to a ski lodge with his wife and three daughters, the junior senator from Colorado found himself in a strange, unfamiliar place in the middle of the night: breaking with the president and […]
About that ban on assault weapons
To the Editor: I just finished reading the opinion piece by Gina Hamilton in the Dec. 19 edition of The Times Record (“The dollars and sense of an assault weapons ban,” page A6) and am quite disappointed in the amount of false information. I will not comment on the economic fallout but will clarify some […]
Lucille Leonard Jewell
BOWDOINHAM — Lucille Leonard Jewell, 92, energetic mother, teacher, gardener, bird watcher, Girl Scout leader, tennis player and cribbage enthusiast died at home on December 31, 2012. Lucille was born on January 17, 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware daughter of Lucille (Putnam) Leonard and Newton Peckham Leonard. She grew up in Providence RI with her younger […]