A recent letter contrasting the hope of Hanukkah to the wars in the Middle East (“War casting a pall over Hanukkah,” Jan. 4) was filled with half-truths. In 1948, Israel accepted partition by the U.N.; the Palestinians and the Arab world did not and immediately attacked in the first of many wars. The 191 U.N. […]

As Jan. 20, 2025, nears, with some still feeling bitter and the nation’s flags flying at half-mast, I bemusedly recalled this old story attributed to one Dr. Thaddeus Pratt from Hancock County. While suturing a cut on the weathered paw of a 75-year-old Maine dairy farmer, whose hand was caught in a gate while bringing […]