Opinion

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Letter to the editor: A lost dog found

To the editor: What an amazing city we live in. Fireworks after the Super Bowl spooked our 9-year-old shepherd malamute mix name Maddie. She broke the gate on our fenced back yard and was gone. Between social media, great neighbors and dog trappers Rusty Holliday and Patty Davis, the search ...

Letter to the editor: Buckets of money

To the editor: On Feb. 25, the Journal-World’s front-page headline announced that the Lawrence school superintendent named four Lawrence schools to possibly close. This was the district’s recommendation after five months of public and school committee meetings where some participants ...

Letter to the editor: Sacrifice zone?

To the editor: The ongoing efforts to close elementary schools and those in neighborhoods without the wealth of west Lawrence is obscene. Despite the success of schools like Woodlawn in preparing generations of students to graduate from college in medicine, law, education, engineering and ...

Opinion: Rewriting books is cultural vandalism

First, they came for Roald Dahl. Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox” was, of course, sadly mistaken. The news that hundreds of changes ...

Opinion: Threatening librarians is barbaric

Some time ago, I worked after school and during summers at my town’s public library. My supervisor was Mrs. Fowkes, a stunning grandmother who, in summer, wore straw hats with flowers. There I mastered the trick of repairing loose bindings with glue and folded wax paper. Then I was ...

Opinion: What warming might do to New England

Maine’s Aroostook County — the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island put together — is way north. Bordering the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, many of its people identify as Scotch-Irish or Acadians originally from France. Acadians distinguish themselves from the French ...