Opinion

Opinion: Regarding speeding in Padanaram

To the editor: My heart goes out to the poor woman's family after she was hit by a car while crossing Bridge Street in a crosswalk. As a person who crosses Bridge Street twice a day while walking my dog, I can say after many close calls that it is a...

Opinion: Regarding Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

To the editor: The Dartmouth Select Board unanimously voted at their meeting on October 7 to officially proclaim November to be Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. I am filled with "Dartmouth Pride" as while our town, which is usually associated with...
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Opinion: Regarding the town’s shrinking farmlands

To the editor: Dartmouth has an active agricultural sector that has been a large party of what has made the town so attractive to many but it is shrinking. The cost and availability of land as well as increasing production costs have made it...

Opinion: Regarding unlimited inmate phone calls

To the editor: Massachusetts taxpayers are unknowingly paying millions of dollars more a year than was expected. In 2023, the state legislature passed a law to have the state pay for inmate calls home. I support inmates maintaining contact with...

Opinion: Regarding safety on the water

To the editor: Dartmouth residents are blessed with an amazing harbor alongside the beautiful village of Padanaram, so much so that it has been named Best Harbor in the country by a national publication. However, after returning from a recent...

Opinion: Regarding Sheriff Heroux’s holistic approach to improving the correctional system

To the editor: During Paul Heroux’s campaign for sheriff he consistently spoke about the conditions and issues he believed needed attention and fiscally sound procedures at the Bristol County correctional facilities. Having worked in the prison...

Opinion: South Dartmouth has a trash problem

To the editor: As a four-year resident of South Dartmouth, I absolutely love the area — beaches, local restaurants, seafood, the Padanarm area and close proximity to the water! There's only one MAJOR issue: trash! It seems that local residents have...

Opinion: In response to prior opinion on Kamala Harris

To the editor: Regarding the opinion of Margaret A. Sweet (August 3, 2024) “Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party,” and particularly the comment quoted that we Democrats “know so much that isn’t so.” I would suggest that the first so called...

Opinion: All the fears of a Kamala Harris candidacy are dissipating

To the editor: Once President Biden’s cognitive impairment was undeniable the anxiety about a replacement surpassed the fear of his remaining in the race. For months it was generally believed that a Harris candidacy would be unacceptable to the...

Opinion: Regarding Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party

To the editor: Ronald Reagan once said that the problem with those who would restrict our liberties “is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” Kamala Harris is the epitome of this statement. How can we vote for...

Opinion: Regarding potential scamming through solicitation

To the editor: This afternoon, two individuals wearing shirts with the company name Sunrun on them came to my front door. Not knowing if they were door-to-door salesmen or scammers, I asked them to leave my property. They did so eventually, but only...

Opinion: Biden unbound

To the editor: Having withdrawn from the presidential race Joe Biden, unburdened by fear of appearing cognitively compromised, has the opportunity to actively campaign for Kamala Harris. Biden can avoid interviews and debates but can utilize his...

Opinion: Regarding the 2024 election

To the editor: I think it is time for Biden to step aside. In this election, it doesn't matter that Biden passed a major veteran’s bill, or an infrastructure bill that is repairing roads and bridges all over the country. It does not matter that...

Opinion: Forever trumpists shocked at the violence, now advocating unity

To the editor: No matter the continuing violent rhetoric, the criminal convictions, indictments, infidelities, racist comments, anti-abortion waffling, disdain and disregard of the constitution and affinity for dictators, Donald Trump’s MAGA...

Opinion: Happy hunting, good reading!

To the Editor: I have always been a big reader, starting at age 11 when my mother gave me a copy of Jane Eyre. Now 67 years later it is what I do most often. I belong to the Friends of the Dartmouth Libraries where we have two booksales a year, one...

Opinion: Regarding possible criminalization of homelessness

To the editor: Never in the history of crime and punishment has any place in the world ever incarcerated its way out of a crime problem. Jails and prisons deal with the aftereffect of crime, not the causes of crime. Needlessly incarcerating people...