Five candidates are running in Hopkinton's only contested race — all of them are dogs

Amber Ferreira dominates Mt. Washington Road Race, claims second victory

Amber Ferreira of Concord won the Mt. Washington Road Race with a time of 1:13:52, beating her previous win by over 90 seconds, and also won the Crossan Cup as the top female finisher from New Hampshire.

Concord celebrates 250 years of American Independence

Robert Fiske and his girlfriend, Meghan Foote, were among the first people to arrive in downtown Concord for the Fourth of July Parade that marked 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “I love American history, all the way back from the Revolutionary War to now,” said Fiske. Like many other attendees, […]

My Turn: The pitfalls of the patriarchy

Yale philosopher Robin Dembroff’s new book, “Real Men on Top,” illustrates how the patriarchy is a system of male dominance “that concentrates power and wealth in the hands of a vanishing few, at enormous cost to women, children, animals, and the vast majority of men.” The patriarchy does this by accomplishing two things: It puts men […]

Opinion: Individual freedom and common ground

I used to think that the Fourth of July fireworks were a bonding experience common among all people. And then, I became aware that there were some people who are extremely uncomfortable hearing and seeing fireworks and will go to extremes to avoid them. Setting off fireworks in their neighborhood was a serious infringement on […]

Parker Potter: What's old, what's new?

The Americas may have been new to Europeans in the 1490s, but this land was not new to the people who had lived here for 30,000 years or more, and the difference between Europe and the United States is not that Europe is the old world and the United States is a new one, but rather that many Europeans feel a connection to local history that goes back thousands of years, while most Americans feel a connection to local history that only goes back a couple of hundred years.