No more new costs In this day of statewide elected officials waving the banner of, and acting on, Property Tax Relief, here we are at home. In the past, our local elected officials tended to follow in these trends. But now, after approving a 10% increase in property tax rates, more costs are propose...

Guest column By Tom Purcell Good grief. Since 2020, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has been gone from network television. For 54 years, the special aired on CBS, then ABC, every December — and millions of kids made sure they were sitting in front of the TV the moment it aired. My family followed the sa...

On December 10, 1690, a failed attack on Quebec and subsequent near-mutiny force the Massachusetts Bay Colony to issue the first paper currency in the history of the Western Hemisphere. With a shortage of coins and nothing else to pay the troops with, Governor William Phips of Britain’s Massachusett...

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S cience now says those who are bookworms may be rewarded with potentially two years of additional life. A new study says avid readers live 23 months ...

No one does a ‘Hallmark’ Christmas like Fredericksburg with its annual Yule festivities What a difference three decades makes. Organizers of the first...