Route 70, Worcester to Italy

Good news and bad news for Clinton out of Worcester Magazine last week …
WoMag has discovered what we already knew — there’s something special in the parmesan at Via Alto 27, Clinton’s high-class Italian restaurant, which their anonymous reviewer said “joins the Russian Icon Museum as an unexpected cultural gem in the town’s pocket.” Four [...]

Your Wekepeke wishes

This week the Times & Courier is restarting what we hope will be a weekly feature, a Web-based opinion poll. The poll will appear every Monday as the first item under “More Headlines” on the Wicked Local Clinton and Wicked Local Lancaster homepages.
What should Clinton do with the Wekepeke land? ( surveys)
This [...]

All up in our business

A ton of stories in this week’s Times & Courier about business. There’s the one about Weetabix growing and greening; there’s the other front-pager about a car dealership on Berlin Street; there’s stories inside about Nestle (and their thirst for Wekepeke water) and a state grant to help Nypro expand). That’s on top of last [...]

Time to hit the trail…

I remember sitting in the newsroom in Concord when the news came through a little more than two years ago that Community Newspaper Company had purchased the Times & Courier. “Hey, that’s my paper!” I shouted. Of course, it wasn’t “my paper,” but such is the feeling most people have about their hometown paper.
At the [...]

The endorsement conundrum

As an editor, making an endorsement is never easy — it involves a lot of thought, procrastination and a fair amount of indigestion. Some papers just skip out on the process altogether. I’ve always been a firm believer in them, however.
Probably more than your average citizen, newspaper reporters and editors see first-hand our politicians at [...]

A polarizing media

Responses to a question I asked at Monday’s candidates night about the Clinton rifle range were varied and interesting. Candidate Greg Stahl said he felt the issue had been polarized by the local media. It’s an accusation sometimes lobbed at journalists and one that I think is sometimes warranted. In our attempt to understand and [...]

Aw, shucks…

I like to win, but who doesn’t? The Times & Courier pulled in a pretty hefty award last Friday when the New England Newspaper Association named us Newspaper of the Year of newspapers with 5,000 circulation or less. We joined ranks with other circulation class winners including the MetroWest Daily News, the Concord Monitor and [...]