There are long waiting lists for subsidized housing in our area, for elderly, and those of lower incomes.

For the past 50 odd years scientists have concluded that Plum Island behaves like any other barrier beach with a system of beach-building longshore currents and protective offshore sandbars.

History is not merely the recording of events but rather the impact of those events on human beings. To put a face with an event is to make a personal connection.

WASHINGTON – Anyone who says he or she knows what is going to happen in 2020 is either arrogant or crazy or both.

Tabloids report a myriad amount of news and you may have a favorite newspaper or magazine that you hope has all the news fit to print. But, alas, that may not be the case and, if so, here are a few you may have missed.

Following a jam session at King Richard’s Faire, one drummer tells the others, all from out-of-state, of a session with a slap-fiddle.

In December 1944, Nazi Germany launched what would be its last major offensive campaign during World War II. This attack caught the Allied forces in the Ardennes Forest by surprise, and in the ensuing battle – the Battle of the Bulge – our troops faced record low temperatures, dwindling supp…

This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade.

Shortly after my father died I put his ashes in a plastic vial and hiked up Coal Hill behind our house in Franconia, New Hampshire.

“In the bleak mid-winter” of Christina Rossetti’s 1872 poem, Salvation Army bells and tinnitus warring for headspace, I am haunted by those who did not get to see December cast its chill upon the northern latitudes once more.

I wish I could say I am a lover of all sports. When I get together with some guys the topic is always sports. It is a lifetime habit for these guys, like many others, they know sports in and out because they follow it constantly. Even when I was a kid, when there was no TV, people would sit …

The dreaded Christmas letter; poor thing gets a bad rap, but, I actually think that as long as the detailed story of "a year in the life" isn’t too braggy, they’re kind of nice.

I was made in Switzerland, a faraway place of mountains so tall, you would need to stand still and bend back until you fell over backward to see their tops; and lakes so deep, the mountains would disappear beneath their mirrored surface should their rocky feet slip in the ice and snow, and f…

A good friend of mine lost a boat to the Merrimack River during this fall’s nor'easter.

It’s that time again: The season of peace as the great gift of God in the person of his son.

Thirty-five years ago this January, a five-year moratorium on the taking of striped bass went into effect in the state of Maryland.

Ben Franklin may have been wiser than he knew. When he declared in 1789 that the only certainties in life were death and taxes, did he foresee that both would still be at the center of America’s politics 230 years hence, in the guise of our seemingly interminable debate over health care reform?

Ancient history. During the summer of ‘73 when I was working on Nantucket, Frank Sinatra’s yacht docked in the harbor. Word got out and everyone went down to gawk.

TV trumps Twitter. At least this election cycle.

Imagine that you are asked to meet with the principal of your child’s school to discuss his behavior. Your son is in the sixth grade and has always been well behaved.

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- Say this if nothing else for President Donald J. Trump: He has made Americans care about politics again.

Three collectors recently took home some unconventional offerings from Art Basel, a famous art show held annually in Miami Beach. Each artwork consisted of a banana duct-taped to a wall. Two sold for $120,000, one for $150,000.

I took time off last week, and one of my goals was to return with something positive to say about the state of media as we approach the end of 2019. Forget about it.

The tree towers over everything. The width of its trunk is nearly impossible to measure. The top is almost out of sight. Tales are told of this giant and people come to gaze in awe.

There are at least two bona fide billionaires in the 2020 presidential sweepstakes, and another guy who claims that title, but never proves it. (His finances are opaque.)

In a way, he was my best friend – even though long stretches of time may have passed between our connections.

The American criminal justice system has never been as good about ferreting out truth and justice as most people would like to think. The system relies on the memories and judgments of human beings, which makes it fallible and, worse, subject to manipulation.

High school seniors across America are applying to colleges, getting ready to start their first steps in planning for their future. Deciding the right college to embark on  can be a very nerve-wracking process, not to mention the financial costs that attending higher education entails. Adult…

Experiencing all of this cool weather motivates me to take off very soon, so I’ll join other snowbirds and head south. Oh, we’ll have a merry old time just clucking and honking all the way.

My wallet contains over a dozen “get-the-tenth-cup-free” cards for coffee shops as far as Plymouth, Sturbridge, Meredith, Kennebunkport.