Obituary: Jim Merrill

Community activist, loving patriarch, valued friend Dexter D. “Jim” Merrill, a resident of Claremont, died peacefully in his sleep with his wife Mary Jane and his daughters at his side early on the morning of April 21, 2017. He was 90 years old. He was...

Readers comments 5-12-17

College journalism Dear Editor: In the Friday, May 5 edition, COURIER writer Sarah Torribio bravely took on the chore of clarifying the confusion that prevails in today’s ideology-soaked, media-carried, ambiguous political language. She does this by comparing...

Spring cleaning

By Debbie Carini I threw my kids in the garbage last week. Oh, my gosh…so dramatic! But it wasn’t really them. It was the accumulation of 18 years (times two) of school and toddler portrait package photos. All those extra 11”x14,”...

Police blotter 5-12-17

Tuesday, May 2 Between 11:15 a.m. and 1:35 p.m., a thief entered a house on the 500 block of west Ninth Street by removing a screen door to a window and ransacking several rooms in the home, leaving with a wallet containing credit cards, an unknown amount of cash and...