Mark Nickerson News Today

““However, it happened that one summer ten distinguished members of my faculty convened (five at a time) and unanimously declared me guilty of ‘deviousness…

Medfield got just what it hoped for on Saturday afternoon. Courtesy of 14 points from Tess Baacke and a late basket by Sadie Cumming, No. 3 Medfield held off a furious rally from No. 8 Central Catholic for a 60-56 win to advance in the IAABO Board 27/Comcast Tournament on Saturday at Woburn High School. […]

‘The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis’ provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex…

University of Michigan faculty speak on academic freedom, free expression, and academic speech in annual Davis, Market, Nickerson Lecture.

East Lyme ― With voters delivering big wins to Democrats on Election Day, East Lyme’s first selectman-elect Dan Cunningham hit the ground running. On Wednesday, the Democrat met with outgoing Republic...

Could disgust with the Republican party nationally filter down and influence our local elections Nov. 7? For that to happen, a few factors would have to play a role. Firstly, a sizable number of vote...

East Lyme ― Voters in November will decide if the town’s top spot will go to the Republican deputy first selectman or the moderate Democrat looking to end the GOP’s 15-year dynasty. Republican Anne S...

Eighty years ago, an act of shocking violence in the Maine woods kicked off a sprawling manhunt that captivated the country.

In 1990, reflecting on his CPUSA years, he wrote me that “I decided some time in the 70s that what I really ought to have been is a Shachtmanite . . . .”…

DUNKIRK — Sweltering summer heat, and a blazing sun, didn’t keep people from filling the grandstand at the Demolition Derby on the final night of the Ch