It’s the Conway Town Hall version of a Black Swan event. Things are going along routinely: Steve Porter is named chair, the Four Corners reconstruction project is on schedule and out of the blue selectmen John Collbath and Mary Seavey resign without a word of explanation. 

We yearn for the days when you could count on Democrats to be spendthrifts and Republicans to rein them in. Those days are definitely gone.

Before we even consider the issues, a basic disqualifier for us is a candidate who fails to register to vote in the town where they live. That brings us to the District 7 race for an open state representative seat, in which Republican Dale Fincher faces Democrat Bobbi Boudman.

Even if you do not live in the towns of Tuftonboro, Wolfeboro or Ossipee, the upcoming Tuesday primary vote in District 7 for state representative offers an interesting insight into how the makeup of New Hampshire’s population is changing. It also represents a classic locals versus newcomers race.

We’ll state the obvious: Traffic is getting worse. We’ve learned to expect it during peak tourist times, but now shoulder seasons give us little relief, particularly in Conway Village. On any off-season late afternoon midweek, drivers heading south can expect to start slowing down and queuin…

You might have heard the idiom, “Don’t just do something, stand there.”

Instead of tossing a rock wrapped in a MAGA hat through our window, we’re pleased that the individual(s) who chose to express their dissatisfaction with the Sun and columnist David Shribman opted for a more peaceful approach — taping an artfully handwritten poster to the glass door.

The Leavitt’s Country Bakery case made headlines across the country because it was seen as a First Amendment fight. But when the cookies crumbled, the court’s ruling was hardly a landmark moment for free speech.

The Conway School Board and administration may find this hard to believe, but even their most scathing critics — including Sun columnist Bill Marvel — want what’s best for our schools, our students and our dedicated, hardworking teachers. 

Once again, Conway voters demonstrated their collective wisdom, even as they navigated a lengthy ballot — a stack of pages, printed on both sides.

For the school board, the administration and taxpayers who pay the bills, the announcement of a potential 40 percent increase in health insurance premiums couldn’t have come at a worse time. With school and town budgets up and homeowners reeling from the recent property revaluation, voters o…

Conway voters face a tough decision in this year’s high-profile selectman's race between Peter Donohoe, former municipal budget committee chair, and Carl Thibodeau, longtime incumbent selectman.

To the editor:

NEWS FLASH: The Sun is not going out of business, nor is it in financial trouble. What we’re doing, as we’ve always done, is staying ahead of the curve: “right-sizing” to adapt to the changing landscape of publishing and politics.Since January, the Sun has experimented with reducing its prin…

About a year ago, in an interview at the Sun, former Vice President Mike Pence said that on the morning of Jan. 6, 2020, when President Donald Trump called to urge him not to certify the presidential election results, he chose to defy him and stand by the Constitution. For a sitting vice pre…