Cheshire Herald

Dec 10, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | Lauren Sellew

Looking for the perfect Christmas tree? Whether you prefer a precut one or want to take a saw out into a field yourself, there are options for everyone in our area that wants to head to a farm for their tree. Dumas Tree Farm: 190 Little Lane, Durham. Open seasonally beginning the day after Thanksgiving. Monday – Wednesday: Closed. Thursday and Friday: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Precut and cut your own trees up to 8 feet tall start at $70 and increase based on size.

Dec 2, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

When it officially launches next month, the Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas cruise ship will be the largest the world has ever seen. It weighs more than 250,000 tons. It can accommodate more than 7,500 passengers. It is just under 1,200 feet in length, just over 210 feet wide. To give some idea of the ship’s scale, when filled to capacity, it can hold more people than currently live in the Town of Durham. It is, to say the least, a mammoth vessel.

Nov 12, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | Jeff Nelson

Each month, The Cheshire Herald will feature an article courtesy of the Cheshire Land Trust. They will cover everything from current activities sponsored by the CLT to open space issues facing communities as a whole. Today, I wish to relate to the readers a story about a recent coordinated effort between the Cheshire Land Trust and one of our Eagle Scout troops. There is a good history of a working association with CLT and our local Eagle Scout troops over the years past and 2023 was no exception.

Oct 28, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

Election Day 2023 is less than two weeks away. The candidates for local office have been making their case to voters now for several weeks, whether in person, at the recent Candidate’s Forum (sponsored by the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce), and in the pages of The Herald. Their campaigns will continue until Tuesday, Nov. 7, when the residents will decide whether the words they heard translate to votes at the ballot box.

Aug 6, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

By John RookHerald StaffThe center room of the Hitchcock-Phillips House, home to the Cheshire Historical Society, offers history buffs in general, and military historians in particular, a lot to digest. In the corner is a Civil War-era cot, folded up and somewhat tattered around the edges but still in fine condition given its age. Under glass and key is a replica Derringer pistol, the exact kind used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.