Should residents pay for Saco turn lane To the editor, This letter is relevant to Saco taxpayers. WHAT: On Monday, April 22 Saco will consider approving a budget allocation of $308,233 to help a private developer pay for a 2018 site plan condition of approval. WHY: After the City Council granted a Contract Zone Agreement […]

Craig Pendleton running for Maine Senate To the editor, One of the main reasons why I want to represent the communities of Saco, Old Orchard Beach and Buxton in the Maine Senate is because of my many close and personal connections to the area. The Pendleton family is well-known in these parts. The Camp Ellis […]

Migrants need legitimate path to citizenship To the Editor: Ted Sirois wrote a very interesting letter to the editor which appeared in the March 21 Courier. He immediately caught our attention when he referred to Elon Musk as an ‘Intellectual.’ Okay, so Elon is smart, but there is such a thing as being an ‘evil […]

Will unvetted immigrants bring terror? To the editor, Besides the thousands that have poured into the US via our open borders, it’s reported that the Biden administration has also secretly flown in 320,000 more “unvetted” migrants into the US. Intellectuals such as Elon Musk predict that this is setting America up for a future terrorist […]

Affordable housing for Mainers To the editor, With much chagrin I read in the Courier that part of the funding Maine has received from the government may be spent on housing for the asylum seekers entering our state. There is an affordable housing shortage throughout Maine that has caused hardship for Maine residents. Isn’t it […]

US needs better immigration policies To the editor, I watched a speech by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. Since being elected in 2019, he has taken El Salvador from being the “Murder Capital of the World” to being the most crime free country in the Western Hemisphere. Bukele was able to accomplish this through mass […]

How do our legislators vote? To the editor, Citizens should not depend on the usually biased opinions of people from various news media on whether our elected officials truly represent our values. The best way to determine this is by knowing how our officials vote. It’s unfortunate that there are no easy ways to see […]

Lincoln Village should go through To the editor, What a mess in the Saco government concerning the Lincoln Village project. The project would provide much needed housing at work force housing prices. I am a realtor – try finding a new home in Saco for the low 300’s. What could go wrong? A local nimby […]

We can’t fix climate change To the editor, I am responding to the article on the climate change Task Force, from the August 17, 2023 courier. Climate Change, and the belief that you can somehow change it back is a fool’s errand. There is no way the Biddeford Task Force is going to reverse anthropogenic […]