Gun safety shouldn’t outweigh Second Amendment To the editor, This is a response to Representative Mark Malon’s editorial from last week about gun safety. I think he got one thing correct and that is “mental illness” is not the problem with guns. However, everything else he said was not correct. • Most gun violence /shootings […]

Pick up after dogs To the editor, We took a walk at Ferry Beach Park the other day, and were disgusted to find doggie doo bags left on the ground beside the trails. So what gives? The dog owner knew enough to pick up after their pet, and to tie the little bag shut, but […]

Elect Grohman as Biddeford mayor To the editor, I couldn’t let another day go by without throwing my full support behind Marty Grohman, my neighbor and friend, who’s running for mayor of Biddeford. My late mom, Paulette Beaudoin, a former Maine state representative, spotted his talent early on and nudged him into politics. Trust me, […]

Vote to have consumer-owned power company To the editor, If the Pine Tree Power Consumer-Owned Utility becomes law this Nov. 7, beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, the Maine PUC may find a transmission and distribution utility with 50,000 or more customers unfit to serve and shall require the sale of the utility to be completed […]

Public hearing on due process to be held in Saco To the editor, The citizens of Saco require an update on the Citizens’ Grievance Petition submitted on Friday, Aug. 11, to the City Clerk’s office. Thanks to the advocacy by many residents, 172 registered Saco voters signed the petition to formalize their concerns regarding serious […]

Food trucks for Biddeford To the editor, I read with amusement the article on the front page of Aug. 17, Courier on the food truck situation in Biddeford. I was surprised when I didn’t see any trucks on the corner of Jefferson and Alfred streets this summer. I believed they would be there. I figured […]

Purchasing a sword? To the editor, From a letter printed in the July 13th edition, a writer found justification within the Bible for purchasing a sword (read as a firearm) as a present need “to be armed and thus prepared to defend themselves and their families.” Purposeful cherry-picking of passages from the Holy Scriptures masks […]

Pride, personal and/or public To the editor, I’d like to respond to Justin Chenette’s article in the paper from the other week. Pride may be “personal” to him, but he has made it public, and denounced critics as demons who are inciting “moral panic”. My point is not to berate or attack anyone or any […]