Admittedly, I am a fossil. I went to elementary school in the mid-1940s. It was a time when we walked a couple of miles to school in the morning, home for lunch, and then back to school in the afternoon. You knew your neighbors and they knew you. If you misbehaved, going to, coming from […]

The issue of 207 area code availability has come up, with the Maine Public Utilities Commission investigating T-Mobile for their number forecasting practices. I’m not sure what the results have been, but I have to say that I am extremely tired of getting what seems like endless calls from numbers with the 207 area code […]

A letter to the editor in the Jan. 19 paper stated that “… Maine’s congressional delegation, led by Sen. Susan Collins, recently secured a lifeline for our lobstermen in the year-end government funding bill. Their provision prohibits onerous new rules from going into effect for six years.” It may be that, in overriding two of […]

A letter to the editor on Page A4 Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, warned that POTUS45 still has a dangerous grip on this country. It was totally inappropriate, and in very poor taste, then, to print a picture of this monster with raised fist, in full color. And worse yet, his picture is […]

I am the wife of a fourth-generation fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by a recent decision to permit a large industrial-scale aquaculture company to operate in Chandler Bay. The aquaculture industry poses risks to the future of lobstering in our community. I’m concerned with the encroachment of aquaculture in our waters and question how the […]

According to your report “MaineHousing set to spend $21 million on winter shelter for homeless” (Jan. 18, Page B1), Greg Payne, a senior state housing policy adviser, has stated that the funds “will continue to support people now residing in hotels, as well as enable more communities to stand up emergency shelters and other solutions […]

Someone winning more than $1 billion makes a great front-page headline (“$1.35 billion lottery ticket sold in Maine,” Jan. 15), but we do not need more billionaires! Basically, this is greed on display. The states love it because they have come to depend on the income and the higher the number, the more tickets are […]

I have noted, with pleasure, the number of events that occur in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. I am especially inspired by the events that seek to serve the least, the last and the lost, putting his words into actions not only on behalf of charity but also from a call […]