My partner and I recently spent two months in Ontario with family and friends. While there, we could not enter any establishment without wearing a mask. The province now requires a vaccine “passport” to enter any establishment. Upon crossing the border on our return, there were no masks to be seen anywhere in Vermont and […]
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Letter to the editor: Infrastructure, reconciliation bills must both pass
Rep. Jared Golden recently wrote in the Press Herald (“Build Back Better bill needs more work to get my vote,” Oct. 7) that while he strongly supports the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate, the Build Back Better Act, which would be passed through reconciliation, needs more work to get his vote. The reconciliation […]
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Letter to the editor: Citizens initiative seeks health care for all
On Election Day, Maine voters will have the opportunity to participate in a sea change in the history of Maine healthcare legislation. Maine Healthcare Action (mainehealthcareaction.org) will have volunteers, statewide, collecting signatures to place our resolve on the November 2022 ballot. The resolve would require the Maine Legislature to draft publicly-funded, comprehensive healthcare legislation that […]
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Letters: The importance of continued masking in schools
Masks in schools vital piece of fighting pandemic On Oct. 21, the MSAD 75 School Board will decide whether to continue a requirement for masking in district schools. On August 16, the current policy was narrowly adopted. For the health and safety of our students, district employees, and their families, it’s hugely important that the […]
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Letter to the editor: For our survival, prioritize action on global warming
Ida is just the latest example of an extreme weather event that can be linked to climate change.
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Letter to the editor: Court’s ruling on Texas abortion ban should embarrass Collins
I remember the cloudy fall afternoon, three years ago, when Sen. Susan Collins’ voice came on the radio. I was driving home from work on the back roads in Brunswick. The leaves were turning and starting to drop. After listening to her justify her vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, I was so distraught […]
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Letter to the editor: Maine food amendment is a solution looking for a problem
We already have a number of laws to promote and protect the right of people to plant and raise their own food – we don’t need to pass Question 3.
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Letter to the editor: Blue Angels’ Maine air show offers late-summer spectacle
My friend Donna – both of us about to graduate from octogenarian school – managed to time our walk to coincide with the Blue Angels’ recent air show, and in my 90th year I rediscovered a thrill I had almost forgotten. Contrails sketched on the blue dome by an invisible artist, his pen a fleeting […]
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Letter to the editor: Victim of labor shortage, Country Manor will be missed
It is with a sad heart, a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat that I must let people know how heartbreaking it is to announce that one of the best nursing homes-assisted living facilities around is closing. That, of course, is Country Manor Nursing Home in Coopers Mills. Words cannot describe […]
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Letter to the editor: Don’t blame others for our own behavior, reactions
This letter is written in response to Patty Fortula-Kohn’s Aug. 31 letter (“When it comes to COVID, whatever happened to you, we and us?”), in which she writes: “In today’s world, there is no respect shown toward one another. Why? Because our leaders show no respect toward one another.” While good leaders should model examples […]