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Year after year, the Edgecomb school board creates large surpluses by under budgeting revenue and over budgeting expenses. The most obvious example is the underbudgeting of…

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I want to echo Tom Perkins remarks about dialogue with Wiscasset about education for Boothbay/Boothbay Harbor students. The quality in terms of breadth and depth of…

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We have a reality star as president. He cares not about the facts but only about the spectacle. Several times he has been quoted recently as saying “This will make good TV.”…

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Town meeting as the customary construct of local governance has a revered history across the state of Maine. By 1652, Plymouth Colony requested townsmen settled in Maine (a…

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The last Edgecomb Education Department audit, dated June 30, 2022, showed a surplus in the school’s general fund of $669,331. Since then, the underbudgeting of expected tuition…

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Officials from Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor should be applauded for reaching out to Wiscasset to discuss the future of education in our area.…

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Over 150 years ago, a relative of mine was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election. She argued that citizens who pay taxes should have the…

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Maine's Department of Education has recently released assessment data for the 23-24 school year. The data is available for all the schools in Maine at https://www.maine.gov…

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There’s been a lot written about Edgecomb budgets and taxes.

The school is 60% of the budget, so gets the most attention.

The solution isn’t to close the school,…

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I'd like to announce that I am running for selectman of the town of Edgecomb, Maine.

I have lived in Edgecomb for 30 years and care deeply about the town and everyone in…

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Ignorance is a choice, stupidity is not, although the former could very well foment the latter. In these recent times now before us, this is a ponderance…

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We live in an age of suspicion. Conspiracy theories, false narratives, and lies seem to hover around every corner. Who should you believe? What should you believe?

Most…

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I write in response to Mike Bartles’ letter to the editor, titled “A wave of bigotry,” in the March 20 edition. 

Boys and men engaging in girls’ and women’s sports…

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I am writing to express deep concern over the troubling spread of misinformation by the Trump White House regarding the reality of what the downsizing of the federal government…

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I attended last Saturday’s “Protect Girls in Sports” rally at the statehouse. It was a great event,…

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As a relatively new resident of Alna, after moving from Portland a couple of years ago, I’ve begun to…

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Based on my reading of the U.S. Constitution, Elon Musk’s appointment as a U.S. Government official and thus his actions in that capacity are squarely at odds with that…

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The mettle of an individual is…

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The Sea Grant program was founded in 1966. For just shy of 60 years it has brought together researchers, fisherfolk, and others to sustain healthy coastal environments and…

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A recent letter claimed that the Edgecomb Citizens' Tax Group is a source of disinformation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our group is committed to…

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Wiscasset taxpayers, are you paying attention? Our school board is pushing through a bloated budget while ignoring public concerns. On March…

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On March 8th, I attended a presentation concerning the Edgecomb town budget. I came in support of the citizens’ group formed to investigate ways to lower our tax burden.…

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As former finance director for the City of Rockland, and school board member for SAD 5, I had the wonderful experience to attend an informative taxpayer meeting on 3/08/25…

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A graphical representation of tabular data is not a misrepresentation. It’s the same data presented in a different format. The current Maine DOE* data shows a progressive…

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We encourage Alna residents to elect Sherry Lyons to represent the town on the Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 School Board. We’ve known Sherry for the past two years as a neighbor…

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This past Saturday I attended the group’s presentation at the Edgecomb Town Hall. It was quickly apparent that the group’s data is being portrayed in a manner intended to…

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I am a strong Maine Christian conservative grandmother. I believe Janet Mills is wrong. Our young women should not have to compete against biological males. This is not a…

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“Elections have consequences,” we are constantly being told…and so they do, catastrophically at times. But our current coup leaders would do well to learn another truth from…

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Back in the good old days when the Roman Empire was enjoying its ascendancy, Christians were horribly persecuted. Christians were fed to lions, nailed to trees and butchered in…

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Alna is fortunate that Ed Pentaleri is running for our town’s select board in March.

In his past…

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Growing up in a family of artists, I have an engrained appreciation for the landscapes and historic places here in Alna that they captured on canvas over several generations,…

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I’m so grateful we live in the country we do, so grateful to those who sacrificed their lives, sacrificed their time in service to protect our freedoms and…

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I was happy to read Rob Cronk's recent letter concerning school options, and I'm writing to encourage our community to organize and explore an application…

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Governor Mills made national headlines last week when, in a statement to President Trump said, “see you in court.” With that statement…

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We are delighted to support Ed …

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Several folks have emailed and asked about Option #5. This is in reference to an editorial commentary I made last week, in which I identified several School Options; I am…

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When it comes to protecting health care for Lincoln County families, our Democratic legislators—Lydia Crafts, Holly Stover, Cameron Reny, Wayne Farrin, and Denise Tepler—have…

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I am writing to express my frustration with the rising cost of elementary school in our town and the apparent disregard the school board has for taxpayers' concerns. Education…

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I grew up in a home, in public schools and in a church learning right from wrong and truth from falsehood. In the years that followed World War II, there was no question that…

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I’m about to turn 85 and have lived through Watergate and other serious betrayals of our democratic system, but never ever, have I seen what is currently happening.

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The Journal of the American Medical Association issued a report last week titled, “Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United…

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Last Saturday, just before sunrise, I went outside to enjoy God’s show. I was almost immediately…

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Why are people surprised? Why are they shocked? Donald Trump was clear throughout his campaign that he intended to pardon all the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S.…

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The angry white men who have flocked under Trump’s banner have every right to be angry. We have seen the American dream slowly evaporate. Our standard of…

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A frequent contributor to these pages reassures us that global warming is, in the memorable words of Vivek Ramaswamy, “a hoax.”

Selecting a particular city’s record high…

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The concept of consensus has no place in science. The test of a theory is the continuing support of the hypothesis. No scientist would say, “the science is…

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The Dec. 26 editorial page had a rebuttal, or more accurately, an ad hominem attack on my letter “Record High Temperatures” published Dec…

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As I write this letter it has been three years since leaving my abuser. Shortly after leaving, I had to sell my home and leave Boothbay…

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On July 10, 1911, North Bridgton Maine set a record high of 105 F. A headline, two days later, noted that 221 people died from heat in New York that month. On Aug. 12, 1936,…