Dear Editor:  

I think the Ancient Cemetery looks odd with no barrier between the sacred ground and the sidewalk. Given the number of people with dogs walking past the area, isn’t there…

Dear Editor:

Yesterday (June 2) the town of Wiscasset Selectman did a great disservice to our deceased veterans, historical figures and the town itself. The fence, surrounding the Ancient…

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I enjoyed reading with interest about the upcoming but perhaps I’ll timed construction, possible reconfiguration at the Route 27 and Route 1 intersection.

Please…

Dear Editor:

Westport Islanders are fortunate to have Jeff Tarbox running for our vacant Second Selectman’s seat on June 8!

Having served as secretary of the Comprehensive Planning…

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We are writing to ask Wiscasset residents to vote for Terry Heller for the town’s Select Board. Since moving to Wiscasset from Texas five years ago, she has dedicated herself…

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I was so pleased to see the article on page 6 about William Fullerton’s homestead.

My husband’s great-grandfather was William Fullerton Stinson (1792-1821), whose…

Dear Editor:

I am writing to strongly endorse Jeff Tarbox for Second Selectperson of Westport Island.

As a fellow member of the Westport Island Broadband and Cable Committee –…

Dear Editor:

We would like to endorse Jeff Tarbox for second selectman of Westport Island.

Jeff Tarbox is the best candidate for the position of second selectman. Jeff has…

Dear Editor:

In the coming weeks Wiscasset leaders and residents will engage in a discussion on whether to allow commercial growth and distribution of marijuana in our town. The ostensible…

Dear Editor:

Immediately following last week’s election in Alna, the town’s code enforcement officer visited several households, inquiring about owners and residents and investigating…

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A letter last week complained about our state government's handling of the COVID-19 problem and said it was way too strict. Being a retired engineer I thought I would look…

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Alna voters have a clear choice this week. Will you elect selectmen who will just do the business of managing our town? Is it your wish to put an end to the bitter warfare…

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Thank you, Senator Maxmin, for your creation of the Pine Tree Amendment to our state constitution! You are a breath of fresh air, literally.

I believe your youth is…

This has been a stressful year for all of us in our daily lives, but life in Alna has been harder than it needed to be and harder than it…

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I heartily endorse Linda Kristan and Charlie Culbertson who are candidates for the 2nd and 3rd Select Board member seats to be voted on at Alna’s town election on Saturday,…

Dear Editor:

In the last three years Alna has suffered: (1) a bitter fight over school choice; (2) a secret write-in campaign aimed to steal an “uncontested” selectmen’s race in a pandemic…

Dear Editor:

To my neighbors in Alna: I've been hearing a lot over the past couple of years about how our town is so divided. I take a very different point of view and couldn't disagree…

Dear Editor:

I am writing to encourage my fellow Alna residents to vote for Linda Kristan for second selectperson. Linda is respectful, kind and approachable, and she has the experience…

Dear Editor:

Charlie Culbertson’s experience growing up in a military family, his father an Air Force pilot in three wars would show him what love of country is. After retiring recently…

Dear Editor:

At a public hearing last Wednesday, only two Alna citizens spoke in favor of a ballot measure to change the town’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance, to permit “permanent structures…

Dear Editor:

Over the past few years in the Midcoast and across Maine, we have witnessed citizens and their communities rise up to assert local control over proposed and old industrial…

Dear Editor:

The proposed amendment to Alna’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance would give the Planning Board discretion to permit new permanent structures in the river, but would not offer any…

Dear Editor:

I am writing to encourage my fellow Alna residents to vote no on Article 27, an amendment that would seriously  weaken Alna's Shoreland Zoning Ordinance.

Our well-…

Dear Editor:

The Sheepscot River and its inhabitants are living beings that are part of our community and we are part of theirs. They deserve and are entitled to the respect, protection,…

Dear Editor:

I am writing concerning recent remarks by Wiscasset Board of Selectmen and chairman Pam Dunning concerning potential improvements to the Wiscasset Ancient Cemetery (“Wiscasset…

Dear Editor:

As a lifelong Mainer from a commercial fishing family who cares about resource preservation, I’m deeply invested in balancing public access with regulations to protect our…

Dear Editor,

Sheriff Brackett’s opposition to Jeffrey Evangelos’s bill to end qualified immunity for police officers in Maine will put him in the wrong side of history. His opposition…

Dear Editor:

Alna residents will be voting to accept or reject changes to their Shoreland Zoning Ordinance on March 27. Proponents of the changes have yet to persuade many of us that they’…

Dear Editor:

I write in support of Charlie Culbertson’s candidacy for Third Selectman in Alna. I find his thinking in concert with my own on two very important issues: rivers and schools…

Dear Editor:

J.R.R. Tolkien said, “Courage is found in unlikely places.”

Congressman Jared Golden put a face to that statement when he stood before his peers and voted to oppose…

Dear Editor:

I write in support of Linda Kristan’s candidacy for the Alna Select Board. Linda is my neighbor and has gone out of her way to help me when I have needed help. That’s just how…

Dear Editor:

My brother, Ronald L. Hagerthy, died Feb. 25 at Mid Coast Hospital. He had cancer. He was taken there by ambulance. He had been to the hospital several times in the last few…

Dear Editor:

Charlie Culbertson, recently retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, would like to continue a lifetime of public service as third selectman of Alna.

He’s a scientist…

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Thank you so much for Joe’s Journal. His journal is entertaining, informative and witty. If you agree with his views or not, it isn’t important. What is important, is that he…

Dear Editor:

I have known Linda since shortly after she arrived in Alna. I know her to be thoughtful, fair-minded, competent and diligent.

She has a master's degree in special…

Dear Editor:

I am writing in support of Senator Chloe Maxmin's Pine Tree Amendment, legislative bill LD489. This important bill would establish that Maine citizens have an inherent and…

Dear Editor:

Alna residents have supported strong protection for the Sheepscot River since at least 1974. That’s when Alna adopted its first Shoreline Zoning Ordinance.

The very…

Dear Editor:

Alna residents are about to vote on a proposed change to their Shoreland Zoning Ordinance. If that change were to bring real improvements, everyone would vote for it. But the…

Dear Editor:

We own and operate two hotels here in Midcoast Maine; one is seasonal and the other is open all year. The PPP loans championed by Senator Susan Collins have allowed us to keep…

Dear Editor:

Today, upon contemplating my 90-plus years of life, I wonder, am I taking for granted those simple, but powerful gifts that shadow me throughout each day? I’m upright, mobile…

Dear Editor:

A proposed amendment to the Alna Shoreland Zoning Ordinance to be decided by town voters in March would have several undesirable outcomes, including:

--Doing nothing…

Dear Editor:

The citizens of Alna have before them a proposal to amend Alna’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance (SZO). It’s a bad idea and here’s why.

Alna’s SZO has served the town and…

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While wondering if the electronic Maine Health queue knows I'm still not vaccinated, at 75, and wondering what other septuagenarians are doing about getting to the store, I'm…

Dear Editor:

I would like to thank everyone involved in providing the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Boothbay Region YMCA on Jan. 25.

Both inside and outside the facility I was…

Dear Editor:

We are shaken. The storming of the capital was a terrifying end to four very difficult years. Who is not physically and psychologically exhausted? Please don’t say, ‘Oh, it…

Dear Editor:

This month, Alna’s selectmen signed a mediation agreement with Jeff Spinney about the permanent boat ramp he excavated into the Sheepscot River tidal marsh in December. This…

Dear Editor:

Despite heavy and pointed criticism from many Alna residents, on Jan. 6 Alna’s selectmen signed a settlement agreement with Jeff Spinney allowing him to keep the permanent…

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During the earliest days of the American Civil War, folks…