8 years ago Please protect our schools To the Editor; Want to invest in your community and its future? How about protect the value of your own home? Then vote “Yes” on the SAD 4 Budget.
8 years ago ‘Don’t fix what ain’t broke’ By Ken Frederic As a teenager, I heard JFK and RFK borrow Shaw’s ‘Some men see things as they are and ask why.
8 years ago Let’s help prevent falls While falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injury for those 65 years of age and older, they are not an inevitable part of aging.
8 years ago SAD 4/RSU 80 budget must be voted down To the Editor; As expected, a small group of registered voters (101) turned out last week to the district budget meeting.
8 years ago Time for change, new scoreboard and system needed for PRYMCA pool By Toby Nelson You’ve all had that feeling.
8 years ago Moving on but staying local To the Editor; After 16 years of employment with the Town of Greenville, most of that time as town manager, I will be stepping down September 2, 2016 and will soon after begin a new career in the banking field.
8 years ago Public works schemes To the Editor; Apparently Michael Cianchette is not much up on history or he might have noticed that the jobs created in Albuquerque, which he referenced in his Aug.
8 years ago New monument a gift to the nation, well worth the wait By John Holyoke Twenty-two years ago, many Mainers — most Mainers, I’d wager — were shocked to hear that a Massachusetts-based group had cast an eye northward and decided to save us from ourselves.
8 years ago Establishment of North Woods park must retain access for logging industry By Dana Doran The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine will continue working to preserve forest access in the Katahdin Region for Maine’s hard-working loggers following the announcement that President Barack Obama has signed an executive order creating a national monument there.
8 years ago What is ‘free speech’ on the web — in theory and in practice? By Gene Policinski Who can say what, on the Web? Twitter has raised questions anew with reports of a lifetime ban on tweets from conservative blogger Milo Yiannopoulos – reportedly after complaints that he engineered a wave of racist and sexist comments directed against comedian and actress Leslie Jones, who is co-starring in the latest “Ghostbusters” movie.
8 years ago Is divorce lurking in your family tree? Many genealogists never think of checking divorce records for information about their families.
8 years ago Sometimes majority doesn’t rule To the Editor; Our current voting system could be improved.
8 years ago The Olympians among us As we watch the Olympics and see record after record broken and new winners crowned, and as we hear of the dedication and hard work of the athletes, I have been thinking of another kind of perseverance and dedication, that of a family caregiver for a person with a chronic disease such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.