9 years ago Grateful for leaders who fight fraud To the Editor; AARP Maine hosted a “Scam Jam” in Bangor on June 1st and we were pleased to welcome over 200 participants to the event.
9 years ago A letter to SAD 4 residents To the Editor; I am writing as a concerned parent of two students attending SAD 4.
9 years ago Almost a perfect town (Except for our roads) To the Editor; I am proud to live in a place where so many investments are being made to keep our community up to date.
9 years ago Low-cost insulating window inserts stretch heating dollars After last year’s successful Dover-Foxcroft Window Dressers community build, volunteers in the Dover-Foxcroft region are again making appointments to measure windows for cost-saving insulating window inserts.
9 years ago Place names change with time In recent years our house numbers changed due to the Emergency 9-1-1 system and this allowed us to move without packing a dish.
9 years ago Visitors want to see the forest and the trees To the Editor; Regarding John Floyd’s May 18 blog (in the Bangor Daily News) citing his five reasons why a Katahdin region national monument/park is a bad idea, he writes as if the whole North Woods were on the chopping block.
9 years ago Family caregivers need support Letter to the editor: I recently held a “Caregiver Conversation” in Wells and I’m hoping that others in Maine may wish to do the same.
9 years ago Forest Society kudos To the editor: On behalf of the people in the state of Maine and our tourists, I want to thank the Forest Society of Maine for all the magnificent work you have done for all of us to explore.
9 years ago National Monument forums To the Editor: Like the Katahdin region, the proposal to create a National Park has changed a lot in the last few years and with it, people’s opinions, including mine.
9 years ago Welcome to wide, wild world of news media By Gene Policinski Forgive me for a little old-fashioned smirking when following the digital-era dilemma of Facebook having to own up to some human involvement in its tidy, algorithmic universe.
9 years ago Faith, family define society To the Editor; The morality of a nation can be judged by the way men treat women and children.
9 years ago Questioning the budget process To the Editor; For many years the town of Sangerville’s Select Board has appointed a budget committee to help them set the budget, thereby getting a broader community view of fiscal matters and helping ensure that the town spends only what it can afford.
9 years ago To the citizens of SAD 4 To the Editor; Last year at this time I was penning what appears to be a series of annual letters to the citizens of SAD 4.
9 years ago Solar energy is the future To the Editor; In 1879, Portland had the first telephones in Maine.