10 years ago Let’s pledge to curb distracted driving this summer By Matthew Dunlap and Owen Smith Distracted driving is a growing public safety problem with each passing year.
10 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.
10 years ago A letter to SAD 4 residents To the Editor; I am writing as a concerned parent of two students attending SAD 4.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
10 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.
