By Carol Higgins Taylor    Summer is one of the most popular times of year to get together with family and friends.

To the Editor;    Bowerbank Days are fast approaching and we want you to be a part of it! We have changed from a Friday and all day Saturday celebration to a week-long extravaganza — Aug.

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To the Editor;    Please consider helping the Homecoming Committee with road blocking the parade route.

Terrorists and treason? To the Editor:    Have you noticed, there are terrorists that live amongst us? If you have been following the news media, one man who is a journalist, and also works for a left-wing radical hate group, had somehow figured out that these terrorists have met with Governor LePage for 12 hours over nine months last year.

To the Editor:    My wife and I were appalled to read the letter published in the Piscataquis Observer last week by Richard Dobson that was in essence a character assassination of Selectperson, Melissa Randall.

To the Editor:    The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) views the people of Maine as ignorant, a people they believe to be easily manipulated because of their compassionate and humane nature.

To the Editor:    While attending the July Fourth parade in Bangor, it came to my attention and chagrin that as the color guards passed, only two people in our line of vision stood when the flag passed in front of us.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     On our trip to California earlier this year, I dropped everything from my pockets into the Portland Jetport security bin, took off my shoes and was ready to be scanned.

To the Editor:    Diesel engines can burn hydrogen as a very inexpensive and clean fuel.

To the Editor:    A woman called me and said, “I know you but you won’t remember me.

More on Sangerville code of ethics To the Editor:    In reply to Selectwoman Melissa Randall’s comments in the July 2, 2014 article in the Observer: I will call it my ordinance but it is in fact our ordinance.

By David Trahan     Black bears are becoming a national menace as well as a serious threat to public safety and private property, and exacerbating this problem is the Humane Society of the United States and its radical, Pollyanna belief that bears can be managed without the use of hunters.

Family SearcherBy Nina Brawn     I have found that I am a disorganized genealogist in some ways, while I am very organized in others.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     Like Sangerville Selectman Bill Rowe, I’ve never been a big ATV fan.

By Tom Vilsack     What began as a small sail-making shop in 19th century New York City has evolved into the modern realization of one family’s American Dream— a family-owned and –operated small business whose product has been a part of some of the most iconic images in our nation’s history.

Secretive corridor project already doing damage To the Editor:    Recently, I participated in an all-day sidewalk picket on June 16 outside the Cianbro headquarters in Pittsfield.