By Christi Holmes My mom, Carlene Holmes, is not super outdoorsy.

By Nancy Battick As I write this column inflation is at an all-time high, prices soaring skyward, product shortages common, people flinch as they fill their cars and we’re all making nips and tucks to our budgets.

To the Editor; Jury duty is a privilege.

By Leighton Wass June and July’s strawberry season is eagerly awaited by us shortcake lovers.

By Matthew Gagnon “My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple,” began President Joe Biden, in a message on Twitter, “this is a time of war and global peril.

By Sarah Sindo How do you feel about heights? Would you climb an 80-foot fire tower without hesitancy? Or does your stomach swirl simply thinking about it? Me? I fall somewhere in between.

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To the Editor: As a retired superintendent of schools in Salem, Connecticut, I followed our district policy not to pay tuition to parochial schools.

By Bob Duchesne Few people venture into the deep woods to go birding.

By Matthew Gagnon The current struggle over the Supreme Court began with the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of 2016.

By Chris Sargent 6-6-3-3-2-5-8-7-4-1.

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To the Editor; I was happy to learn that the San Francisco-based company Eat Just is planning to build the world’s biggest cultivated-meat factory in the United States.

To the Editor; My heart aches for all the victims and their families of the recent mass shootings involving assault rifles and high capacity magazines.

To the Editor; “Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.

To the Editor; After reading the article in the Bangor Daily News on June 16 about Maine towns becoming the owners of the Hampden trash plant, I have one question: Why? As I recall, the trash plant used new technology intended to sort incoming trash into several categories to sell in the recycling market.

By Matthew Gagnon “Mistakes were made.

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