By Lara Clark and Carolina King As one of the longest and most challenging years of our lives draws to a close — with the promise of a vaccine offset by the gravity of staggering infection rates and devastating loss of loved ones — we would like to take a moment to reflect on the amazing resilience of our Red Cross partners.

To the Editor; I am pissed — excuse my language.

To the Editor; The Bicycle Coalition of Maine would like to take the opportunity to thank Eesha Pendharkar for the article “Fatal crashes have increased as traffic declines in Maine during the pandemic.

By Matthew Gagnon A trillion here, a trillion there.

To the Editor; The fight to Stop the CMP Corridor is far from over.

By David Farmer After handing over my paycheck to the grocery store on Monday night, it was clear how much my family’s life revolves around food.

To the Editor; I recently wrote a Facebook post about this topic, and many were in agreement, so I thought I’d spread the message to the wider community.

To the Editor; Here’s what makes Maine great.

By Nancy Battick Time is flying by and as we near the end of this year and face a new one I usually do a column about genealogical resolutions including making more time to research, entering your research in your software, taking care of your family photos and labeling them, filing documents if you do that, exploring a new genealogical website, and trying to attend a local genealogical group or a conference.

To the Editor; I suppose it’s necessary for newspapers to print conservative viewpoints on their opinion page.

To the Editor; As we come to the end of the very unique and challenging year of 2020 in RSU 68, I would like to share a few words of appreciation.

By Matthew Gagnon With the year we are having, people everywhere are turning to the warm, comforting embrace of tradition to get them through the tough times.

By David Farmer The proposition was one of those that’s hard to decipher — was it real or was it a satirical comment on the times? After four years of a President Donald Trump, is there even such a thing as satire any longer? “We could meet in the Civic Center parking lot in Augusta and exchange gifts,” was the idea floated.

To the Editor; Dec.

To the Editor; As the days get shorter and the snow begins to fly, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine wants to remind all drivers to slow down and pay extra attention for pedestrians, people on bikes, and other vulnerable users on our state’s roadways.

By Matthew Gagnon After years of making bold predictions according to the year in question — 19 predictions in 2019, 20 in 2020, etc .

By David Farmer Trees, it seems, are smarter than U.

To the Editor; I am heartened by the Governor’s Economic Recovery Committee’s recommendations to grow Maine’s economy by investing $200 million to develop entrepreneurship and innovation.