To the editor: I commend Bath City Councilor Kyle Rogers for introducing the order at the last council meeting to have a board of directors manage the Bath Armory building. I thank councilors Brackett, Merrill, Rogers, Pagurko and Sinclair for voting to make it law. However, on next week’s council agenda is an order to […]

To the editor: In an article you recently ran concerning hearings on proposed Maine Department of Health and Human Services reductions, a speaker noted that a society is judged on how it cares for its poor. I disagree. A society is judged on how it cares for its children, elders and sick. For the poor, […]

To the editor: I spent most of Dec. 14 in Augusta listening to public testimony on Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal for cutting Health and Human Services funding. The speakers made some very strong points: The projected “savings” are illusory, considering the costs that would be shifted to local hospitals and emergency medical care and local […]

and At this wonderful time of giving and thanks, we want to express our deep gratitude to the many hundreds of loyal supporters who made the work of the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (BTLT) possible this year. From completing a spectacular coastal project to planning a community garden at Crystal Spring Farm, nothing we accomplished in […]

Army Spc. Mikayla A. Bragg, 21, of Longview, Wash., died Dec. 21 in Khowst province, Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph J. Altmann, 27, of Marshfield, Wis., died Dec. 25, in Kunar province Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. Three Army soldiers died Dec. 27, in Paktia, Afghanistan, of […]

The end of the year is a good time to correct some myths recently in the news. Unemployment has never been so high for this long. For one thing, unemployment has been much higher — about 25 percent during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Back then it was above the current levels of about […]