Thumbs Up — Disarming bullies Brandon Baldwin provided Brunswick Junior High School students with a clear, direct and valuable life lesson last week: “Rather than focusing on changing bullies, our focus should be on making the victim feel better about themselves or showing them that they could stand up, too.” Such wisdom applies not just […]

Super Tuesday demonstrated the rancor rife in Republican ranks, as the four remaining major candidates slug it out to see how far to the right of President Barack Obama they can go. While attacking him daily for the high cost of gasoline, both sides are traveling down the same perilous road in their support of […]

To the editor: In 2008, the week of New Year’s, I saw in one of my fields three does. One was walking on three legs. Her right knee was crushed and the size of a softball. All she would do was drag her complete leg. She was either hit by a vehicle, shot during hunting […]

To the editor: I suppose that few citizens would now be unaware that the Brunswick Town Council has narrowly defeated a proposal to send a letter to the authority that controls the proposed maintenance facility for trains to Brunswick, (“Split Town Council nixes letter to NNEPRA,” Feb. 28). The letter merely requested politely that the […]

To the editor: Helen Small’s March 2 local commentary on equal rights versus marriage (“ Equal rights, yes: Just don’t call it ‘ marriage’”) was 100 percent on target. God ordained marriage as a physical union between a man and a woman. It is blessed by God. The joining together of gays or lesbians is […]

To the editor: LD 1671 is a bill before the Maine Legislature that asks for $300,000 of taxpayer money to pay for an investor-grade study to build an east-west highway across Maine from Calais to Coburn Gore. A 100 percent privately owned toll road, this would be used as a trade route for Canadian truckers […]

“The funding of education is going to shift further and further onto the shoulder of the local municipality. What that leaves for us as a local municipality is the decision as to what type of educational program are we going to have in this town.” — Rich Ellis, chairman Brunswick School Board finance committee.