U.S. President and avid outdoorsman Teddy Roosevelt hunted game in many states and especially enjoyed Maine. He was once brought by a Maine hunting guide to a trapped bear of legendary size, but angrily refused to shoot a captured animal. This president who preserved millions of acres in this country to provide wilderness experiences for […]

During my lifetime, Maine’s bears have evolved from big pest to big game species. In the 1950s, when I was a child in rural Maine, bears were hunted year-round. One of my earliest childhood memories is that of a bear breaking into my grandparents’ barn to kill a calf. The 450-pound bruin was shot several […]

I was happy to read about the positive experience that the family of Barbara DeWaters had with hospice care (“The Challenge of Our Age: Someone to watch over the journey’s end,” Oct. 19). Our experience was the opposite. Our 85-year-old mother, ill with cancer, was being home visited by a hospice nurse when it was […]

I wonder if everyone is as sick of the politicians trashing one another. I change the channel when I see that. I hate it. So many have said how sick they are of hearing it. It is like hearing, “I love me. Do you love me too?” I would not vote for them if they […]

The reason there is so much angst about vaccines is that some children have been seriously harmed by them, and parents regret having been coerced into making their children have them. The arguments are much like those surrounding Planned Parenthood. There are those who support full consumer information and choice, and those who don’t. It […]

Regarding your article, “Teacher on paid leave after travel to Dallas,”(Oct. 17), I certainly agree that there is a serious problem in this country in regards to contagious diseases. The diseases of stupidity and cowardice are obviously running rampant, sadly even here in the great state of Maine. Janice Bailey Portland