Thank you for sharing Mark Tappan’s Maine Voices column, “A call to resist ‘toxic masculinity,’ ” in the Maine Sunday Telegram on Oct. 24. As a Colby College graduate and the mother of two young men, one who was the captain of two sports teams at Colby and graduated in 2014, I am proud that […]

My youngest son decided he wanted to play eighth grade football this year. After many talks, and with much regret, we allowed him to play. He is doing great and is thoroughly enjoying himself. However, I must point out that as a society, we must be insane to allow this to go on. For our […]

Each of us is only one degree from someone with cancer. We all know someone who’s battled this disease, and many of us have fought cancer ourselves. As a cancer survivor, I traveled to Washington recently to represent the voice of cancer survivors and patients in my state. When I met with our members of […]

I just became an American citizen and can vote in my first election. I’m from Scotland and recently visited old haunts, where the most popular topic was Donald Trump, who is almost universally detested there because of his despoilment of the countryside for profit motives. He bulldozed a beautiful area of sand dunes in Aberdeenshire […]

Two ideas that might improve the political discourse going on of late. • One: It would be great if political advertising had to conform to the Federal Trade Commission’s Truth in Advertising laws, which require that “claims in advertising must be truthful, cannot be deceptive or unfair, and must be evidence-based.” • Two: Would someone please work […]

Thank you, Bill Nemitz, for sharing your emotions and feelings in your recent Sunday column about your dog, Fairbanks. I am sure you tugged at the hearts of many pet owners who have had to say “goodbye” to a friend and companion. For anyone who has loved and lost a pet, this was a reminder […]