Re: “Depleted stock sinks Maine’s bid to increasing its fishing quota for lucrative baby eels” (Aug. 9): It seems to me that shipping live elvers to the Far East is not good business. Learn how the customers like their elvers prepared and then prepare them in Maine, package them and ship them – selling the […]

The opposition to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has been frantic and hyperbolic, but the Press Herald’s headline “Don’t trust lying, partisan Kavanaugh,” above a letter by Andrew Hamilton, is especially egregious (Aug. 6). This used to be called “yellow journalism.” In a letter full of errors and uninformed speculation, Hamilton claims that […]

I was a college student in the 1990s, during the height of the AIDS crisis, at a time before adequate government attention to the crisis or medical research into a cure and before my LGBTQ friends had the right to marry and have their domestic partnerships legally recognized. I had to watch the heartache of […]

Everyone is in denial some of the time at least – that’s part of being human. We just don’t want to accept the things that are difficult to deal with. But when does not facing reality become harmful? Denial hides the truth, mainly from ourselves. This summer, Bar Harbor is being swamped with huge crowds, […]