Northern Meetings May 28-June 4

Monica Speranza Cochran

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Published
May 26, 2020

Northern Meetings May 28-June 4

Editor’s note: Due to closures and cancellations prompted by the COVID-19 coronavirus, readers should confirm that meetings are still being held.
Published
May 26, 2020

Portland Meetings: May 27-June 3

Editor’s note: Due to closures and cancellations prompted by the COVID-19 coronavirus, readers should call ahead to see if meetings listed are still being held.
Published
May 25, 2020

Midcoast Meetings: May 29-June 5

Editor’s note: Due to closures and cancellations prompted by the COVID-19 coronavirus, readers should call ahead to see if meetings listed are still being held.
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: ‘Warrior’ Sachs will fight for all as state rep

Want a public servant who serves the public? Elect Melanie Sachs and that’s what you’ll get. Melanie may not be old enough to have heard JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” speech firsthand, but I’ll guarantee you, someone played it over her crib […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: ‘Warrior’ Sachs will fight for all as state rep

Want a public servant who serves the public? Elect Melanie Sachs and that’s what you’ll get. Melanie may not be old enough to have heard JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” speech firsthand, but I’ll guarantee you, someone played it over her crib […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: Bridge Street Dam is obsolete and should be removed

On April 23, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order terminating hydroelectric power generating rights at the historic Sparkhawk Mill and the Bridge Street Dam on the Royal River in Yarmouth. This order, issued at the behest of the mill owner, which had found generating power there uneconomic and already removed the water-driven turbines, […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: Does Balentine really hate liberals this much?

Does John Balentine actually despise liberals so much that he will gloat over the fact that, due to the pandemic, we are all being forced to use plastic bags rather than reusable ones? And does he really want to make it a “liberal issue” that our garbage dumps are rapidly filling and we can help […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: Reader calls on Forecaster to ‘do better’ than Balentine

While I admit I’m not a regular reader of The Forecaster’s editorial content, I did happen upon John Balentine’s column in the May 15 edition and wow! I was appalled. I realize that Mr. Balentine’s whole purpose may be to “trigger the libs,” but as someone who cares about and has taught the ethics of […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: Reader questions why Beem still with Forecaster

I write to question why your newspaper continues to afford a weekly forum to Mr. Beem to spew his hatred of our president and, in general, members of the Republican Party. In his polemic published on May 7, Beem stared two things that are utterly untrue. First, he stated, “I have never referred to Donald […]
Published
May 22, 2020

Letter: Reader shocked by anti-Trump Beem column

I have been writing letters to the editor and reading others’ letters and columns for almost 60 years now. It has been interesting and enlightening to see how others view issues that I have formed a strong opinion on. When I read “The selfish minority” column by Edgar Allen Beem in the May 8 issue […]

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