Newt Gingrich led the charge against President Clinton when he transgressed in his husbandly duties to Hillary. He not only led the charge but took up arms to get him impeached. What gives him a higher place in the presidential campaign while he was doing and did the same thing to his wife while campaigning […]

Back in 1968, when I was a sophomore in college and the United States took a turn for the worse from which it has never quite recovered, biologist Paul Ehrlich published a best-seller called “The Population Bomb” that envisioned a dire future for the world due to overpopulation. The book itself fizzled out over time […]

Recently, I was presented the opportunity for an exciting business meeting in New York City. Fortunately, my daughter Ophelia was home on college break and available to watch her siblings, thereby saving me the vast and unwelcome expense of a babysitter for two overnights. School morning No. 1 went very well. Morning No. 2 didn’t […]

Even small acts can have a big impact. Last fall, students at three of Portland’s public schools began discarding their breakfast and lunch leftovers in a new way. Instead of dumping food, drinks, tin foil, plastic bottles, cardboard and napkins into the trash, they began separating out their recyclables and food scraps into new bins […]

It has been my experience that no matter what is proposed some will oppose it. First it is usually “not in my back yard,” or “it will change the neighborhood,” or “I’ll have to look at it from my house.” One has to ask two questions: what good will come of it, and how will […]

Recently, the folks at the new credit union in Cumberland, Atlantic Regional Federal, were very helpful, and I’d like to thank them. We were having trouble finding an institution to count and process the thousands of pennies and other coins we’d collected as a result of our schools’ annual penny drive. The women at the […]

I think it is time for the Freeport Town Council to stop considering zoning changes to accommodate the proposed indoor-outdoor soccer complex near Hedgehog Mountain. The 62,000-square-foot soccer building would be as large as the Shaw’s supermarket in Freeport, and the proposed location is in the center of the RR1 zone. The Planning Board has […]

The Yarmouth Community Food Pantry is pleased to recognize the overwhelming generosity from our community that helped make this holiday season brighter for our neighbors in need. Significant donations were received from students at the Yarmouth schools, local businesses and service organizations, a reunion class as well as families and individuals. We are grateful to […]

Luke Seitz’s recent letter states “This country was not founded as a Christian nation.” True, there is revisionist history under way that seeks to promote our founding fathers as secularists. I am a descendant of both William Bradford, who arrived on the Mayflower and became governor of the Plymouth Colony, and the Rev. Thomas Hooker, […]

We object to the suggestion in a recent letter that a non-heterosexual identity is incompatible with Christianity. We have not heard that espoused at our church, North Yarmouth Congregational Church. The message we have received – one we believe entirely consistent with Christ’s teachings – is that love and kindness are the primary virtues to […]