Falmouth Forward is a diverse group of citizens working together to support and share information about community-oriented issues affecting our town. We have been paying close attention to the debate over the fate of the Lunt and Plummer-Motz property, and we strongly support keeping this historic property in civic use for residents of all ages. […]

Cuts in MaineCare and prescription drug programs as proposed are short-sighted and potentially detrimental to Maine’s tax revenues. I say this because there are many people in our state who suffer from chronic, debilitating conditions and cannot, therefore, hold full-time jobs that include health insurance, but they can work and want to if they can […]

Last week the Falmouth Town Council voted unanimously to put the Lunt/Plummer facilities proposal on the ballot for voters to decide. This proposal keeps most of the property in civic use. The council should be thanked for their hard work developing a fiscally responsible proposal that will not raise our taxes. The referendum question explicitly […]

I would like to thank the Falmouth Town Council for all of their hard work over the past six months toward coming up with a responsible proposal for the future of the Lunt/Plummer-Motz property, and for voting unanimously to put it on the ballot in June. It’s exciting to think that Falmouth could finally have […]

Carolyn and I have had a few home improvement projects going since last fall and I sure hope we can wrap them up by summer. My nerves are frayed from living in a state of constant flux, not knowing where anything is half the time, reflexively turning the wrong way to put something in a […]

Next to the words, “I want to get my pilot’s license,” few things uttered by a 12-year-old can strike fear into the heart of a parent quite like the phrase, “I need to go to the arts and crafts supply store for my science project.” If you live in the northeast, you head to a […]

Recently, I saw Portland Stage Company’s world premier production of Gregory Hischak’s “The Center of Gravity.” The play is a re-imagining of the invention of the airplane. Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where they ran first a print shop and then a bicycle shop. They never married. Wilbur, the older brother, […]

I am responding to the “Parent Alert” political ad sponsored by Michael Doyle in last week’s Northern edition. The ad demonstrated a lack of insight into the superintendent’s quote. It avoids analysis of “cultural understanding,” and concludes with one student who was not “fluent” in French. Was this student a master of grammar and the […]

I can remember when I was a 7-year-old struck by the beauty and power of the fantastic creatures, who sped around the track at fairgrounds, and it was from an even earlier age that I knew I was in love with horses, and was destined to spend my life caring and loving for these gentle […]

I am writing in opposition to the proposed Scarborough Beach parking. It appears that very little has been mentioned about protecting the dunes and piping plovers. Mr. Sprague states that he would like to keep the land as open space, but he needs to make “a little” income. Might he consider selling it to Scarborough […]