Boy Scout Troop 202 from Topsham would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to our recent Teddy Bear Drive. Because of your generosity, we delivered 3,041 Teddy bears and stuffed animals to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital on March 12. We are extremely pleased that we surpassed our original goal […]

If I were to have my choice of all those jobs Gov. Paul LePage intends to “create” for Maine, I would sign up as his image maker. I’d do it not just for the formidable challenge, but because I know how I’d do it. I would urge the governor to join Roxanne Quimby in advocating […]

Some very well painted and expensive looking new signs have gone up around Cumberland urging us to end Lyme disease by not feeding the deer. I believe that these signs are inferring that if the deer are not fed, then Lyme disease will somehow be curtailed. However, there are no official studies or statements, that […]

It is well known that Falmouth’s school system is one of the very best in the state. The education of our children is among the most important responsibilities of any community. If America is going to continue to compete at the global level and remain No. 1, it all starts with our schools. At the […]

Having witnessed the infrastructure changes in Falmouth over the last 50 years it is clear to me that these changes have occurred by what I call 12-year visionaries: people that move into this town, send their children through the school system and then move. The visionaries manage to get themselves onto various committees, boards and […]

Economists have long documented the importance of third streams of revenue for working class families to fall back on: snowplowing, babysitting, and house cleaning are examples of work that can be done on top of other jobs to generate or replace income when living wage jobs are scarce. LD 516 would add another way for […]

Edgar Allen Beem’s column titled “LePage Displays a Lack of Respect” has so appropriately targeted a very serious concern with the current governor of Maine. The governor’s total lack of respect for the majority of voters and the crude insults directed toward his opponents and the many Mainers that he so glibly characterizes as “special-interest […]

Edgar Allen Beem is a necessary oasis to offset the tsunami force that has gripped Maine and Mainers. I find his position a reflection of America and Americans that exists, deserves to exist, and has the right to exist. The tea party conservatives don’t think so. A minority they are in Maine and in the […]

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 the […]