Do half-truths belong in the debate about what to do with Falmouth’s Plummer, Motz and Lunt properties? Absolutely not. Aren’t they just smoke and mirrors to cover shaky logic and vacuous arguments? A recent letter writer may be guilty of the above when she implied there is significant support for keeping those properties in civic […]

I feel very strongly that Falmouth Memorial Library should remain at Lunt Road. I was one of several citizens who worked long and hard to raise funds for the renovation and expansion of the library. Its wide use speaks well to both the facility itself and to the staff. I realize that some expansion is […]

You can judge a man by the company he keeps, or, in the case of Gov.-Elect Paul LePage, by the people he appoints to his transition team. Amid the otherwise predictable business leaders and conservative politicians, LePage has larded his team with a bunch of tax-cappers, tea-partiers and constitutionalists – people who seem to be […]

They say you can’t go back. Well, I am here to tell you, as the mother of a daughter who is in the thick of the college search process, apparently, “they” were wrong. Ophelia is entertaining the notion of attending the same college I attended. The same college her father attended. The same college where […]

Nationally, I don’t think there is any other way to view the mid-term election than as a repudiation of the Obama administration and its allies in Congress. You can say that there was an element of irrationality to that repudiation, but then the same can be said of the wave of emotion that the administration […]

I called Central Maine Power and said, “Please remove my smart meter as soon as possible.” They did. I know this is controversial and CMP is not happy with customers calling with this request. However, I encourage citizens to do this. We do not know enough yet, and as in many other instances, things may […]

I have seen a steady stream of bond issues appearing on our ballots, and as far as I can remember, I have not seen many that were defeated. I can’t help but wonder how many of those bonds would have been voted down if the people were asked to immediately start funding the repayment of […]

Edgar Allen Beem’s column of Nov. 17-19 (“Let’s recap, shall we? … “) is not in the tradition of a mature political thinker confronted by adversity, as expressed in Mo Udall’s response to his primary election loss to Jimmy Carter in 1976: “The people have spoken … the bastards!” Udall’s lament accepts his opponents as […]

Higgins Beach is a public beach, parts owned (and taxpayer funded) by the town and the state, and the roads to Higgins Beach are public.  The streets at Higgins Beach are already restricted to parking for longer lengths of time than other Scarborough beaches. But now a group of Higgins Beach residents want to ban parking on all public streets even during the off season?    First, […]