On behalf of the Falmouth Community Facilities Planning Committee, I want to thank the people who attended our second public forum on April 5. With the community’s input following our first public forum, the committee has worked hard for over a year to develop a common-sense answer to Falmouth’s facilities puzzle. We were unanimously enthusiastic […]

I agree with Michael Waxman’s column on Yarmouth’s Athletic Code on one account: our athletes (our children) should not have to sign a code. It is the parents’ responsibility to teach our kids right from wrong and to discipline. It is the schools’ responsibility to teach academics, and to prepare our kids for their futures. […]

Does the typical Falmouth property owner retrofit their old home for ancillary use when moving into a new home? No, they sell it and use the proceeds as a down payment. How about leaving well enough alone and using proceeds from the sale of old schools/town property to retire the debt for the new school? […]

The Green Team at Plummer-Motz School would like to thank you for voting for our video. Regardless of whether we win the America’s Greenest School contest or not, we already consider ourselves winners because of your support. We felt special knowing that you were on our side. Our community and state may be small in […]

I drove to the Portland Expo last week, not to see President Obama, but to observe the crowd gathered outside. I’d say the pro-Obama folks outnumbered the anti-Obama demonstrators by better than 3-1, but I was impressed that everyone seemed to get along politely. The one confrontation I witnessed was simply a matter of a […]

I was a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in the mid 1990s. Washington was known as the murder capital of the country at the time. Violence was rampant. In parts of the city, law-abiding citizens cowered in their homes, afraid to go outside for fear of catching a bullet. At times, law enforcement seemed irrelevant. […]

Time was when taking a job with the government was seen as a bit of a sacrifice, and hence the term “public service” seemed appropriate. Those working in government were giving up financial reward while they provided services to the public. When I graduated from college with a degree in electrical engineering in 1963, the […]

Last week, Michael Waxman made several assertions about the appropriate role of schools in student’s lives and Yarmouth’s Extracurricular Honor Code. His central point – that schools are not parents and should not be the primary source of discipline for our children – was right on the money. But he seriously missed the mark when […]