I’m a nurse, a very tired (the kind of tired that sleep cannot fix) registered nurse at Maine Medical Center. I have been on overdrive since March, and while I get paid well, I’d like people to know the sacrifices that come with being an empathetic RN during a pandemic. I’ve been the last face […]

What am I missing? I am no legal scholar, but I found it interesting that Phippsburg Select Board memhers Chris Mixon and Julia House believe they don’t have the authority to enforce a mask mandate in public buildings, but they do believe they have the power to override Gov. Mills and the state judiciary. There […]

I am from the Silent Generation. We were born during, or shortly after, the Great Depression and during World War II. We would neither have won the war nor survived the Depression if many people of today had lived at that time. They would have perceived that their rights had been infringed upon with things […]

I have the solution. East to west. Solution to what? How to distribute the vaccine across the nation. Start in Lubec. You cover all of Washington County in a day or two. Move on to Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, etc. We could vaccinate the entire state of Maine in a week and all of New England […]

In February, my wife and I finally achieved our long-planned move to Maine. We had a small home built for us (750 square feet) that was highly efficient, and intended to minimize our carbon footprint. No burning of fossil fuels, no woodstove, all electric for us. The first week we moved in, we lost power […]

I didn’t read “Mark Trail” for many years, but have been following it for the past decade. I am very open to a new artist doing the strip, with new story lines, fresh art and fewer exclamation points in the dialogue! Having lived in North and Central Florida for 25 years (as a Mainer in […]

Congratulations on your recent editorial on climate change (“Our View: Climate report sets right goals for Maine,” Dec. 6). We are, indeed, already seeing impacts to our Gulf of Maine fisheries, to our 17 million acres of woodlands, to our 22,000 miles of brook trout streams and to all the rest of our precious Maine […]

We have four teachers in my immediate family, and one has just tested positive for COVID-19. Our son, teaching in Sweden, called this morning to verify that he tested positive in a country that has taken the “herd immunity” approach to utter failure with one of the highest per capita death rates in the world. […]