As I watch the events in Syria, I think back to when my children were young and we had no television set. I would bring them to a neighbor’s home to watch the Olympics and the inauguration. They enjoyed both – the spectacle, the excitement, the solemnity. Regarding the inauguration, after the Marine Corps Band, […]

The town of Falmouth Conservation Commission has put forward an ordinance that will ban commercial applicators of fertilizers from using nonorganic products on residential lots. Town-owned areas, including school athletic fields and all golf courses, will be exempt from the proposed regulations. It is unfair that the town is attempting to create a dual structure […]

The reaction to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week highlights the huge rift between the haves and have-nots in this country. Apparently hundreds of detectives were engaged in the search for the suspect, while the media reported breathlessly and at length. My cousin Clyde has probably done more good for […]

The right wing calling Joe Biden a liar is almost funny. These hypocrites have conveniently forgotten the thousands of lies told by their president while he was in office. The fact that he’s a convicted felon, con man and adjudicated rapist aside, let’s talk about the guys he pardoned in 2020: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, […]

Since the election, this newspaper’s op-ed page has been filled with anti-Trump cartoons, editorials, letters to the editor, etc. A few pro-Trump items have trickled in – maybe less than 5%. I don’t mind the anti viewpoints, but I do disagree with the total lack of balance. Maybe it hasn’t dawned on the editors yet […]

This holiday season, thousands of children and plain folks, like me, will make wishes for items to please their heart’s desire. For children, such wishes may simply extend to toys, ponies, games and mobile phones. But some plain folks (not me), will desire a $10,000 guitar, or a $100,000 watch, or a pair of $399 […]

Over the past several weeks, I have had to drive along routes 5 and 113 in Cumberland, Oxford and York counties. Last week, while returning home to Westbrook from Gorham, New Hampshire, tree crews, public service crews from Fryeburg, working with road flag guards, were sawing and removing damaged trees along both shoulders of Route […]