Kudos to Falmouth’s Conservation Commission for recommending to its Town Council that it adopt the commission’s proposed regulation to limit residential use of pesticides and certain synthetic fertilizers (effective 2025), similar to the regulations adopted in Portland, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth. I live in a Falmouth subdivision, among many Falmouth subdivisions. There is a […]

The recent article about voters rejecting school construction bonds ignored two fundamental reasons why Scarborough voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposed $160 million consolidated K-3 school in November: First, residents place a high value on the existing three neighborhood schools. They don’t want to have 5- to 8-year-old kids in a mammoth 1,100-student school. Second, residents […]

I agree with Greg Unfricht’s letter on sportsmanship in the March 23 Press Herald. I thought the Windham vs. Gorham Class AA final basketball game was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Not only was it a close and exciting game, but the players on both teams helped the opposing ones if they fell. […]

While the mainstream media focus on every dreary detail of Donald Trump’s legal woes, the Israel Defense Forces, over the past months, has been displaying just how inhuman humans can be. One of their recent atrocities: a drone strike on a playground in Rafah, killing 11 children. Where in God’s name is the outrage? John […]

I perceive that any person or company seeking the fast growth of Maine to put money in their pockets is an enemy of the state. Maine is allowed to be Maine as, presently, she is. Let us decide to turn away from all speedy-growth-inducing decisions. It is Maine’s hope for herself. Loretta MacKinnon Yarmouth

It is time to stop attempting to pass the blame for not disarming Robert Card before he committed mass murder in Lewiston and focus on putting in place protections to keep deadly assault weapons out of the hands of similarly disturbed or criminal individuals. The Maine Legislature has begun the process of making us all […]

Given the efforts by the former president to disrupt the proceedings of his trial on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, I am reminded of the trial of the Chicago Eight in 1969. The defendants were accused of inciting a riot during the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Seven were […]

As reported in the Press Herald, the Belfast City Council voted April 16 to vacate a 2021 eminent domain action it had taken on behalf of the $500 million Nordic Aquafarms fish farm project. That was the right thing to do, but more is needed. On April 2, the council appropriated $5,000 to revisit the […]