Last week, I walked to Bug Light Park. The afternoon was sunny, with the 4:30 p.m. sun shining from the west and lighting an amazing collection of cars being displayed on the grounds of the park. What a beautiful open space the park provides for such events and for sitting on a bench and looking […]

Maine School Administrative District 51 can address climate change by not building a new school, but instead converting to a year-round, multitrack calendar, thereby increasing facility capacity. A multitrack calendar divides the calendar into four 60-day terms, with students attending three of the four tracks. This system is used across the country. Heat pumps would […]

I’m voting for the new Pine Tree Power. Too much money is being spent by the current power companies trying to scare us with their ads. Now, all the profit is going to the company owners and does not stay in our state. The current workmen could join and have the same benefits. Nobody is […]

I became aware of some commotion by hearing my dog having a major hissy fit on the back deck. I opened the door and immediately heard bloodcurdling screams from one of my daughter’s goats in the barnyard. I grabbed my rifle and raced to the barn. The level of violence at the scene was brutal. […]

We want to thank columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal (The Maine Millennial, Sept. 3) for bringing back pleasant memories of northern Maine. We used to love to head up to Caribou to visit our son, Dylan, who was fortunate enough to land his first job as producer-editor (after graduating from Southern Maine Community College) at WAGM-TV in […]

The presidential funerals of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush cost the taxpayers over $400 million each! Much of the cost was to give all federal employees a holiday for the day of the funeral. That policy is both discriminatory and costly. Discriminatory because state, city and county employees, and those employed by the private […]

I’ve been putting my plastic bags in the Hannaford supermarket’s plastic bag bin for years. I was recently told that it’s all just public relations – that the plastic is just put in a landfill. Today I discovered this is not true. Hannaford takes the material to Trex (nextrex.com/view/educate), which makes composite decking out of […]

It’s like a game of whack-a-mole. The city of Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation or the Maine Department of Something Else whack away, but the homeless encampments pop up somewhere else again and again. Yet the cities and the governmental agencies resort to the same old policy. Whack, fail. Whack, fail. Hey, I […]

The corporations that don’t want Maine to vote for Pine Tree Power are spending a lot of money to confuse us. Let’s take their advertisement about adding an estimated $13.5 billion to Maine debt. The ad is designed to take advantage of our fear of taxes. All corporations have debt. They would rather we didn’t […]