Tis the season when adequate snow is needed on our rooftops for a certain sleigh to land. Fortunately that snow arrived Friday but reports that Portland got 17 inches while Gorham got 24 inches are simply wrong. The only way Gorham could have piled up more snow than Portland is by massive fraud. Consider these […]

Re: “About 90,000 sex abuse claims filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy” (Nov. 17, Page A2): I’m glad to say that Boy Scouts was a positive experience. I learned much about camping and leadership. It was fun and helped prepare me for life. There was probably abuse, but it never reached me. I would hate to […]

I am writing to note that a frequent barb against Susan Coliins during the past senatorial election was her very frequent tendency to vote “yea” for almost every Donald Trump-Republican nominee for the federal judiciary. To see if this tendency has survived a rigorous election, I have been carefully checking the weekly Senate votes published […]

Your Dec. 6 editorial correctly stated that “there is no low-cost option when it comes to climate change.” Many changes are needed. Some will be costly. The Maine Climate Council considered which programs to recommend to our Legislature and governor to activate. We trust they will move appropriately to have our state meet its stated […]

Some 20 people hunkered down in whatever wraps they had, between the sidewalk and the brick wall of a building on a 20-degree night. Other years, Oxford Street Shelter has taken in homeless people. Overflow of some 50 to 70 persons was accommodated at Preble Street. But then came Covid 19. For a while, overflow […]

Lawrence G. Keane’s Dec. 13 letter correctly identifies America’s sportsmen and women as active and ardent conservationists. But it dramatically underestimates the importance of replacing lead ammunition with non-toxic alternatives. We’ve known that lead is poisonous for hundreds of years and have removed it from many products. We eliminated lead shot for hunting waterfowl nearly […]