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    December 13, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 13, 2011Many ways to give this season

    I’m writing to ask all of the hosts and hostesses in the area to take up a practice that my family has adopted over the past few years. We have always had a Christmas party, and over the years we received many lovely hostess gifts and bottles of wine. In 2008, when the economy started […]

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    December 12, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 12, 2011Mayor’s speech, mission stir skepticism

    I was very disappointed to hear that Mayor Michael Brennan resorted to at least one instance of doublespeak during his inaugural address on Dec. 5. While telling the crowd he would bring back heavy-item pickup, he neglected to say that it would be very different from what they remember. Former mayoral candidate Peter Bryant would […]

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    December 10, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 10, 2011MaineCare cuts get mixed reviews

    So now Gov. LePage is finally doing what no other politician in Maine has the guts to do. He is proposing cuts to MaineCare. Kudos to the governor. Approximately 300,000 people in Maine are on MaineCare, or about one-quarter of the population. How many of these people can afford to smoke a $7 pack or […]

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    December 9, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 9, 2011Differing views on Occupy movement

    I am writing today to express my dislike for the Occupy Maine movement’s actions that were captured by photographer Shawn Patrick Ouellette. In the Dec. 2 Press Herald, the photo of the protesters at City Hall really troubles me because they display an altered American flag in which the star pattern had been replaced with […]

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    December 8, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 8, 2011MaineHousing criticized, defended

    In a recent Portland Press Herald article, Dale McCormick, executive director of the Maine State Housing Authority, said she is tired of the criticism of her actions as head of the agency. If so, then maybe she should not spend the taxpayers’ money like it was there to be wasted. Here is a person responsible […]

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    December 8, 2011
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    MaineHousing criticized, defended

    – In a recent Portland Press Herald article, Dale McCormick, executive director of the Maine State Housing Authority, said she is tired of the criticism of her actions as head of the agency. If so, then maybe she should not spend the taxpayers’ money like it was there to be wasted. Here is a person […]

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    December 7, 2011

    Letter of the Day: Pearl Harbor Day is a good time to remember all who serve

    Generation after generation, men and women have responded when the country needed them.

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    December 7, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 7, 2011Rope recycling could clean up beaches

    The other day I walked about two city blocks on the Scarborough end of Old Orchard Beach and came back with a shopping bag full of an assortment of nylon ropes. These multicolored ropes apparently had been cut and tossed into the ocean and were now coming ashore on Old Orchard Beach as well as […]

  • Published
    December 7, 2011
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    Rope recycling could clean up beaches

    – The other day I walked about two city blocks on the Scarborough end of Old Orchard Beach and came back with a shopping bag full of an assortment of nylon ropes. These multicolored ropes apparently had been cut and tossed into the ocean and were now coming ashore on Old Orchard Beach as well […]

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    December 6, 2011

    Letters to the editor, Dec. 6, 2011People asked to stop feeding the ducks

    I’m a seventh-grade student at Lincoln Middle School and we have been studying the problem of people feeding the ducks. We visited the pond at Evergreen Cemetery and while we were there people were feeding the ducks. When they left, the ducks went to the other half of the pond and started following us. It […]