Well hello, Ellsworth. Looks like you’re expecting company. Floods of housing is being built all over the city. Single-family homes, apartments and low-income housing, and the scale of most projects is not overwhelming. There are balconies. Patios. There will be landscaping. Best of all? New housing is being designed for people who will live in …
Last week, the Governor signed the “Maine Death with Dignity Act” into law. The legislation, LD 1313, allows terminally ill adults with less than six months of life expectancy to end their lives with physician-prescribed medication. To qualify, a patient must be a Maine resident, terminal, deemed competent by two doctors and have voluntarily expressed …
By Todd R. Nelson “That is such a summer sound,” said my daughter Ariel. She was helping me hang the wooden screen door on the front of the house, so she had the privilege of letting it slam for the first time. The hinges creaked, the door swished toward the house and wood met …
By Jim Sack When I read the recent commentary by Phil Grant [“Why do we like Trump? Here’s why,” June 6], I admit that I found myself looking ahead to the place in his writing where he would say he was kidding, or even “April Fool.” It never happened and that puzzled me. A man …
Dear Editor: The stark contrast between Phil Grant’s sycophantic commentary [“Why do we like Trump? Here’s why,” June 6] and Roger Bowen’s fact-based commentary [“Lies damn lies and cover-ups,” June 6] makes it abundantly clear that Trump supporters reside in an alternate universe where lies are reality and truth is “fake news.” As limited space …
Dear Editor: Aside from being a beautiful, historical landmark building, the Ellsworth Public Library provides a comfortable and safe place to access a wide range of services to citizens of Ellsworth and 18 surrounding communities. Its resources include all manner of fiction and nonfiction books to magazines and newspapers. The library provides access to an …
Dear Editor: Kudos to Rep. Robert Alley (D-Beals) and Washington County legislative Republicans for opposing the National Popular Vote proposal (LD 816). This effort to do an end-around on the Constitution, abolish the electoral college, diminish federalism and the protections it offers a diverse republic and small states like Maine was strongly backed by …
Dear Editor: There is a stigma, by some people, about saying one needs mental health assistance. Why should it be that way? It is an integral part of one’s body. If you are challenged with a mental health issue, seek medical assistance from one of the following: therapist, psychologist and/or psychiatrist. Once your condition has …
Dear Editor: I am writing to you today on behalf of my concerns with the way the media portrays women, and what it is doing to the self-esteem of young women and inflicting poor body image across the United States. The visualization of women that media presents portrays unrealistic social expectations and has a negative …
Dear Editor: Remember the day when all bags at the grocery store were made of paper? The tree huggers cried “stop cutting down our trees!” Hence plastic bags were introduced. OK, that works. Now, paper bags are back and we must pay for each one we use! Go figure. Abbie Goggin Ellsworth
Dear Editor: Thank you in advance for allowing me to share some thoughts publicly at this time, a bit more than three months after the death of my 15-year-old grandson, Wilder Allen Colson, and before the end of the school year at EHS, where he was a freshman, and at the beginning of a summer …
It’s been a bumpy ride in Gouldsboro town government this spring. In the past two weeks, officials learned of errors in the posting of the Town Meeting warrant, prompting two emergency meetings and a scramble to reschedule Town Meeting and municipal elections; the police chief resigned and the town manager followed suit the next day. …
