Dear Editor: Did you fall yet? Did you fall yet and break your right wrist? Did you forget to put sanding on the top of your list? Did you land with a thump and bruise your left arm? Or did you break your hip heading down to the farm? Did they call the ambulance …
Another Maine high school basketball tournament has come and gone. Ten teams brought Gold Balls back to their communities. The caravans of fans headed to Augusta, Bangor and Portland won’t be seen again for the next 11½ months. As far as Maine sporting events go, late February is as big as it gets. Fans travel …
Last week, Gov. Janet Mills announced that Maine would join 22 other states as part of the U.S. Climate Alliance to pursue the goals outlined by the Paris Climate Agreement — an international effort that President Trump abandoned. This is a step on the path to 100 percent renewable electricity in Maine by 2050, the …
By Ken Shea Many thanks to the Makeshift Coffee House Group and the Flexit Café in particular for hosting the forum on the U.S. Constitution at Ellsworth High School on Feb. 10. The session was well run and very informative. I left with a greater appreciation of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers for crafting …
In the pile of bills being considered by Maine legislators, there are some esoteric ones. A bill about cusk. A bill about spat. A bill about auricular acupuncture. Then there are the bills about Maine stuff, the designated symbols that allegedly reflect our state identity. They are proposed by ardent historians, horticulturalists, geologists and sometimes …
Dear Editor: When my husband and I settled in the Ellsworth area in 1980, I did the majority of my grocery shopping at what was then Doug’s Shop and Save, located where L.L. Bean is now. When the store moved to the other side of High Street, I followed. And when it became Hannaford, I …
Dear Editor: Ellsworth prides itself as a business-friendly community. Yet the city makes no effort to maintain its roadways during the winter season. Ellsworth’s primary and secondary roads are filled with an ever-growing supply of potholes, but no city crews are out filling them with cold patch material. When motorists come through the crossroads of …
Dear Editor: Re: “The HOPE budget” editorial (Feb. 21), I want to clarify a point of fact about Governor Mills’ budget proposal. While one can, perhaps, argue that Mills’ budget proposal is 11 percent higher than the previous biennial budget enacted in July 2017, that reference point ignores the subsequent appropriations that the last Legislature …
By Morris Lambdin For the last 100 years, we have allowed the Union River to serve one purpose — profit generation for electrical companies. Early in Ellsworth’s history, the Union River helped to define the city. The river was our workhorse. Countless booms of lumber were floated down the river. In 1869, in Ellsworth alone, …
Dear Editor: Please find below part of the testimony I hope to give on March 8 in Augusta. Dear Sen. Deschambault and honorable members of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, I write to you in support of LD 767, “An Act To Ensure the Availability of In-person Visitation in County Jails.” I am …
