Dear Editor: I wrote this letter to lawmakers in 1997 and it still rings true today. I am Dudley Gray of L.A. Gray Company in Hancock. We are a local hardware and building materials dealer founded in 1927. We employ approximately 35 persons and we depend on the economic health of Hancock and Washington counties …
Dear Editor: On Thursday, my partner and I went to Bucksport’s waterfront to see the exciting educational and evocative historical reproduction of Columbus’s flagship, the Nao Santa Maria, arrive and tie up, as part of the celebration of Maine’s pandemic deferred, 200th anniversary celebration. A good crowd turned out to welcome it. And, to see …
Dear Editor: I would like to bring to everyone’s attention an aspect of our current COVID-19 reality that is not on most people’s radar, namely the immunosuppressed people who live in our communities. This includes one of my family members, who is currently living with her second kidney transplant. She has been fully vaccinated for …
Dear Editor: The column by Ms. [Margaret] Cruikshank about critical race theory [“In defense of critical race theory,” July 1] is the best in explaining the concept I have read or heard about. I truly appreciate learning what it means and what is being striven for. Although I get The Ellsworth American in Florida on …
The secret is long out about Acadia National Park. With more than 100 years of history behind it, the park draws roughly 3.5 million people each year to its peaks, carriage roads and shoreline stretches. The sweeping vistas from nearly every mile of the Park Loop Road are a sight to behold. It is no …
The U.S. military has completed the withdrawal of nearly all combat forces from Afghanistan — quickly, almost secretly, and ahead of schedule. After 20 years of high-intensity conflict, America’s longest war is suddenly over. A few hundred soldiers will stay behind to help guard the U.S. Embassy (the diplomats are staying) and a small number …
School is out, to the extent that it was ever in this year. Most kids are free — free of the classroom and free of the screens at home providing their education. Some kids loved it; some kids hated it. For parents it was the same. Whether or not anyone liked how they were getting …
Public education is meant to be the great equalizer, but children know early and acutely what sets them apart from their peers. That includes economic disparities. They look askance at their scuffed thrift-store sneakers next to a classmate’s shiny Nikes. There might be no one at home after school to help with homework. The stomachs …
We know, we know, if you don’t like the Maine weather wait a minute, but this is excessive. Cold enough for a jacket one day, too hot for any clothes at all the next, and through it all the wind blowing a gale. Regardless, tourists are going to have their summer. If Maine is Vacationland, …
Never mind the heavy downpours of late, much of Maine was still in a drought last week. That was despite a June 9 storm that spewed over 5 inches of rain in parts of Hancock and Washington counties, pummeling Acadia’s carriage roads and destroying a Birch Harbor bridge. The estimated cost of repairs for that …
It rained, it poured and then there were the bolts of lightning, but the show went on under the tent at the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce’s 65th annual meeting and awards night June 30. What a joy it was to gather alongside other community members after a year so difficult it was best not …
Dear Editor: Sen. Susan Collins recently announced that she will vote against the nomination of David Chipman as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, saying that she found this nomination to be “unusually divisive.” I couldn’t agree more. As the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, I work hard …
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