Dear Editor: Congratulations on becoming “Newspaper of the Year”; however, you did not live up to that accolade when you relegated “Sisters At Sea” to the Arts and Leisure section. Clearly this article should have been your primary piece for “On the Waterfront.” Jacqueline Weaver’s excellent article deserves more recognition for its timeliness and newsworthy …
Dear Editor: As I was reading about the RSU 24 space crunch, I was amazed that there was no mention of the bus garage in Hancock as far as square footage and what they are paying for a lease there. The square footage at the bus garage is 7,500 square feet of floor space and …
Dear Editor: Appointed by the City Council, I once served a term or so on the city of Ellsworth School Committee. We met in City Hall at noontime and quickly dispensed with the few problems the superintendent brought before us.
Economics is the foundation for national power. The relative ascendance in international affairs that Americans have become used to will continue into this century if — and only if — the U.S. economy can support it. The shaping of the modern American economy began with the industrial revolution of the post-Civil War decades. Theodore Roosevelt …
At the time of this writing, the election results were not yet known, so we must save that fun for next week. That does not mean we are entirely without amusement today. How about the worry in Maine that many voters might “waste” their votes by voting for the candidate they thought would make the …
The first thing we have to say about Maine’s legal test in respect of the Ebola quarantine is that Kaci Hickox is one lucky nurse. If we had to sit out the incubation period for some horrible disease, the place we’d like to do it is Aroostook County. This glorious wilderness, dappled with lovely lakes, small towns, quiet roads, and sensible people is the kind of place about which those who toil in the big city can only dream. We’d bring an easel and some oil paints and look at nothing but fog and forest until the danger of fever had passed.
In electing a governor, Maine is very much in need of a runoff procedure. No matter how you slice it, support from fewer than 50 percent of those casting ballots cannot be considered a mandate. Only once in the last seven gubernatorial elections — independent Angus King’s re-election in 1998 — has a governor been …
The state of Maine and its people have not been well served by the gubernatorial campaigns of incumbent Republican Paul LePage and Democrat Mike Michaud, which have been characterized largely by the politics of fear. Each of the candidates and his supporters have spent an inordinate amount of time and money pointing to all manner …
Should the upcoming holiday season find you playing Santa for kids or grandkids, you might keep in mind the ongoing epidemic of childhood obesity and consider buying gifts that require kids to get off the couch and to put down their “devices.” Statistics crunched by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show …
Dear Editor: In the fall of 1882, Howard W. Dunn came to the corner of Pine and Water streets and took over the operation of Levi Webber’s stone yard, which had been in operation there since 1859.
Dear Editor: Jennifer Osborn’s article leaves me both disappointed and disgusted that the town of Brooklin would have to lose Catherine Rees as chairperson of the Planning Board over what appears to be nothing more than a personal dispute. I say this because there has been no evidence offered otherwise as to why someone as knowledgeable and with as much professional experience and integrity as Catherine was dismissed.
I read with interest Chip Reeves’ Commentary “It’s the Maine Way” in the Oct. 2 edition of The Ellsworth American, which was published one day after the announcement by Verso that the Bucksport mill would be permanently shut down in the fourth quarter. Chip’s article made me wonder if the Bucksport mill site might be adaptable to the integrated solid waste disposal system that the Municipal Review Committee (MRC) is proposing as an alternative to the continued use of PERC after 2018.
