Last year, I attended a meeting at Foxwoods. The seminar was of interest to me professionally, but another reason that I went was that I wanted to see the popular resort that had been built in my native state of Connecticut. I drove down at night and could tell I was getting close by the glow in the sky.

It is always refreshing to drive back into Maine after some time away. You can see Mt. Agamenticus in York from the straightaway as you get near Portsmouth, N.H.. Then the road rises and you arc over the Piscataqua Bridge into Kittery. The last thing I want to see when I cross that bridge is a glow in the sky from Sanford.

There is a brown sign on the Maine Turnpike between York and Wells that heralds the Sanford Recreational Area. If the Casino is built, that sign might as well be replaced. Forget Sanford, just exit for the slots. And they can change another sign to say “Maine, the way life isn’t any more.”

I’m not just being sentimental. Maine has a certain mystique in the other 49 states that will be sullied by the casino.

Three organizations to which I belong have, for a variety of reasons, come out in opposition to the casino: the Maine Medical Association, Maine Audubon and the Maine Chamber of Commerce. That’s a pretty broad take on the issue. Let’s keep the night sky dark in York County by voting against Question 3.

Dr. Edward Walworth,

Lewiston