I’d like to comment on Crystal Ward’s excellent letter to the editor (“Water rate hike ‘drastic’ in trying times,” May 25) regarding the increase of water rate in Lewiston — I totally agree with her. I’ve been tracking the unit cost for water and sewer since prior to 2013. Although it’s true that the water […]

This week Donald Trump reportedly told allies that he expects to be reinstated to the presidency by August. And at a QAnon-linked conference his pardoned former aide, Gen. Michael Flynn, acknowledged when asked that this “should happen” through a Myanmar-type military coup, a threat he later walked back, though it’s a belief that QAnon followers […]

The Auburn school budget referendum will be held Tuesday, June 8. This budget has been carefully developed and approved by the Auburn School Committee, and reviewed and approved by the Auburn City Council. Maine law requires a city-wide vote for its final approval. The voter turnout for this annual budget vote is usually very low, […]

There’s a disappointing predictability about the way letter writers like Jim Benson defend Trump. I appreciate his willingness to put himself out there publicly in favor of our former president. But he says Biden’s policies will destroy America. Which policies? Details matter. He claims in his May 30 letter that we’re headed “to the graveyard […]

Congratulations to all of our high school graduates. In reading the article in the May 29 edition about the St. Dominic Academy graduation, and seeing the quotation from the mother of a student, I was very disheartened by the derogatory comment about Lewiston. Sadly the reporter felt that should be shared. Lewiston is to be […]