There’s a reason Trump isn’t signing ethics pledges during his transition. William Phillips, Auburn

I’m responding to Mark LaFlamme’s column “Long gone things we miss most,” Nov. 20. I enjoy his columns; this one sure took me down memory lane. Growing up in a rural area in the 1950s, getting to “The City” (Lewiston) was a rarity. On Saturdays, people could flag down a Greyhound Bus a quarter mile […]

The closure of the Agnes Gray School in West Paris remains a terribly disappointing development. The school is the heart of the community. The administration of School Administrative District 17 has been far less than transparent about the process. To begin with, the school was allowed to go years without proper maintenance. Why? Then, on […]

Kamala Harris is a good, decent, honest person. Mr. Trump got elected. Fred Henderson, Greenwood  

Why should anyone care if an entertainer threatens to move out of the U.S. if Trump won the election? I would be happy to pack their bags and send them on their way. It is their choice and their opinion; big deal. These are mostly has-been entertainers who are no longer in the news or […]

President Biden and Democrats’ personal vendetta with former President Trump should have been put on the back burner. While America struggled to make ends meet, a very weak administration has put the world on fire. The voters have spoken, and Republicans must make the wise decision and bring America back to normalcy. Who knows if […]

On Nov. 18 the town of Greene held a special town meeting to act on an amendment to the town’s solar ordinance. The town meeting form of government is democracy at its purest. Residents gather to discuss and to act upon the affairs of the town; yes, tempers may flare, but the overall tone is […]

The informative, concise letter by Dave Griffiths, highlighting many of Donald Trump’s horrid comments over the years, was depressingly revealing (“So much for American exceptionalism,” Nov. 12). Any couple of them should severely question the “content of one’s character,” as Martin Luther King Jr. observed, and send him to the proverbial showers, not to the […]

I have just come from the Bates Mill Atrium and witnessed the portrait collection “Americans Who Tell the Truth” by Maine artist Robert Shetterly. He is showing 260 portraits of living and dead individuals who “tell the truth.” Each painting is accompanied by a quote which explains “his, or her” truth. There is also a […]

Cal Thomas inferred in a recent column that people would have been so much better off financially if they had put their money in the stock market some years ago, but George Bush suggested the same thing just before the collapse in 2007. The Republican Party hates Social Security and the fact it is so […]