Maintaining the health of our local fisheries is essential to keep the booming fishing industry on the coast of Maine alive. OFFs (offshore fish farming) are industrial fish factories where finfish like yellowtails and salmon are raised to be eaten in massive quantities. This method is extremely harmful to the environment and leads to the […]

I have a comment about the development of John Gendron’s project near Lake Auburn. I have been in the contracting business al my adult career. When I started, I used to buy cement products from G.A. Peterson. He dug the gravel from a pit near there, and later it became a landfill area for the […]

According to this paper, “Hope for the unhoused: Androscoggin County funds overnight warming shelter” (Jan. 19), our county commissioners unanimously approved $297,680 for a warming center at the Calvary Methodist Church in Lewiston for the next 13 weeks. This center will be available from midnight to 8 a.m., seven days a week, a total of […]

The Auburn Planning Board held a meeting Jan. 3 in which residents of East Auburn presented a petition against further development of their neighborhood. Other Auburn neighborhoods with other residents have submitted other petitions and concerns about Auburn’s radical zoning changes — all to no avail. The Planning Board suggested a survey of East Auburn […]

To rebut Richard Bernard (“Today’s politicians should learn from those of yesterday,” Jan. 14), about the fall of the Roman Empire, it was inevitable that the kind of rule it used was too brutal to survive. Rome’s borders were controlled by mercenaries as well as Romans, and it suffered from incompetent rulers (as in, insane). […]

As Mainers debated the pros and cons of the New England Clean Energy Connect last year, it was telling that opponents of the corridor refused to reveal themselves until they were forced to by law. The truth finally came out that virtually all of the opposition to the project was funded by fossil fuel companies, […]

Like so many of our good neighbors I have a deep love for the Oxford Hills. I have worked alongside many of these neighbors on volunteer boards, attending church, watching our kids and grandchildren play sports. One can feel the community pride and spirit. It has been with great sadness and a certain amount of […]

With all due respect to the board of directors who, in good faith, have decided to rebrand the name of the Gendron Franco Center because of the inconvenience of fielding calls from people looking for the Franco-American Collection at L-A College and because the board wanted to portray the Center as more inclusive — I […]

The general rule of thumb in politics is that the Democrats like to spend, spend, spend. While the Republicans like to cut, cut, cut. From Maine’s perspective on the national scene, is that true? Last week, President Biden’s $1.7 trillion “Inflation Reduction Act” passed with the support of all four of our elected officials in […]

I recently received a flier in the mail from the group Maine First Project. I don’t usually respond or comment on these types of things, but I feel a little differently about this one. It’s a notice for a vote to recall school board members due to the fact they support LGBT rights at the […]