For over 40 years, HEAP has helped homeowners and renters pay heating costs. In a state like Maine, heating homes is a life-or-death matter. In 2024, the HEAP program served 52,210 households statewide — our families, neighbors, co-workers and friends.     The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is a locally led program and the backbone of […]

I was absolutely stunned by a recent letter to the editor (“Poor planning made a bad situation worse,” Aug. 28) that seemed to treat the tragic death of Erin Hayne as little more than a nuisance to someone’s commute. The writer, concerned only with being inconvenienced by the closure of Route 302, had the audacity […]

My letter is in response to Mr. Ernest Lamarre’s letter of Sunday, Sept. 21 (“Politically, Maine isn’t what is used to be“). With all due respect to Mr. Lamarre, I wonder if people with different opinions than his were not referred to as “communists” and “wackos” Maine would be a safer and better all around […]

Please join us Maine voters and vote “Yes” on Question 2. As a Cape Elizabeth resident I am compelled to support this common-sense measure. Keep firearms out of the hands of those who might abuse them. With the Extreme Risk Protection Orders a family can go directly to a court should a loved one be […]

Charlie Kirk would be rolling over in his grave if he saw the controversy created by his horrible death. He advocated for free speech, no matter how despicable it is, or whether we agreed with it — whatever one’s beliefs. The First Amendment is first because that is how much our Founding Fathers believed in […]

Executive orders are not laws; John Adams understood the importance of the difference. In a recent letter (“Those angry about ICE forget we are a government of laws,” Sept. 8), regarding the quote from John Adams, “We are a country of laws and not of men,” the writer failed to note that “laws” are created […]

Thank you for publishing Steve Collins’ column, “Charlie Kirk was wrong about Maine” (Sept. 16). Using Kirk’s statements from a Maine Civic Action event this summer in Old Orchard Beach, Collins shared the words and sentiments that earned Kirk’s Turning Point USA a position on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s national Hatewatch list.  It’s challenging […]