To the Editor: Dear RSU 73 Staff: Thank you for the accommodations you have made and the effort you have expended to keep our schools running this fall. We acknowledge that you are teaching under unprecedented conditions. It is important that you realize that you are supported by the Board, the Superintendent, and the Association […]

In 2008 Al Diamon, a columnist with whom I share a scholarly interest in single malt scotch whisky, called to ask who was interested in running for Maine’s second congressional district. I couldn’t tell him, but promised to ask around. Turned out that there was no one. Prospective candidates knew that 2008 was going to […]

Oxford County Feztival of Trees cancelled

To the Editor: Maine Governor, Janet Mills, kept Maine’s COVID infection and death rates the lowest in the nation. That was before President Trump brought his super-spreader campaign events to Maine. Governor Mills personally asked Trump not to come. He came. The virus is now spreading rapidly! Governor Mills resisted when Republicans in the Legislature […]

To the Editor: The Kora Shriners of Oxford County will be holding the Oxford County Shrine Club Feztival of Trees at the Jordan Hotel Sunday River in Newry beginning on Friday, December 11, 4 until 8 p.m., Saturday, December 12 – 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 14, from 8 a.m. until Noon. […]

We have received a reassuring joint statement from the Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees (Abbreviated for your convenience: EIGCCEISCEC). “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior […]

Biotechnology firm Moderna announced on November 16 that its experimental vaccine appears to be nearly 95 percent effective at preventing coronona virus illness, including severe cases.This follows a November 9 announcement by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in experimental testing. There’s a lot more […]

On Saturday I received an e-mail request from President Donald J. Trump. Addressing me, as “Friend” he asked for a donation to his Official Election Defense Fund. He assured me that he “will NEVER stop fighting.” Not for himself, he claims, but for me. Why me? He never explained. His appeal contains two other puzzling […]

Not exactly. According to law the states have until December 8 to settle election disputes. The electoral college casts its votes on December 12. Only then will the presidential winner become official. More, Georgia’s state election officials determined on Saturday that neither candidate in either of the two U.S. senatorial contest surpassed the 50% of […]

On November 3, I visited Farmington’s Community Center to vote. A national election is the one occasion when that elusive and ill-defined entity called “The American People” (TAP) takes brief and shadowy form. I enjoy joining in this ritual even though it grows steadily less plausible with all the “vote harvesting,” motor voting laws, and […]