I have a friend, a divorced mother of three young children. She had no marketable skills and was on welfare. Paying for child care would have taken half the money she could have earned. Add costs for transportation, car, insurance, even clothes in order to be able to work — she was stuck. I wonder […]
Bobbi Wilner
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Future looking rather gloomy
Reading the letters to the editor recently, there are still a few caring people left (William Berlinghoff, March 16; Jenny Orr, Heidi Webber and Dennis O’Neil, March 18). They took the time to remind people that those people who care need to stick together to fight the evil in this state, this country and in […]
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No drug help available in Maine
Once again, Gov. Paul LePage has proven he has his head in the sand. Drug dealers can be put in jail from now until the cows come home, but as long as there is a demand and a buck to be made, someone else will step up to the plate. There are no re-habs in […]
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B. Wilner: Baiting bears creates problem bears
I have been hiking and hunting in Maine for 50 years. I have put venison in the freezer and have my “Big Buck” patch. Yet I can count on my fingers the number of bears I have seen. There is nothing sporting about training bears to come to a bait site. The buckets look like […]
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B. Wilner: No hiding behind the robes
Being a victim of childhood sexual abuse, for years, I was disturbed by the letter from Gabrielle DeMoras (June 3). If the priests, some of them abusers themselves, are the doctors of the soul, who are the doctors for the children who are damaged for the rest of their lives? I told myself, I am […]