To the Editor: On behalf of Christmas for Teens, we would like to thank Dennis Boyd, Jr, and the Community Choir of Oxford Hills for once again presenting the recent Christmas for Teens Benefit Show. Since 2000, this event, along with individual as well as corporate and civic donations, has helped provide Christmas for deserving […]

To the Editor: I met Julia Lester during her campaign for the Paris school board. She immediately demonstrated her ability and delight in listening and learning from others’ experiences. Her passion for creating the best possible learning environment for each and every student is grounded in her research, studies and experience. Now, because one person […]

To the Editor: Rightstart’s Christmas for Kids and Christmas for Teens would like to thank WOXO Country and Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce for the recent Radiothon to benefit these two programs. This successful event was a wonderful way to begin our Christmas season. The team of the Bennett Radio Group, Stan and Alison Bennett, […]

To the Editor: Despite being on the opposite perspective from the Paris residents who signed the petition to recall their school board members, I do understand a parent wanting to know about what is happening in their child’s life. When my eldest child was 14, they came out to their teachers before they came out […]

To the Editor: I retired as a deputy sheriff, working in a Domestic Violence Intervention Unit. Sadly, I know the reality for kids who exist in a way counter to their parents’ beliefs. I know the reality for children that come out to their parents as gay or transgender or pregnant only to find themselves […]

To the Editor: As members of a faith community, we want to express support for the LGBTQ community in our area, particularly within the school system. We support the school Board’s proposed policy to respect the choices of students who request confidentiality with regard to their gender identification. At the public forum, we heard voices […]

To the Editor: This is an open letter to the Oxford Hills School Board and the concerned citizens who attended the open forum Board meeting at the high school on Tuesday, November 1 regarding the Board’s proposed gender policy. It was abundantly clear that the vast majority of the attendees were strongly opposed to the […]

To the Editor: I am writing today concerning the proposed SAD 17 Gender Identity Policy. I am also writing as the parent of a transgender child. As a Norway resident, I give my support to Policy ACAAA. I believe this policy adds to others already in existence to provide the best care and learning environment […]

To the Editor: Before you take a position on the proposed SAD17 gender identity policy, you should read it: https://bit.ly/3hafov8 Has anyone opposed to this policy talked to a trans or non-binary person about their experience in school and with their parents? When we talk to people who are different from us, we get a […]

To the Editor: I would like to begin by quoting an excerpt from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” Since the beginning of time, civilizations and cultures have been born, grown into powerful forces […]