To the Editor: The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club would like to thank The Olde Mill Tavern Restaurant for hosting our Pints for Polio fundraiser for polio eradication and awareness. Begun as a $1 per pint, the Olde Mill team expanded it to all beverages AND scheduled it from 3 p.m. to closing on Thursday, October […]
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Beauti-Fall tree piece
To the Editor: What an uplifting article on the front page of your newspaper regarding the planting of trees throughout Norway! Congratulations to all who are involved in this very worthwhile endeavor. Our youth need much encouragement to participate in the many wonders of nature and the surrounding “real” world. This is surely an incentive […]
Cancer tourney says ‘Thank You’
To the Editor: On behalf of the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers, we say “Thank You” to our generous community. Recently, the Norway Country Club Ladies Association donated over $14,000 to the CRCofWM, funds raised in the 8th Annual Drive Out Cancer Golf Tournament. A total of 56 […]
Trouble flagged, forgiven
To the Editor: I am writing this letter on behalf of the Second Congregational Church, UCC in Norway. We are the church that sits on the corner of Main Street and Paris Street, up the street from the hospital and across from the Rowe School. In June we were excited to be able to open […]
Trouble flagged and forgiven
To the Editor: I am writing this letter on behalf of the Second Congregational Church, UCC in Norway. We are the church that sits on the corner of Main Street and Paris Street, up the street from the hospital and across from the Rowe School. In June we were excited to be able to open […]
Golden, Build Back Better, please
To the Editor: I’m a Maine voter and a resident of Auburn. I’m urging Rep. Jared Golden to support the Build Back Better legislation through the reconciliation process. Rep. Golden has stated Medicare expansion with coverage for dental, vision, and hearing “has merit” but “relies on budget gimmicks” that might endanger Medicare. This is the […]
The right to grow, eat food we choose
To the Editor: Vote Yes on #3 – Maine Constitutional Amendment – The Right to Grow and Eat the Food that We Choose Maine has been the oldest, poorest, and most dependent state in the county for several generations. We import 90% of our food as a State (which is quite embarrassing), and we are […]
Confused about Question #1 about the CMP Corridor?
To the Editor: Are you getting inundated with scary messages about “Retroactivity”? I am one of over 120,000 people who signed a petition to get Question #1 on the ballot. I am also one of the many volunteers who stood in the freezing cold outside of stores collecting signatures. You probably saw me at the […]
Don’t be fooled
To the Editor: Central Maine Power’s (CMP) electricity corridor is a bad deal for Maine for many reasons, and I believe that is why CMP, which has been ranked as the worst-run U.S. company for customer satisfaction (https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/central-maine-power-again-ranks-worst-in-us-for-business-customer-satisfaction), is spending millions of dollars on deceptive ads trying to confuse people and convince them to support […]
SeniorsPlus workshops
To the Editor: You may have heard of SeniorsPlus in the context of Meals on Wheels or of us being the Area Agency on Aging for Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties, but did you know we offer workshops for adult Mainers of all ages? Through our partnership with Healthy Living for ME, SeniorsPlus offers programming […]