I was delighted to read the Aug. 3 article on the work that is being done on the Pine Ridge Trail system after the damage caused by the installation of the solar farm. I was disappointed, though, that the Kennebec Messalonskee Trails group was barely mentioned. John Gardner, maintenance director for our group, contributed greatly […]

I commend you on your July 1 article on Maine’s SNAP program. Showing the human side of the program and the increased state administrative costs provided the clear impact of the federal changes. However, I would like to expand on the “error rate.” First, the error rate is an administrative process to evaluate the quality […]

I am outraged at the forced starvation of Palestinian children, women and men, including the elderly and the disabled. • One in three people in Gaza is now going without food for days at a time. • More than 20,000 children have been treated for acute malnutrition since April. • Total deaths from starvation, including […]

Each day brings another outrageous executive order, false accusation or blatant lie from Donald Trump. He calls Barack Obama and his Department of Justice “scum,” obfuscates about his involvement with the late Jeffrey Epstein, attempts to bully and humiliate Fed Chair Jerome Powell, defies the rule of law in his immigration policies, refuses to stop […]

The Aug. 1 letter by Leigh Bullion (“An error in judgment by Angus King“), urging Sen. Angus King to retire for King’s admitted “mistake” in voting along with every Republican senator (with zero Democrats and independents, except King himself) to confirm ultra-conservative and anti-abortion Josh Divine to a lifetime federal judgeship is right on the […]

This is in response to Jim Fossel’s column in the Aug. 3 Sunday Telegram (“Like the Red Sox, Maine Republicans seem content to coast“). Fossel should leave the Red Sox out of his partisan, political column. Daniel Turgeon Saco