God’s Symphony Greg Zemlansky Nature’s golden sun shine…shine…today. You are the life of all the earth; you and your sunny ray. Shine…shine…the whole day. Brightness from the clear blue Heaven’s before you’re gone. A host of golden buttercups dance… dance beneath the trees. Pretty little butterflies dressed in yellow flying and fluttering in the breeze. […]

To the Editor: We live in a generous community! Even in harder times, people reach out to support worthy causes, and I would like to thank all those who donated their gifts so generously to  our annual fundraiser, Flowers for Food.  Thousands of daffodils were picked, bundled and offered for three weekends, at Otis Federal […]

To the Editor: A bill in the Maine legislature, LD 1658, would finally ensure some accountability for companies pushing big energy projects if they claim climate benefit’s that are false. First verification on the list would be the NECEC (CMP) corridor. LD 1658, while not stopping the corridor, would require a study of the corridor’s […]

Life’s Hour-Glass Greg Zemlansky Sands of time slowly slipping through life’s hour-glass like a thief. Time picks our pockets and take’s away our youth. Time carries away years and years of life. Grains of sand of life never to re- turn to itself. Where does the sands of time really go? Only yesterday I was […]

To the Editor: Dear People of the Great State of Maine, Hello! I am a third-grade student in Northern Virginia. Our class is learning about the United States, and I will be teaching our school about the state of Maine. In the month of May, I will create a display for our State Fair that […]

To the Editor: Do you ever get the feeling that no one’s really listening to you? Well, that’s about to change. As we move into this new year of 2023, AARP Maine wants to hear what you have to say about things like housing, heating, and health. These, and a host of other issues and […]

With Pine Tree Power now on the ballot, we’ll soon vote on whether we want to use eminent domain to seize Central Maine Power and Versant Power at a cost of more than $10 billion, then turn around and create a whole new government agency for electricity. What’s the point of borrowing billions from Wall […]

To the Editor: Thank you for the outpouring acts of kindness shown to us during this past week as we learn to live without this wonderful man For the flowers, the cards, food, texts, calls, posted photos, and all the support we received – Thank You! To Franklin Memorial Hospital for the care that they […]

The 11th hour has become synonymous with Veterans Day, originally called Armistice day, in recognition of the document signed at the 11th hour, or the 11th day, of the 11th month. In reality, the Armistice ending the war to end all wars was signed around 5 am on November 11th. Over the course of the […]

To the Editor: I’m writing in support of Bonny Bishop who’s running for State Representative in District 77, Hartford, Canton, Peru, Mexico, Dixfield and part of Livermore. Bonny spent 10 years in the Maine National Guard, worked in healthcare and she is a fourteen year Hospice volunteer. She is an outdoors woman who enjoys hunting […]