To the Editor: Will Jones and his family became our neighbors when they moved here from Oregon a few years ago. Over a few months I came to know him as an individual with a lot of varied experience through travel, assignments, adventure, and fun. I also learned that we had different views of some […]

To the Editor: Angus King is raising Social Security’s retirement age, again. He’s taking away benefits. Congress began increasing the Social Security age in 2000 to fix Social Security “permanently, and those age increases won’t even be finished for five years. If you need to raise it again, that policy has failed! Angus King is […]

A shortage of teachers leads to a shortage of college students. A shortage of college students leads to a shortage of teachers. We must break this dangerous cycle. The French philosopher Auguste Comte is credited as once declaring “demography is destiny.” It’s a statement that should sound alarm bells for Maine, with its growing older […]

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: Climate change is a huge thing in the world today and ill tell you why. Climate change effects many different animals, and people around the world. Climate change truly does a huge number on our world, the world we endlessly call our “precious home”. If our world was so precious to us […]

Legislative leaders in Maine and Washington share a dilemma over how to handle allegations lodged against their House members for serious misconduct. At the federal level, it’s the unrelenting cascade that each passing day seems to serve up yet another unsavory episode dogging GOP Congressman George Santos. In Maine, it’s the 33 count indictment of […]

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 […]

To the Editor: I am writing to thank Farmington​​​-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Generosity throughout contributed to a successful shoe-box gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child. Across the U.S., the project collected over 9.3 million […]

To the Editor: We had a non-life-threatening emergency at our home Friday Dec. 23. I called the Farmington Fire Department looking for some information on whom we should contact to fix our problem. After I explained what had happened, they said, “We’ll be right over.” Sure enough, they arrived shortly and were able to take […]

To the Editor: Governor Mills will be sworn in on Jan 4th. She had a very special role model as a little girl, former US Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Senator Smith inspired Governor Mills to public duty, to earn her leadership skill set with service, and Smith’s role model taught Mills to be a pioneer, […]