The town of Livermore Falls is holding a town meeting Tuesday, Oct. 18, at which time its citizens will be asked to vote on borrowing the funds necessary to build a new fire station. The warrant article is asking the town, and its taxpayers, to spend up to $2.2 million to build the new station. […]
Scott Roberts
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Difference of opinion
According to Kristal Flagg, town manager of Livermore Falls (Sun Journal, June 16), voters rejected certain warrant articles because they believed in “fictitious figures based on rumors, not facts.” I, for one, think it is rather distasteful that Flagg finds those who voted the articles down to be know-nothings, and it is a bit imperious […]
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Doesn’t impart wisdom
I just finished reading Mary Jane Newell’s latest letter to the editor (Jan. 27). Typically, I am unable to read her screeds in their entirety, but somehow my eye drifted to her penultimate line and it made me ponder. If, as she implies, carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution brings her wisdom and greater […]
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The world is a big place
Michael Brakey appears to think he has a good reason for being a denier of climate change (Sun Journal, Aug. 26). He wants to believe that the Earth’s heat records in July, as reported by NOAA, must be inaccurate because the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting another cold and nasty winter for New England. The only […]
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D. Theriault: Thinking outside the box
This is in response to Scott Roberts’ letter (July 30) in which he wrote about my response (July 23) to Dwight Murphy’s objection to the extensive burdening of taxpayers in order to give immigrants “everything they want” (July 21). Roberts said that I was apparently confusing logic with literalism in describing my samplings of Maine […]
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S. Roberts: Literal, but not logical
In his letter (July 23), David Theriault used an example of what he called “Maine humor — so logical.” It portrayed a conversation with a typical rural Mainer. Part of it read: “Excuse me, but have you lived here all your life?” “Not yet.” “Uh, OK. So, does this road go to Bangor?” “Pretty much […]