Article 3 on Rockport's November 3 ballot would require every rental in town, from year-round to short-term, to register with the town each year. It's a flawed ordinance. It largely…

I’ve known Glen “Chip” Curry for over a decade, but more importantly, so have my kids. Senator Curry has taken special care to visit “inland” Waldo County, making regular visits to…

I support Chip Curry’s reelection for Senate District 11 representing Waldo County.  Most fundamentally, he’s a good guy who takes the job seriously.  When I’ve written to him in…

In praying for our local community, I often pray more for good teachers, doctors, lawyers, and community leaders, rather than the systems they serve.  As a few good doctors…

This is not a joke, I am dead serious.

The same kind of dead as your private property rights will be if the amendments…

As we struggle with climbing sky-high food, gas and diesel prices, while dreading the winter fuel oil price shock from illegal wars and tariffs Congress could have stopped, and as neighbors…

The Dolly Parton Imagination Library provides enrolled children, newborn to age 5—free of charge to the parents— a specially selected, age-appropriate book mailed directly…

Welcome September! As summer turns to fall and political campaigns heat up, one race stands out: The campaign to reelect Senator Susan Collins.…

No Rockport neighborhood deserves to be treated this way by town employees.

As our trusted Majority Leader and then President of the Maine state Senate for over 10 years, Troy Jackson showed Mainers that he will fight to lower prescription drug costs, expand health care…

My name is Tom Wagner and I am running for County Commissioner in Waldo County District 1 [Belfast, Belmont, Islesboro, Lincolnville, Northport and Waldo].…

The Curtis Island Lighthouse Foundation celebrated Maine Open Lighthouse Day for the first time by inviting community members to take advantage of a beautiful, sunny day on…

I have known Zach Schmesser and his family for eight years. Our children play together and attend the same public school. Over those years I have had the…

One of the bedrock principles in the U.S. Constitution is the balance of power among the three branches of government: Legislative, executive and judicial. The goal of its writers was…

In response to Catherine Cooper’s letter about…

I am supporting Chip Curry for reelection to the Maine State Senate. Chip understands that we need to prepare for the climate impacts we can no longer prevent while doing everything we…

Knox County Girl Scouts Sister Troops 1451 and 191 proudly bridged 17 of their 28 members on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at the…

In 2022, when we were door-knocking for Get Out the Vote in the final days leading up to the election, an unenrolled voter told us she rarely voted, and almost never for Democrats, but that…

Thirty years of pulling in over $100,000 a year personally, and receiving millions from billionaire friends for her reelection campaigns, has made Susan forget the people of Maine. …

I live in an island community. I am so impressed that Chip Curry has been out to talk with us on many occasions. He really listens to his constituents and works hard…

To those who did not attend the Hope Select Board Meeting Sept 9, the agenda item concerning FY taxes revealed a very significant error in determining the property tax…

Senator Collins depicts herself as a moderate Republican. Analysis does not bear that out.…

Knox County Girl Scouts Sister Troops 1451 and 191 went for a few adventures this summer! Troops planned each day carefully, thinking about their budgets, their…

Bobby Charles will put Maine families, Maine workers and Maine communities first—not Augusta insiders, not special interests, and not political fashion.

Bobby Charles…

'What fresh hell is this' is an expression attributed to Dorothy Parker whenever she heard the doorbell or the telephone. These days a similar…

I am an unenrolled voter with no party affiliation. I do not ascribe to the Vote Blue No Matter Who admonishment as being the solution to…

I am writing in support of Shawn Saindon who is running for State Representative as an Independent to represent House District 44, serving the towns of Hope, Union, and Warren.

I wrote a letter to the editor two years ago when Mike Ray first ran for the State House, he won, and he proved my faith in him. The work he did in preparation and the work he did in his committee…

G. K. Chesterton wrote: "the poor sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed …

A Timely Conversation About Returning to the Earth

In an age of mounting environmental concerns and disconnection from natural cycles, Midcoast Maine Green Burial sponsors the following…

I am writing to thank Hannah Pingree and her daughter for coming to the Maine Lobster Festival this year.  I was King Neptune at the Lobster Festival and Hannah who is the democratic…

This summer the Town of Northport hosted two fundraisers to benefit its capital campaign for a new Community Center, Town Office, and Fire Station. The events represent the first fruits of a…

Chip Curry epitomizes the axiom “Think Globally, Act Locally.” He knows that issues of education, emergency services, housing are relevant and important throughout our country, and,…

As our current elected officials foster immoral acts, engage in and promote violence against those in opposition, are blatantly corrupt, impulsively start foreign wars and admire…

On July 23, the MaineHealth/Lincoln Hospital Board voted to close Miles Hospital's Labor and Delivery unit. The vote now moves to the regional board, and then the MaineHealth Board…

As a local stonemason, I have had the privilege of working on multiple projects for the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The first was leading Phase I of the historic …

Someone recently commented to me that Camden feels more like Camden, Incorporated rather than Camden, “where the mountains meet the sea.”

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I would like to thank the students and their teachers from Troy Howard’s Eighth Grade Class for their  beautiful and timely art work…

My family was deeply worried to hear about the potential closure of the birthing center at MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital…

The New York Times June 4 Glueck/Lerer last-minute…

As they head to the polls next week, Rockport residents hold in their hands the opportunity to transform their town.

First, they have the opportunity to arrest the…