I would like to join the debate, on affordable housing and drainage, and include Camden.
Why must we always build new, and cover more permeable and potentially photosynthetic ground with…
Talk
Letter to the editor: Todd Hall
I’m thrilled to offer my support to Breanna Pinkham Bebb for the Northport Board of Selectmen. As a Northport resident I’ve seen Bre’s enthusiasm and creativity in action many times and it is…
opinion
Few need a reminder that this past election cycle strained, if not broke, the public’s trust in our election system. The degree to which election issues are still discussed today, over three…
Letter to the editor: Marsha Steinglass
During the March 8 Rockport Select Board meeting, residents who had comments or questions were supposed to be given a chance to weigh in on an agenda item through the Town…
Letter to the editor: Michael Lannan
Dear Nordic Aquafarms’ Investors: Nordic’s development team has likely informed you about the recent decision by the Belfast Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) to not hear the appeal. The ZBA’s…
Letter to the editor: Group of Rockport business owners
We were relieved when the Rockport Select Board wisely voted 4-1 on February 8 to table the draft “Ordinance to Regulate Short-Term Rental Property” and not place it on the June ballot.
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The following is a transcript of a weekly radio address presented by Governor Janet Mills:
Saving lives and preventing serious illness and suffering has been my fundamental goal…
Letter to the editor: Group of Rockport property owners
On February 8, the Rockport Select Board voted 4-1 to table the draft short term rental ordinance and not place it on the June 2021 ballot. Days later, 34 residents signed a petition seeking to…
‘I want everyone to know that he was an amazing human being’
We are often told throughout our lives that life itself, through its many twists and turns, can be cruel, unforgiving, and simply unfair. In the early morning hours of February 25, life proved…
Letter to the editor: Sharon Hobson
You may know that SNAP (food stamps) does not allow purchase of pads, tampons, or toilet paper, something that always surprises people. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits…
Opinion
A safe, secure home is a fundamental need, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the pandemic has made the housing situation even tougher for many Mainers, with more than 5,000 Maine men,…
Letter to the editor: John Bird
While I support the concept of strengthening Rockland’s housing stock policy to attract more young people, judging from the many questions raised at City Council meetings and in the local press…
Letter to the editor: Mike Hurley
Dear Rockland; I read with interest the fear and trepidation over the city government making allowances to add accessory use or "tiny houses" on some lots in your city.
About 5-6 years ago…
legislative updates from rep. bill pluecker
Dear friends,
Friends, I wanted to write to you to provide an update about some of the work that is happening in the Legislature in the last couple of weeks and what’s ahead for us.
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Like all of you, I want to get our state back on track. I want to get people back to work. I want to diversify our economy too, in the long run providing good-paying jobs in every corner of this…
Letter to the editor: Connie Hayes
How tempting it would be to put in a gas furnace, paid for by Summit Gas with money they dangle in front of you to do so. Oops, that is if you spend your own money even before the pipeline is…
Letter to the editor: Ashley Holmes
Please consider Ann Frenning Kossuth, our friend and neighbor, for election to Northport’s Select Board on April 14. If you know her, you will…
Letter to the editor: Reeves Gilmore
As a Northport resident for more than 10 years, I am pleased to endorse Breanna Pinkham Bebb for election to our Select Board.
In recent years, I…
Letter to the edito: Ian Emmott
Public debate has sufficiently exposed potential environmental impacts of the proposed zoning change, as well as congestion in residential neighborhoods. The endless push for detached apartments…
Letter to the editor: Jim Kalloch
My name is Jim Kalloch and I live at 41 North Main Street in Rockland. I would like to voice my opposition to the latest tiny house plan being put before the City Council again!
This plan…
Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard
Well, it's official: the Belfast Water District has officially shed the twin burdens of sanity and reason.
First the district entered into…
Letter to the editor: Beverly Cowan
Are we going to maintain our wonderful community or develop it into a tiny house consortium with a city full of accessory dwellings? The Rockland City Council just passed the…
Water is life.
Jan Dodge proposed these two pieces of legislation:
LD1474: An Act To Ensure Water Equity and Accountability for the People of the State of Maine
LD197: An Act…
Letter to the editor: Richard and Lucinda Leonard
We have lived on Willow Street for over 40 years. We have concerns about the push to make it possible to build houses on small…
Letter to the editor: Breanna Pinkham Bebb
On Fridays my husband and I both work from home: He is in customer service for Fisher Plow, and I am an administrator in financial services. Our son, a student at Edna Drinkwater, has…
Letter to the editor: Geir Gaseidnes
Please consider our neighbor Breanna Pinkham Bebb for Northport’s Select Board. If you know her as I do, you’ll have found that she is energetic,…
opinion
In today’s world, it is hard to discern truth from opinion, or fact from calculated lies. We rely on the press helping us navigate this. The fact is that in 2020 a very encouraging uptick in right…
Letter to the editor: Wayne C. Gray
In spite of pleas from home owners and longtime residents the Rockland City Council is determined to go ahead with their plan for, lack of a better name, tiny…
Letter to the editor: Richard D. Warner
Once again, the Rockland City Council is proposing the introduction of tiny houses in everyone’s back yard or side yard…
opinion
A buyout of Central Maine Power (CMP) and its fellow power distributor Versant by a consumer-owned utility is about to come back up before the Maine legislature, thanks to the persistence of Rep.…
The following is part of a newsletter circulated by House District 95 Representative Bill Pluecker, I-Warren, to his constituents in Appleton, Hope, the eastern portion of Union and Warren. …
From Washington, D.C.
U.S. Senator Susan Collins spoke on the Senate floor this afternoon following her vote on the Article of Impeachment.
The full text of her remarks…
Maine’s making good progress on preventing the spread of COVID-19, there’s no question about that. The number of new cases, number of people in the hospital with COVID, the rate of people dying…
Letter to the editor: Adele Faber
The Rockland City Council has again proposed an Ordinance Amendment to allow Accessory Dwellings “Attached” (apartment over an existing garage) and “Detached” (tiny/small houses in everyone’s back…
Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard
On December 21, 2020, the Pen Bay Pilot published a letter from me about a Belfast Water District demand that I pay $1,500 for the district to process 91 pages of emails pertaining…
Letter to the editor: Rodney Lynch
Rockland zoning ordinance amendment #39 proposes to amend the definition of Accessory Apartment to allow a detached apartment or dwelling on a lot with a single-family residence as a separate…
We started this process by scheduling the first resident workshop in September 2019. The workshop was scheduled because several Board members received repeated requests by residents to address the…
opinion
The challenges of a warming climate is real for Maine’s economy. From tourism to the fishing industry, we must find ways to promote sustainability and help address the effects of climate change.…
Opinion
The January 11…
Letter to the editor: Bernie Baker
In a recent Op-Ed, “A Litmus Test for the Climate,” James Boyce, of the Political Economy Research Institute, articulated the case for the most effective way to address the climate emergency: “…
Letter to the editor: Steve Bowen
On January 11, I submitted to the Rockport Select Board a long letter outlining my concerns with how they have handed the issue of short-term rentals. In particular, I expressed my deep concern…
Boy I don’t know anybody who doesn’t love a Super Bowl party. And, while I have no favorite, I’ll be very excited to watch the fireworks between Tom Brady, making his tenth Super Bowl appearance,…
Letter to the Editor: Sherry Cobb
February is Black History month, chosen because February contains the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, born nine years apart. Lincoln is honored, of…
The following is part of a newsletter circulated by House District 95 Representative Bill Pluecker, I-Warren, to his constituents in Appleton, Hope, the eastern portion of Union and Warren. …
Maine is beginning to round the corner on the post-holiday surge of COVID-19.
Hello, this is Governor Janet Mills.
On Thursday, Maine reported a lower positivity rate of 3.64, a…
An excellent PenBay Pilot article by reporter Sarah Thompson, with vivid photos, documented Rockland Public Works employees grinding away with our town’s heavy equipment to provide free labor,…
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, 2021.
The day is to remember the…
Letter to the editor: Silvio Calabi
Camden’s Monday-evening pandemic town meeting, under the lights at the Snow Bowl, was historic for several reasons—the socially distant, drive-in-theater aspect being just one. Another was the…
opinon
I’m offering my input into the new short-term rental ordinance in the town of Rockport based on my 15 years with the Rockport Fire Department as a volunteer and as a cofounder of the…
Letter to the editor: Jan. L. Fish
Dear Town Manager and Select Board,
My name is Jan Fish, I have lived in Rockport for 60-plus years. Our small community has always had a warm caring feeling, people caring about their…
