TENANTS HARBOR — St. George MSU Superintendent Mike Felton released the following letter late March 12.
Dear Families,
The situation with COVID-19, or the “coronavirus,”…
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APPLETON — Appleton Village School has released a letter regarding COVID-19 and is asking students to refrain from using water fountains.
“Due to the prevalence of various illnesses in our…
CAMDEN — The following letter was distributed March 12 by Five Town CSD and MSAD 28 Superintendent Maria Libby.
Libby is the Superintendent for Camden-Rockport Elementary, Camden-Rockport…
BELFAST — The following letter was distributed by RSU 71 Superintendent Mary Alice McLean on March 12.
RSU 71 includes Gladys Weymouth Elementary School, Ames Elementary School, Captain…
ROCKLAND — The Regional School Unit 13 Superintendent of Schools, John C. McDonald, distributed the following letter to members of the RSU 13 community on Thursday, March 12.
RSU 13…
ISLESBORO — Islesboro School Head of School Chuck Hamm released the following letter March 12 regarding the school’s COVID-19 preparations.
Dear School Community,
In light of…
VINALHAVEN — Vinalhaven School Superintendent Tonya Arnold released a letter to parents March 10 regarding the school’s response to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus.
Given new…
UNITY — RSU 3 Superintendent Charles Brown released March 11 a letter containing updated information on how RSU 3 is working to keep students and staff healthy.
RSU 3 includes Monroe…
Y2K. Anyone remember that shenanigan?
Saw an ad a few days ago about some drug that deals with cholesterol, and it got me thinking what a big deal that used to be, but we rarely hear about anymore.…
Something about the embracing mountains and blue bay stretching to the horizon
In honor of Maine’s 200th anniversary as a state this month, I offer up something a little different than my usual natural history, mixing it up a bit with Maine’s literary history.
In…
BELFAST — The Regional School Unit 71 Superintendent of Schools, Mary Alice McLean, distributed the following letter to members of the RSU 71 community Monday, March 2.
RSU 71…
Letter to the editor: Steve Tanguay
The huge turnout of voters in Searsport and across the state last week was a rush! I’m proud to be a newly elected selectman and even if I didn’t get your vote, I’m happy to know that so many…
Letter to the editor: Michael Skaling
The winter season is far from over at the Camden Snow Bowl. You may not have much in the way of snow around you home, but the Snow Bowl has upwards of 2-4 feet or more. Thanks to early season…
UNITY — The Regional School Unit 3 Superintendent of Schools, Charles Brown, distributed the following letter to members of the RSU 3 community Tuesday, March 3.
RSU 3…
Letter to the editor: Kathleen Cannon
As an education tech for a Maine school district, I write to urge U.S. Senator Susan Collins to support a common sense measure to protect our school children.
The Safe Schools Improvement…
Letter to the editor: Michael Hurley
Here in Belfast I’m as passionate as the next person. So when I read about the salmon farm proposed for Belfast and hear the many extreme and over the top opposition exaggerations and fears…
Once word got out that Vose Library was showing the documentary VAXXED, pressure was put on the library and the library president canceled the event. This appears to be a clear violation…
Letter to the editor: Kathie Grealish
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at a Select Board meeting, Jaime Francomano, director of Planning and Community Development, repeated twice when tasked…
Cheaper, Faster and Better Broadband
There are increasing reports on the difficulty of obtaining timely healthcare. And the situation is only going to get worse, not better. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that…
most ducks are only seasonally monogamous
In his long poem “The Parlement of Foules,” Elizabethan era poet Geoffrey Chaucer shared the belief that birds choose their mates on St. Valentine’s Day. For waterfowl, this is not simply a poetic…
Letter to the editor: Lisa Lane
I want to encourage my fellow Waldoboro Democrats to attend the 2020 Maine Democratic Party Caucuses on March 8. There is so much at stake this year, and the caucuses give local Dems a unique…
Opinion
One summer, a five-year-old boy woke up slowly with a headache and surrounded by white coats and scared faces. As Dr. Tony Owens describes it, “I was only 5 and don’t remember anyone telling me I…
The Regional School Unit 13 Superintendent of Schools, John C. McDonald, distributed the following letter to members of the RSU 13 community on Thursday, Feb. 27.
RSU 13…
Salt 'n Spar
If you are a regular reader of the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper, chances are you’re reading this online and not in the print edition of the newspapers. This isn’t surprising, more and…
Letter to the editor: Josiah R. Wilson
Do you wish to allow 9000 students educational access, and not strip $80-plus million worth of funding in The State of Maine? That’s Question 1.
If you don’t want to mess with the students…
Letter to the editor: Claire Tully
For the past few months, Rockport residents have been working with Tyler Smith, the son of Stuart and…
Emmet Meara, Dave Barry, right whales and hand grenades
This is the time of year when many of us tackle our big scary household jobs. In these winter months, while the summer people think we have nothing to do, the DIY-ers among us (meaning most…
Letter to the editor: Mike Vallier
Vote Steve Tanguay for Searsport selectman. He is uniquely qualified to serve our community. Steve will represent the small business community, the heart of our town, and assure that…
Letter to the editor: Steven Tanguay
I worked for 30 years as a teacher and developed an experiential model for learning with a focus on writing curriculum for economics, history and agriculture to help move our State's…
Letter to the editor: Ben Ellison
I’m disappointed that the well-meaning “Vote Yes on 1” folks made “Reject Big Pharma” their main argument. I don’t think that vetoing the state law already passed to protect all Maine…
Letter to the editor: Dorothy Alling
I count Steve Tanguay as my friend and outstanding supporter of Searsport community. Thus I wholeheartedly will support his candidacy for Selectman for the Town of…
This year in RSU 71 we have been focused on classroom instruction that elicits three states of being in each of our K - 12 students. I have been referring to these…
Letter to the editor: Patrick Killoran
I am a physician currently practicing psychiatry. Previously I completed a master’s in public health degree and worked at the California Department of Public Health developing tests to study…
Letter to the editor: Gordon Page
As someone who is a proponent for smaller government, personal choice and less intrusion, my decision to vote NO on Question 1 on the third of March may seem like a contradiction.
We all…
Letter to the editor: Jim Anderson
My name is Jim Anderson and I am a Vietnam Veteran who served multiple combat tours. I am not a person of any political stripe; I dislike the Democrats and Republicans about the same.
I…
Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard
On behalf of all my fellow Belfast Bay swimmers, I wish to thank Nordic Aquafarms for its most soothing assurances that it won't spoil recreation such as swimming in the beautiful,…
Letter to the editor
We are writing to urge you to vote Yes on 1 to Reject Big Pharma. Since pharmaceutical companies were exempted from liability for injuries that occur from vaccines in 1986, the number of…
Letter to the editor: Diane Braybrook
Last week, at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection heard live testimony about the Nordic Aqua Farms proposal. I sat there for three…
BELFAST — More than one hundred RSU 71 elementary students and their parents to gathered February 11, at Troy Howard Middle School, in Belfast, to eat pizza and play math games at various stations…
transformations
I received - at the age of 72 - an MFA in fiction from Spalding University. I decided to go to graduate school because I had been working on a novel for years and thought the pressure of the MFA…
Poem
For Maroulla Gleaton, M. D.
Seeing beauty as the sticks come down
odd music, created on 55 gallon steel oil drums
from…
Down to the sea
Natives and newcomers alike are all familiar with Hosmer Pond. It became more known about 1934, when the Snow Bowl was built and the winter carnivals were held there, as a notable event. That body…
Letter to the editor: Stephanie Smith
The other day when feeling gloomy about the state of affairs of our United States of America, I distracted myself with the book I am writing about a writer, Hannah Stevenson Trimble.
…
Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard
On February 5, salmonbusiness.com reported that a court in Fredrikstad, Norway, hometown of Nordic Aquafarms, ordered…
opinion
Are you concerned about climate change? Pollinator declines? Falling bird populations? Emerald ash borer? Loss of biodiversity? Imagine if you could do something easy, enjoyable and affordable…
On occasion the dropping of a glove is meant to start a courtship, on another it is meant to start a full-on brawl
I went for a walk and wore the wrong pair of gloves. They were blue rubber gloves, the kind that you might wash dishes with except heavier perhaps to wash off snow from your car. For some reason,…
Letter to the editor: Sandy Patrick
The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce would like to sincerely thank everyone that made the third Annual Belfast Winter Whoopla a wonderful success! This great community event which continues to…
Letter to the editor: Lynne Brown
Sundog Outdoor Expeditions would like to thank all the hearty plungers, sponsors, and community supporters for a wildly…
Letter to the editor:
Camden enjoyed another successful outdoor festival this weekend at the Winterfest celebration in Harbor Park and the Amphitheatre. The Camden Public Library is pleased to be able to host the…
