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• Letter to the editor

  CMP Corridor: What it is and why it should be rejected

  The CMP Corridor proposal is a 14- mile-long corridor stretching through much of Maine’s North Woods. Fifty three miles of this is unbroken forest, while the other 92 miles would run alongside...
• Letter to the editor: Doc Wallace

  No on Rockport Article 4 is critical to many

  This is the last chance for Rockport voters to do the right thing and protect their fellow citizens. The vote on Short Term Regulations (STRs) is NOT a Republican or Democratic issue. It IS a vote...
• Letter to the editor: Kate and Davis Lee

  Vote no on Rockport warrant Article 4

  Article 4 is intended to garner support for placing an already drafted Short-Term Rental (STR) Ordinance on the next ballot. Before you vote, we urge you to go to the Town of Rockport website and...

• Gov. Mills: To succeed this summer, we need everyone working towards getting our state and lives back to normal

  

  By keeping our rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths down and keeping our rate of vaccinations up, we have maintained our reputation nationally as the safest state in the country and...
• opinion

  Outside corporate, political interests making false claims about Midcoast Internet Development Corp.

  The vote on June 8 in Rockport, Camden, and Thomaston can move Midcoast Internet forward as a nonprofit regional municipal utility and create its legal entity, the Midcoast Internet Development...
• Letter to the editor: Paul G. Charbonneau

  Touchy Subject

  Property rights are a touchy subject, made even touchier when confronted with proposed municipal ordinances regulating those rights. If memory serves me right, Rockport’s early zoning proposals...
• opinion: Putting savings to work for the local good

  Widespread impact investing could help Maine tackle pressing social, environmental needs

  

  The balance of deposits in Maine’s financial institutions is roughly $45 billion. That figure raises an obvious question to experts in socially responsible investing like Scott Budde, who runs Maine...

• Gov. Mills: ‘Still we rise’ despite the odds faced

  

  These last fifteen months have been an extraordinarily difficult time for our country and for our state. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought pain, illness, unemployment, financial hardship, death and...
• Letter to the editor: Alexander and Maud Abess

  Vote no on the Rockport Short Term Rental Ordinance question

  A few months ago, we learned of the proposed short term rental ordinance, and were alarmed at what appears to be an over reach of town authority with no data to back its proposed actions. We moved to...

• Our property rights are on the line in Rockport; vote no on Article 4

  With Article 4 now on Rockport’s June 8 ballot to “survey” voters about short term rentals (STR), I have decided to share my personal experience as a homeowner who has occasionally rented our...
• Poem: Kendall Merriam

  Destroyer ‘Gray Moon’

  

  For Jim Phyllis made an excellent roast beef something we don’t have often after polishing the copper kitchen table I made a batch of buttermilk biscuits something I hadn’t done in a...
• Letter to the editor: Wende Newton Walsh

  Vote no on the Rockport short term rental ordinance question

  For my 70 years I have loved and cared about this town of my ancestors. Now the Select Board wants to regulate STRs, pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Their grandiosity and overreach has...
• opinion

  How it started…how it’s going….and where to next

  

  The late winter and spring of 2020 was a time we would rather forget: A new virus causing widespread severe illness in faraway places. There were many unknowns. Once cases were identified in the...
• Letter to the editor

  Sophie Romana for Camden Select Board

  Sophie Romana is running for a seat on Camden’s Select Board continuing her service to the town. Two years ago, she joined the Budget Committee to learn how the town manages its budget, balancing...

• UMaine valedictorian Bailey West: ‘Graduating college is no small feat under any circumstances, let alone during a global pandemic’

  

  Senior year did not look how we expected it: Zoom classes, the lack of crowds at sports games and traditions we typically enjoy, even this virtual commencement format.But we were creative and...

• Governor Mills: Our farming industry is at the heart of our state

  

  Maine’s farmers are near and dear to my heart and to my administration. You know, my grandfather was a potato farmer in Aroostook County, and he worked in the woods in the winters.Like most Mainers,...
• Opinion

  Municipal TIF agreements, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program not to be feared

  

  Even decades ago, when I was just in grade school and a trip the Smiling Cow in Camden was an exhilarating adventure, I knew the town was someplace special. I grew up spending my summers in Port...
• Opinion: Bob Falciani and Debra Hall

  Camden and Rockport Voters Can Bring Cheaper, Faster, and Better Internet to All Residents

  The voters in Camden and Rockport can take the first step in creating a community-owned municipal utility for affordable, high-speed internet connectivity. Midcoast Internet will bring to our...
• Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard

  Maine is ‘behind and laughably small.’ Good. Let's keep it that way

  Katie Brown's May 17 article on the carbon footprint of industrial aquaculture in Maine states that Nordic Aquafarms, along with two other industrial aquaculture projects, has received "final or...
• Letter to the editor: Deb Dodge

  Vote YES on  Camden’s Article 5: Un-hosted Short Term Rental Registration Ordinance

  The following is quoted from the stated purpose of the proposed addition to our Town’s Police Ordinance: “…The purpose of this registration ordinance is to safeguard the public health and safety of...

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