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Rockland showed its pride during pandemic

Last year, a group of demonstrators gathered outside of Rockland’s courthouse with signs and flags and held what was dubbed by the local paper as the first Pride event in Rockland. What a wonderful...

Letter to the editor: Kathy Sprowl

This is all fore the best – we’ll see you next year!

On behalf of all of us at the Rockland Women’s Golf Association, we hope everyone is staying healthy and safe as we move into the summer months. For nine years, the Rockland Women’s Golf...

Letter to the editor: Judy Street

Charles Pattavina will make a difference in Maine Senate

I am writing as a healthcare colleague, to support the candidacy of Charles Pattavina M.D. for State Senator from Waldo County. Dr. Pattavina is an incredibly reasonable, compassionate and honest...

Letter to the editor: Amy Tice

Chip Curry committed to Waldo County

I met Chip Curry 2003, when I was serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Maine Communities for Children and he was our project leader. Chip’s strong commitment to the children and families of Maine was...

Bill Packard

A tribute to Kevin Waters, a man ‘whose heart was bigger than the bay’

It was very strange. Watching the NASCAR race, I had the scanner on in the background and heard the call. Something inside of me said, “This is important” although nothing in the call indicated that...

Letter to the editor: Pinny Beebe-Center

We need people like Chip

As the District 93 Representative for the Maine House, I know what it takes to be effective in Augusta. We need people like Chip who listen, who can find common ground with others and who can solve...

Letter to the editor: Eric Greiner

Despotism in Rockland?

Based on the City Council actions as written in the recent story by the Pen Bay Pilot titled “Rockland works on drafting order for face coverings in outdoor spaces” maybe the sign on Route1 should...

How to Break Through Our Self-Induced Barriers

Roe Chiacchio: Our perceptions create limitations

My cup is half full. I am a victim. I don’t deserve it. I’m not good enough. Do any of these statements resonate with you? Our thoughts are influential. They can run our life into a ditch or...

Letter to the editor: Rick Cronin

Chip Curry for Maine Senate

It is always a good day when you draw Chip Curry as a doubles partner in tennis; he runs down everything. After tennis, eight of us often get a chance to sit and talk. These coffee and bagel forums...

Letter to editor: Heather McCargo

Native plants are the foundation of Maine’s habitat

At the end of last week someone in Rockport pointed me to a letter to the editor in the BenBayPilot entitled No good deed shall go unpunished. I am sorry to hear that the dedicated volunteers...

Letter to the editor: Anna Wood-Cox

Elect Chip to the Maine State Senate

I am very pleased to endorse Chip Curry for the Maine State Senate. I have known Chip for many years as a member of our church community, as a volunteer on too many to name projects, as an educator,...

Letter to the editor: Phil Crossman

Sara Gideon lays out the particulars

When Sara Gideon was Speaker of the House, a fellow legislator was accused of sexual misbehavior. That was two years ago. No charges have ever been filed. In America an absence of guilt is the...

Letter to the editor: Michael Hurley

We need more of that

Here’s why I voted early for Glenn Chip Curry for the Maine Senate in the primary and why I’ll support Chip in the general election. I’ve known Chip for years but more importantly he has known...

opinion

Maine system combined with shareholder-style voting could overcome false fraud fears, boost turnout

The biggest issue in the November elections may not be Trump or Biden. It could be about voting itself. Whether votes will be counted fairly is turning into a major national argument. A combination...

Rep. Vicki Doudera: Thoughts on Independence Day

Last summer, I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a legislative leadership conference that included a visit to Thomas Jefferson’s stately home, Monticello. Like many Americans, I harbor...

Gov. Mills: Like the founding of our nation, our freedom, our liberty now rest on the spirit of patriots

The following is a transcript of a Friday, July 3 radio address given by Governor Janet Mills: At the end of World War II, Judge Learned Hand spoke at an “I Am an American Day” ceremony in...

Where it’s at

The wordless stories of Jaap Helder

The modern abstract painting in front of me draws me into its surreal world … An oval mirror near its center draws me in. I see a figure of a woman inside it. I cannot tell if she is standing or...

Current, former election workers urge citizens to vote by mail

We the undersigned, current and former election workers for the Town of Thomaston, want to urge everyone to vote by mail in the upcoming election to be held on July 14. To vote by mail if you are a...

Letter to the editor: Corliss Davis

Chip Curry has vision

I have known Chip Curry and his wife since we moved to Belfast over 11 years ago. My husband and I have been active supporters of our current state senator, Erin Herbig, and we are engaged voters who...

Opinion

Masks: ‘It’s not about me, it’s about you. And it isn’t that hard’

I don’t like wearing a mask. It was fun when I was playing cowboy, a long time ago. I wore masks when my Uncle Sam was paying me : masks for gas, masks for smoke, masks for diving, masks for oxygen...

Gov. Mills to Mainers: Don’t let down your guard now

The following is a transcript of a Friday, June 26 radio address given by Governor Janet Mills: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and our gradual reopening process, the Maine CDC has been...

opinion: ‘this would be the time to begin planning for the next emergency’

Better emergency planning requires legislative action

We couldn’t have been fully prepared for COVID-19. But the virus might have been less deadly — no matter how little science knew about it — if government had been better prepared for a major crisis...

Letter to the editor: Denise Pendleton

Support Chip Curry for Maine Senate District 11

I am writing to express my support for Chip Curry to represent Waldo County in the Maine State Senate. I first met Chip when he advised on challenges and opportunities with the AmeriCorps program...

Letter to the editor: Elphie Owen

Poetry on Windows Appreciation

The Board of the Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A) thanks everyone involved in Poetry on Windows held June 1 through June 15 in downtown Camden in celebration of World Oceans Day, June...

going the extra mile to support kids and families through this time

A thank you to school nutrition professionals

Alongside doctors, nurses, and other essential personnel, school nutrition professionals have emerged as local heroes during the COVID-19 crisis. Day after day, they arrive in parking lots, shuttered...

Letter to the editor: Haunani Wallace

No good deed shall go unpunished

On Friday, June 19, two other volunteers and I were working, planting new flowers in the traffic triangle at Pascal Ave. and Route 1. This was our third day, having prepped the bed, shopped for the...

opinion

How does this keep happening?

As were most people in this world, I was overcome with disbelief and shock on May 25 when I saw another black man had been killed in in our country by some type of enforcement activity. “How does...

Tailpipe living: Maine depends on federal protections for clean air, and it’s fast losing them

Before getting new glasses this winter, I’d forgotten what it was like to see distant objects in sharp relief. The glasses improved my vision but far-off vistas remained hazy – until the pandemic...

Islesboro Central School addresses death of George Floyd

The following letter was distributed June 20 by the administrative team at Islesboro Central School. Dear Community, Islesboro Central School’s Administration and Leadership Team refuse...

Gov. Mills in radio address: ‘It is all up to every one of us’

The following is a transcript of a Friday, June 19 radio address given by Governor Janet Mills. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and during our gradual reopening process, the Maine CDC has...

Letter to the editor: Lawrence Reichard

Maine’s BEP has grave, weighty Belfast salmon farm questions to consider

The state Board of Environmental Protection has wrapped up its hearings, testimony and evidence-gathering in Nordic Aquafarms' application to daily discharge 7.7 million gallons of industrial fish-...

Don’t be disappointed in your kids

Bill Packard: Hug your kids, tell them you love them, and that you’re proud of them. No matter the age

I guess that since I write here and I’ve written other places and written a book, that makes me a writer. I’ve never considered myself one. I like to think of it as a conversation. Obviously, it’s...

opinion

Maine must open now

Our Governor assumed full control of our state economy in the face of the coronavirus. The Governor’s stated purpose was to prevent the virus from spiraling out of control and overwhelming our...

Letter to the editor: Samantha Seavey

Robyn Stanicki is best candidate for the job

July 14th is an important date for Waldo County- it will be time to vote for the primaries. While there are three Democratic candidates for the state Senate, my vote will be going to Robyn Stanicki....

Letter to the editor: Connie Hayes

Main Street, Rockland, old normal and new normal

If lots of people shop from home and work from home more than ever, why does Rockland’s Main Street matter anymore? Oh, I remember now, we humans are a social species and interaction benefits our...

Letter to the editor: Bill Pluecker

‘We are Called to Listen and Speak’

The Black Lives Matter protests across the nation are calling on us to listen, to deeply listen, to the life stories of Black people and to give witness to the reality of their lives. It is our...

opinion

The young, the old, and the virus

Have those of you who are getting on in years, as I am, thought lately about how much we elders owe to the younger people who have sacrificed so much to save us from the dreaded virus? And about how...

Opinion

Black pride recenters the movement for change

Black Lives Matter. The phrase uttered on the lips of nearly every American now carries an extra weight of urgency and meaning. White people like myself are moving beyond thinking that just being a...

opinion

Maine has opportunity to promote itself as an ideal ‘remote work state’

In a work-from-home economy, nobody is more remote than anyone else. Maybe that’s good news for Maine, which has been penalized by its relatively remote location. If remote work takes off, as seems...

Governor discusses saving lives and livelihoods in radio address

The following is a Friday, June 12 radio address transcript presented by Governor Janet Mills: This week my Administration unveiled the "Keep Maine Healthy" plan to protect the health of...

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