The school budget for SAD 74 is $800,000 in the red. The state budget is being slashed by millions. In both cases, the cuts to balance the reduced budgets will reduce the structures necessary to educate and care for the physical well-being of our citizens. As the headlines announce yet another scam by British and […]

A windpower ordinance will be up for vote at Farmington Town Meeting on Monday evening. It ought not to pass as written; it would not protect residents from some of the noisome aspects of windpower. The current ordinance would allow commercial-sized windturbines, such as the 750-kilowatt, 250-foot-high turbines, which were proposed for the Bailey Hill […]

I have just had a necessary repair done to my vehicle, which, by itself, is not newsworthy. I was charged $69.50 per hour for labor, again not newsworthy; other places charge even more. I noticed, however, what might signal the beginning of a disturbing trend: The repair shop added a $21 charge for “shop supplies,” […]

I have an idea for the cities and towns that are stating that they have saved money from the lack of snowfall. How about they all purchase an abstract piece of art like the one in the concourse in Waterville? Seriously, did we really need that? I am still amazed with the amount of money […]

Who’s afraid of a comic strip? Apparently the less-than-courageous editorial board of the newspaper. It seems an issue that was decided to be a legal practice in this country almost 40 years ago is too hot to handle for this paper. How discussion in any form about this issue is so “potentially offensive” as to […]