OUR OPINION: State’s grades for public schools won’t be surprise

The state Department of Education has given each of Maine's 600 public schools a letter grade, from A to F, and today those rankings will be made public.

Drug arrest had nothing to do with suspect’s school

An article on page B1 in the April 24 edition of the Morning Sentinel was about the arrest of a local man on drug charges.

NRA threats succeed in frightening senators

It is a sad day in this so-called democracy when the 100 senators we elected to represent us citizens cannot stand up to a progun lobby, when polls say 90 percent of us want an all-inclusive background check put into effect.

Rotary Stone vandals have no respect for others

I would like to thank Valerie, Bryce, Ashlyn and JoJo (Cheezit) for adding their names to the Rotary Stone on Benton Trail on April 21 -- NOT.

New life begins when sperm fertilizes egg

I'm responding to the article of April 6 about the morning-after pill. I don't know when the medical definition of pregnancy changed, but science says a new being comes into existence at the moment that the sperm fertilizes the ovum (egg).

Today’s editorial cartoon

State House calendar, May 1, 2013

Hearings and work sessions for Wednesday.