The Maine Sunday Telegram recently ran a full-page ad paid for by “The Center for Responsible Food Business,” concerning a supermarket, whose name was blacked out. It contained purported comments from customers and employees that were submitted to the “New England Consumer Alliance,” which had been running a campaign about Hannaford. So, being curious, I […]

Greenland? Bit of a problem under the imperial radar. Do we really think Greenland (or Canada) will willingly give up comprehensive universal health insurance and throw in their lot with America? Of course not. Now what? Greg BrownLewiston

I just read Mike Lowe’s op-ed, “In loving tribute to the best boy, Mookie,” in the Jan. 4 edition of your paper and I cried like a baby. Everyone who’s had to have their beloved dog put to sleep knows how painful it is. It’s excruciating. I’ve had to do it twice and I still […]

As I learned as a boy in England, the education at schools like these tends to be robust.

This letter is in response to Tux Turkel’s Dec. 26 op-ed, “Maine’s energy policy looks to be going up in smoke.” The fake global warming narrative, which has been based on subsidy money (our money) feeding the pockets of power shysters and corrupt politicians from a past era should be allowed to dissolve into the […]

I’ve often heard it said that people who deplore President Trump — as regards both his personal and political life, and persist in calling him out on it — are afflicted with something called “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But as I see it, his supporters are the ones stricken with it.  How else to account for the […]

I’ve shopped at Hannaford stores for decades, always pleased particularly with their produce departments and especially with their competent and cheerful personnel. It has puzzled me to see protests about Hannaford, relating to free-range eggs (which I don’t purchase, but could if I wanted to. They’re always available at my Yarmouth Hannaford.) Seems odd to […]

Jan. 6, 2026, marked the fifth anniversary of the attempted overthrow of our free electoral process by means of a planned insurrection in the nation’s capital. That event, along with Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001, marked events that should and do live in the collective memory of all Americans because of their impact, […]