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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    With the election over, get down to business

    Mankind hasn't gone mad after all. Now if all the candidates will be as anxious to pick up their signs, as they were to put them up, they can get down to business and walk their talk. Perhaps some good will become of it all.

  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    Leaf blowers more trouble than they’re worth

    Leaf blowers ... bah humbug. Most of us live in Maine for the beauty and quietude, right? Some years ago I bought my first home on Lovejoy Pond, a nice quiet neighborhood. In recent years many of my neighbors, some new, some old, have begun using leaf blowers as opposed to the old fashion rake method. It takes them all day to do a section of lawn that takes me less then an hour with a tarp and rake. The noise is a constant high pitch shrill which ruins the peace and quietude that I once enjoyed. The downside for the user of these leaf blowers is that they are affecting their own hearing and not getting any exercise whatsoever. They really should be banned or given up willingly for the sake of peace and quiet once again.

  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    In politics, no pretense of journalistic integrity

    Thank you Bill Nemitz (column, Nov. 9) for defining the difference in being a Democrat and a Republican. Republicans accept their losses graciously, Democrats accept their winning with arrogance and nasty comments.

  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    Laws to protect animals need to be revised

    This is in response to Kim Lane's letter about abused animals, in the September 25th newspaper.

  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    Republicans have only themselves to blame

    There's been a lot of whining and sour grapes coming from the GOP, FOX "news" and Romney supporters. They blame the poor GOP election results on the "lamestream" media, people wanting handouts, Obama running a mean-spirited campaign, Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie. They should be blaming themselves.

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  • Published
    November 15, 2012

    With election over,get down to business

    Mankind hasn't gone mad after all. Now if all the candidates will be as anxious to pick up their signs as they were to put them up, they can get down to business and walk their talk. Perhaps some good will become of it all.

  • Published
    November 14, 2012

    ‘Capitated care’ misguided effort for health care

    In a misguided effort to solve health care funding problems, many politicians and bureaucrats are attempting to pay health care professionals not for the work they do, but for the work they don't do.

  • Published
    November 14, 2012

    One salute for Obama,another one for the rest

    Going back to 1942, when I was in basic training learning to become a soldier in the Army of the United States of America, I, along with others, learned many things, one of which was the proper way to salute when encountering a commissioned officer.

  • Published
    November 14, 2012

    Yarmouth football fans unsportsmanlike at game

    It's amazing to me that football parents can get mad at students for cheering on their friends at football games.

  • Published
    November 14, 2012

    Carrabec juniors thank those who helped at fair

    Carrabec High School's junior class would like to thank everyone who donated things to make their booth possible at the New Portland Lions Club Fair.