In regards to the article on Bristol’s town meeting (“Bristol voters approve all 53 articles at town meeting,” LCN, 3/19/15, Page 1) my neighbor Mike Alderson raised legitimate points questioning the policy of paving low-use gravel roads.

Okay, Mr. Slason, we have read your rant on Israel Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, concerning his speech delivered before Congress, Monday, March 4.

I’ve been living in our great state of Maine for 32 years, and I’m tired.I’m tired of negative campaigning during election years, which gets worse every cycle. Every election cycle we hear the same complaints about negativity, and every cycle all the candidates do more of it. Why? Because in our current system, it works.

How often we hear the term hero used when watching the nightly news, but seldom do we hear the term used to describe an individual whose heroic deeds occurred 70 years ago, because they have been long forgotten.

This past Saturday evening, Clete and I had the happy opportunity of attending the Nobleboro Historical Society’s pot luck supper and program about the town’s one-room schoolhouses.

We can see summer from here … almost. This being Maine, another Nor’easter or two before the end of April still would not surprise.

Whenever we make public appearances on behalf of this newspaper, we almost always field variations of three questions.

The unexpected happened and I, as well as my husband Walt, both find ourselves battling incurable, possible life threatening, degenerative diseases, at the same time. Finding that we are unable to do and enjoy some of the things that we had always done is unsettling and sometimes frightening.

I am writing to disagree with “When did we choose to ignore safety?” April 9, The Lincoln County News, by Jarryl Larson.

I strongly believe that each citizen has an obligation to give back to the town in return for the services the town provides.

We write in response to the letter to the editor titled “Racism isn’t all about color,” by Jarryl Larson, of Edgecomb, dated April 16. We agree with Mrs. Larson’s premise that “Racism isn’t all about color.”

The children at our church take a “noisy offering” once a month to aid some nonprofit group, an individual or a community organization that has a need for financial support.

April is Autism Awareness Month and I’m on the autistic spectrum. Life is hard for people like us. A lot of people try to fix us. You can’t fix us. The only way you can “cure” us is by being our friend.

Money, a very wise man once said, is only important, not for baubles it buys, but for the thing it creates…