There is never a bad time to thank a veteran.

We set aside two special days of the year specifically for our military: Memorial Day which honors the lost; and Veterans’ Day, which honors the living; but really every day is a good day to be grateful.

A happy Veterans Day to all our men and women who have served and those who are now serving all over this volatile world.

Let me see if I have this right: the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship was told by Bowdoin’s Administration the group could no longer meet on campus because it has not adhered to the college’s “non-discrimination policy.”

Therefore the Christian Fellowship moved off-campus into its own building.

While this is the 2014 election issue, it is also our annual Veterans’ Day issue and this year, for the first time literally in decades, we do not have a feature story on a local veteran ready for our front page.

I have read a lot of post election analysis over the last two weeks. Many pundits who clearly haven’t liked Governor LePage over the last four years have written pieces that express befuddlement as to how he got re-elected. There is one fact which has gotten very little attention and that is that our current governor got the highest vote total for that office in Maine history (291,937).

As we sift through the rubble of last week’s election, two things are apparent to us.

The hysteria sweeping the country about Ebola is completely unwarranted. It’s just bald, unknowing fear. Ebola is almost as difficult to contract as AIDS, and for the same reason.

We’re off to a great start with thousands of homes without power due to our first winter storm of the year. Hats off to Central Maine Power crews for doing the very best job they could restoring power.

We are just about to hit prime time for the retail season and as we do, we urge you to remember our local businesses.

We have days on our calendar, and rightfully so, that specify times to honor certain groups of people.

For the grand opening of our FARMS Community Kitchen in Damariscotta last Tuesday (Sept. 30), our local farmers, grocers, bakers and other food producers donated a great plenty of delicious, very local food and drink from the land and also from the sea.

I recently drove my step-mother to the Nobleboro-Jefferson Transfer Station to dispose of a truckload of garbage that included an old mattress (tied to the top of our truck), a sink, a car battery and numerous bags of heavy waste.

Do we really need to destroy “life as it should be” to be “open for business”?

We think that is a false trade-off, which is why the Friends of Muscongus Bay has taken the position that the use of the test site off of Monhegan Island is the issue, not whether wind power is good or bad. (That can be left for another time.) The question is, is this the best place for this test to be performed?

When it comes to short-changing ourselves, our economy, and, especially, our children we’ve done well in the past couple of years in the “penny wise & pound foolish” category. The latest example of promoting a continuation of that trend came in a letter that appeared in the LCN about the proposed bond issues that will be on the ballot in November.