As I drive around Lincoln County every day. I can’t help but notice the amount of political signage that litters formerly green spaces along the roads. As a former advertising researcher, I realize that the candidates for various offices are hoping to achieve name recognition when voters go to their polling places to cast their ballots.

It’s always a pleasure to write to you after a blood drive, thanking you for your support. We truly appreciate your announcing this three-times-a-year event and without a doubt, the publicity we receive in your newspaper makes a difference.

We have no control of where and to whom we are born; it is an accident of nature. Some are born into better situations than others. Some fall into the trappings of assumed preferential entitlement because of their wealth and others drop into the abyss of self-pity entitlement because of their poverty.

Many people have asked who are the Concerned Citizens of Waldoboro? We are a group of concerned citizens advocating for the improvement of our town by identifying issues of concern to all citizens, fact-finding and suggesting potential solutions.

Though their descendents still live in the area, Wilbur Bearce, Robert Woodward, and Frank Wells are probably best recalled, if at all, as names on a plaque on the wall at the South Bristol Town Hall.

A recent letter criticized Senator Chris Johnson, D-Somerville, for not doing volunteer work. The writer was badly informed.

We are told we are making extraordinary progress in technology, the sciences, education, and in general our standard of living. So what is happening to the American spirit and our national pride?

To begin with, we need to understand what makes a good manager and a strong leader.

If you have been anywhere near a television this week, you are probably familiar with the story of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, whose domestic violence case is currently shaking the National Football League to its very foundation.

We are delighted to read of the volunteer effort to save the Somerville’s aging veterans memorial this week.

This week we have the unfortunate task of reporting the deaths of three teenagers in two separate accidents in Boothbay and Waldoboro. One accident or the other seems to come up in almost every conversation we have had or have heard over the past week.

Like you, we have heard the talk.

I will admit that organizing the community baby shower for Jada and Ryan was not totally altruistic.

The Wells-Hussey American Legion Post in Damariscotta would like to thank all the people that stopped and donated to the toll booth last Saturday in front of the post. The fundraising effort was a success.

I extend my heartfelt condolences to the voters of Jefferson. At the Aug. 19 school board meeting, two things of vital importance to Jefferson were destroyed. One was the possibility of having viable programs in art, music and physical education for the students of Jefferson.