Apparently a number of elver fishermen in Maine are making thousands of dollars, reporting far less money earned and applying for and receiving welfare. Since being elected, Governor Paul LePage has attempted to do something about welfare fraud in the state of Maine.

Sheena Bellows, Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate describes herself as a “libertarian progressive.”

It seems no matter where you are in the political spectrum you might be forgiven for thinking the country is going to hell in a hand basket.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen has called a third referendum style special town meeting for Tuesday, Nov. 5, to hopefully finalize the FY2014 Waldoboro municipal budget.

I have the good fortune to live in Lincoln County. Fate brought me here to Midcoast. My long deceased husband’s family were all from the Rockland/Thomaston area in Knox County. I initially thought to settle there, but my path came here and I am lucky beyond words.

Wiscasset voters will have a series of choices they can make if they vote to leave RSU 12 Nov. 5. The actual cost savings of these choices is significant in some cases and involves changes as to how and where we educate our children. The most important fact is that we take back budget control in all cases.

The noted philosopher Yogi Berra once opined, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Facts are the most important issue regarding the upcoming vote to decide to ban or continue to allow the allegedly, “cruel and unsportsmanlike,” hunting practices currently used in the state of Maine when hunting bears. There are three hunting practices at issue: Hunting using foot traps, dog packs, and food placement (training the bears to feed in specific places). These three are referred to as “trapping, hounding and baiting.”

There have been arguments made that the fact that RSU 12 has a Fiscal Year 2013 deficit of just over a million dollars is good reason for Wiscasset to withdraw from RSU 12. I would like to put the RSU 12 deficit in perspective.

Once again the notorious anti-hunting Humane Society of the United States is attempting to regulate how bears are hunted in the State of Maine.

In his letter published last week, Rep. Devin tries to make the case for expanding Medicaid. He wrote that “the Federal government would be paying for 100 percent of costs for the new Medicaid recipients for the first three years, gradually declining to no less than 90 percent of costs by the year 2020.”

The Republican Party has declared itself irrelevant.

I have always argued against a third party. Unfortunately, by the process of unintended consequences those of us disenfranchised by the establishment leaders of the Republican Party have effectively been cast into a third party.

This is in response to Mr. Kenneth Marden’s letter concerning the practices of bear hunting in Maine. Once I read the letter I was beyond angry! Everything he states just sounds so absurd to me.

I read your article on the comprehensive plan with great interest. (“Damariscotta invites feedback on comprehensive plan,” LCN, 10/10/2013, Page 5) I have attended many meetings of the comprehensive planning committee and I am pleased to see that income disparity as related to housing costs was addressed.