The people of Waldoboro have been amazing once again this year in their generous donations this holiday season. It’s been a rough year for everyone economically, but the people of Waldoboro have proven to be amazingly generous and thoughtful.

We have expressed our concerns to the Nobleboro selectmen in writing, per their request – and have also given a copy to the LCN reporter at a recent public-attended workshop meeting. We appreciate putting forth these ideas for your perusal. What a wonderful forum the “letters to the editor” are.

There is still a long way to go until Maine’s next gubernatorial election and as the old saying goes, anything can happen between now and then. However, the whispered consensus right now is that Gov. LePage has, at best, a long-shot chance of winning a second term.

The clamor from progressive members of our society to do more about gun control is without merit. With the exception of two states, the majority of the states in the union have an excess of sufficient gun controls in place to protect our citizens.

The Dec. 20 LCN had a letter to the editor from Craig Elliott of Bristol titled “Merry Christmas.” I commend Craig for his article that many of us are in complete agreement with.

A frequent bugaboo of the “fiscal cliff” debacle was the “milk cliff” – the threat of milk price doubling, if Congress failed to extend dairy subsidies. Parents were forgoing other necessities, because their children “had to have milk.”

Multiple kudos to the Bremen volunteer emergency team.

Thank you to all the people that were so thoughtful to us to make the Waldoboro Green have such a wonderful Merry Christmas.

If you were feeling snarky, and had web access this week, with little effort you could have surfed onto any one of a dozen different blog entries and essays sniping about how 2013 won’t be a Happy New Year after all.

A false empowerment of a citizenry due to a misguided interpretation of a Constitutional right rooted in a partisan control of a judiciary is cause for a larger concern. We are no longer a “free” nation but imprisoned by a perpetual fear of an armed citizenry.

In Dunblane, England, in 1996, a man who possesses six registered and legally obtained firearms kills 16 elementary school children. The media and public outcry is huge and in 1997, under the pretense of increasing public safety, Tony Blair and his Labor government pass the strictest gun laws of any Western democracy. Pretty much every firearm in British households except grandpa’s old bird gun gets confiscated by the government.

As we look ahead to 2013, we still have the horrors of the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, Conn., in mind.

As a Connecticut Police Officer who has a family owned home in Chamberlain, I would like to commend Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline for his professionalism while placing town police officers at public schools (Dec. 14). As we found out here in Connecticut, “it can happen here.” Thank you Chief.

I just learned that the most recent graduating class of law enforcement officers from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy purchased and donated toys for underprivileged children rather than celebrate in a more traditional manner with a party.