To the Editor:

My dad is a 78-year-old gentleman who has battled many years with cancer, diabetes, polyneuropathy and all the horrible complications that go with these issues including amputation.

To the Editor:

As a follow-up to J.W. Oliver’s kind article of Oct. 27 on Chesapeake Safe Harbor closing down by year’s end…

To the Editor:

I’ve been watching the water fluoridation argument over the last several months with a certain disdain for the quality of scientific arguments from the anti-side of the debate.

To the Editor:

It is with great pleasure that I announce to the Citizens of Edgecomb that our new fire station is complete and totally functioning.

To the Editor:

Two things in particular stuck with me from those leadership labs of long ago.

First, accountability takes its place alongside authority and responsibility in the triangle of essentials.

To the Editor:

We are three retired schoolteachers from San Francisco, Cal., who visited your lovely town in October.

To the Editor:

Legislation was passed earlier this year to end Election Day voter registration and require that new voters register no later than two business days prior to an election.

It may be hard to imagine now, but there will come a time when today’s combat veterans, the ones who survive the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan long enough, will become the elderly veterans who wave to us from the parade floats.

The most fundamental right and privilege of being an American citizen is voting, yet in Maine, no one needs to show photo identification to prove that you are who you say you are. Why?

“Childhood Memories of the Maine Central RR Station,” by Calvin and Marjorie Dodge drew me back to the 1940s as I too grew up in Damariscotta. (LCN, 11/14/11, Page 13)

Thank you to all involved in the recent repairs and restorations to the Walpole, Huston, Woodward Cemetery on Bristol Road, Damariscotta. It was a job well done by our Cemetery Board and, most recently, by residents of Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.

I believe that Governor LePage is right and the welfare recipients should be drug tested. I think it is an insult to the hard working Mainers who pay State taxes that help support the welfare recipient. Why should our tax dollars support a drug addiction?

Each year at this time, as we pause to give thanks for the blessings we enjoy, we are especially thankful as we consider the letter from Waldoboro Selectman Steve Cartwright last week, and the responses he engendered this week.

Herman Cain came from a poor family. He grew up in Atlanta, Ga. His mother and father had a very strong work ethic and sent him to college. He graduated from Morehouse College with a BS in mathematics. He went on to Purdue and got his master’s in computer science.