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?

To the Editor:

Enough is enough! I am sick and tired of all the hyperbole, innuendos, fabrications, insinuations and allegations when it comes to the elimination of voting rights of Maine’s citizens.

The weather, the crowds, the packed streets, the busy shops, restaurants, bed and breakfasts; the gleeful fun of smashing a car with a giant pumpkin dropped from 200 feet up, or strapping an engine onto a formerly 700 pound gourd: by almost any measure, we could declare Pumpkinfest 2011 a glowing success.

To the Editor:

Thank you for publishing the interview with Betsy Smith of EqualityMaine.

I was quite disturbed to read the Department of Public Safety is seriously considering the consolidation of 9-1-1 call centers. Let me tell you why.

To the Editor:

Damariscotta and Newcastle have a unique opportunity to reduce unnecessary expenses and reduce property taxes and/or provide more funds for needed infrastructure improvements.

In a previous week’s Letters to the Editor, a writer excoriated President Obama for “overturning a bill in Congress to deport 300,000 illegal immigrants.”