Now more than ever we need the common sense, energetic, analytical and independently thinking mind of Bruce MacDonald to help lead the way.

Is there anything quite like the thrill of seeing some hapless car smashed to smithereens by a giant pumpkin?

I urge every Newcastle resident to come to as many meetings of the “Community Conversation” as they can.

This is your opportunity to have your ideas and concerns incorporated in the future plans of Newcastle. About 380 residences are predicted to come to our town in the next 30 years or so. Where will they go? Will they overburden our roads and schools?

Like many of my neighbors, I’m voting to re-elect Jonathan McKane to the state legislature from House District 51, which includes Edgecomb, Newcastle, Damariscotta, Bristol, South Bristol, and Monhegan.

I’m voting for Dean Scontras for Maine’s First Congressional District. Dean has real world factual experience, principles and the integrity to do what’s right for Maine.

The first time I met Chris, he walked into my kitchen, looked around and asked if he could borrow a Phillips screwdriver. I handed one to him and he then asked if I would like him to fix my corner rotating cupboard, which hadn’t shut correctly for ten years no matter who worked on it. Within five minutes it was fixed.

I am appealing to all who currently serve in local leadership and those who seek to be decision-makers to please do something about the practice of adding fluoride to the public drinking water provided by the Great Salt Bay Sanitary (Water) District.

In a time when so many of us are concerned with making our state government efficient, I am pleased we have such a hard-working senator representing Lincoln County.

Speak to Chris Johnson and you will be convinced, as so many have, that Chris is the best choice for State Senator in Senate District 20. At a time when partisanship is sadly high in Maine, Chris is the kind of fellow that will listen to and work with anyone. He is bright, hard working, analytical and will look for the best common sense solutions to help solve the problems we have in Maine.

Just a reminder to all the hard working people in Maine to be aware that if you make over $250,000, your tax breaks are going to expire. Of course that is for a couple. It’s $200,000 for a single person.

Wiscasset Redskins/ Wiscasset Warriors. Canadians, Frenchman, Flatlanders or those people — from away. It certainly is interesting what a word or phrase will invoke in the emotions and takes on money and time. We could do something more important things like put people to work, cure cancer, teach our kids.

The Biscay Road and School Street have been ditched, had new larger culverts installed and paved. There is no telling how much longer we might have had to wait if it had not been for the hard work of Senator Trahan and Representative McKane. They personally brought the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation down here twice, they called and wrote to the DOT incessantly and we can see the results.

It was something of a surprise to find out Monday morning someone in the U.S. Senate attached a rider to a routine defense appropriations bill that if approved, would have repealed the half-baked Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, which was forced on the military during President Clinton’s watch in 1993.

There is never a good time to start an unpleasant conversation. Anyone who has ever had to be the bearer of bad news knows that.