I’ve been living in our great state of Maine for 32 years, and I’m tired.I’m tired of negative campaigning during election years, which gets worse every cycle. Every election cycle we hear the same complaints about negativity, and every cycle all the candidates do more of it. Why? Because in our current system, it works.
Thank You, Jack
How often we hear the term hero used when watching the nightly news, but seldom do we hear the term used to describe an individual whose heroic deeds occurred 70 years ago, because they have been long forgotten.
Nobleboro’s One-Room Schoolhouses
This past Saturday evening, Clete and I had the happy opportunity of attending the Nobleboro Historical Society’s pot luck supper and program about the town’s one-room schoolhouses.
HOPE SPRINGS
We can see summer from here … almost. This being Maine, another Nor’easter or two before the end of April still would not surprise.
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS … OR SOMETHING
Whenever we make public appearances on behalf of this newspaper, we almost always field variations of three questions.
KEEP YOUR WORD
Gov. Paul LePage’s move to withhold funds for conservation projects until the Legislature approves his plan to increase timber harvests on public land might otherwise have our support, except for one detail.
Unfairly Burdens the System
I commend Newcastle Selectman Pat Hudson for her political courage in speaking of the plight of town property taxpayers at a recent public meeting. Mick Devin, our State Representative, organized that meeting in February to discuss changes in our municipal property tax system.
The Best Education Possible
To those Bristol voters who cast their vote for me to return to the Bristol School Committee for another three-year term, thank you. Those who run for office do so for a variety of reasons and my goal is to make a concerted effort to give our rural children of Bristol the best education possible.
‘TIS THE SEASON
We have almost made it. It’s March. We have survived the deepest, darkest doldrums of what, by most accounts, was an exceptionally dark and dreary winter. The clocks spring ahead this weekend, spring is on the horizon, and honest to God, these days you can hear birds chirping in the morning, if you are lucky.
It’s Not Right! (Revisited)
Just a short response to a statement made in a letter from Craig Elliott in the Feb. 19 issue of The Lincoln County News. Maine does not have the most millionaires per capita of any state.
Wimpy is as Wimpy Does
I am one of those terrible grammar grouses who deplore the sapping of strength from the English language.
Why is JVS Having Such Difficulty?
In the past few years, Jefferson Village School has continued to be plagued with issues hovering over the day-to-day activities involved in educating its students. It seems that money shortages are always present and the sports field issues, although improved, still remain unresolved.
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Media and social commentators were all aflutter last week with the news convicted murder Billy Flynn is set to be released from prison in a few months.
What’s Going On With Our Website?
What’s going on with our website, www.nobleborocares.com, and why are we buying ads in this paper to promote it? We pose a question to the people of Nobleboro: “Is a lack of attendance at our annual town meeting, town committee or board meetings evidence of a non-caring attitude?”
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