Our taxes are paid according to a mil rate determined by the cost of maintaining our town. The mil rate is multiplied by the assessment of your property value.

During this time of year, when town budget committees, boards of selectmen and town administrators are working diligently to craft a budget for their towns, Lincoln County Healthcare employees and administrators are likely to hear concerns that our organizations don’t pay property taxes.

The folks at the Lincoln County Communications Center are a daily part of life at The Lincoln County News. We hear their voices over the scanner as we go about our daily bustle. Most of the breaking news stories we write starts with them.

Lincoln Academy has been a pillar of this community for more than 200 years, and this Friday we celebrate the opening of two new buildings that will support our mission and greatly enhance our students’ experience.

I have lived in Waldoboro for over 27 years and have seen the Waldo Theatre open and close its doors under various directors. The first show I saw there was comedian Tim Sample.

We can’t imagine there is a person alive today who hasn’t been touched by cancer in some form, shape, or fashion.

As far as diseases go, cancer is the great equalizer. It is no longer the deadly scourge it used to be, but it still makes victims of us all.

The LePage administration is proposing to merge Maine’s Bureau of Public Lands with the Maine Forest Service, in order to further its goal of increasing timber harvests on our public lands.

This is a terrible idea.

Okay, Mr. Slason, we have read your rant on Israel Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, concerning his speech delivered before Congress, Monday, March 4.

In regards to the article on Bristol’s town meeting (“Bristol voters approve all 53 articles at town meeting,” LCN, 3/19/15, Page 1) my neighbor Mike Alderson raised legitimate points questioning the policy of paving low-use gravel roads.

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.

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.

We can see summer from here … almost. This being Maine, another Nor’easter or two before the end of April still would not surprise.

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.

Whenever we make public appearances on behalf of this newspaper, we almost always field variations of three questions.