It’s hard to look at Damariscotta’s Main Street this week and not think of the crowds that packed this tiny downtown this past weekend.

Damariscotta’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk steps off from the parking lot of The First on Damariscotta’s Main Street this Sunday at 2 p.m.

The fact there will be no cost of living adjustment in 2016 for 65 million recipients of Social Security will be acutely painful in Maine, which hosts the oldest population in the nation; and in Lincoln County, the second oldest county in Maine where public transportation is non-existent, community outreach is at best minimal and where 25 percent of the population is age 65 and over.

Question 1 supporters claim that the new law will increase transparency and accountability and return power to the voter. This is total hogwash.

This weekend, even as thousands of revelers descend on Lincoln County for the culmination of the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta, our thoughts turn to the south, toward our fellow citizens in the Carolinas.

I love this peninsula! Yesterday morning while juggling too many bags out to my car at Hannaford, I knocked my fitness tracker bracelet off my wrist without realizing it. When I returned to look for it in the afternoon, I was cautiously hopeful that I’d find it, generally being an optimistic person, but I wasn’t holding my breath.

An ex-busboy will never forget Bobby Kennedy in ways many of us understand. Reading about Juan Romero’s August 29, 2015 memories of an internal cross of guilt that he carried for decades awoke many of my own painful memories, and yet the path of hope was expanded despite the loss of a great leader who died June 5, 1968.

It has been a year since I moved away from “The Sister Villages,” and all my wonderful friends. I miss you all very much and would love to move back. Unfortunately, my children come first and they want me here in “wonderful Massachusetts.” Yuk.

We thank David Pope (LCN, Sept. 4, “Since they keep arguing, I need to keep responding”) for his willingness to engage in an exchange of facts and beliefs about the Route 218/Federal Street 6,000 pound weight limit issue.

He referred to a “detour” of “3 minutes of additional travel” caused by the 6,000 lb. limit on Route 218/Federal Street. Then he stated that “our little detour” has “no effect on the number of trucks going through Sheepscot.”

During an interview on July 30 with WGAN, Governor LePage was asked if he was concerned about investigation now underway to consider an impeachment process.

Not that long ago mankind relied on the environment for a calendar.

You knew it was time to plant and time to harvest by the moon and the stars; the smell and feel of the air and the movement of animals.

It seems many people confuse constitutional rights with getting what they want.

In our line, we see this most often when we decline to publish something for whatever reason. If it’s a letter, and it almost always is, one of the first complaints the writer will lodge is that we have violated their constitutional right to free speech.

For those of us for whom truth and justice are central to our lives, it is time to speak up in support of the righteous demand of the Penobscot people, asserting their sovereignty over their namesake river.

McDonald’s pledge last week to start using cage-free eggs is only a small step in preventing staggering suffering endured by millions of birds.