To the Editor:

Marjorie and I would like to say thank you to all of the people who have stopped to talk to both of us while we are in the local shops or walking on Main Street.

As an emergency physician at Miles Memorial Hospital and former head of clinical research at a Cambridge, Mass. teaching hospital, I hope to provide some insight into the debate on Damariscotta’s water fluoridation, an issue set for a town vote on Nov. 8.

To the Editor:

I would like to take a minute to thank all those who supported me for the Ethel N. Kelly award…

On Nov. 8, the towns of Newcastle and Damariscotta vote on a ballot issue regarding whether to continue the fluoridation of the municipal water supply. This is an important public health issue…

On Friday afternoon, Aug. 26, I arrived at the Hannaford’s Supermarket at Damariscotta Plaza to pick up some last-minute items for a late afternoon puffin boat tour planned with my friends and family.

Ten years gone on Sunday and we can still recall the images, burned into our national retinas, the pain as immediate as if the wreckage still smoldered at Ground Zero.

This year, we couldn’t put 9-11 in our review mirror fast enough.

It is an ugly occasion, made all the worse for the wounds it annually rips open. It stings a little bit every year, more so this year, being a decade down now.

Generally speaking we favor good ideas wherever we find them. Also generally speaking, we think saving money is a good idea.

To the Editor:

I take great exception to the letter to the editor published Sept. 22, 2011 written by Carl Scheiman. (“Support for theology at the expense of humanity,” Page 4.)

To the Editor:

Instead of suspending students for wearing and refusing to remove their breast cancer awareness bracelets, Medomak Valley High School administrators should be celebrating the students’ involvement.

To the Editor:

I am saddened by the Obama administration’s position on the economy.

To the Editor:

I have always been proud to be a Great Salt Bay parent, and have been singing the school’s praises for the eight years my children have been students there. Now the research backs up my parental enthusiasm.

To the Editor:

In November, Damariscotta and Newcastle residents, who share a municipal water system, will vote on whether to retain fluoride in that system.

We live in an interesting time when the need for public relief is as great as it has ever been, greater by volume than even the famed Great Depression; at the same time the shared resources for helping the public are stretched thinner than ever.