I committed a serious crime in my old hometown once.

It was about 60 years ago.

Who doesn’t like breasts?

Seriously? Do you know anybody who has ever said anything like “I do not like looking, seeing, or thinking about breasts.”

Noam Chomsky, professor at MIT, said: “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

As a parent involved in building the new Great Salt Bay School playground, I helped organize Playground Planning Day Sept. 28.

Next week, on Sept. 11, choices presented at two special town meetings, each present real consequences in the towns of Waldoboro and Wiscasset.

I find it very disturbing, after going to a selectmen’s meeting that was held to consider changing wording in the town charter to authorize the town to be able to go outside the Town of Damariscotta to look for other people to police our town.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s week started badly Sunday when a blistering review of the inner workings of his campaign was posted on the website Politico.com.

I’m sure that all gardeners and lovers of flowers- and surely there’s no one who doesn’t belong to at least one of those groups- are as sad as I am to see the “For Sale” sign in front of Cottage Gardens.

Our volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel are inadequately protected by the Maine Workmen’s Compensation (WC) law. The State allows the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) , the State’s largest WC carrier for our volunteers, to exclude coverage when responding to an emergency until they reach a main road.

How many times yesterday did you remember it was an anniversary day?

An article recently published in another newspaper within the last couple of weeks tells of a bridge design that will devastate the character of an otherwise beautiful New England town. We are once again talking about the South Bristol swing bridge.

Barrack Obama, you spend too much. We cannot afford a president that spends like you do.

Your presence at the next selectman’s meeting at Great Salt Bay on Sept. 26 at 6:30 is greatly needed.

Toward the end of his life, Ed Myers spent a great deal of his time disguised as a kindly old man who volunteered at the South Bristol School where he would help out as needed.