I was amazed by your story on the Bremen Budget Committee meeting. (“Bremen Budget Committee calls for stricter rules on selectmen,” LCN, Page 10, 1/27/11)

Mr. Schaaf wrote a confusing letter to the editor.

Craig Eliot does a great job exposing the loss of local control in his letter.

I commend Susan Connery and Jane Ross for submitting letters to the LCN that appeared in the Jan. 27 edition expressing their disappointment with Governor LePage’s recent “Kiss my butt” response to a reporter’s question.

We love Nancy Wilson.

Nancy, our long time Bremen correspondent and resident general-purpose curmudgeon at large, is as proud and independent as they come. We were alarmed by news of her first car accident Jan. 28 and even more concerned when we learned she had been in a second crash in Thomaston Feb. 5.

Under our representative democracy, it has been my understanding that people are generally encouraged to contact their elected representatives with concerns about legislative issues. After recently corresponding with (District 51 Rep.) Jonathan McKane, R-Newcastle, to express my opinion of proposed changes to the Maine Public Employees’ Retirement System, I was shocked at his terse and rude response.

Early in the legislative session I co-sponsored a bill that I thought, and was told by the sponsor, Sen. Brian Langley, would have made minor changes to laws necessary to conform with federal law related to regulating restaurants.

President Obama says abortion is a private decision and pledges his continued commitment to pro choice legislation.

How bad was it Friday night in Wiscasset and Dresden? It was serious, but fortunately not as bad as it might have been.

This is in response to Jason Simond’s letter a few weeks ago. I went to every one of the G.S.B. 8th grade boys’ basketball games this season. As I sat in the stands I heard a lot of remarks from the spectators on the bleachers. I heard people cheering on the boys and the teams they played on. I heard parents from our team and other teams whom we competed against saying that they wish that their team could just win one or two games in the season. I also heard people complaining about the refs making bad calls, both ways, at many of the games.

Kudos to our new governor this from a longtime “Independent” voter. To those who think he is crass, come on lighten up and smell the roses. He is a diamond in the rough. Look at his first act; to stop the influx of people hoping to get on our benevolent welfare system.

Lincoln County EMA Chief Tim Pellerin’s passion for his profession has brought untold benefits to the county, grant monies received, training programs created, policies adopted; all of which has helped weave Lincoln County fire companies into an even more cohesive force than they were before he arrived in 2005.

I noticed your story a couple of weeks ago in the online edition about delays for your subscribers outside of Maine. (“Post Office delays leave seasonal residents News-less,” LCN, 12/23/10, Page 1).

To use a bad phrase I am in “shock and awe” about the loss of my house and belongings on Jan. 12. I was attaching the plow and stuck in the snow by the barn and, in only a few minutes, the fire got a good start and it was impossible to get inside the house.