A special Wiscasset Town vote takes place Tues., Sept. 14 on the remaining warrant articles that did not pass from the June election. Although the warrant only has nine articles it involves over $590,000 in appropriations.

If you were ever laid off and your meager unemployment benefits are running out; if you don’t know how to feed your kids and hang on to your house, then you understand why so many Americans are angry and ready to lash out at someone to blame.

As a long-time supporter of and participant in Habitat for Humanity projects, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the local Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine I have been gratified to see friends, neighbors, contractors, and others working alongside the Younker family building the latest Habitat home, on Caledonia Lane in Bristol and I have been very happy to see many of these same people shopping in or donating to the Habitat ReStore in Bath.

Some sage advice to all those deciding to run for office this year:

First: Man or woman, boy or girl, be sure to get your hair cut or styled.

Just a reminder to all the hard working people in Maine to be aware that if you make over $250,000, your tax breaks are going to expire. Of course that is for a couple. It’s $200,000 for a single person.

Wiscasset Redskins/ Wiscasset Warriors. Canadians, Frenchman, Flatlanders or those people — from away. It certainly is interesting what a word or phrase will invoke in the emotions and takes on money and time. We could do something more important things like put people to work, cure cancer, teach our kids.

To the Editor:

It has been a while since the LCN has published a letter to the Editor concerning Rt. 1 traffic going through Wiscasset.

We have been watching this tempest about the proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan with some bemusement.

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Wiscasset Plaza, which includes Lil’ Mart, McDonald’s and First Federal Savings, was held Fri., Aug. 6. Some consider the plaza an eyesore; others a needed increase to our tax base and still others a welcomed convenience.

This summer my life has been dramatically changed by a serious illness. It has been both alarming and disheartening.

This weekend thousands of men, women and children will flock to the grounds of Colonial Pemaquid for the Olde Bristol Days celebration. There will be face painting and food serving, vendors vending, children playing and music in the air.

The strains of the music, the roar of the crowd, you know what that is, really? That’s what the business part of show business sounds like.

There is nothing quite like those cold fingers of fear grabbing a hold of your intestines and giving them a good, chilly squeeze when you round the corner and see blue lights flashing, now is there?

Way back in grade school, I remember a student giving his oral report, mentioning at one point, “Oh – you know what I mean.” The teacher replied, “You know what you mean, I don’t. Tell me what you mean.”