Just a few short weeks ago some readers here debated the priorities of the Catholic Church regarding monies raised for Earthquake relief in Haiti versus its funding of the political campaign to restrict same sex marriage in Maine. If any additional evidence was needed to demonstrate that priorities are indeed misplaced, Bishop Malone certainly put his money where his mouth has been when he revoked $17,400 this year and $33,000 next fiscal year for Preble Street’s Homeless Voices for Justice program, which serves the poorest of Maine’s poor every day.

I am not personally familiar with the situation at Maine Float-Rope Company, but I am versed with laws and expectations surrounding contracted workers.

Through a glass darklyTraditionally, this newspaper’s editorials are more or less a weekly position statement for this newspaper’s ownership. As the editor, crafting each one falls to me. Sometimes it’s a collective effort, sometimes not, but the specific wording is always mine.

At the heart of every YMCA are the staff members and volunteers who make a difference, who exemplify the Y’s core values, caring, respect, responsibility and honesty. The CLC YMCA has volunteers in its walls every day making a difference. I would like to recognize some of those volunteers.

This is the first time I felt so much empathy for someone falsely accused of a crime. Karl Tarbox was asked to drive this person home from the Montsweag Roadhouse one and half years ago on Halloween eve, because she had too much to drink.

I was so sorry to read about the resignation of Mary Bowers as Superintendent of Great Salt Bay Sanitary District, particularly since it resulted from having to work the past five years in an adversarial relationship with one of the trustees.

As of this writing, it has been exactly 252 days since Steven Kaler’s truck crossed the center line and collided head-on with a Jeep operated by Harold Benner on Union Road (Rt. 235) in Waldoboro, killing the 63-year-old grandfather instantly.

July 8, 1988, my 65th birthday; a day I will never forget. I watched the TV to see a young man arrested for a crime he did not commit. Since that day I have felt that a miscarriage of justice was done, but I also felt that it would be straightened out.

To the Editor:

Well, the RSU 12 budget was voted down again for a fourth time. Now, the school board feels it’s the voter’s fault that the RSU doesn’t have an approved budget. So the board wants to get rid of us voters and approve their own budget. How about that?

This corner has been extremely critical of the state’s school consolidation effort.

To the Editor:

We all knew it would just be a matter of time before the topic of same sex marriage moved to the front burner again.

To the Editor:

On Monday, March 1 Miles Memorial Hospital League begins a new era. This is the opening day for our new Thrift Shop/Rummage Sale at the Wheeler Building, 114 Church St. Damariscotta.

To the Editor:

If your reporter John Maguire correctly quoted Lincoln County Commissioner Lynn Orne in a story about a Southport suicide, Ms. Orne needs some education.

No case is harder to accept than the homicide of an innocent child killed at the hands of an adult caregiver. Unfortunately today there are simply too many of these cases. That is why I have spoken out against the Governor’s proposal to cut state support for our regional Child Abuse and Neglect Councils.