On Dec. 16, Gov. Baldacci released his supplemental budget proposal to cover the approximately $140 million shortfall in Fiscal Year 2009.

To the Editor:

On Dec. 1, Waldoboro’s Soule Shuman Memorial VFW Post, hosted a very success bingo and benefit for the Kevin Murray Memorial Fund.

To the Editor:

The two letters condemning Rev. Jon Vermillion’s letter supporting the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman is a sad commentary on how far we have fallen in our relationship with God.

I read a terrific article in Forbes by Helman and Bogan, about a wildcatter named Rod Lewis that, believe it or not, is the only gringo allowed to drill in Mexico.

To the Editor:

To all of the residents of Waldoboro.

To the Editor:

As we approach Christmas, I realize many people this year and years past have had a very tough time and I hope and pray things pick up for them and their families.

There is an old fable that tells the story of a good, God-fearing farmer who lives in a town near the mighty Mississippi River.

To the Editor:

Thank you to all who made generous donations to the Wiscasset Town Office for Thanksgiving.

To the Editor:

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies.”

To the Editor:

I extend my deep gratitude to the hundreds of residents in Wiscasset, Alna, Dresden and Pittston who greeted me as I campaigned door to door.

To the Editor:

My name is Carolyn Cushing Moore Mattern and I am writing about my brother Sheldon Scott Cushing “Skip” who passed away Aug. 11, 2007 from lung cancer. I am his little sister.

To the Editor:

Amid all the pandering, distortion, contentiousness and rancor of the 2008 elections, I notice one very encouraging sign here in Maine.

It says here that Lincoln County is blessed with one of the best firefighting teams in the state, in our case, spread out across the 19 communities that make up our region in a mutual aid network.

To the Editor:

The abortion debate, it will not be settled as long as there is free will and freedom in this country.