Dear Editor:
In response to Pamela Mancuso’s accusations (Letter, May 1):
I was at the gathering on the Boothbay Common on April 19. It was 100% a peaceful event…
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Contributing to the financial challenges of…
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Times like these challenge one’s mettle and compel voters to decide what they truly value. My wife and I are ineligible to vote in Edgecomb’s town elections…
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Dear Editor:
We write to support the nomination of Stuart Smith for Edgecomb Selectman. A life-long resident of Edgecomb,…
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In case you missed it, the US Coast Guard is proposing to remove hundreds of navigation buoys up and down the coast. Several markers in the Boothbay Harbor area are on the hit…
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Dear Editor:
Forrest Carver is running for the select board in Edgecomb. He is preeminently qualified for the position.
Forrest has been a life-long resident of Edgecomb. College-…
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“L’etat, c’est moi.” Thus Louis XIV summed up his theory government during the Golden Age of France: “I am the state.”
It was the apex of royal absolutism; the king held…
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Dear Editor:
Stuart Smith has lived in Edgecomb his entire life, attending Edgecomb Eddy School, Wiscasset High School and the University of Maine. I feel strongly that Edgecomb needs…
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Dear Editor:
I would like to encourage Edgecomb voters to vote for Stuart Smith as selectman. He has proven experience on the select board and planning board and has…
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Dear Editor:
People need to read our Constitution!
Our forefathers wanted to keep government small and controlled by the people, with elected representatives. We have too many…
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Dear Editor:
The rally held on the Boothbay Common on Saturday, April 19 was a bad idea.
It's one thing to exercise our Freedom of Speech. It's another matter to…
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Dear Editor:
The April 17 edition of the Register included this headline: “directors say emergency meeting without notification…
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Dear Editor:
I am writing to urge voters to become more informed on the upcoming November referendum on absentee voting.
If this referendum becomes law, you’d no longer be able to…
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Dear Editor:
Under budgeting of expected revenue in the Edgecomb school budget is a serious…
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Dear Editor:
I would like to echo the Brennans' support, for Forrest Carver as he runs for selectman in the town of…
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Dear Editor:
Our Senator, Susan Collins, is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. That committee will hold a session on Biomedical Research: Keeping America's Edge on April 30.…
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Dear Editor:
You think you are immune from the atrocities that the Trump administration is doing. Think again.…
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Victoria "Tory" Paxson is a BRHS graduate, the parent of a BRES student, and an engaged and committed community member who cares very much about the future of our schools. I’m…
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Dear Editor:
I’m writing to ask that you vote for Peggy Splaine for re-election to the consolidated Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor School Committee, (the CSD) at the election to be held on…
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Dear Editor:
I have a worldwide reputation as a designer of recreational boat electrical systems. I work with a local company in Woolwich to supply equipment for these projects. I am…
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Dear Editor:
I would like to thank Senator Collins for her leadership in supporting access to telehealth services by introducing the bipartisan Connect for Health Act along with 59 other…
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Dear Editor:
Special thanks to Leigh Sherrill for her years of Southport columns. Her love of the people and place shone through every week. It has been a while since our parents lived on…
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Dear Editor:
In 2017 the Edgecomb School Board embarked on a program to increase the number of nonresident tuition students attending the Edgecomb Eddy School. Apparently, this was…
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Monopoly of political power is the defining characteristic of all dictatorships.
Minority parties have used and corrupted democratic institutions, where they pre-existed…
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Americans are faced with the paradox of dealing with enemies of an open society while maintaining those ideals that define that society. Such is the…
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Dear Editor:
Who’s afraid of the big-bad-governor?
Wielding the sword of corruption.
The no-bid contracts/audit scandal is nothing.
The Red Chinese pot growing…
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Dear Editor:
We are writing to support the candidacy of Forrest Carver for the Edgecomb Select Board. As a lifelong resident of Edgecomb, Forrest demonstrates a broad understanding of the…
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Dear Editor:
In a recent letter to the editor, Denise Griffin makes a number of inaccurate and misleading accusations about the financial management of the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor School…
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Dear Editor:
In the third week of March, I found that there was an open seat on the Water District Board of Trustees. That was past the date to file papers.
This…
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Dear Editor:
Another mechanism whereby the Edgecomb school board creates large surpluses is the over budgeting of expenses. The most obvious example is the over budgeting of contracted…
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Dear Editor:
It’s game overtime. Do not allow the cocaine sniffing, hot tub culture to rain on our parade. Trend setters and profit takers. Wall Street bows to and worships Wall Street. The…
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Are sending towns willing to pay more than the state tuition rate to send their students to BRHS? Our school board and trustees should be asking that simple and straightforward…
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Dear Editor:
I like to think there are three types of people's personal finances.
1- The type who…
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Dear Editor:
I am writing to encourage people to use common sense. Years ago I read a book about the inner workings of our government. Politicians on both sides are controlled by their…
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Dear Editor:
I have made a mistake. I misunderstood the water district's website. I though that Holly Stover had an ex-officio position because she is our representative. I filed nomination…
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Dear Editor:
To my fellow Edgecomb residents:
I am excited to announce my…
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Dear Editor:
I, along with countless other former Boy Scouts who had the privilege of having Joe Stover as our Scout Master, were saddened to learn of his recent passing…
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Dear Editor:
Many of you may have heard about the recent cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This federal organization has the mission to “advance, support, and…
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Dear Editor:
Things in the East Boothbay United Methodist Church are rocking!
This coming Sunday, Palm Sunday, we are hosting a community breakfast at 9 a.m. where everyone of all…
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Dear Editor:
As a Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library trustee, I strongly oppose any efforts to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an institution vital to the success…
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Dear Editor:
How could our school superintendent run up an architect’s bill of over $200,000 without any prior board approval, potentially leaving local taxpayers on the hook?
And…
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Dear Editor:
I listened closely to the March 24 joint Trustee/CSD school board budget meeting. Here are my takeaways:
The proposed FY26 school is up a whopping 9.2% excluding…
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Dear Editor:
Shakespeare may not have been right.
Based on the current kerfuffle between the administration and the legal firms, maybe the smart move…
