Dear Editor:

As a former selectman of Boothbay Harbor and native of Southport, I have always stayed close to my roots and followed town events with enthusiasm. As the years pass, the ways change, and like most folks, we find our sources of information coming from social media.

Several months ago, a very important change that would have greatly impacted the economic growth in Boothbay was voted down by the public in part because of the way it was presented to them but also in part by the misinformation being spread online by the Facebook page titled “Boothbay Region Online.”

I had a mildly irritating conversation with the woman who runs the page, and suggested that if she wanted to represent the region, she should do it in an unbiased way or put her name on it and not represent herself as a voice for the peninsula.

Jump ahead to this week when, much to my surprise (I had disliked the page), another flagrant attack on Mr. Coulombe and another local business appeared on my news feed posted by Boothbay Region Online. What I believe are misstatements, wrong facts, and personal attacks do not constitute a great way to represent the community that I love on the World Wide Web. I again suggested in a respectful way to the creator of the page that she put her name on it. As is her right to do, she banned me from the page and deleted all of my posts.

She pointed out if I did not like it, just leave the page. Been there done that already! My point is this. Does the Boothbay region want to be represented by a person that clearly has an agenda but does so in a manner that makes it appear she speaks for the region?

Jennie Mitchell Jones
Florida