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  • Letter: Elect Sanchez to SAD 51 board

    I am writing to encourage School Administrative District 51 residents to vote for Gigi Sanchez for School Board in the upcoming elections. I know Gigi through youth athletics, specifically girls lacrosse. She is a “roll-your-sleeves-up” person who is generous with her time and talents...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • The Universal Notebook: Pictures of childhood

    One of the prize artifacts of childhood in our family is a photograph of my mother, age 4, standing on the wheel of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis as it sat on the sands of Old Orchard Beach in July of 1927. Two months before, Lindbergh had made history by making the first n...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • Letter: Beem has it wrong

    I'm dismayed at Edgar Allen Beem's poor understanding of our country's founding principals. He thinks we are somehow entitled to "equality and common good," yet derides a waitress for having an opinion. Apparently that waitress doesn't deserve equality, or common good. Whats up...

    Opinion •
    Monday, August 3, 2009 at 9:40 am

  • Letter: Problems with same-sex marriage

    The apathy of the citizens of Maine before the Legislature's vote on same-sex marriage was apparent. Emotionalism has strained the citizens. They will respond to the grand folly that was passed by the Legislature and the governor. The citizens had a sensible measure of tolerance. Today it is a ...

    Opinion •
    Monday, August 3, 2009 at 9:00 am

  • Letter: Credit Cumberland credit union

    I write in response to the story in your July 23 edition about the Atlantic Regional Federal Credit Union coming to Cumberland despite objections from some residents. While I do not live in Cumberland and wish to take no position on the issue, I thought your readers might like to know how the commun...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  • Letter: Forestry on Falmouth town land

    Falmouth is about to consider a significant management change to 758 acres of its publicly owned forest land: to authorize forestry operations on an ongoing basis. The parcels affected would be Blackstrap Hill, Hadlock, Woods Road, the Nature Preserve, North Falmouth Community Forest, Falmouth Comm...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  • The Universal Notebook: Glenn Beck, the 'Libertarian Limbaugh'

    Last week, the Portland Press Herald published a full-page paid "Letter to America" in which President Barack Obama was described by Berwick waitress Beth O'Connor as "a progressive Marxist who embraces policy that violates the very foundation of a moral and free society." S... 80

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:20 am

  • Global Matters: From Raymond to Rwanda

    What do you call a non-profit organization that educates and empowers women in a strife-torn country, sells their crafts and artisanal works using Amazon.com's bar coding, warehousing and distribution systems, pays the women 50 percent up front, and then shares 100 percent of the profits with them? ...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

  • Letter: Cundys Harbor Library success

    Through the generosity of local businesses, our patrons and the public, who donated and bought books, the Cundys Harbor Library had a very successful book sale on July 17 and 18. Thanks also go to the donors of goods and services which were raffled off at the sale. A meal at the ever-popular B...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 9:50 am

  • Letter: Pownal, Durham lose in RSU 5

    Freeport has controlling votes over RSU 5. Having resolved ourselves to that fact, Pownal is trying to work within this consolidation to give our children the best education. In a neighborly gesture towards Pownal and Durham, Mr. Regier, a Freeport voter, made a motion to leave the curriculu...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 9:40 am
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