I am opposed to reducing the Lewiston Public Library’s weekly hours from 50 to 40 and closing for an additional day. That’s a 20% cut in services to key populations in Lewiston, particularly young people doing homework, others without easy access to the internet at home, and those looking for materials in languages other than […]

The Sun Journal is doing a good job running stories on the trial over the New England Clean Energy Connect. A few weeks ago, Portland Press Herald writer Tux Turkel raised the issue of the costs of legal participation in the trial by Natural Resources Council of Maine. According to the article, NRCM received a […]

Words matter when talking about abortion. So, as the debate over how and where, or even if, the abortion pill mifepristone can be dispensed, we are hearing and reading about the term “medication abortion” to describe its use. Even though “medication” is a term reserved for describing the use of various pharmaceuticals — whether over […]

I am writing to oppose the proposed cuts to the Lewiston Public Library’s budget. Benjamin Franklin started our first public library in Philadelphia in 1731. He later wrote, “This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair’d in some […]

As a longtime (more than 20 years) resident of Lewiston and a longtime user of the library, I was extremely disappointed to hear of the possibility of closing the library one extra day per week. Here are two good reasons to expand library hours, rather than shorten them. My first is that the library plays […]

I write in response to Roger Belanger’s letter (“Some Vietnam Navy vets must now fight for medical coverage,” April 1), regarding the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. In his letter, Mr. Belanger correctly notes that this bill corrected a wrong that denied Navy service members serving in the vicinity of Vietnam a presumptive coverage […]

I wonder why men are allowed to tell women what to do with their own bodies. If men could get pregnant, abortion would definitely be legal. How many men get women pregnant and fail to provide for their baby? Unfortunately, many fathers just disappear, leaving a working mother making minimum wage and unable to afford […]

I ask the Lewiston City Council not to cut the hours and staff of our library. As a Lewiston resident and homeowner, the Lewiston Public Library is where my children (going into middle and high school) go for an endless stream of books. Sometimes those books are for entertainment, and sometimes to support their education. […]

The Lewiston Public Library is a vital community resource. A partnership with the LPL this year allowed my students in the course “French in Maine” to engage with local French speakers in the community in a welcoming space open to all residents. As our partner, the LPL just hosted a well-attended screening of the film […]

The Lewiston City Council is poised to reduce the opening hours of the Lewiston Public Library to 40 hours from 50 a week and close the library one additional day. Losing 20% of its hours and programming would be a major blow to Lewiston’s children and teens at a time when they need more learning […]