I am one of the Auburn citizens mentioned in Jim Wellehan’s letter to the editor who spoke against shrinking the Lake Auburn watershed boundary at the March 21 City Council meeting. The last geophysical and hydrologic study of the impact area was done in 1993, and even then it concluded that “correlations between the bedrock […]

I wonder, why change the zoning around Auburn water supply? Auburn has many acres of available land to build housing and development on. Who is going to profit from this development? Historically housing with water views and/or near a lake is for the wealthy. We need affordable housing. People should look around the world; water […]

The U.S. Senate recently voted 49-44 in support of a resolution to halt President Biden’s overreaching and unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. I applaud Sen. Susan Collins for standing up for freedom by voting in support of the resolution, and I express my disappointment that Sen. Angus King voted in opposition. In […]

Recent actions by some on the Lewiston City Council have been hypocritical, callous and undemocratic. First the Council decided to take away the public’s voice by reversing course on a referendum to establish a Charter Commission. Then some members refused to vote in support of a highly qualified appointee to the Planning Board and remained […]

Lake Auburn, without treatment, is the water supply for Lewiston and Auburn. But a zoning change passed by Auburn’s city council on March 21 might change that. It would allow development along Gracelawn Road, where there is a gravel pit and an old dump. Wells drilled there 15 years ago showed water flowing south, but […]

I wonder if I’m the only one who plays this game. Drive out Center Street checking the gas prices and drive back to the one that is the cheapest, even if only by 2 cents. Given the upward trend in the cost of gas, I’m considering signing up for a program that will save me […]

One of the most quoted lines of poetry is, “No man is an island entire of itself,” written more than 500 years ago by the great English poet John Donne. These words still ring true today as we all watch the unnecessary horror unfolding in Ukraine. The United States government has had a difficult time […]

I was angered by Sen. Mitt Romney’s comments regarding former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s concerns about dangerous biological labs in Ukraine and their vulnerability in the war there. This situation is exactly what I and others have warned our legislators about for years. (Nuclear proliferation, microbial volatile organic compounds, and bacterial and viral research related to clumsy […]

Some ideas float like lead balloons, and others get traction only to get stuck in the muck of controversy. So, suggesting that Maine take some of its surplus and send it to Poland and Hungary to help them deal with the Ukrainian refugee crisis may seem nuts. But, why not? Very few of us have […]

There is a lot of negative propaganda going on in the United States and around the world by rich organizations that want to control us and divide us for the purpose of making more money and always an increased amount of power. There is a reason that labor unions are discouraged, and deceptive ways are […]