On behalf of many of Maine sheriffs, police chiefs and prosecutors, I would like to send kudos to Senators Susan Collins and Angus King following their recent announcement that Franklin, Oxford and Cumberland Counties will receive $9 million in Head Start funding. As a member of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, I know this funding […]

This letter is in response to Carolyn Davis’ letter Aug. 6, 2019. President Trump is not the one that wants to divide this country. It is the radical left that is trying to destroy this country. It has been a known fact for many years that Baltimore has been plagued with drugs and rats. In […]

Here’s the second installment of what loyal Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson viewers on Fox (Carlson actually called claims of rising white supremacy a “hoax” despite FBI statistics to the contrary) aren’t hearing. Conservative columnist Russ Douthat cites Trump’s “obvious moral vacuum, the profound spiritual black hole, that lies beneath his persona and career.” That […]

I wanted to take a moment to applaud Gov. Janet Mills for her bold and firm stance to address the climate crisis surrounding us. The governor recently signed the “Act to Promote Clean Energy Jobs and to Establish the Maine Climate Council.” The legislation finally acknowledges climate change is an issue that must be urgently […]

On August 22 there will be an election to fill two vacant seats on the Paris select board. One of the candidates is Carlton Sprague. He graduated from OHCHS in 2008. He is a veteran with a wife and two children. He is the chairman of the Norway/Paris Fish and Game Sportsman Show. Carton believes […]

My manifesto of hope: • Immediately prohibit sales of all assault style weapons (let the FBI define which guns qualify) and large capacity magazines; • Immediately initiate the buyback of existing assault-style weapons, as defined by the FBI, as was done in Australia; • Pass laws criminalizing any attempts to alter any weapon to make it […]

After looking at the 20-or-so democratic wannabes and then at the current occupant of the White House, I am reminded of a movie titled ‘The American President’ from the mid 1990s. In  the movie, President Andrew Shepherd, ably portrayed by Michael Douglas, gives a speech in which he (twice) utters the immortal phrase: “We have serious […]

I think I know why all the shootings are going on in this country. It’s all the negative news you see day in and day out on the news media. This is in print, television and the internet. Never any good news shown, oh maybe a 30-second bump at the end. What do you think […]

Jared Golden’s “Unity of the country must come first” is a misleading and superficial piece of writing that does not properly address the full ramifications of the Mueller report. The most glaring weakness in the op-ed is Rep. Golden’s glossing over of the entire second volume of the report, which investigates whether the President committed […]

I am writing this letter to address a problem that has affected all life on earth for over 100 years and continues to cause both illness and death to a “huge”, but unknown number of humans world wide. I am talking about smoking, i.e. cigarettes. It is a known fact that tobacco use is a […]