Kudos to Auburn Planning Board member Riley Bergeron and the current Auburn City Council for listening to the hundreds of citizens who both put up signs and signed petitions that protested against the proposed housing development between Gracelawn Road and Lake Auburn. It now seems that the developer of the project has come to the […]
The word “woke” is a term used with disdain by right wingers like failed presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. If being caring and compassionate and embracing diversity, equity and inclusion makes me “woke,” then I’m 100 percent woke. Bob Mennealy, Lake Worth, Florida
At night in bed, pre-sleep, when it’s just me and the Lord, I thank him for allowing me to grow up in a post-World War II middle class Lewiston, Maine, neighborhood that, to me, was taken right out of the pages of the Saturday Evening Post. Back when life was a lot simpler, peaceful and […]
Though I now live in Florida, I’ll always be a Mainer at heart. We still pay taxes in both Auburn and Newry. Kudos to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for removing the insurrectionist from Maine’s ballot, at least temporarily. If not abiding by the results isn’t election interference, what is? P.S. Slavery caused the […]
I heartily applaud U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s change of heart on banning assault weapon sales after the Lewiston mass shooting. When I was young and healthy I was an avid hunter of both deer and ducks, neither of which required the use of an assault weapon. Banning assault weapon sales to the public, which was […]