River Festival is family-friendly To the Editor:    I’d like to publicly acknowledge and thank the organizers, sponsors and volunteers of the recent Redneck River Festival in Guilford for a great community event.

By Mike Lange     Many motorists whine, complain or curse when they run into a road construction project.

SENIOR MATTERSby Meg Callaway     Most people seem to think that living a long time is a good thing, assuming that we keep our mental faculties, our bodies stay in reasonably good shape, and we remain independent enough to do what we most enjoy.

By Stephen Bowen     In 2005, as the nation fought two wars, the school board for Maine’s largest school district made national headlines for its efforts to tightly limit the access of military recruiters without violating what was then the newly-enacted No Child Left Behind Act.

    September brings glorious late summer days, and tons of learning opportunities.

The self-interest character defect To the Editor:    The atmosphere on Mars is only 1 percent as thick as that of Earth.

By Mike Lange     Back in the heydays of the paper industry, you couldn’t turn around in the halls of Maine Legislature without bumping into a lobbyist.

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By Tom Vilsack     The USDA and the Department of Interior announced a new effort – the Western Watershed Enhancement Partnership – to enhance our forests and protect America’s water supply.

Greenville ‘firing squad’ unnecessary To the Editor:    Recently, in Greenville, at the end of the longest parade of the summer on the muggiest hottest day of the year, Sen.

    Determining an exact date for vital events in the past can be complicated by changes in the calendar and in writing styles.

By Patrick Woodcock     This past January, with temperatures plunging into a deep freeze, the Governor’s Energy Office received a phone call on a Friday from an elderly veteran who was facing the chilling prospect of no heat for the weekend.

   DOVER-FOXCROFT — Widdershins located at 843 Bear Hill Road, has been a part of the Maine Highlands Farmers organization for four years.

Have we forgotten the Fourth? To the Editor:    And yet another Dover-Foxcroft Independence Day has slipped uneventfully, and almost unnoticed into the town’s increasingly blank-paged history.

By Shelagh Talbot     GREENVILLE JCT — The Eveleth-Crafts-Sheridan House on the Pritham Avenue campus of the Moosehead Historical Society is now open for docent-guided tours.

By Alex Hammer     Was it less than four years ago that Mainers, by a narrow margin, elected Paul LePage?    Somehow it seems longer.

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