Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • In Ye Olden Times: An omnipotent display

    By Mike Davis Assistant Executive Director Bridgton Historical Society Hello neighbor! Sure is some weather we’re having this week; I kept saying last month with every snowstorm that ‘surely this is the last gasp of winter,’ but waking up to snow last Saturday morning  — even if only a dusting – reminded me again just […]

  • Letter: Duffy

    To The Editor: We have transitioned from a post-Christian culture to a post-rational culture. We “progressed” from a culture where most people believed Christian teachings on right and wrong were absolutes to a culture where right and wrong are now equivalent to mere preferences. This type of thinking is not unprecedented. What is new, and […]

  • Letter: Chappell

    To The Editor: Our freedom does not include the right to risk the lives of others.  Jon Chappell Bridgton  

  • Letter: Plaisted

    To The Editor:  “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” That’s a […]

  • Letter: Casimiro

    To The Editor: Recently, Senator Collins urged the U.S. Congress to waive a requirement of the  Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act that states, including Maine, would not have to match 20 percent of the $400 million set aside for states to safely conduct elections. Is that $400 million necessary? It is six months […]

  • Column: Earth Notes — Giving our immune systems a helping boost

    By Joyce White While the experts in medicine, science and pharmacology work diligently at creating a vaccine to protect humans from COVID-19, there are many things we can do for ourselves.  Most are inexpensive, have no worrisome side effects, are easily obtained, and have a long track record for effectiveness. Many come from plant sources […]

  • Column: In Ye Olden Times — A quite little game

    By Mike Davis Assistant Executive Director Bridgton Historical Society On May 7, 1909, a shocking story broke in The News, which horrified the good people of Bridgton and sent every mother running to see her child home as soon as the school day ended.   There was a new terror on the streets of Bridgton, […]

  • Column: State Representative Jess Fay

    There is no question, these are strange and very stressful  times. For me, like most of us in Maine, it’s been another week at home, and another week of helping our friends and families navigate the greatest public health crisis any of us have ever seen. For some people, bills are piling up while little […]

  • Local legislator voices opinions on Gov. Mills’ plan to reopen Maine

    ‘Governor’s solution is worse than the problem’ By Rich Cebra State Representative (R-Naples) Like most Mainers, I deferred to the scientists and health experts when the coronavirus arrived in the United States and to a lesser extent, Maine. My fellow legislators acted quickly on COVID-19 related legislation, tabled other items, and went home to shelter […]

  • Ye Olden Days: A Temperance Rally

    By Mike Davis Assistant Executive Director Bridgton Historical Society In this week’s report, we are focusing on the resurgence of the Temperance movement in Bridgton during the 1880s.   The ideology of Temperance, or anti-alcohol, had first come to Bridgton in 1829, just over a year after the movement was founded in Portland by William […]