Letters to the editor - Republican Journal
VillageSoup and The Republican Journal welcome letters to the editor, which may be sent to news@villagesoup.com or mailed to 161 High Street, Belfast, ME 04915. Letters must include a full name and daytime telephone number for verification, as well as town of residence. Please limit letters to 500 words, or arrange to write a guest column by calling the editor at 338-3333. The Journal edits letters for libel, clarity and space. Letters must be received by Monday at 5 p.m. to be considered for inclusion in that week's newspaper.
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Letters, May 16
May 16Questioning Weaver's return The article regarding Mark Weaver returning to Weaver’s Bakery was a piece of fluff journalism at its best. A thorough ...
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Letters, May 2
May 02Praise for anti-bullying editorial Being a retired journalist from a large newspaper chain (Gannett), I know that editorials are never signed, ...
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Letters, April 18
Apr 18Time to mend fences Now that DCP has left town and the Planning Board has denied their application, it's a good idea to look back in review. First,...
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Letters, April 4
Apr 04Slipping through our fingers The loss of a long-awaited grant through a technicality has resulted in staff cutbacks at the Restorative Justice ...
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Letters, March 21
Mar 21A good place to have a baby I would like to share what a positive birth experience we had at Waldo County General Hospital. We travel in the ...
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Letters, March 7
Mar 07Hearings stopped too soon We have now witnessed eleven days of public hearing testimony regarding the proposed DCP Midstream Liquefied Petroleum ...
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Letters, Feb. 21
Feb 21Bad behavior not evenly balanced Your paper has done the most accurate reporting on the MegaTank story to date, however, I must object to some of ...
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Letters, Feb. 7
Feb 07Don't drink the Kool-Aid You may remember that years ago the entire world was shocked and horrified by the the deaths of an entire community of ...
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Letters, Jan. 24
Jan 24Our society promotes violence These last several weeks since the slaughter of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., ...
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Letters, Jan. 10
Jan 10An explosive combination Despite industry claims, liquid propane gas is dangerous. In the last six weeks alone, seven explosions of tanks, ...
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Letters, May 9
May 09Thanks for supporting students On behalf of the Class of 2013, we would like to thank the Belfast Lions Club, and particularly Sandy Sanderson, ...
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Letters, April 25
Apr 25Building community How do you build community? Not by snubbing fellow citizens in the churches, supermarkets and on the streets of the towns where ...
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Letters, April 11
Apr 11Teens questioning sexuality need support No suicide has a single cause, but verbal harassment by peers was certainly a factor in a middle school ...
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Letters, March 28
Mar 28Thanks for the chowder The Searsport Historical Society has a bake and lunch sale every year at our annual town meeting. Residents are very ...
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Letters, March 14
Mar 1410 reasons DCP proposal should be denied My top 10 reasons why the Searsport Planning Board should deny the DCP mega-tank proposal: 10. We don’t ...
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Letters, Feb. 28
Feb 28Practice the Precautionary Principle It's hard for me to imagine a decision by the Searsport Planning Board that would approve a permit for the ...
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Letters, Feb. 14
Feb 14Gun laws we need It seems to me I’ve heard this story before. The further away we and our legislators get from the mindless slaughter that ...
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Letters, Jan. 31
Jan 31Stop the insanity Please do not allow DCP to construct the Liquid Propane Gas tank at Mack Point. Maine's environmental future is too much to ...
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Letters, Jan. 17
Jan 17We're number 1 This responds to Fritz Lyon's guest column Gaga Guns. Per capita, with respect to gun availability and death by gun violence, the ...
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Letters, Jan. 3
Dec 31On DCP involvement in height ordinance As many of you already know, the Planning Board process in Searsport is flawed. We thought we had the ...
