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LETTER: Principal holds moment of silence in memory of 9/11

Rebecca Gratz of Deer Isle-Stonington High School led students through the timeline—and a moment of silence—for those lost 25 years ago

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OP-ED: A New York principal’s account of 9/11

She navigated students to safety, plus other thoughts on the national repercussions from the terrorist attacks

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OP-ED: A solution to the ‘squeeze on our Island’

Deer Isle development is in final capital campaign push to house the ‘missing middle,’ writes Stonington’s town manager

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20 years after ‘Tire Tracks’ left a mark

Let’s use the anniversary of a film about burning rubber to shape our shared future

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LETTER: Raising the alarm on surveillance cameras

We shouldn’t allow Flock Safety cameras into our community

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LETTER: The loss of fisheries should be an alarm for humans

Our understanding of the mechanisms of extinction is woefully inadequate, says a Brooklin resident

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LETTER: Platner was a flawed candidate

A Brooksville resident says nation needs dialogue, character and moderation

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LETTER: Movement behind Platner ‘worth fighting for’

Penobscot resident Sonia Turanski says Mainers ‘want a candidate that will fight for working people’

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LETTER: Protecting our ears at community parades

Stonington’s Pat Dobbs asks fellow residents to consider consider the impact of sirens

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LETTER: Still time to reconsider Carrying Place vote

Resident Philip Roberts says voters have an opportunity to protect public safety and ensure fiscal responsibility

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Op-ed: Maine’s working waterfront is not for sale

‘We are now watching in real time a corporate power-grab happening in Maine’s tidal rivers and estuaries’

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LETTER: Israel’s seizure of a castle in Lebanon is like ‘Groundhog Day’

It’s easier to take a bite out of Lebanon than to swallow it and keep it down, says a former war correspondent from Brooklin

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LETTER: May Day strike to protest affordability, wealth inequality crisis

Economic protests are “an important step in rebuilding a civil society”

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LETTER: Streaming is key when “You can’t get there from here”

Streaming public meetings will will lead to greater participation in the debates that shape our town

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LETTER: Same boat, same knowledge, new opportunities

Aquaculture can use the same people and know-how to transition to new areas of the blue economy

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OP-ED: We must never let this be normal

The powerful are keeping us distracted and hating each other

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LETTER: We are inviting more total wars

A Brooklin resident asks what has become of the American rules of war

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EDITORIAL: Because we know you

Local news is still the most trusted journalism in the country. And it’s the only way our story will be told.

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OP-ED: Where is the plan for Maine’s ocean economy?

Investors need a reason to spend money on Maine, but right now the state is ‘dead in the water,’ writes a Sedgwick resident

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LETTER: What good is college without open discourse?

What is the purpose of university system if it cannot foster discussion, a reader wonders