Harpswell Anchor

When Maine's lobster industry looks back on 2022, we'll likely remember the challenges — high bait and fuel prices, low dock prices, shortages of marine supplies, and a complicated legal challenge that threatens to end the fishery as we know it.

Thank you for including pictures from the recent production by Harpswell Community Theater in your December edition ("Harpswell Community Theater returns with pair of one-act plays," Pages 12 and 13).

My wife and I are retired from careers as librarians and library science faculty. We hold library cards for Orr's Island, Curtis Memorial, and our library system back home — Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.

I stopped by the Harpswell Neck post office on the morning of Christmas Eve. I had a question on a delivery. It was dark inside due to the power outage. I took a chance. The main door was unlocked, so I went in.

I read the article "Longtime Orr's librarian out as board pursues new vision" with deep disappointment and disbelief. The Orr's Island Library has become the Harpswell institution I love most in the five years I have lived here.

Your recent email mentioned that you wanted news of events from nonprofit organizations. I have one upcoming: my 75th birthday. Since retiring, I have certainly become nonprofit, and I'm as organized as my wife can make me.

As my final term in the Maine Legislature draws to a close, I write to thank the people of Harpswell for allowing me to represent you in the Maine House for the last eight years.

I enjoyed reading Joann Gardner's article about Marjorie Johnson ("Marjorie Johnson: Bailey Island's favorite poet," November) and I'd like to add that her book, "Songs from an Island," is, at last, available in a reprint edition.