Letters

I recently broke my arm when I slipped while putting my ducks in their pen at night. The pain was excruciating, and as soon as I was able to walk into the house, I knew I needed an ambulance.

I was dismayed to read your report about the apparently angry objections of two school board members to a student survey. The story was all too familiar to me.

Need another reason to believe we live in a great community? Well, here’s my Harpswell story: My husband and I were taking our 17-foot Boston Whaler out for the season on a beautiful early October morning.

Harpswell is part of Maine School Administrative District 75, composed of four towns — Harpswell, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham and Topsham. The school board responsible for what happens in our district is made up of members from each of the four towns.

School boards have a challenging role to play in the midst of a pandemic complicated by politicization of public health measures like vaccination and mask-wearing.

I quite enjoyed reading Brian Hirst’s letter (“Moratorium on subdivision development needed,” August).

As Harpswell Coastal Academy heads into its ninth year as a school, we want to introduce ourselves to some and reintroduce ourselves to others.

One day, and one day more And onward they came to the home of problems. Ten HAH men and their truck.

I am one of several people who have contributed a lot of time in developing Harpswell Heritage Land Trust’s Forest Playground, and I have grandkids (and my kids) who love this addition to the HHLT trails.