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Being Thankful

To the Editor: The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office has much to be thankful for this year. While it would be easy to talk about negativity given all that has gone on – we want to turn ourselves to what we are thankful for.

Keep school project alive

To the editor: I appreciate the comments made in the Valley Times from Marc Chasse and Pat Labbe, both from Fort Kent, with respect to Fort Kent turning down $100,000 in state funds for the new school which was proposed to be built in Frenchville.

So very sorry

To the editor: What an opportunity for the St. John Valley when the state of Maine offered $100 million to build a state-of-the-art school. All students of the Valley are deserving of a new school. All schools we currently have are in dire need of major repair.

The good old days

To the editor: I remember when hunting deer in Allagash was quite an adventure. Along the way we saw deer hanging from all the sporting camps, which were full of hunters trying to get their big buck.

Use the $100 million or lose it

To the editor: Just about one year ago, at a school board meeting in Fort Kent, whereafter the board decided to hire a law firm, a comment was made that SAD 27 taxpayers would be funding that law firm and likely 50 percent of the opposing law firm for Valley Unified.

Listen to the scientists

To the editor: The COVID-19 virus is nothing more than a bunch of proteins surrounding replicating material called RNA whose main mission in life is to replicate and multiply.

Wear blue on Nov. 20 in support of Valley Unified

To the Editor: Soon (December 31st), final decisions will be made with regards to the Valley Unified School.

Valley Unified teachers speak out

To the editor: The Teacher’s Associations from SAD 33, SAD 27, and Madawaska wholeheartedly support our superintendent of schools, Ben Sirois, as well as the new regional high school project. We feel that no site selection process would have been perfect or would have pleased everyone.

Soul-searching recommended

To the editor: $100 million rests on the backs of seven school board members of the SAD 27 school district.

The gift of freedom

To the editor: I turned 18 in 1967 and that year was my first vote. I forget what I voted for but I did vote. Not long after I volunteered for Vietnam, and if I remember right, I did vote while I was there. I have been voting off and on ever since.

Ranked choice on the ballot

To the editor: [At the] last go-round, Republicans were royally cheated out of our first choice of Bruce Poliquin by this diabolical system the Democrats hoisted on us called ranked-choice voting.

Maine deserves a leader, not a bystander

Coronavirus has undoubtedly posed a new and unprecedented set of circumstances for Mainers. Fortunately the Paycheck Protection Program -- authored by our very own Sen. Susan Collins -- helped small businesses and countless Maine workers get through the worst of the economic shutdown last spring.

Collins gets my vote

To the editor: Through Senator Collins’ leadership Maine veterans have gained a powerful voice in Washington, ensuring we have a strong advocate for veterans’ issues. Now more than ever we need Susan’s continued leadership. As a veteran from Caribou, I am proud to say that Susan is my senator.

Why my vote won’t be for Biden

To the editor: In answer to Meghan Walsh’s letter to the Times [Oct. 7, 2020], explaining why she is voting for Biden, here is why I will not vote for him.

We need Collins’ experience

To the editor: I have followed Senator Susan Collins’ career closely for the past 24 years that she has been in office. The current campaign she is in to get re-elected to the U.S. Senate, and the caliber of the opponent she has running against her, is possibly the nastiest and most twisted with misinformation I have seen to date.

School system controversy benefits no one

To The Editor: I hit the nail on the head in my Nov. 16, 2019, letter to the editor in the St. John Valley Times -- “The Entire State Is Watching” -- when I wrote, “Fort Kent, priding itself as the little town that can, will forever be known statewide as the little town that cried.”

Welfare statistics don’t add up

To the editor: I have said many times that not all Republicans are liars, but I have found that they all hedge, obfuscate, and exaggerate the facts in order to get themselves elected.

In appreciation of a County woman

To the editor: Thank you for the excellent article about Glenna Johnson Smith. She was an extraordinary person.

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