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All Humans Are As One
To the editor: I have read with great interest the articles in Working Waterfront decrying the invasion of tourists, people from away, whatever category we are lumped into, and I would like to add a few comments. I live 10 blocks from the former World Trade towers; saw the people jumping from the 103rd floor,
Well Read
To the editor: I enjoy Working Waterfront, then I give it to our friend here in Weymouth who gives it to his sternman, who loves it, and then he sends it to Ireland for his father and brother to read! Bev Hodges Weymouth, MA
Those who caused problem should correct it
To the editor: The citizens of Harpswell and all other island property owners deserve a reduction in the taxes levied for school funding, which heavily relies on property valuation rather than on income, the fairer measure. Harpswell does not have the opportunity to shelter valuation in TIFs and our population’s household income has decreased in
Salmon: high costs, few benefits
To the editor: In your admirable mission to protect the working waterfront, and the salmon farm industry as a part of the working waterfront, I do not believe that you have done justice so far to the problems with fish farms. The salmon industry claims that salmon farms bring jobs, but they do not bring
Dichotomy
[To Sen. Susan Collins, with a copy to WWF]: Why do you vote for about 100 times more funds for protection of right whale than for research that might be beneficial to Maine lobstermen? Can you please explain this dichotomy? Wallace E. Tobin Harpswell
If we believe right …
To the editor: By now you may have had your fill of comment on Rusty Warren’s column in the February 2003 WWF, but the letter from John L. Clouse of Potomac, Maryland (April WWF) stimulated some thoughts on this which I submit for your review. I apologize for the length of this letter. I have
Corrections and omissions
To the editor: We need to note some corrections and omissions to last month’s article covering the Cranberry Isles Town meeting. This year the meal was hosted and prepared by Ladies Aid as is their custom to do every other year when the meeting is held on Great Cranberry Island. The fare was an astonishingly
Appalled and disgusted
To the editor: I was appalled and disgusted with the partial truths and uncalled for personal attacks displayed by Eric Davis in your April issue. And just at the time I thought an intelligent and constructive dialogue about Maine Land Bank was about to unfold! While both are islands, the differences between the general thinking
“Breakaway” inanity
Congressman and Senators [via the editor of WWF]: If you have not seen the article on page 28 of the April edition of The Working Waterfront, published by the Island Institute, I commend it to you. It describes the inanity of requiring “breakaway” lobster fishing gear in areas where right whales have never been sighted.
Note of thanks
To the editor: For the past two months the Committee on Marine Resources has been conducting public hearings on a variety of bills affecting the fishing industry. I wanted to say “thank you” to all the fishermen who traveled to Augusta to testify. Hearing the different viewpoints and specific information on the issues was an