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  January 22, 2012

  Subscriber misses lovely photos by Phelan, Molloy

  When I began subscribing to the Kennebec Journal a few years ago, I often clipped and saved photographs taken by Joe Phelan and Andy Molloy -- pictures of farms, of snowy streets, of various animals, of citizens' activities in pretty settings.

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  January 22, 2012

  Why call for another law that will be ignored?

  The Jan. 11 editorial, "We need total ban on drivers using cellphones," calling for a ban on the use of mobile communication devices while driving is good example of the kind of thinking that gives me pause whenever I read a newspaper "Our Opinion" piece.

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  January 22, 2012

  Three municipalities could share one police station

  The towns of Oakland and Winslow are in the same boat as Waterville -- in desperate need of new police stations. So why don't the three municipalities pitch in and buy/build a station on Kennedy Memorial Drive?

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  January 22, 2012

  Students stymied by questions needing creativity

  Last night on the NBC national news, I was struck by a piece about college applications today.

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  January 22, 2012

  Use TANF to cover needs of people with disabilities

  I believe this is a subject that needs to have as much attention drawn to it as possible.

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  January 22, 2012

  Palmyra petitioners seek to sell former school

  Many of Maine's towns are trying to figure out what to do with their small school buildings after the school closes.

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  January 22, 2012

  2012 bringing out the good in many of us

  Those resolutions many of us made at the start of the new year seem to be disappearing and life once again is becoming busy, stressful and, at times, overwhelming.

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  January 21, 2012

  Unwanted pregnancies the issue, not abortion

  Once again men, women and children joined hands at the State House to protest abortion, and once again I ask myself, “Why is abortion the issue?” Isn’t unwanted pregnancy the issue? Isn’t birth control the issue? Why is there such a need for abortions today when safe birth control has been available for years? Why […]

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  January 21, 2012

  Use gadgets to access info to get healthy

  I read with amusement the two opinion pieces in your Jan. 17 edition about the “illness care system” and the bankruptcy filing of the Hostess Co., bakers of Ho Hos and Twinkies. Some 45 years ago, I worked at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. My boss, Margaret Dolan, sat […]

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  January 21, 2012

  Techno-toys turn up volume of good, bad messages

  George Smith’s recent column, “All our techno-toys give us more outlets to behave rudely, crudely” shines light on a troubling attitude that pervades parts of our society, namely a belief that ability to use communications technology is somehow anathema to humane values. I submit that Smith has confused the relationship of cause and effect with […]

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