Opinion

2 years ago

Grateful for this caring community

To the editor:
“What a blessing!” my parents exclaimed.
Living far from our extended family in Korea, my wife and I often send them photos of our children.

2 years ago

Starting my next chapter

First, let me congratulate The County for merging our local weekly papers.  I think this was a great idea and I hope it will I inspire a larger paper with strong editorial content as well as more local news and sports.  Local journalism is so vital to our democracy, particularly during these days.

2 years ago

Celebrating life with poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay was brought up on the coast of Maine in Camden, where she settled with her mother and two sisters after leaving her birthplace of Rockland and moving from town to town. 

2 years ago

Apology to the greatest generation

To the editor:
Jan. 27 was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. At 3 p.m. that afternoon in 1945, Soviet army scouts entered the remnant of an extermination camp, Auschwitz One, the main camp.

2 years ago

The chaos caused when words sound alike

Words that sound alike are called homophones. For teachers of English as a second language, this is often an irksome, necessary and, at times, amusing exercise.

2 years ago

Where’d that phrase come from?

As I was having an interesting conversation with a friend recently in which many “idioms” or unusual expressions were used, I started wondering where some of the more colorful expressions we use in everyday language come from — knowing, of course, that these must all be rooted in history somehow.