Letters: Advice for Dollar General fight; Penn State rewards mediocrity

Advice for Dollar General fight

I send this letter in response to Evelyne Noel’s letter to the editor a few weeks back.

I live in a small town in Downeast, Maine, (population 1,219). About 4 years ago I learned that Dollar General had purchased property right across the bridge over the Taunton River into our town. We already have a very good local town grocer, and their store fits into our coastal heritage, all we really need except pharmacy. I immediately went to town council to see if there was a way to stop this from happening, they said no, it was a personal sale of property and there were no town ordinances stopping them from building the store. I wrote letters to the editor here, I wrote directly to Dollar General pleading with them to build something that fit our community. (No answer).

Now we have a large cement box store drowning out our “Welcome to Sullivan” sign with its big ugly yellow sign, parking lot lights that drown out our amazing star light sky at night.

There are about three employees trying to cover 12-hour shifts 7 days a week, stocking is a nightmare.

Start by trying to get enough community members involved to buy the property before it’s sold to Dollar General. Follow that up with action in your town to have town ordinances that require things are built to your specification.

I wish you luck.

Penn State rewards mediocrity

Penn State rewards mediocrity, alias James Franklin, a 10-year $75 million contract. Resume: One Big Ten title and that was 2016 when he had the best running back in the country in Barkley; 2 and 13 against top ten opponents; Defeated Ohio State once in eight games; 7 and 17 against Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State; Average finish in Big Ten East 3rd; Finished 4th in east division three times; Four offensive coordinators and three offensive line coaches in his eight years; Never had a good offensive line even with three offensive line coaches; Every year states, I didn’t have the team prepared to play and/or our losses are the result of three or four plays; Making $5.6 million per year you better have the team ready to play every game; This year he didn’t have a backup quarterback ready for the Iowa game; At Iowa it took him several procedure calls before changing snap call; 11 and 9 over the past two years. Don’t buy into his excuse that last year was due to the virus. Every other team in college had to endure the same virus; Never made the playoffs.

As an example, Coach Fickell has been at Cincinnati only five years and has his team in the playoffs this year. Fickell’s salary is $3.4 million per year. Do you think he gets the same talent, has the same facilities and budget as Penn State?

Questioning choice

This is in response to Christine Coleman’s letter entitled “The hypocrisy of pro-life.”

In this letter to the editor Ms. Coleman stated, “If you don’t believe in abortion, prenatal care, or birth control then don’t avail yourself of those services; however, that doesn’t mean you should take away the choice from others to exercise their choices.”

How about taking away the choice the baby is given on whether to live or die? Abortion takes away its ability to exercise its choice. First and foremost, the woman bearing the baby who she is now killing had a choice at the time of conception and that was whether or not to participate in the activity that is meant to produce a baby.