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J.D. Rule

2012

Tree growth taps into town tax questions

Are Maine's laws that provide a special real estate tax category for tree growth a necessary component that provides jobs, taxable income and economic prosperity? Or are they a "beggar-thy-neighbor" loophole that allows a few landowners to deflect their share of property tax to others?

2012

Students present state legislators with flag for Lubec

Braving 11-degree temperatures, 24 seventh and eighth graders from the Lubec Consolidated School boarded a bus for the four-hour ride to the State Capitol; all had managed to make the 5:15 a.m. scheduled departure on January 19.

2011

Lubec eyes police department option

Responding to what has been termed a perennial issue, the Lubec Board of Selectmen has established a committee to explore the possibility of establishing a local police department within the town.

2011

Ambulance authority struggles with difficult financial problems

Operating an effective ambulance service is not an inexpensive undertaking, particularly when that service covers an area with a limited and declining population. It is simple economics: operating costs do not go down when the number of people served declines. The cost per person, in fact,...

2011

Young boy fights to recover after swallowing battery

Kacen Pedrucci is lucky to be alive. Sometime in mid-May the 15-month-old boy swallowed a coin-like "button battery" and is now being fed through a tube in his throat.

2011

Students present plan for town flag to Lubec selectmen

Standing tall and speaking confidently, three representatives of the Lubec Consolidated School seventh-grade class addressed the selectmen's meeting on April 28. Emma Page, Seth Doherty and Robert Wallace presented their proposed town flag...