Good afternoon.
August 30, already? As classrooms across Maine ready to receive students for a new school year, the editorial board today praises one effort among many others: investment in an elevated numbers of English language learners across our state.
"Appropriate investment in these students fosters a sense of belonging, reduces the risk of pernicious, hard-to-close learning gaps and, as students find themselves better and better equipped to support their families locally, has wide-reaching benefits," reads the editorial.
Elsewhere, South Portland resident Diane Gotelli's op-ed about contaminated water at Willard Beach created a stir over the weekend.
Suggesting that city officials seem "reluctant" to communicate and act on the results of water testing, Gotelli tied the state of Willard and beaches in the same fecal bacterial predicament to "years of neglect and failure to take advantage of billions of federal dollars in grants."
An array of opinion writing on a variety of themes (Rural policing! The fate of Little Dog in Brunswick! Rep. Jared Golden's salty use of "radical leftist elites"!) to be found below.
Thanks for reading.
- Siobhán Brett | 
