LETTERS

To the editor: On Monday, July 8, the day before my 84th birthday, I went to the Marblehead Y for my usual water aerobics class. I had been ignoring experiences that should have alerted me that my body needed attention: I woke up on my kitchen floor in a pool of my blood, with no idea what caused the long cut on my scalp. My wife was away, so I called some friends with nursing skills who got the bleeding to stop then ignored their…

To the editor: The lazy hazy days of summer are upon us. Wildfires burn in Canadian forests and the U.S. The skies in Marblehead turn orange. Breathing for some is difficult, dangerous for others. Meanwhile, earlier this year: The administration pays nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money to TotalEnergies so they don’t build a wind farm. The Environmental Protection Agency rejects the scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life, following Project 2025’s plan. Limits are removed on carbon dioxide, methane and four other…

To the editor: We all should thank Jack Attridge for having the foresight to invite the author of “The Indispensables,” Patrick O’Donnell, for his recent weekend visit to Marblehead. While Patrick was provided with the opportunity to visit the annual Glover’s Encampment at Fort Sewall on Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon in our historic Abbot Hall auditorium Patrick provided a wonderful recap of just how significant General Glover and the Marblehead fishermen were to the success of the American Revolution — all of which provided an…

To the editor: Last Thursday, my wife and I were bringing our power boat from its winter quarters in Buzzards Bay back to its mooring in Marblehead. We had some mechanical issues along the way and noticed increasingly slow performance despite apparently healthy engines. The boat seemed stern-heavy, but knowing the hull had never leaked, we thought something must be wrong with the jet drive system. When we reached our mooring at 6 p.m., it was quite clear we had a major issue when we…

To the editor: Last February, I joined more than 250 high school students from across Massachusetts at the State House for a Youth Climate Advocacy Day. I spent the day talking to my legislators about climate education. Massachusetts is a national leader in environmental policy. We set the bar. I am so grateful to have grown up in this state, but there is still more that we can do. There are far too many students who get to high school without ever sitting through a…

To the editor:  As chair of the 2026 Marblehead Festival of Arts Literary Festival I would like to take this opportunity to thank all who attended our events, as well as the presenters and workshop leaders who willingly shared a variety of content to multiple audiences, and the volunteers who so willingly assisted us.  Further, I would like to extend particular thanks to Marblehead's Unitarian Universalist Church. Days before the festival, when we learned that our announced location would no longer be available to us,…

To the editor: The Marblehead Festival of Arts Performing Arts Committee would like to thank the many people and community members that helped us present Performing Arts Concerts @ Crocker Park during our historic 60th Festival of Arts Concerts @ Crocker Park. As always, our lineup required an incredible amount of assistance, and we’d like to acknowledge the tremendous support received this year. Thanks to all of the performers who were great to work with and really gave us their all for these tremendous shows!…

To the editor: Many of the nurses and direct care workers caring for my nursing home patients are from Haiti. The care that they provide is competent and reliable and done with spirit and dedication. The loss of their services constitutes a public health emergency. Our nursing homes are already short-staffed and there are insufficient skilled nursing facilities to meet the demand for short-term and long-term care. Our patients are languishing in hospital waiting for a skilled nursing facility bed to become available. Eric Reines, MDGreen…

To the editor: As I write this letter, I have spent the last four hours listening to the relentless beep...beep...beep of a backup alarm echoing through my neighborhood. My neighbors are replacing their driveway, and one consequence of that construction is that everyone within earshot has been subjected to hours of continuous backup beeper noise for multiple days. Unfortunately, this is hardly an isolated incident. Whether it's road crews, landscapers, utility trucks or construction equipment, backup alarms have become an almost constant soundtrack of summer.…

To the editor: Recently, I had been watching the World Cup soccer games with great interest, and like others, enjoyed the music, singing and sheer delight of the Tartan Army in Boston — kilts and all. A week or so ago, while doing my laundry at Village Plaza, a couple seemed to be having some difficulty with the washing machine. So I approached them and asked if I could help. When they turned around,  I was thrilled to see from their shirts that Scotland and…