Help! All of the hostages have not been freed. There are approximately 4,500 peole being held hostage in Calais by our local gas dealders and their scandalous prices ($1.33 9/10 for unleaded regular). We are being brutally assaulted by a rubber hose and nozzle.

We hear word from the outside the gas in Portalnd is $1.05 a gallon and in Bangor is $1.07 a gallon. Surely, this cannot be true!

Seeing that no one in Augusta will sent anyone to negotiate our relief maybe someone from a community-minded company will come to our rescue.

They capped the oil wells of Kuwait, too bad they couldn’t cap the gas pumps of Calais. Don’t tie a yellow ribbon around a tree for us, make it green, as that’s about the only thing green we have left.

Shirl Campbell

Calais