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New Website Will Serve Citizens in Perham, Maine

 

By:  David Deschesne

Fort Fairfield Journal, January 27, 2021

 

PERHAM, Maine - A new website, designed and launched by Perham inhabitant, Steven DeLorenzo is now online.

   Early last year, DeLorenzo and others had developed plans to canvas the town of around 400 people to meet the locals and try to get them interested and involved in matters that are important to the town.  “But then, along came COVID, making that difficult to impossible,” said DeLorenzo.  “So, I decided to create an interactive site for Perham users to communicate with one another and to learn about what’s going on in our small town.”

   The website can be found at www.theperhamchronicles.com and features local news, a community calendar, local history and a swap/sell page.

   The introduction on the website’s home page opens with a positive and uplifting message; “We hope the great citizens of Perham, and folks living in nearby communities who have a vested interest in Perham, will make use of this free community resource. Our mission is to unite the great citizens of Perham, to raise our level of community awareness, to strengthen our community bonds, to give our citizens a voice, and to help to move Perham forward into the 21st century as an example of community integrity and achievement for all Americans to witness.”

   Perham, which is one of the smallest communities in Maine, has a history of struggling for quality leadership within their town.  The website introduction makes the point that; “Our town leaders, historically and currently, seem self-absorbed and unconcerned of the abyss into which we have been falling. Who are they, really? Do we know them? Who voted for them? Whose ambitions do they serve? Do they really prefer the status quo which serves only a select few rather than serving the interests of the majority of Perham citizens? They might look upon theperhamchronicles.com, a free community resource, with disdain and scorn; happy with the status quo, not really caring about our future as a functioning community, but rather more interested in business as usual. Is their behavior similar to that of our national congress which continues to sink our country into unforeseen depths of despair and division from which we may never recover?”

   The website has an option to sign up for membership and looks forward to providing a platform for people in Perham to discuss their views in a free and open forum.