I am writing with concern about your newspaper and its reporters. I do not feel that your reporters are very professional. Lately, I have found several typing errors and errors in sentence structure. Plus, the "maturity" in reporting professionally is definitely lacking.

For example: "Enoch Petrucelly this week was appointed a defense attorney, Howard F. O'Brien, but he requested that O'Brien be dumped so he can find new representation."

"I do wish to have a lawyer of my own choosing," Petrucelly said, adding that he has two lawyers in mind but he needs financial assistance and further research to find them.

The reporter stating this young man wanted his lawyer "dumped" is not professional reporting. It would have been more appropriate to say that he wanted his lawyer replaced, rather than dumped. Read the quote that followed the sentence. The young man did not use the words "dumped," however, your reporter did. The article appears to be written by a ninth- or 10th- grader in high school.

I read both Bangor Daily News and the Morning Sentinel, and the Bangor Daily News reads much better, is more professional and does not seem to have the typos/grammatical errors that the Morning Sentinel does.

I do not know who is doing your proofreading, but do encourage you to start checking the facts and the actual story itself for errors. This does not reflect well on your paper.

Melissa Richards

Hartland