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Somewhere in Somerville

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This week’s column begins with a couple of announcements. The Somerville town meeting is Saturday, June 17 from 10 a.m. to noon in the gym at the old Somerville School. The town meeting is especially of interest this year due to the recent townwide revaluation. Also, the road engineering report from Coffin Engineering is in, and bids have been taken for the work associated with the plan. There were also bids submitted for the paving of Somerville Road, Jones Road, and South Colby Road.

Summer Benefit Concert at North Nobleboro Baptist Church

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The public is invited to attend a summer concert Sunday, June 25 at 6 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Baptist Church. The church is located at 550 Upper East Pond Road in Nobleboro. Paul Smeltzer and Linda Dolloff Pease will provide the music. The church choir will sing several selections and the congregation will have an opportunity to do some singing also.

Nature Notes Summer frogs

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Most people do not have an opportunity to commune with frogs and their allies, but leave it to children to find and play with them. I would guess if frogs didn’t hop, revealing their presence, most children would never find them. But they do hop, their primary method to escape both playful children and serious predators, such as raccoons, fox, weasels, mink, otters, and owls.

Bristol Road Galleries in Multiple Locations for Twin Villages ArtWalk

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The Bristol Road Galleries group in Damariscotta is participating in the Twin Villages ArtWalk in two ways this year. All four galleries on Bristol Road will be open and, in addition, the work of all four artists will be on display in a tent at the Damariscotta River Distribution at 68 Main St., Newcastle. The Bristol Road Galleries is a collaboration of four artists: watercolorists Jan Kilburn and Kathleen Horst, oil painter Will Kefauver, and sculptor Marnie Sinclair.

Alannah Maggie Michelle Sheppard

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Appolonia and Eddie Sheppard, of Bristol, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Alannah Maggie Michelle Sheppard.

Wyatt Michael Clarence Hilton

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Charlene Wilbur and Christopher Hilton, of Damariscotta, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Wyatt Michael Clarence Hilton.

Daemon Fogleman

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Madison Nix and Jareth Fogleman, of Waldoboro, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Daemon Fogleman.

Washington Schoolhouse Hosting BCS Fifth-Graders

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On Friday, June 16, the Round Pond Schoolhouse Association will host Bristol Consolidated School’s fifth-graders as they tour local historic sites. The students will visit the restored Washington Schoolhouse and its museum. Built in 1885, the two-story building was one of Bristol’s largest schools.

Patricia A. Smith Celebrates Debut Novel

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In New England native Patricia A. Smith’s debut novel “The Year of Needy Girls,” a small town in Massachusetts is thrown into a frenzied witch hunt when a local boy is brutally murdered, an event that quickly turns upstanding members of the community like Deirdre Murphy and her partner Sara Jane Edmonds into targets of suspicion.

Truckin’ in America

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Seeing where Mother Nature doesn’t seem to want to warm us up this summer anytime soon (although as I write this I hear rumors of sun and heat for the first of the week) I thought I would put some extra thought time into my weekly scribblin’s. Now don’t get too excited, it won’t be too much extra. But I did want to touch on a subject that, in itself, is a little touchy. And that is, how do we deal with the ever-rising property taxes in our towns and state?

‘A House Worth Saving’ at Lincoln Home

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The public is invited to a program called “A House Worth Saving: An Architectural & Archeological Investigation” on Monday, June 19 from 3-4 p.m. Tim Dinsmore, a historical archaeologist, will share his investigation of the former Constance Curley House in Damariscotta Mills.

Lincoln County Courts

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James A. Burk, 46, Jefferson, domestic violence assault, Oct. 31, 2015, Two Bridges Regional Jail 364 days, all but five months suspended, probation one year.


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