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DNA Is Topic of Skidompha Genealogy Club’s February Meeting

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Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta hosts a free monthly Genealogy Club that welcomes family history researchers of all levels of expertise. February’s Genealogy Club topic is “You’ve Received Your DNA Results — Now What?”

Benefit Supper to Help Rebuild Bailey Home

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A community potluck benefit supper will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, from 5-7 p.m., to help rebuild the home of Merrill and Shirley Bailey, which was destroyed by fire. The benefit supper, organized by the First Baptist Church of Nobleboro, will be held in the gymnasium of Nobleboro Central School, 194 Center St., Nobleboro.

Edgecomb Eddy School News

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Mark the calendar

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 4 p.m.: Lincoln County Spelling Bee at Bristol School

Waste Watch

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Can you believe it’s February? I hope I don’t jinx us, but it’s been a pretty good winter so far. The days are getting longer and February is a short month. Before you know it we’ll be complaining about black flies.

Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags

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On Wednesday, Jan. 25, four members of Pemaquid Watershed Association’s Keep Pemaquid Peninsula Beautiful Committee traveled to Augusta to witness an important hearing in front of the Maine Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Mick Devin has co-sponsored L.D. 57, a bill to ban single-use plastic bags at all points of retail checkout in the state.

Marilyn Kaye Weatherbee

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Kaitlyn E. Look and Dylan J. Weatherbee, of Damariscotta, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Marilyn Kaye Weatherbee.

Samuel Daniel Boggs

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Kayla and Jacob Boggs, of Warren, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Samuel Daniel Boggs.

SBHS Miles Presentation Rescheduled

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The South Bristol Historical Society’s presentation on Samuel A. Miles by SBHS member Stan Wells has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Rutherford Library, 2000 Route 129, South Bristol.

New Tool Helps Oyster Farmers Prepare For Changing Ocean Chemistry

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For Bill Mook, coastal acidification is one thing his oyster hatchery cannot afford to ignore. Mook Sea Farm in Walpole depends on seawater from the Gulf of Maine pumped into a Quonset-hut-style building where tiny oysters are grown in tanks. Mook sells these tiny oysters to other oyster farmers or transfers them to his oyster farm on the Damariscotta River where they grow large enough to sell to restaurants and markets on the East Coast.

Fifth-Grader Wins GSB Spelling Bee

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With the correct spelling of the word “marooned,” fifth-grader Mica Houghton secured his victory in the Great Salt Bay Community School spelling bee Friday, Jan. 27.


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