This is everyone’s chance to go “full Marie Kondo” with spring cleaning as they sort out what to donate to the 12th annual Attic, Basement, Closet Rummage Sale sponsored by the Round Pond Schoolhouse Association.

The first edition of Lincoln County Magazine for 2019 – Outdoors — will be hitting shelves in late May, and there is still time for advertisers to appear in the magazine.

While one is often tempted to venture out in search of information, it is often the case that one need look no further than right under one’s proverbial nose for answers to what one wants to know. This is certainly the case as far as my fellow employees here at The Lincoln County News go. In the following Q&A, they share some of their springtime home-and-garden tips:

Tables are selling quickly for the Lincoln County Yard Sale to be held at the Central Lincoln County YMCA in Damariscotta on Saturday, April 27.

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, in cooperation with Maine Resource and Recovery Association, is again offering local residents the opportunity to improve soil and conserve water right in their own backyards at deep discount prices.

Spring is here and along with it is Bristol’s annual recognition of the late Elmer Tarr, who walked from his house to Pemaquid Point nearly every day for many years and picked up the trash along the roadside.

The second April project of the Waldoborough Historical Society will be its first 2019 indoor yard sale, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14 from 8 a.m. to noon at the West Waldoboro School/Community Building, located on Bremen Road in Waldoboro.

At the Bristol Area Lions Club meeting on Monday, April 1, Lion Chris Leeman received his 10-year chevron from Lions Club President Brendan Donegan.

Lincoln Academy, in Newcastle, has a mystery it would like help solving. Does anyone know who made the fish-shaped weathervane that sits on top of the bell tower spire? Does anyone know why a fish was chosen? Does anyone know why there is an “X” in an oval in the body of the fish?

On March 27, the board of the Damariscotta River Association-Pemaquid Watershed Association, now a unified organization, adopted the name of Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.