“Cockamamie:” “ludicrous, nonsensical”, American Heritage Dictionary.

The Newcastle Selectmen have apparently decided not to put the proposed Village Center zoning changes to March Town Meeting. That’s a sound decision, but probably won’t end the matter.

Healthy Kids has been serving Lincoln County families since 1985 with parent education, home visiting, and school-based programs whose mission is to strengthen families and prevent child abuse. The current budget environment has significantly impacted Healthy Kids and led to restructuring and staffing changes.

Seems the stimulus bill package includes monies for those $40 coupons to purchase digital television conversion boxers. If you read about these boxes, the words, “available from $40-60” is noted. In reality, they are not available here for $40 and the taxpayer ends up paying the $20 plus out of pocket.

A suggestion to a very noisy nation, (in more ways than one): Quietly contemplate your constitution.

The letters on these pages of LCN have resonated from differing words through rational or scriptural eyes. Although there may be more ways to come to agreement, it hasn’t happened yet.

Right up there with, “you call that music?”, “now, that was real dancing!” and the classic “close that door, did you grow up in a barn?”, one of the most time honored parental refrains is “money doesn’t grow on trees.”

On Jan. 27, the voters of Jefferson showed their approval of the Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) plan for the Lincoln County School System by an overwhelming margin.

On behalf of everyone at Youth Promise, I would like to sincerely thank all the members of the Lincoln County community that supported and attended our show, Guys in Gowns, Feb. 7.

The water was likely still dripping through the ceiling at the Damariscotta Hannaford’s before rumors were flying around town.

Initial reports received here at The Lincoln County News office outlined a collapsed ceiling with people uninjured. The truth of the matter was far less dramatic. After workers discovered a problem, store officials determined there was a public safety issue and decided to close the store until the situation could be stabilized.

Dear Newcastle citizens: the Newcastle Planning Board intends to present to the Selectmen a revision of our Zoning Ordinance for the Village District.

Presented under the banner of preventing sprawl and establishing a pedestrian based downtown, the proposal would radically alter Main St. (Bus. Rt. 1) in Newcastle.

In regard to the recent debate on whether or not we should adopt a National Health Care System, I would like to raise the following points:

First, is this system permitted under the Constitution of the United States? The preamble says, “We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Major Ken Mason looks every inch like the former Marine and career lawman that he is. Although his co-workers at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office can trade tales about Mason’s polished sense of humor, the Ken Mason the general public is more likely to see is the one with the practiced deadpan expression and the burn-a-hole-through-you glare that anyone who has been on the wrong end of a traffic ticket would recognize as an invitation to pipe down.

News from the Legislature.

Want to know where all the decent jobs went? Go down to the store and read the “Made In _____” labels. Want to know how to get them back?

Publish a list of tariffs to be levied on imports and watch the merchants scurry around for U.S. made products to fill the pipeline.

Here’s a trend no one predicted: pregnancy. Stand in a grocery checkout line and see the headlines about which celebrity is pregnant; which one has a new baby.