What’s going on with our website, www.nobleborocares.com, and why are we buying ads in this paper to promote it? We pose a question to the people of Nobleboro: “Is a lack of attendance at our annual town meeting, town committee or board meetings evidence of a non-caring attitude?”

Over the last three years, through the combined efforts of the Bristol School Committee, administrators and staff, Bristol Consolidated School has made positive incremental changes in the education of our children.

We are not surprised to hear a local fire chief has asked his town to consider budgeting for a full-time fire department position. If anything, we are only surprised many other towns haven’t considered it before now.

On March 25, the Bristol School Committee and school administrators will convene a long range planning committee forum at the 1812 Farm on the Bristol Road in Bristol with the express purpose of discussing the educational direction of Bristol School in the next decade.

Governor Paul LePage laid out a convincing case for his proposed budget in Waldoboro last Wednesday. Granted, he had a receptive audience in the form of the Lincoln County Republican Committee, but it was still an impressive performance given the budget’s complexity.

The state of Maine spends millions of dollars every year fighting drug abuse; from enforcement to care and treatment to broken families and ruined lives.

On Feb. 18, at the Bristol Consolidated School, a propane leak was discovered and reported during the early morning hours. Bristol Fire & Rescue, under the leadership of Paul Leeman and Jared Pendleton, worked in great collaboration with mutual aid towns Bremen, Newcastle, South Bristol and Damariscotta to identify the issue, cordon off the area so that no one had entry to the building and assured the safety of all.

An interesting chain of events has been occurring in Wiscasset.

On Feb. 3 the Wiscasset Waterfront Committee was presented with a Maine Department of Transportation Alternative Waterfront Concept group of drawings, apparently their first public appearance.

It’s a funny thing, how life’s coincidences seem to bunch together. Almost everyone has had those occasions when, for some unknown reason, you just hit a specific run of luck.

By any standard, pumping 2,087 gallons of No. 2 heating oil into a septic system is a monumental screw-up.

It saddens me greatly to report that Janet Elwin’s magnificent quilts have been removed from the Miles Hospital Gallery due to circumstances beyond our control.

Words cannot express the amount of love and support we have received from our friends and neighbors in Whitefield and beyond.

Others have testified to Frank Avantaggio’s contributions to the community and the hospital, and they were immense; and to his surgical skills, which were formidable.

Recent transplants to the Damariscotta area may best know Dr. Avantaggio, if at all, as the kindly old man who tended Skidompha’s Secondhand Book Shop in recent years. By then, Dr. Avantaggio was long established as a pillar of the community.