I am very glad I live in an area where both high school and elementary school students can work together to achieve success for both their schools and the planet. Hannaford’s annual CLYNK competition recently awarded $2,000 to Lincoln Academy’s Climate Action Club for first place in their division in the state and Great Salt Bay Community School garnered second place with a prize of $1,000. It is not the first year our town had two winning teams in this competition!

I was unable to attend the celebration of Ann Day’s life May 17. It was held at the Lincoln Theatre. How fitting. These are some of the thoughts I may have shared had I been there.

The Trooper: Ann graced the stages of many local theaters over the years. I had the privilege of directing her in an improvised performance we called: “Our Lakes, Our Rivers, Ourselves.”

We haven’t seen it for ourselves, so take this with a grain of salt, but we have heard that foreign nationals are fascinated and amused by America’s obsession with its national flag.

This coming Monday is Memorial Day. Everyone should ask themselves, “What does Memorial Day mean to me?”

I am wondering why the University of Maine’s proposed wind turbine test project, to be located just 2.5 miles off scenic Monhegan Island, isn’t front page news!

I can understand that residents in the neighborhood where Stepping Stones Housing Inc. is hoping to build temporary housing for homeless people would be concerned about strain on town resources, traffic and such, but I was sad to see how the potential clients for this service were described in the April 10 front page article.

Was there ever any bottom line accounting for how much the Boston Marathon Bombing cost last year?

On the corner of our municipal lawn is a monument. Etched on that monument are the names of the many men and women of Wiscasset whose sacrifices have preserved life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the rule of democratic law for all of us.

We were cheered by Waldoboro’s decision to move ahead with the purchase of a 70-foot vehicle scale for the Waldoboro Transfer Station last week.

It seems to me as if politics were now a stand-off between collective citizens (corporations) and individual citizens (like you and me.)

The passing of Shirley Chadbourne brings to mind the downtown Damariscotta businesses of the 1950s and ’60s.

I believe Shirley was the last of the business owners on Main Street of that era. Anyone who grew up in Damariscotta during those years will remember The Woman’s Shop owned by Shirley and her husband Paul. After retiring from The Woman’s Shop, Shirley owned an antique business in Newcastle.

Who else is ready for mud season? We certainly are.

In fact, we are tempted to just skip ahead to break out the shorts and flip flops, except we know better than to be absolutely confident we have seen the last cold snap.

There are two kinds of people in the world – those who want a homeless shelter in their back yards and those who don’t. Anyone who does should let Stepping Stone Housing Inc. know they would welcome it.

Did you know that nearly one in four Maine children, about 24 percent, is food insecure? According to the Good Shepherd Food Bank, Maine ranks 18th in the nation and first in New England in terms of food insecurity. (http://www.gsfb.org/hunger/)