Thanks to The Lincoln County News for sending a reporter to take pictures and create a story centered around Riverside Park.

I want it known, after much consideration, I will not be making a motion to adjourn the May 31 town meeting, and I hope no one else will either.

Lest the reader assume respecting our nation’s colors is something new, the U.S. Flag Code goes back 72 years (1942) and many years before that when citizens were proud of their flag.

With all the letters that have appeared in this newspaper, and after a neighborhood meeting and two board meetings since that meeting, it is time for the community to know the status of the Stepping Stone Housing project at Blue Haven and to clear up a few misconceptions.

We know that Lyme Disease is an inflammatory bacterial infection that can live not only in the bloodstream but can burrow deep in muscle tissue and organs as well.

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/)

As a member of the Wells-Hussey American Legion Post 42 who has spearheaded the project to place flags in Newcastle and Damariscotta, I would like to report that enough money has been collected to not only purchase and place the flags, but also enough to pay for the required liability insurance for this year for the towns receiving the flags.

The Wiscasset custodial staff would appreciate your support at the Wiscasset School Board meeting, May 1 at 6 p.m.

Between the advance of spring and the retreat of winter there are generally a few weeks where the detritus of modern life is laid bare along the side of our roads.

When a leader takes money from the poor and uses nearly one million dollars to pay for fraudulent math to create a $400 million shortfall in Medicaid expansion and does so after having deleted 70,000 working poor from MaineCare access – do we applaud them or scratch our heads and wonder what they’re thinking?

Despite the obviousness of the title we have never, never been able to break away from the touchy-feely granola crunchiness that is Earth Day. We like granola. We like the earth, but the way Earth Day was originally posited to us, it came as some sort of half-cocked hippie idealism and we have never quite gotten over it.