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.

April 18 ought to be Paul Revere Day.

You can call April 21 anything you want. I call it Monday this year. Next year it will have a different name.

A new study appearing at Princeton’s website may test assumptions for some of us readers. For others, it will be a grim vindication of what we already suspected – the United States of America is no longer a democracy, but rather an oligarchy.

In response to Waldoboro’s Ray Perkins Feb. 6 letter, I gathered he is someone against killing and must be a pacifist. Pacifists do not believe in killing and become conscientious objectors to war, and capital punishment. Many are vegetarians or vegans and don’t eat meat.

If we had to pick one person to see an Unidentified Flying Object, it would be The Lincoln County News sports editor Paula Roberts.

Some words of caution if you are thinking about sending your child to the Center for Teaching & Learning in Edgecomb.

It seems that Jefferson finally got a new school bus. When it became known that the old bus would not pass inspection this February, attempts to seek emergency funding for a new bus began.

My mother taught me to write thank you letters, usually for a gift received. This is also a thank you letter for a gift received from my community.

If the matter weren’t so serious, the prospect of little Bremen standing up to the State of Maine over the maintenance of Route 32 might be amusing.