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Talkin’ Trash

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The chances are high that if you are reading this article, I am preaching to the choir about minimizing your use of plastic. We do know that the choir needs to step up its work, since both our state and federal governments are reducing funding in most aspects of environmental protection. A state like Maine that depends largely on the ocean for its survival should be at the forefront of commitment. We need to renew and expand our personal commitment, at the least, and encourage our family, friends, and others with our knowledge and practices.

Another View SEE: forgiveness

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A few years ago, my employer sponsored a two-day management seminar and one of my takeaways from it was the rapidly spoken: “What we are now is the result of where we were when.” When refers to what the presenter called a SEE, a significant emotional event. Most of my SEEs in the last few decades have come from homilies at Catholic Mass. Most recently, our priest explained that answering Jesus’ instruction that we forgive others is not about what we feel toward the other person, but rather about what we will ourselves to do. I fear I missed much of what else he said as I tried to ingest the concept of forgiving without feeling forgiveness.

Coastal Economist

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In 1774, German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang Goethe penned the notion that “misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.” In modern times, this sentiment has become known as “Hanlon’s razor,” which directs us to “never attribute malice when incompetence will suffice.”

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Wilde and scenic: There are two things that I find crucial to a good art-viewing experience (in addition to, of course, the presence of good art): adequate lighting and a quiet room. The current exhibit of paintings by Walpole artist Sarah Wilde in the West Gallery of River Arts in Damariscotta, “On the Wilde Side,” hits it on both counts – well, all three, if one counts the fact that Wilde’s art is very good.

WAR OF PETITIONS

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As the war of petitions rages over the Wiscasset Planning Department, we hope town officials and residents will pause to consider alternatives to an all-or-nothing approach.

Long Cove

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Only a six-week absence from my writing this time, and in that time period there has been so much going on that it was either write a column or let my head explode, so I’m choosing to write.

Round Pond Column

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With the changing of the season comes the changing of the hours at a few places here in the village.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Mixing work and pleasure: On the morning of Thursday, Aug. 31, one of my colleagues here at The Lincoln County News, reporter Maia Zewert, and I took a 50-minute Hardy Boat trip from New Harbor to spend the day on Monhegan Island, which is part of Lincoln County and, therefore, part of the paper’s coverage area.

FIREFIGHTER INVASION

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A pair of incidents over the weekend demonstrated the value of our volunteer fire service in Lincoln County.

Truckin’ in America

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As I sit ponderin’ at this here computer, on only my second day of bein’ a married man again after a long hiatus, I’m wonderin’ what to scribble about this week. Been a lot happenin’ in the last week or so, both in the world around me and my own little world itself!

A Paradise within a Paradise

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My husband and I are stewards for the Damariscotta River Association’s Rutherford Island Preserve in South Bristol. It is one of the smallest and newest preserves.

Waste Watch

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I hope you all had an enjoyable Labor Day weekend. It is certainly feeling like fall this week, but I know there will still be some warm days to come.


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