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YOUR TURN

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Damariscotta will soon have a vacant seat on its board of selectmen if no one steps forward to run as a write-in candidate between now and the election June 13. The deadline to file paperwork to appear on the ballot was Monday.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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She’s back: It’s that time again – time for guest columnist Caitlin Cass, the school reporter at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta, to offer readers her interesting, well-informed take on the lively arts scene at her school.

View from Over the Hill Quiet week

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It’s been a quiet week here in the valley. The big rain did make the river roar through. It has also caused problems with my driveway. Our driveway is very long and half of it is on a steep hill, so when there is a lot of water coming down the hill, it naturally ends up running down the wheel ruts.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Watercolor mosaicist: “He’s got all these little islands of color that you can only see up close, but from a distance they make up a cohesive picture.” Those are the words of local painter Polly Steadman, gushing over the work of Damariscotta watercolor artist Paul Sherman at the well-attended April 21 opening reception for Sherman’s show currently on the walls of Savory Maine Dining & Provisions, 11 Water St., Damariscotta.

REPORTERS AND TOWN MANAGERS

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As Waldoboro prepares to welcome its fourth town manager in six-plus years, we have a few words of advice to offer.

Westport Island Column

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Hello, friends and neighbors!

One last reminder about events planned on Westport Island for Saturday, April 29 at the Old Town Hall:

GIVE IT A CHANCE

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As we inch closer to another summer of cars inching through Wiscasset (and Edgecomb and sometimes Newcastle), the Maine Department of Transportation is facing opposition at every turn in its latest effort to ease this historic traffic jam.

At the Speedway 2017 season kicks off at Wiscasset Speedway

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Spring has finally taken hold in southern and central Maine, just in time for the start of the 2017 season at Wiscasset Speedway. As fans and drivers have come to expect the past few years, they will be greeted once again by several upgrades and changes to Maine’s fastest track.

Waste Watch

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We had another very busy Saturday at the transfer station. I have two suggestions that will help to reduce the length of the line that develops on Saturdays.

Ponder & Stir

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“For a tall person the world is a very dirty place because no one bothers to clean above 6’2”.” — Arianne Cohen

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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“By far the greatest number of my poems speak from the heart of a child. That’s probably why students relate to them so well; but adults do too, which makes me suspect that the child we were is still very much alive within each of us.” – South Bristol poet Arden G. Thompson, in the introduction to her 1989 book “Watching Ants.”

From the Legislature No Easy Answers for Maine

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Sen. Dana Dow

More than a decade ago, voters approved a referendum to require the state to fund at least 55 percent of public education costs. Last November we passed Question 2 as a means of providing an additional $123 million for our classrooms. This goes to show that funding our public schools remains a top priority for all Mainers, myself included.

Truckin’ in America

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Well, it’s here. I think it’s here. Well, maybe it’s here … SPRING! Folks, I’ve seen the sun and it even felt warm. I knew that new GPS I bought to help find SPRING was money well-spent! Many thanks on last week’s scribblin’, these are desperate times when it comes to me writing I’ll tell ya. I mean, potholes and frost heaves and toothpicks and politics, they all can rile ya a bit one way or another for sure!


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