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ONE MORE TIME

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Once again, we want to remind our letter writers to be civil to one another and to the subjects of their letters.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Letting in the light: “We had an amazing tour of the window restoration work this morning,” was the first line of an email I received from Lincoln Theater Executive Director Andrew Fenniman on Wednesday, Feb. 22. He and theater board member Ted Silar had just come from visiting Bagala Window Works in Westbrook to see the progress on the restoration of seven of Lincoln Theater’s 14-foot-tall windows. I visited Fenniman at the Damariscotta theater the following day to chat about the project.

Truckin’ in America

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Hey there. There’s a verse in an old truckin’ song, “got my diesel wound up and runnin’ like never before.” This is how I felt when I was hammer down, northbound the other mornin’ and I got to thinkin’, what am I gonna scribe about this week? I pondered that, as the miles flew by, “I think I have said enough about our Govnah and the ‘Supreme Tweeter’ for a while. Gotta give ’em a rest! So that’s all I’m sayin’ about those two this week!

Waste Watch

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What can we say about Maine weather? Snow every other day for a week and then temps in the 50s. You just gotta love it? (Or hate it?) Oh well, we’ll see what Mother Nature has up her sleeve for us next. I hope the winter hasn’t created any major problems for you.

GO TO THE SHOW

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We encourage all the basketball fans among our readers – especially Eagles and Seahawks fans – to make their way to Augusta or Portland as the state tournament continues.

Long Cove

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Is it that I’m getting older or is it that I just have too many things to do? Whatever the reason, it seems to take me longer to do whatever the task is at hand and I can only do one thing at a time. The days of multitasking are no longer. With that said, I will try to catch readers up on the happenings of the past two weeks.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Flying Seeds video release: I recently sat down with local musician and empathic healer Emily Sabino to chat about the new video that she and her husband, multi-instrumentalist Lenin Sabino, released on Valentine’s Day. Emily’s mother, as many readers may know, is Newcastle painter Jane Dahmen.

Coastal Economist

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We are about to enter the phase of the year when I avoid driving on River Road between Boothbay and Damariscotta. The frost heaves can make one’s car grow old before its time.

ODE TO THE PLOW GUY

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This winter didn’t really feel like winter until about a week and a half ago, and then it started to feel like winter in a hurry.

Dollar General and Sherwin-Williams

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As a former resident and business owner in Damariscotta, I was quite troubled by the news of pending Dollar General and Sherwin-Williams stores near the heart of town.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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The artist in winter: Walpole oil painter Susan Bartlett Rice currently has a lovely exhibit of 10 of her winter paintings on display at the Bristol Area Library. A mixture of landscape and wildlife paintings, the cheery show brightens the section of the library where it hangs.

Another View A time to choose

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A few years back, Gen. Honore told a persistently obnoxious reporter something like: You’re stuck on stupid. We’re moving forward. In the month since President Trump’s inauguration, we’ve been witness to an equally persistent, obnoxious, and baseless tantrum by seditionists, some Democrats, and much of the news media. Bad behavior by the media is nothing new (i.e., yellow journalism) but an entire Senate caucus behaving like unsupervised toddlers is new to me.

SHOWING UP

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We applaud the decision by Maine Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt to abandon the Maine Department of Transportation’s effort to strip property rights from Sherman Marsh landowners in order to preserve the land and, in turn, receive credits to exchange for the destruction of wetlands elsewhere in the state.


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