Celebrating America through art: I had the pleasure of spending time with Damariscotta artist Franciska Needham last week as she was readying her Water Street gallery for its May 27 season opening featuring her exhibit titled “America the Beautiful,” which runs through Friday, July 14.
CONGRATULATIONS
From all of us at The Lincoln County News, congratulations to the class of 2017.
Hodgdon Green Happenings
It’s spring! And with spring comes newness, changes, hope, and blessings. One of the major changes taking place at Hodgdon Green, the assisted-living home in Damariscotta, is a renovation of the kitchen, the heart of any home. New cabinets, updated appliances, replaced flooring – all will take place in the upcoming weeks.
Lincoln County Artsbeat
Damariscotta bone artist is UK-bound: Up-and-coming local sculptor Keith Plummer, who appeared in this column back on April 11, announced on May 18 that he was accepted as one of 25 finalists for the Visual Art Open contest, an annual international art competition based in Chester, England whose primary goal is “to reveal and promote unknown artists who are yet to establish their profile in the contemporary art world,” as the contest’s website, visualartopen.com, puts it.
MEMORIAL DAY
The annual Memorial Day parade through the Twin Villages this year will include more than 100 service members and veterans thanks to the efforts of a few community members.
Let’s Support Education, Not Pot-Smoking
The voters of Maine have spoken about funding education, not once, but twice. In 2004, they first made it law in Maine that the state fund 55 percent of basic education, statewide.
Wiscasset Senior Center
Save the date for the next community supper on Wednesday, June 7 at 5 p.m. The menu will feature veggie lasagna, meatballs, chicken tortellini soup, salad, a beverage, and cake for dessert. Reservations for this meal must be made by noon on Monday, June 5 by calling 882-8230. All are welcome!
Just a Thought
Robert E. Regut
The books
I’ve never been interrupted by a commercial while reading a book. There’s no volume control that has to be adjusted for being too loud or too soft. I can interrupt, stop, or restart the program any time I want. I just open or close the book.
The Cost of War
Memorial Day, says the VA, is a “federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people (some 1 million) who died while serving in the country’s armed services.”
Round Pond Column
Memorial Day weekend is upon us, as hard as it is to believe. It seems like yesterday that we were shoveling snow and now we are swatting at black flies, trying in vain to protect ourselves and pets from ticks and complaining about how the traffic has gotten bad already.
Ask the Vet Cat wellness
June is Adopt-A-Cat Month and Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month. Cats can make wonderful companions. Many studies have proven that companion animals have therapeutic benefits. In particular, a cat’s purr helps lower stress and blood pressure. Since taking care of a cat is an important responsibility, read on to help a cat live a long and happy life.
Ill-Served By the Radical Left and the Radical Right
Unaccustomed as I am to reading the headline of a column as an actual part of the column itself, especially since the entire Twain quote was not there, and not in quotation marks, it took me a moment to figure out how Mark Twain related to the agitated screed that Ken Frederic treated us to in his “Another View” column, LCN of May 11. So, I guess the point of his emotionally charged article is denial. But denial by whom, and of what?
Just a Thought
Enough
At one time we had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the human population of the world three times. Decreasing our amount of nuclear weapons was thought to be something, so we were told, that would place us in enormous danger.
A LOW POINT
If you have any interest in politics and the media, I encourage you to attend an upcoming panel discussion and community conversation about real vs. fake news and how to tell the difference.
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