Wiscasset voters will have a series of choices they can make if they vote to leave RSU 12 Nov. 5. The actual cost savings of these choices is significant in some cases and involves changes as to how and where we educate our children. The most important fact is that we take back budget control in all cases.

The noted philosopher Yogi Berra once opined, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Facts are the most important issue regarding the upcoming vote to decide to ban or continue to allow the allegedly, “cruel and unsportsmanlike,” hunting practices currently used in the state of Maine when hunting bears. There are three hunting practices at issue: Hunting using foot traps, dog packs, and food placement (training the bears to feed in specific places). These three are referred to as “trapping, hounding and baiting.”

If you have read all three pieces of Kim Fletcher’s review of the Affordable Care Act, the first phases of which kick in Oct. 1, then you about as ready as anyone for the future to get here.

As a former member of the Newcastle Board of Design Review, I deplore the tentative approval of Lincoln Academy’s application for a new dormitory.

You know that queasy, sinking in your stomach you get when you watch a friend throw themselves headlong into a boneheaded mistake that even a blind dog can see is only going to end up costing money and time and grief?

How to find resolution when one group wants a variance to enable immediate construction of a 58-foot high building and others want fairness with a process that any applicant would have to endure.

Thank you to all who came to the Lincoln Theater to enjoy the rebroadcast of the “Audience” starring Helen Mirren.

Recently I wrote about the importance of Maine’s farms. In this column I’d like to look at another critical source of locally produced food: seafood; and what the Legislature has done to support Maine’s tradition of harvesting from the sea.

Hooray for Lincoln Academy! Ever since leaving Lincoln and my hometown Damariscotta 62 years ago I have followed, through the LCN and the newsletters, their progress and expansions.

As we put this edition of The Lincoln County News to bed this week, it is literally 12 years to the day; at the time of this writing, almost to the hour, of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The voters of Maine should write to U.S. Representatives Michaud and Pingree and to Senators Collins and King to urge them to vote “No” on President Obama’s resolution to attack Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons.

Early Monday morning we were hit by a lightning strike, which caused at least two electrical circuits to fail, three of our phones to die and a propane gas leak.

On Sept. 10 two of the biggest towns in Lincoln County will vote to settle budget matters left over from their June town meetings.