Less than a year ago I wrote a Letter to the Editor. At the time the Piper Village developers had just failed to hoodwink Damariscotta voters into enacting the so-called SmartCode.

The accident on Mills Road during the Damariscotta-Newcastle Memorial Day parade is the talk of the towns this week.

The town of Waldoboro, like many communities everywhere, has seen both glorious days and dark ones. The glorious ones are well documented by the Waldoboro Historical Society and are glorious indeed. The dark days, fortunately, have been relatively few and the community remains one of the most idyllic spots in which to live.

Memorial Day – beautiful morning – good crowd – nice parade. Over the years I’ve gotten used to spectators, old and young alike, not removing their hats or even standing up when the American flag goes by.

We’ll admit it, given our choice of putting in a day at the office or squeezing in some R&R at the beach/lake/camp/cottage with a barbecue and summer time beverages, we’d as soon take the latter.

With all the numbers being casually tossed around about how much money each town in RSU 12 pays, let’s look at what the Superintendent and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of RSU 12 have used in past presentations, along with statistics from the State Planning office.

For the past 10 years I have fought the odds to keep Boothbay Harbor’s only movie theatre open year round.

It may have been the great tennis player Chris Everett who said that watching the great tennis player John McEnroe throw one of his temper tantrums on the court was a lot like watching an artist produce a masterpiece and then deface it with a can of spray paint.

As one who attended, and suffered through, the entire Republican State Convention a little over a week ago, and is still recovering from it, there are several thoughts flowing through my muddled mind.

This is to all the generous customers who donated food during this year’s “Help Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive.

Newcastle curmudgeon, postulated that a traffic circle where Academy Rd. and Rt. 215 meet Bus. Rt. 1 is a bad idea. I disagree.

I cannot support RSU 12. I do not like to just pay and have no say. It seems like the RSU thinks we all have the capacity to pay more taxes. Well, we do not have the capacity to pay more taxes!

There’s an old story that relates the tale of a young mother who was preparing to roast a ham.

In public service, much like parenthood, real progress is made by doing the little things; showing up on time; paying attention to the details. In practice it comes down to hard work rather than applied philosophy.