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.

On Thursday evening, March 1, the Waldoboro Fire Department was activated to respond to a possible structure fire at 720 Winslow’s Mills Road. While enroute to the scene, we were advised that the resident was most likely still inside. Following this realization, a series of events led to the successful rescue of the occupant.

So the superintendent of schools doesn’t understand why Bristol voters downed their school budget.

It seems the political tide has turned in Maine; may the nation soon follow. To judge from the evidence of recent referenda and electoral results, our normally sensible Maine center has been shocked back to a more moderating posture – and perhaps even drawn slightly to the left.

We respect and wholeheartedly support the right of Bristol citizens to determine whether to institute a public 4-year-old (pre-K) program at their school. We wouldn’t have it any other way.