We would love to be the good news newspaper. We would love to be the good news newspaper all the time. Unfortunately, news doesn’t work like that.

Changing Newcastle’s fiscal year from January-December to July-June will effect the timing of the annual town meeting and the terms of elected municipal officials and appointments.

To the Editor:

When I was a child, I, like so many others, marched in parades with my little American flag, proud to be an American.

To the Editor:

About 90 Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 voters turned out Jan. 16 to discuss and adopt a budget for the current school year.

When you read a book, do you read just a sentence or two in a paragraph, selectively? Do you read just a paragraph or two from a chapter? I think not. More likely than not, you read the entire book, from prologue to epilogue. Why not pick up a Bible and read it from Genesis to Revelation? Everything is in there, from dog vomit to eternal salvation. Think of the myriad topics between those two extremes.

What a terrible start to the year we are off to.

It seems that hopes of leaving the doom and gloom of 2009 behind us with the ringing in of the New Year may have been optimistic, but there is still plenty of time left to salvage a really good year out of this really rough start.

This week, we tip our cap to Dr. Allan “Chip” Teel and his effort to provide at home care for elderly residents too healthy to need full-time nursing care and too infirm to live completely on their own.

To the Editor:

I dropped off my 2000 Subaru for servicing at Yudy’s yesterday.

To the Editor:

In The Lincoln County News (“Judge rules Nelson violated South Bristol Shoreland Zoning rules,” Page 1, 1/7/10).

To the Editor:

The vote about consolidation has come and gone. It is time for the voters in Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 to pass a budget for our new school system.

(Regarding “Waldoboro Police make arrest in horse abuse case,” Page 1, 1/21/10)

“Milena, who requested her last name not be published, adopted a mother and baby. The mother was going to be put down due to an untreated knee problem.

To the Editor:

I’m afraid that Doug Wright must have misinterpreted portions of my last letter to the editor, as it was not intended to be in the least condescending or patronizing.

Well, we won’t have Mary Bowers to kick around anymore. Looks like we won’t have Arthur Faucher to dust up, either.

Town managers and municipal superintendents walk a particularly fine line because they are responsible to the public and they usually serve at the whims of a board. They are the public face of their organization; the front line, rarely getting credit for good decisions and usually fielding an inordinate amount of grief for the bad ones.

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