We need to appreciate what people do for the community, and how hard they work. Dr. Christine Welch, she’s the best.

When you think about the history of the Jazz Idiom, few musicians have exemplified this way of expressing a quintessential “natural swing” the way that Muriel Havenstein did.

Next week, famed mountaineer Ed Webster comes to Skidompha Library in Damariscotta for a talk and book signing. The amiable Webster will discuss his five years in Tibet and highlight his pioneering of a never-before-climbed route up Mt. Everest.

To read the national headlines, it seems 2009 could be the year that the newspaper industry goes the way of the Dodo.

However, now would be the time for us to raise a shaky finger and say something like, in our best Monty Pythonesque voice, “But we’re not dead yet.”

It’s hard to tell how fitting it is that we lose two local icons within days of each other this past week, but our losses are certainly in keeping with the tone of the current times.

I want to take the time to thank Barb Bowers, the Board of the Lincoln Theater and those that generously contributed in order to bring the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD to Damariscotta.

We citizens of Wiscasset have tried the town manager form of government for half a decade.

As a taxpayer, I think we voters should go back to a three person select board comprised of people who comprehend the particulars of an historical coastal town intersected by major arterial routes.

There is something about the earliest stages of a power outage that can bring out the little kid in even the most jaded Yankee. At first there is the scramble for the candles, the flashlights, and then the board games and snacks.

To the Editor:

Healthy Kids had a full house at Skidompha Library Saturday night for the 8th Annual Chocolate Fest.

I guess I should take my own advice, and be more vigilant.

It seems the Village Center Ordinance change I have been arguing against is on the Annual Town Meeting Warrant after all. It was part of the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance amendments that the selectmen put off.

To the Editor:

A thought: It is well enough that people of the nation…

Over the years, I have written many articles on the drug companies and their insatiable greed manifested at the expense of we consumers.

To the Editor:

It may interest your readers that in 2008 the Midcoast Green Collaborative conducted 90 home energy audits.

Puppies are so sweet and so cute. Puppies grow up, and all too often, for whatever reason, so many dogs are living their lives day after day tied outdoors. Some people would say, “It’s the family pet!”