Right up there with, “you call that music?”, “now, that was real dancing!” and the classic “close that door, did you grow up in a barn?”, one of the most time honored parental refrains is “money doesn’t grow on trees.”

On Jan. 27, the voters of Jefferson showed their approval of the Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) plan for the Lincoln County School System by an overwhelming margin.

On behalf of everyone at Youth Promise, I would like to sincerely thank all the members of the Lincoln County community that supported and attended our show, Guys in Gowns, Feb. 7.

The water was likely still dripping through the ceiling at the Damariscotta Hannaford’s before rumors were flying around town.

Initial reports received here at The Lincoln County News office outlined a collapsed ceiling with people uninjured. The truth of the matter was far less dramatic. After workers discovered a problem, store officials determined there was a public safety issue and decided to close the store until the situation could be stabilized.

Dear Newcastle citizens: the Newcastle Planning Board intends to present to the Selectmen a revision of our Zoning Ordinance for the Village District.

Presented under the banner of preventing sprawl and establishing a pedestrian based downtown, the proposal would radically alter Main St. (Bus. Rt. 1) in Newcastle.

In regard to the recent debate on whether or not we should adopt a National Health Care System, I would like to raise the following points:

First, is this system permitted under the Constitution of the United States? The preamble says, “We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Aren’t babies wonderful? The sweet softness of their downy hair, their cute little hands and feet, those innocent eyes . . . they are so precious. To hold a newborn baby is one of the best things on earth. I’m a mother of four– I should know.

A little perspective on your banner quote of Ken Olsen, “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”

The Newcastle Planning Board will hold a public hearing on changes to the Land Use Ordinance that could protect land in several areas of town. The changes to the Shoreland Zone map, mandated by the Dept. of Environmental Protection must be updated to comply with state regulations.

There is an old saying that goes something like, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” In truth, the old saying is probably something more like, “As (proudly insert home state here) goes, so goes the nation,” but we here in Maine can rightly feel that ours is a unique window on national leadership.

From Nov. 24, 2008, through Jan. 5, 2009, the organization known as The Friends of Fort Edgecomb (FOFE) has been much in the news. Let me provide some explanation and clarification of this organization’s mission and goals.

Those of use who have been around the block a few times can remember an almost extinct dinosaur called “customer service”. A decades-old company (Sears) built their reputation and therefore, their business on this same work ethic.

I understand, from recent letter writers to LCN, that you take a meat cleaver approach to letters whose contents you do not agree with.

Joined by the anti-war and anti-Bush liberal print and TV media, the Democrats promoted and extolled the belief that the reason why the USA invaded Iraq was Saddam’s WMDs. Not true! The real issue was and is the threat posed by Syria, Iran and Al Qaeda as manifested by the murder of over 3000 US citizens on 9/11.