News! News! The Town of Edgecomb is building a website, courtesy Seguin Software, webmaster Stuart Smith in Edgecomb. The site address is www.Edgecomb.org. One link on it is to this column! At present we have notices for the Election, May 17 and the Town Meeting, May 18; also the day and hour schedules for the Town Hall, selectmen and several boards and committees. After May 18, names and contact information of Selectmen and other town officials will be added. Stuart invites anyone, resident or non-resident, to make suggestions for information to be included. He can be reached at the website, phone 882-1188, or FAX 419- 715-0067.

Cardinals are reddening, goldfinches yellowing. And we heard our first spring peepers last week. On the downside, cowbirds are back at our feeder. Lee Waring, who delivers the Edgecomb mail on Saturdays, reports chipmunks are de-hibernating on the Merry Island Road. Several of us have seen buzzards. Thereon hangs a tale: In Miami Florida, the Dade County Courthouse is the winter home for buzzards whose summer residence is Hinckley, Ohio. I wonder where Edgecomb's buzzards migrate to?

Kathleen and George Jones on the River Road report that their daughter Kate, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, has been spending five months in Australia and New Zealand. They expect her return in May. They were able to get together with Kate for ten days during a recent trip to the Fiji Islands.

More new faces in Edgecomb: Lib and Charles Goodrich from Alna have been living on Town Hall Road since October. Charles is retired from BIW; Lib loves to crochet. They have four children, ten grandchildren, and so far, five great grandchildren!

Let us all add our congratulations to Forrest Carver, recently named Wiscasset High School's 9th Grade Student of the Month for March. The son of Davis and Carla Carver on the Cross Point Road, Forrest enjoys lacrosse and serves as a mentor in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Mid-Coast Maine.

Is anyone from Edgecomb participating in the Fisherman's Festival in Boothbay Harbor, the weekend of April 26-28? Please get in touch with me with your details before 10:00 a.m., Monday, the 22nd! I need grist for the Edgecomb news mill.

The Eternal Bypass! Tonight, April 18, 7:00 p.m. at the Wiscasset Middle School, MDOT will be meeting with area Select Boards. Please, everyone! Come and pack the Middle School's cafeteria! After the wonderful Workshop March 30, it is vital that we keep our town's concerns foremost before the MDOT and Wiscasset planners.

Also, of course, the spirit of Paul Revere rides this Patriot's Day! One if by land, two if by sea... and Edgecomb on the opposite shore will be...

While I hang my lantern aloft from 234 River Road, bonesukl@midcoast.com and 633-2978! This column appears in the Boothbay Register, Lincoln County News, Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.edgecomb.org.