Have you seen the refurbished Welcome to Edgecomb sign? Thanks to Bob Foster of Foster's Trading Company, it now gives everyone a cheerful greeting as they come off the Davey Bridge.

Edgecomb election results: Joanna Cameron is new Selectman, Lisa McSwain is new Planning Board member, and Dirk Poole is new School Board member. Lee Smith and Claudia Coffin continue as Tax Collector and Town Clerk/Treasurer respectively. Our great thanks to John Eaton, retiring Selectman, for his years of service.

Among other matters, the Town Meeting voted that long-proposed ordinances creating three commercial development districts be made official changes to the Town's comprehensive plan. Stuart Smith is working on getting all the town ordinances into the Edgecomb website, for our easy reference. Another important matter was general approval to acquire the Hazelton property to join the two at present separate sectors of the Schmid Preserve.

The Mission Outreach Committee of the Edgecomb Congregational Church is holding a baked bean and casserole supper on Saturday, May 25, to benefit the Fire Department's building fund. It will be held in the vestry of the church which is located at the corner of the Cross Point Road and the Eddy Road. The cost is $6.00 for adults, $3.00 for children 6-12; children under 6 free. If you would like to help in any way, call the supper chairman, Gloria Bailey, at 882-6833.

Leila Ripley, daughter of Suzanne Ripley on the River Road, has graduated magna cum laude from the Physician's Assistant program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, second oldest graduate-level medical school in the U.S.

Plaudits and applause for Justin Lewis, son of Manon Lewis of Edgecomb, graduating from Boothbay Harbor High School, on the school's Honor Roll. He will be attending Pratt Institute in NYC, majoring in industrial design.

"Chat and Check" meets again on Tuesday, May 28, at the Edgecomb Congregational Church, Gail Boudin reminds me. This combo blood pressure testing service and community get-together meets from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., featuring a light lunch. This particular meeting will also present, around 11:00 a.m., Kitty Norton, yoga instructor, speaking on ways to relax and relieve stress.

The community charette, which met last week to discuss problems and solutions for Edgecomb's stretch of Route 27, recognized the following: At both its notorious "Y" intersection with Rte. 1, and at its slow-down zone from the Edgecomb Pottery to the McKay Road access, speed is a persistent problem. The turn to get into the Edgecomb Post Office is a bad one from either direction. Turning movements onto Rte. 1, particularly left turns, are quite dangerous, with a blind hill to contend with. Thus, it was suggested, make center lanes consistently turn lanes, the outer lanes consistently through lanes. McKay Road needs a more generous landing to accommodate turning school busses and snow plows; it needs better signage to alert drivers approaching it. Elsewhere along Rte. 27, the entries from Mason and Eddy Roads are poorly marked. Imponderable factors are, of course, the impacts of the new Edgecomb school and the Wiscasset Bypass.

Gone are my days of innocence! I have just learned, via NPR and Science magazine, that when male chickadees have their macho singing contests, the female eavesdrops. Even if she is already committed to one male, if the other male is better at singing, she sneaks off with him for a secret tryst, and then returns to the home nest, no one the wiser. Alas! The bird feeder as soap opera!

Pursing my lips at 234 River Road, 633-2978, and bonesukl@midcoast.com.

This column appears in the Boothbay Register, Lincoln County News, Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.