Let us commiserate with the Friends of Fort Edgecomb. Beth Maitland's beautiful quilt, destined to be the raffle prize for the Friends' annual fundraiser, was stolen from its booth at the Cumberland Fair, apparently by someone under the impression that the Edgecomb blockhouse was Fort Sumter in Charleston. We can only hope the quilt will be returned some day.

Welcome to the Eddy School's two new teachers this year, Terry Morrison, teaching the third grade, and Kate Hossler, Special Education Behavioral Teacher. They were introduced at the Edgecomb School Board meeting last Tuesday, Oct. 1.

Our thanks to the Boothbay Recycling and Refuse Disposal Center for accepting our turned-in mercury thermometer and computer card! A good beginning to the "Mercury and More" collection campaign by Lincoln County's Recycling (LCR) Department. This month, through October 23, bring your mercury-containing discarded equipment and materials to the BRRDD transfer station, for collection by LCR; or bring them on Saturday, Oct. 26 to the LCR facility on Huntoon Hill Road. Such equipment and materials include, besides fever thermometers and computer cards: Fluorescent light bulbs, barometers and other scientific instruments containing mercury, electrical switches and relays, mercury-containing thermostats, computer monitors, television cathode tubes, PCB-containing lighting ballasts and the like. If you are not sure, or have other questions, call LCR at 882-5276, Mondays 8 am to 1 pm, Thursdays and Fridays 8 to 10 am.

Enjoying October's bright blue weather at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.