If you have business at the State House in Augusta in the next two weeks, take a minute (between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) to enjoy the current Arts in the Capitol exhibit, due to close Friday, November 14. Among the 20 artists whose works have been chosen by the Maine Arts Commission for display is Edgecomb's Ramone Hanley-Warren of the Damselfly Gallery on Route 27, a triad entitled "Out to Pasture I, II, and III." Call ahead for your tour, 287-2121, working hours M-F.

The Stewards of the Sheepscot will be meeting today, Nov. 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the Wiscasset Municipal Building Hearing Room, and also on Wednesday, Nov. 12, same place and time.

Parent-teacher conferences are scheduled for Monday, Nov. 10 at the Edgecomb Eddy School. Call your child's teacher or the school at 882-5515 for details.

The Town Tax Collector reminds you all of two deadlines:

1. Applicants for the State Tax Amnesty Program should file before November 30. Anyone who owes unpaid income taxes may apply and pay only the taxes owed and half the interest; all fines will be forgiven.
2. The Property Tax Circuit Breaker deadline for filing is December 31. This program returns money to people who pay more than 4% of their income on real estate taxes.

There is an income limit for couples and singles, but for details about either of these programs, call the Tax Collector at 882-7018, or visit her during Town Office hours, Mondays 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 to 5 p.m..

The Late Hurrah: to Lindsay Leone, who with two teammates scored for a Wiscasset 3 to 0 win over Lisbon HS October 9th in a Mountain Valley Conference soccer match.

If the sky is clear Saturday evening at 6:30 p.m., step outside and watch the full Beaver or Frost Moon eclipse! It will be completely covered by Earth's shadow at 8:06 p.m. (I'm quoting the astronomy column in last Sunday's Portland paper) and will remain so for about 25 minutes. The MST says, try to predict the color the moon will be during eclipse; it will depend on atmospheric conditions. The moon will pass out of our "umbra" at 10:04 p.m. This is early enough, and on a weekend, to boot! for children to enjoy the experience. Depending, of course, as always, on the weather. For more about this, and the Leonid meteor showers due the mornings of Nov. 18 and 19, call or e-mail the Central Maine Astronomy Society: Max Arnold 586.5111, Colin Cassie 549.3338 or the CMAS website, www.clary.gwi.net/cmas.

And in that connection, has anyone been able to see the aurora borealis the weathermen say is being caused by great sun spots? I hear it is colored a startling red! Scanning the cloudy skies .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.