Edgecomb Wants You! Nomination papers for candidates for town office to be voted on Friday, May 21, 2004, are available from February 26 to April 6 at the Edgecomb Town Clerk's Office, Monday evenings 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Offices to be voted for are: one Selectman/Assessor of Taxes/Overseer of the Poor for 3 years; one Town Clerk for 1 year; one Treasurer for 1 year, one Tax Collector for 1 year; one Road Commissioner for 1 year; one Member of the School Committee for 3 years; two Members of the Planning Board for 3 years each. Call the Town Clerk during the above hours at 882-7018 for more information.
Tonight, Thursday, March 4, at 7:00 p.m. at the Edgecomb Town Hall, will be the first of two Planning Board informational meetings concerning proposed amendments to several ordinances and a new Resource-Based Subdivision Development ordinance. The second is scheduled for Saturday, March 13, at 9:00 a.m. These two meetings will be followed by a Public Hearing on Thursday, March 25, also at 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall, to approve the final wordings which will appear in the 2004 Town Warrant to be presented at the Edgecomb Town Meeting, Saturday, May 22. It is essential that the public take advantage of this opportunity to give the Board your vital input!
Three Edgecomb eighth-graders at Wiscasset Middle School have had an adventure! Foxy Buck, Matthew Peters and Ali Finnegan have been spending their spring break in Prague, the capitol of the Republic of Czechoslovakia! They were visiting yet another Edgecomb friend, William Brewer, who is going to school there for a six-month period. Can't wait to hear all about it!
The Friends of Fort Edgecomb have a serious need. Anyone who owns and operates a small boat, please volunteer to serve as the safety boat for their Battle of Fort Edgecomb the weekend of June 12-13. This is very important in terms of legal and insurance requirements!
FOFE also needs help with firewood for their several re-enactment campfires. Anyone willing to donate even 1/4 cord will be welcome-–the more who donate, the smaller the amount each person would have to give. FOFE Treasurer Laurel Dunn estimates the group goes through 1 to 1 1/2 cords a year. For more data on both these needs, call Laurel at 377-5335 or e-mail mldunn7@netzero.com.
Happy to hear that Patty Veilleux got her collie Nicky back safely! Glad to see the construction of Anderson Horticultural's new complex on Route 1. But sorry, sorry, sorry, to hear of road accidents to Heidi Gagnon, Andi Burt and Linda Blum.
Interesting write-up in The Boston Globe Magazine for Feb. 15 about the "Cubist Cabin" designed and built by architects Katarina Edlund and Scott Slarsky on the River Road.
Tuesday, March 9, 6:30-7:30 p.m., the fourth in The Morris Farm's Food for Thought lecture series, "Factory Farming and Pastured Meat," presented by Lee Straw, a MOFGA director and fifth-generation Maine farmer who owns a diversified organic dairy, sheep, and egg operation.
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office seeks Edgecomb residents' assistance to reduce the number of 9-1-1 hang-up calls and business/residential false alarms. "These services place a large demand on our staff annually and divert valuable time away from criminal matters and victim assistance." If you need to call 9-1-1, be sure to give your location, and stay on the line until the operator tells you to hang up.
As I mentioned last week, the Bicentennial of Fort Edgecomb is coming up in 2008. This should be a Town fiesta! Think about wild and crazy ideas for celebrating! Call Matt Dunn, Friends of Fort Edgecomb President, 377-5335 to find out more about it. Also on the horizon: the Bicentennial of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln in 2009. Suggestions for activities or tributes, especially those with long-term educational or historic significance, are welcome by the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, but they have to get them now! In order for the Commission to report their plans to Congress in June. Go to www.lincolnbicentennial.gov and click on "Your Ideas."
Looking far, far ahead from 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.