Come all ye today, Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. to the Town Hall for the Public Hearing on the Edgecomb Planning Board's proposed Amendments to the Subdivision, Building Code, Land Use and Site Plan ordinances, minor changes to the Shoreland Zone ordinance, additions to Definitions, and a new Resource-Based Subdivision Development ordinance. The Planning Board invites and urges all Edgecomb people to attend. The final wordings of these amendments and new ordinance will appear in the 2004 Town Warrant to be voted on at the Edgecomb Town Meeting in May.
Bone up on the texts of this proposed new ordinance and these ordinance amendments! Here is the link to the Edgecomb website: www.edgecomb.org/selectboard/index.htm
Earlier today, if you're feeling energetic, at 2:00 p.m., the Edgecomb Historical Society is moving its collections from the Town Hall balcony to a small but efficient room just off the Edgecomb Eddy School's Library. Call Sophie Quinn, 882-9326 for more about this meeting.
Come all ye again to the Town Hall, Saturday morning, March 27, at 10:00 a.m., to the Special Town Meeting to ratify the Fire Department's acquisition and accommodation of a 1000-gallon pumper/tanker fire vehicle from a FEMA grant awarded as part of the Homeland Defense program.
Pirates of the Edgecomb Eddy! Swarm aboard the School Book Fair Treasure Hunt Friday March 26, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and/or Saturday, March 27, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.! Pick up a map at the door and follow the dotted lines, solving riddles along the way through the gym. Prizes! On Friday, you can walk the plank into a pot of spaghetti with all the trimmings in the cafeteria. (Adults $5; Children 4-12 $3; under 3, free!). On Saturday at 11:00 a..m. in the Library, a story-teller will regale our Young Swashbucklers with tales of the seven seas!
Nomination papers for Town office are still available from now to April 6 in 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.. Call during the above hours at 882-7018 for more information.
Tuesday, March 30, 6:30-7:30 p.m., the seventh and last in The Morris Farm's Food for Thought Series, "Locally Grown Food," will be presented by Martha Putnam, operations manager of The Farm Fresh Connection which fosters cooperation among Maine's farmers, students, food buyers in health and educational institutions and local communities in order to sustain Maine farms, boost local economies and nurture community.
Art News! Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade announce they have a piece from their Watermark (signal flag) series included in the Portland Art Museum's exhibit, "Another Layer: Selected Maine Quilts," which will open April 8 through June 6.
Non-Art News from the same source: "Our septic system just thawed out! Yahoo!"
New neighbor Carol Rasmussen, soon to move to Mt. Hunger Road East, and I have been learning how to repair books from Pam Dunning, librarian at the Wiscasset Public Library, ever since a workshop in early March. When the dulcet chimes of the really beautiful Federal Era Tall-Case clock sing out at noon, we gather up stuff and head home. This clock was left to the Library by Lawrence Davis in 1995. It was made for his ancestor, Moses Davis of Davis Island, in 1807, and it is still running! The works were made by Nathan Adams, a Massachusetts clockmaker, but the cabinetry was by another Edgecomber, Joshua Damon. The Wiscasset Public will be celebrating its Bicentennial in 2005, the longest continuously operating library in the U.S.!
Gosh, the Library's Bi in 2005, the clock's in 2007, Fort Edgecomb's in 2008... Life's just a swirl of 200-year cycles! Gazing into my foggy crystal ball at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.