EEEK! TERRIBLE ERROR! The polls for Town Elections on Friday May 20, start at 1:00 p.m.! And run through 8:00 p.m. At least I was accurate about the Town Meeting on Saturday, May 21 which starts at 10:00 a.m. and runs until over.
Glowing with Pride Department: A full budget of news from Debbie Boucher on the Mill Road. Daughter Amanda, along with fellow Edgecomb Eddy 6th grader Orion Becker, has been chosen to go to Tea with the Governor, both students' art having been nominated by art teacher Belinda Fletcher to be included in a state-wide student art exhibit which will be displayed in the Governor's Office over the summer.
But just now, Amanda, Karen Brown, Samantha Beam and Erika Harpell are aboard a bus for New York City, a 3-day tour for Boothbay Y-Arts Chorus members! They will go to the Bronx Zoo, a production of the Today Show, and a Broadway musical, Wicked (a prequel about the infamous Wicked Witch of the West of Oz).
In other Edgecomb Youth News, congratulations, Krista Oberuch on the Mill Road, one of Wiscasset High School's Top Ten Students of 2004-5!, and Allison Andrews of the River Road, ditto ditto of Boothbay Region High! Congratulations, also, CTL, for their Odyssey of the Mind successes. Meanwhile, a whole array of Edgecomb students' art can be enjoyed in the Student Art Show at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery through Sunday, May 22. Edgecomb Eddy artists have produced Native American inspired creations such as Kachina dolls and Klamath totem poles, in conjunction with their Social Studies' United States curriculum. Hie thee to it!
Noted with somber dismay, the robbery at Anderson's Farms over on Route 1. Bad thing to happen to our new commercial neighbor.
To clarify recent news items concerning the hazardous intersection of State Route 27 and federal Route 1 in Edgecomb: Long an accident problem, the intersection has been one aspect of the Route 27 Corridor Study conducted by Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor and Edgecomb, starting in 2002 and on-going. From Edgecomb's point of view, that intersection is bound up with the eternally hovering Bypass, which makes it equally a Route 1 problem. The MDOT proposal reported in last week's papers is a short-term low-cost solution dealing with the problem of safe entry and exit between these two major traffic arteries.
Even as I write this column on Monday morning, the long-offending projecting ledge on the River Road across from Mark and Nathalie Gorey and Evelin Brown is being cut back radically so that it won't catch vehicles by their wheels any more. Well done and our hearty thanks, O Maine Department of Transportation!
Fiddleheads are in! We celebrated last weekend with friends and a fiddlehead/cheddar quiche! Does anyone have fiddlehead lore to share? I'll have to invest in the BRLT's new cookbook, Fiddleheads to Lobster Tails! Wandering in the fern patch at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.