Things to watch for at Town Meeting: The warrant article for library funding calls for $2,000 each for the Wiscasset Public Library, asking $8,900, and the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, asking $4,000. 

The selectmen are not asking for raises this year, but the other town positions will go up. Either in the Town Election or the Town Meeting, there will be a referendum question about St. Andrews Hospital.  

However, it will be a “straw vote,” not binding, although strongly indicative of Edgecomb people's preferences as to the fate of our hospital and its emergency room services.

Nomination papers for Edgecomb town officials are still available through 5 p.m., March 26. Twenty-five signatures are needed to qualify. We will be electing 1 Selectman, 2 Planning Board members and 1 School Board member, each for a 3-year term, and 1 Town Clerk, 1 Tax Collector, 1 Treasurer, and 1 Road Commissioner, all 1-year terms. 

Call Claudia Coffin for more information, 207-882-7018, Mondays, 7-9 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-5 p.m.

MDOT will begin repairs on the Davey Bridge sometime late this month or early April, expected to be completed in mid-June. They warn us they will keep two lanes open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and one lane of alternating traffic during the nights. We should plan for extra time going through Wiscasset, or else find other routes during this period. MDOT's program manager is Nate Benoit.

Heigh ho and away we go, polkas with pointers, waltzes with Weimaraners! Marcia Welch held a canine dance workout March 3 at her Positively Best Friends training studio on Route 27. But what if your pup is all left feet?

The Center for Teaching and Learning's fifth and sixth grades have been exploring the Great Outdoors over the current academic year, in conjunction with the Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. CTL teacher Glenn Powers takes the kids on “40 Days in the Maine Woods.” 

This adventure is actually a science class, combining field work and research, particularly statistics for the several conservation organizations in Maine. They've recorded coyotes howling, counted salamanders in vernal pools, provided nesting boxes for several bird species, and threaded a camera into a beaver's den, meanwhile learning why these studies are so important for the conservation and future of Maine wildlife, and for biological insights in general.  

I'm pleased that Edgecomb Eddy School has held a Geography Bee, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Ethan Thompson was the winner, Ethan Carmolli in second place, both in the sixth grade. Well done! 

Geography has been an under-rated subject in modern schooling for some time, and yet it rules us all to a great extent, given our country's foreign involvements in the world. The Center for Teaching and Learning has also been highlighting the world around us, with a Chinese New Year party complete with dragon dance and dim sum.

Boothbay Region High School has put out an appeal for items to fill out its sports archive: team or game photographs, new articles especially about state or conference championships, or any other memorabilia. So, Edgecombers who may have graduated from BRHS, climb the attic stairs and plunge into your footlockers and horsehair suitcases, see what you have that you can contribute.

Bruce played JV basketball at Lincoln Academy. I tried, but “flunked,” due to a trick knee that kept going out of joint, a condition I learned years later is known as Osgood-Schlatterer Syndrome. 

All I can find are a few battered tennis rackets and badminton birds among the cobwebs in the attic at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.