Vivas los Locovoros! Vene a la F.A.R.M.S. Mexican Fiesta, Saturday, March 2, de 5 al 7 p.m., al Lincoln Academy, mangia los burritos, los tacos, las saladas, todos de las fincas de Lincoln County.

La musica para los FARMS Fiddlers, a raffle for grand prizes, books at the Barefoot Books display, T-shirt design contest awards given out, fandangos and salsa galore! Stop at Rising Tide for tickets, by donation. Be generous, generosos! Remember, F.A.R.M.S. translates to Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools. For more details, call 207-563-7013 or mefarms@gmail.com, or talk to Marilee Harris, the Edgecomb Eddy School delegate to F.A.R.M.S. 

If you don't dig the Spanish, or want to correct it, contact the Edgecomb columnist; contact information is below.

On Sunday, March 3, the Lincoln County Historical Association will present our neighbor Lea Wait, discoursing on the history of Wiscasset and environs.  The talk will start at 2 p.m., at the Communications Center building on the Lincoln County Courthouse grounds.

Nomination papers for Edgecomb town officials are available now through 5 p.m., March 26. 25 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 Town 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.

Way to go, Edgecomb! Hunter Reid has earned second honors on the Clark University, Worcester, Mass., dean's list for the fall 2012 semester. Nathaniel Miller is on the fall 2012 dean's list of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Nate is a junior majoring in Computer Science.

Tom Blackford, public relations officer for the Deck House School, is speaking (will have spoken) to the Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center today at noon, on "Why a Small Residential School?"  

The weekly luncheon starts at 11:15 a.m., for which reservations are needed; Tom's talk starts at noon, free and open to the public.

Congratulations, Charlotte Boynton!  She has been honored by the New England Newspaper and Press Association for her tracking of Edgecomb's perennial issue, now a part of our history, "Bye, bye, Wiscasset bypass."   

Digging into my file folders, which started bulging in 2002, I've got enough background stuff for a book, a novel, a detective story, even a Gilbert & Sullivan opera!  Who can we cast as the eagle?

Finally, Connecticut came to Maine. We expected daughter Daphne during the Christmas to New Year's interim, then over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, and then, this Presidents Day February break, for a week.  

But weather and commitments again got in the way, paring the visit down to two days. We made the most of them, a visit to the Bowdoin College Art Museum to admire Japanese fantasy illustrations and modern photography, with a good lunch at the Brunswick Diner, but the kids still had room for pizza in Damariscotta.  Then Thursday, a quiet day playing Scrabble and making cookies, complete with colored frosting. 

Craning our necks towards spring at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net/.