The Edgecomb Fire Department's First Responders deeply thank June Finnegan and Lydia Kitfield for rendering aid to the pedestrians and driver in an accident on Cross Point Road on November 1! We also thank the Wiscasset ambulance crew for carrying people to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

The Fire Department will be coming around with raffle tickets for a gorgeous quilt made and donated to them by Rebecca Townsend and her Westport Island quilting group. Watch this spot for more about it!

Oh, and if you want to share Thanksgiving with the Morris Farm, get your reservation in by tomorrow, Nov. 11! The Farm will provide organic-raised turkey and the drinks; please bring a pot-luck dish with you.

Following Edgecomb authors around: This Saturday, Nov. 12, Lea Wait will be speaking and reading from "Shadows at the Spring Show" at the Wiscasset Library at 10 a.m. Then, on Monday, Nov. 14, she will be spending time at the Boothbay Region Elementary School, talking with students in several classes there.

The Edgecomb Historical Society's November meeting is early this month: Thursday, Nov. 17, because of the Thanksgiving holiday, 2 p.m., in the conference room of the Edgecomb Eddy School. Our speaker will be Rosemarie Ballard Boak, reporting on her findings about our town's architectural heritage! This will be the last regular meeting of 2005. Next meeting will be March 23, 2006, same location. Put it on your long-range calendars!

Of note to Edgecomb parents: The town of Alna is reducing its payment to Lincoln Academy because they have a contract with Wiscasset. The Insured Value Factor (IVF) is not required for towns to pay if they have a contract with another school. However, if a town sends students to a private school that takes public-school students from a town with no secondary school, then the tuition rate is determined by the state; but the state does not support capital improvements in private schools. Therefore, up to 10 percent of tuition for which the towns sending students to private schools are required to pay may be requested. Alna refuses to pay this. Alna residents who want to send their kids to L.A. will have to pay this 10 percent on top of the tuition as is the case with Woolwich. The town of Edgecomb pays this IVF fee for its L.A.-bound students.

After snubbing us all summer, the birds are gulping down birdseed like mad. We have to renew it every other day! I put suet up when the weather was in the high 30s, but it sat around and sat around. Finally the Hairy Woodpeckers found it. All gorn!

Bouncing around swathed in Dayglo, singing "I am not a deer!" at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com.

This column appears in the Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, the Wiscasset News-paper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.