Super Tuesday is over, and so is the Super Bowl. The New York Giants and John McCain are clear winners, but Hillary and Barack are still arm-wrassling. Maine Republicans have endorsed Mitt Romney who is no longer running. Maine Democrats have just given Obama the nod. So what do we do for the rest of the winter, besides shoving up the thermostat?

This coming Sunday, February 17, trek over to the Thompson Ice House in South Bristol to watch the ice harvest, perhaps even help with the use of traditional tools! Work starts at 8 a.m. Bring your skates! The ice is 13 inches thick so it should be a good harvest. Hot soup and hot dogs will be available, and pots of hot coffee. Also hay rides! For information, call 883-3145, 644-8808 or 644-8120.

Next weekend, February 15, 16, 17, CLICK! After School Arts Collaborative will present the Moxie Youth Production of 'Grease' at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House. More information can be got from the show's director, Susan Hodder, 633-3431.

Congratulations, Isabel Carlson, fourth grade, the Edgecomb Eddy School Spelling Bee winner and Calvin Cameron, third grade, EES's runner-up. And all best wishes for good luck to David Sieracki and runner-up Alexa Burns, both sixth graders, who will represent EES at the Lincoln County Spelling Bee, to be held at the Jefferson Village School on Feb. 26, at 6 p.m. The winner of that bee will go on to the State Spelling Bee, scheduled for March 15.

Let us salute the passing of Christine Greenleaf Webber, who once taught school in Edgecomb, at the former City School, now the original building in the Edgecomb Pottery complex. She graduated from Lincoln Academy in the class of 1925, thence to Gorham Normal School. Our Edgecomb school was her first teaching assignment. Does anyone who attended that school in the late '20s, early '30s remember her?

Neighbor Nathalie Gorey, who teaches French (and sometimes Russian) at Lincoln Academy, was the guest speaker at the Harbor Theatre's showing of 'Moliere.' This historical film centers on the great 17th Century playwright and actor-manager, 'France's Shakespeare,' says Nathalie.

Bruce and I have just completed a wonderful Cooking for Two class offered by the Coastal Senior College, and taught by Chef Mikael Andersson of Bintliff's Ocean Grill. The class was designed to show how to reduce recipes and menus from serving a family to serving a couple of retirees. Chef Mike emphasized planning ahead, so that leftovers from today's main course can be used for, say, soup stock for tomorrow's lunch or quick dinner before going out for the evening. We learned the basics of omelets - I even managed to flip mine! And how to prepare basic sauces from scratch, with imaginative additions so that a plain white sauce can become a Sauce Mornais (lotsa cheese!) or Sauce Bearnaise (lotsa herbs!) and even a simple Marinara tomato sauce, with the addition of cream, becomes a suave sauce worthy of serving with roast beef, not just over pasta! Coastal Senior College hopes to offer similar cooking

classes in the future. In our opinion, this first venture was un succes fou!

While I'm on the topic of eats, if you can get TV Channel 8, WMTW, at 5 p.m., you can catch 'Chef's Kitchen,' a nationally syndicated cooking show filmed at Roger Bintliff's cooking studio (the former Mainely Maine site) across Route 1 from the Davis Island Townhouses.

And, while I'm on the topic of fun classes, Coastal Senior College, now affiliated with University College at Rockland, has its spring catalogue out, offering courses on Spring Wildflowers, The New Capitalism, International Cinema, Grand Opera, Children's Literature, Maine's Natural History and many, many more stimulating classes extending variously from March through early May. Membership in CSC is $25 per person. Classes cost generally $30. Call them at 1-800-286-1594 or check www.coastal seniorcollege.org for details. Enroll soon! These classes fill up fast!

Bruce and I plan to learn about Church vs. State in a CSC class starting March 26 at Schooner Cove.

That shrill whine you hear along the River Road is just us, honing our intellects at 234 River Road, 633-2978, jocam@midcoast.com .

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