The minute I miss a column, how the Edgecomb headlines proliferate!  Here's a list of things you already know about, with my apologies to those who might have benefited from an additional bit of recognition.

Huzzah to Matt Peters, a stalwart performer in local theater, who has most recently been seen in the Sheepscot General cooperative farm store's production of Sam Shepard's “Curse of the Starving Class.”

Two huzzahs to Hannah Elder, valedictorian, and Arden McSwain, salutatorian, both of BRHS' Class of 2013. Hannah, “staple of the BRHS drama program,” is headed for University of Maine-Orono to study library science, while Arden, backbone of the school's field hockey team and many other sports, plans to major in civil engineering at U of M's College of Engineering and Honors College.

Another huzzah to Nathaniel Miller, a junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is on the dean's list for the spring semester, majoring in computer science.

Meanwhile, a huzzah you may not know about: Maggie Hoyt has graduated from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., but intends a wanderjahr before leaping into the difficult job-hunt environment.

Those were all the receiving end of the world of education.  As to the giving end, we must say farewell to Nancie Atwell, retiring director and founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and hail to her daughter Anne Atwell-McLeod, who has signed on as a new CTL teacher.

Also, let's give an olé! for a change, for Jennifer Gosselin, kindergarten teacher at Edgecomb Eddy School, who has been named to the Unum Maine Teachers' Hall of Fame for 2013.  

One of nine honorees, Jen will be attending the June 14 Portland Sea Dogs game, where, quoth the news article, "they will throw out the ceremonial first pitch."  I wanna see how all nine of them achieve this.

Three award winners are chosen annually from each grade span: elementary, middle and high school, based on their creativity and innovation in the classroom and how those align with Maine's Learning Results.

Thomas Steele-Maley, Chairman of Edgecomb's School Board, has recently completed an ambitious education experiment called Global Civ, co-designed with student Jake Maxmin, calling it a qualified success, or maybe a qualified failure. A new school is being planned in Nobleboro, to be called The Bridge Year, a part of the on-going Kieve-Wavus Education project, prospective opening fall of 2014.

Dogs and their owners have been getting a frisky education lately in our fair town, learning to be therapy dogs at Marcia Welsh's Positively Best Friends dog training facility. Call 207-882-7297 or marci@positivelybestfriends.com to find out about other valuable dog-training opportunities.

Down the road apiece, across from the Edgecomb Fire Station, Alesia Norling will be opening "an open-concept daycare and overnight boarding facility" for dogs, to be called The Coastal Dog. For more details, go to www.thecoastaldog.net/.

Another new business, just opened, is Jeff and Jen Dowdy's Sawyer's Way, converting the old Army/Navy Store into a source for antiques and "vintage salvage," including Jeff's own designed distressed and repurposed cottage furniture. For the store's name, the Dowdys have drawn on family lore, Jeff's great grandfather Captain William Sawyer having salvaged local ships.

Exciting artistic news:  Lincoln Academy art students are collaborating with the Sheepscot Harbour Village Resort and Spa to create a new mural for the resort. Thank you, Tony Casella, for giving the kids this golden opportunity.

The big one that got away: The Edgecomb Historical Society moans over its empty pockets, while documents which would have been of great value and interest to our town have gone to auction at Kaja Veilleux's Thomaston Auction House: two letters of appointment of Moses Davis as justice of the peace, one of them signed by John Hancock.

No way can EHS ante up the $20,000 to $30,000 estimated to buy these treasures. Perhaps the new owner will be kind enough to scan them and send the scans to the shortly to be revivified EHS website?  

Don't forget the Edgecomb Congregational Church Summer Supper #2 on Saturday, June 15. Hoping I'm all caught up, from 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net/.