If our cool weather the first week of spring didn’t put a spring in your step, maybe Easter will.

A buffet of many of the other holidays, it’s got it all: Religious meaning as Christmas does, candy like Halloween and Valentine’s Day, a family gathering for a meal like on Thanksgiving, and a legendary bunny making deliveries akin to Santa or the tooth fairy.

Some or all of these traditions may be part of your Easter, or your Easters past.

Whatever you are doing this Sunday, may the sun shine on it and, even if it doesn’t, may you reflect on your childhood Easters, your children’s Easters and what the day means to you. Happy Easter.

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There’s also much business ahead, checking boxes and raising hands. Alna helped kick off election and town meeting season with a strong showing in the election portion, amid three referendums and two contests for seats. People were interested, and they turned out.

Wiscasset sounds interested, with an upsurge in letters to the editor recently over the April 17 vote on the lawsuit against Maine Department of Transportation, and continued comments on it at public meetings. Can Wiscasset match Alna’s two-thirds turnout at the ballot box? Wherever you stand on this or other issues big and small in your towns this season, get hopping to the polls and town meetings, or to the town office for portions you can vote absentee.

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It made sense for Wiscasset selectmen to forego asking voters once more if they would like to end the police department. It was asked and answered three years ago and, like other departments, is asked in the form of a proposed budget every year. No budget, no department. That’s what happened to the planning department and the planner job, and after a pair of subsequent votes canceled each other out, they remain gone.

Searching for ways to aid taxpayers is good, but Wiscasset voters have shown they are fully capable of making the changes they want to.