Wiscasset voters have made some pivotal decisions in recent years, from leaving Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 to nodding the state's downtown project, ditching the planning department and keeping the police and ambulance departments. Sometimes, one vote was not enough. And some of those times, maybe it should have been.

Taking a fresh look at spending and more is healthy, even proactive if some variables have changed or other new information warrants it.

But there's also the risk of overkill, or not respecting the popular vote and the time and thought people took to vote absentee or at the polls. This thought occurs over the latest with Brexit, Great Britain's split with the European Union. The exit is coming and some Britons want to stop it, or at least create the possibility by bringing voters back to the polls.

What's wrong with that? Maybe nothing. But it would be unfortunate for our neighbor across the pond to relive the wrangling and rancor over Brexit, if this take two only prolongs it. Remember Wiscasset’s no-yes-no votes in 2017 for the planning department, with the only yes coming in a special town meeting with far fewer voters than the rejections before and after it at the polls?

What if Boothbay had taken a second or even more votes on the roundabout? We might have sold more political ads, but, for the town, debating it all again would have been exhausting. And for what?

If it's clear another referendum on Brexit would have the same result as the first, England can look west to us and say, no need to go through that again: The people have spoken. It's now down to the exit's terms. Parliament should figure those out and get on with it.

Continuing with a positive thought a week for the new year: The days are getting longer.