Mental health awareness was not on the agenda, but Alna Third Selectman Coreysha Stone’s comments on the topic June 1 pointed out, mental health can become relevant to anyone, anytime. Find them in the meeting story published this week.

Maybe her comments and/or our publishing of them, including the crisis number (1-888-568-1112), will be what someone needed, when they needed it. 

This week’s unrelated yay is one not every reader might agree with, but that I was silently wishing for – and almost wrote an editorial on recently, but thought better of it – and now, thanks to this rainy week, apparently will happen: Wiscasset Middle High School’s graduation has been moved to, of all places, WMHS, we learned Monday. 

Wiscasset Speedway owners Richard and Vanessa Jordan have been helping with community events for years, hosting them in a good venue with ample parking. And the couple really stepped up in the pandemic’s first year and every year since by letting WMHS hold graduation there. It would be hard to find a COVID-friendlier place: No problem social distancing there.

And as we reported months ago, this year’s seniors voted to graduate at the speedway. Thus, I resisted writing an editorial lamenting that graduation was not returning to WMHS. It would seem more meaningful to get their high school diplomas there, where they earned them. And Stover Auditorium is a more intimate setting for the music, interactions and other memory-making moments that are graduation.

See what I mean, by revisiting our YouTube report at https://youtu.be/FDhyE0rn0k0 from four years ago on Wiscasset’s 2019 graduation  – the last time it was held at WMHS.

Week’s positive parting thought: Warmest congratulations on your well-earned big day, graduates and families!