May 2025 bring more of the fun, community-bonding experiences that come from friends having ideas and sowing them, like the pet candidate posters in Wiscasset during 2024's election season and, on Railroad Avenue last June, the new event with perhaps the best name ever, Wormfest. 

May 2025 up area meetings' positivity and productivity where needed and lessen the chest-pounding. We all know who is not a fan of this or that official in each town and, while it is right any night to call for better ways of doing things or to bring clarity, repeating yourself about shortcomings, speaking when you do not have the floor, or otherwise lowering a meeting's civility is still being a taxpayer but is not the best way to get a point across.

May 2025 bring as many community-contributed photos and articles as 2024 did. With a limited staff, this is a blessing and vastly appreciated. Thank you to photographers Bob Bond at 40 Federal Studio and Michael Leonard, Wiscasset teachers Trae Stover, Becky Hallowell, Carole Drury and Shanon Cotta, the school department's central office administrative assistant Cynthia Young, Wiscasset Creative Alliance's Lucia Droby, Historic New England's Peg Konitzky, Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons, Economic Development Director Aaron Chrostowsky, Westport Island Town Clerk April Thibodeau, Friends of Wiscasset Public Library's Lynn Maloney, Wiscasset Police Department Administrative Assistant Callie Fairservice, Wiscasset Senior Center's Ruth Gilbert and Pam Frenier, Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce's Pat Cloutier, Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit Superintendent Howie Tuttle, Wiscasset Middle High School guidance secretary Sandy Aloisio, St. Philip's Episcopal Church's Gretchen Burleigh-Johnson, First Congregational Church of Wiscasset UCC's Jackie Lowell and Martha Speed, and everyone else who shares items. You help fill online readers' Morning Catch and the pages of our weekly print edition with news or spirit. And thank you to our tremendous advertisers for helping us be able to put it all out there.

Week's positive parting thought: May 2025 bring a good summer and whole year for commerce; progress on comprehensive plans, ordinances and other projects towns have been working on; and, to you, as much joy, peace and promise as a year can muster.