Castine is forming a broadband committee to look at fiber to the home as a municipal service! If you would like to help you, email town hall.

More info: https://colinforcastine.com/2018/09/help-castine-improve-broadband-access/

Anyone else frustrated with the situation at Backshore? A lot of people have been trying to get the swimming pond up and running this season, and due to a number of factors we've been unable.

Some volunteers spent time this morning making a plan for getting the pond at least filled this year, and are also trying to figure out a long term solution.

This afternoon, town employees will be working to dig out the silt and sand that has blocked the drain flap and prohibited the pool from filling.

First, it's being called a "listing" rather than registration, along with dramatically simpler registration form, removing almost all of the questions about the actual occupants.

Blog post coming later in the week with a full PDF of the document.

Reading a book one of my select board colleagues gave me about Roger Williams, and the extent to which I misunderstood him and what Rhode Island represented in the early American colonies is amazing.

We assume government power derived from the people who are governed is a birth right, when in fact our fore-bearers had to fight to excise the assumption that all power derived from a Christian God. Fascinating stuff.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797348-roger-williams-and-the-creation-of-the-american-soul