There’s a lovely “new” boat moored at Lincolnville Beach this month, the pinky schooner Summertime. Captain Rico is taking groups from two to 18 people aboard to sail Penobscot Bay. Several different cruises are offered including an overnight; call 236-0196 to make reservations.

Part-time Lincolnville resident John Clute, is being honored at World Con, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London next week. John, who lives in London when not here in Maine, spoke to a full house at the Library earlier in the summer on collecting first editions.

Mixed martial arts fighter Tim Boetsch, who grew up in Lincolnville, has returned to Maine this summer to train for the first ever UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) match in Maine to be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Tim, the son of Greg and Janice Boetsch, was a four-time state champion wrestler for then-Camden-Rockport High School (now Camden Regional High School), and went on to a career in mixed martial arts. Watch it at the CIC or on Fox Sports 1.

The Beetle Wars continue here in our garden, as we learn how to deal with the most recent of our new pests. Land snails, ugly gray squash bugs, tomato blight, tomato horn worms (ugh!). It seems as if every summer something new turns up.

Down on the shore it’s the green crabs. They've apparently been around for a long time, but in the last couple of years they’re becoming a real menace. I find them, or their shells, nearly every day at the Beach. Hanji Chang’s cartoon, Attack of the Green Crabs, has me on the look-out for an invasion of these critters.

Wally took Hanji, who is our daughter-in-law, mushrooming the other day, and they came back with a quantity of black chanterelles, our favorite mushroom. This seems to be a really good year for this delicate and delicious kind.

Contact Diane O’Brien at news@penbaypilot.com.