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Arrests made in Wiscasset theft case
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Y-Knot Gourmet Sandwiches and Desserts opens in Newcastle
Airport panel talks Peregrine, picks up tenant search
Fishermen’s off-season use of floats gets nod
Downtown project’s planning continues
Wiscasset stay a go for Texas Flying Legends
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Family fun at Wiscasset library and Castle Tucker July 26
Community groups add to the Wiscasset Art Walk fun
School committee mulls use of ‘windfall’
Steep Canyon Rangers at Boothbay Harbor Opera House
Blueberries for me (and Sal)
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‘Spiderman: Homecoming’ brings it home for Marvel
Y-Knot Gourmet Sandwiches and Desserts opens in Newcastle
Deconstructing ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
Boston Camerata returns to Head Tide
At the Theaters
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Ripley shines in Prostock double at Wiscasset Speedway
Middle school football meeting July 28
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Family fun at Wiscasset library and Castle Tucker July 26
Join Historic New England’s Julia Einstein and Hope Mowry on Wednesday, July 26 for a morning of reading books and special activities based on the Wiscasset Public Library’s Summer Vacation reading theme, “Build a Better World,” with special emphasis on buildings and architecture. The program will...
Community groups add to the Wiscasset Art Walk fun
While the highlights of the Wiscasset Art Walk are the resplendent art galleries, specialty shops, antique treasures, riverside feasting, and extraordinary music, local community groups bring heart and soul to the evening on Thursday, July 27 from 5-8 p.m. in Wiscasset Village. The Garden Club of...
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Sheepscot River Race
School committee mulls use of ‘windfall’
Wiscasset School Committee members on July 20 eyed buildings’ needs as a possible use for $167,516 in extra state funding and maybe other money, as well. They made no spending decisions in their first meeting since word came of the state aid breaking projections. The talk centered mostly on how to...
‘Spiderman: Homecoming’ brings it home for Marvel
From director Jon Watts (“Clown,” “Cop Car”) featuring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Zendaya, Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr., “Spiderman: Homecoming,” now playing at The Harbor Theatre in Boothbay Harbor, is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive...
Arrests made in Wiscasset theft case
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has charged two Augusta men in connection with a theft of a safe from a residence in Wiscasset on June 25. The original report had been investigated by the Wiscasset Police Department. The owner had reported in excess of $40,000 was stored in the safe. On July 19...
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Y-Knot Gourmet Sandwiches and Desserts opens in Newcastle
There's a new takeout food stand on Route 1 in Newcastle. Carol Heaberlin and her daughter Mindy Jones are joint owners in the business, making and selling their gourmet sandwiches and desserts. The newly painted orange trailer the women work out of was found through happenstance. It came from the...
Airport panel talks Peregrine, picks up tenant search
Wiscasset’s airport advisory committee on July 19 thought up ways to find a tenant for the upstairs office space, vacant since Peregrine Turbine Technologies moved out last year. Members said Town Planner Ben Averill had led the search. Funding for the planner job ended June 30. But members said...
Damariscotta Board of Selectmen
Warlick named Damariscotta police chief
Damariscotta selectmen on July 19 confirmed acting Police Chief Jason Warlick as permanent chief. He had been acting chief since March 3, but had been running the department's day-to-day operations since Ron Young was placed on administrative leave in January. Young resigned in March. Town Manager...
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Damariscotta to survey residents on marijuana
At a public hearing prior to the July 19 Damariscotta Board of Selectmen meeting, about 20 residents had a lot to say about marijuana. Most of it was positive. In November, Damariscotta voted to approve the state’s proposed marijuana legalization. As the board considered possible restrictions to...
Edgecomb tax bills are in the mail
By week’s end, Edgecomb residents should have received their 2017-18 property tax bills. Selectmen announced during the July 17 board meeting that all the tax notices were mailed last week. Selectmen set the tax rate on July 6. The mil rate increased from 16.55 to 16.775 or by 1.36 percent...
Deconstructing ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
Coming to the large screen at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Thursday, Aug. 3 with shows at 2 and 7 p.m., is the next episode in the theater’s series deconstructing the recordings of The Beatles. The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is one of the most influential albums of our...
Boston Camerata returns to Head Tide
The Boston Camerata, America's preeminent early music ensemble, will perform a benefit concert entitled “Liberty and Love: A Summer Sampleron,” on Saturday, July 29 at 2 p.m. at the Head Tide Church. There will be a tented gala lawn party immediately following the concert hosted by Brett and...
At the Theaters
The Harbor Theatre
“Baby Driver” - After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail in this thriller. Movie review website Rotten Tomatoes describes "Baby Driver" as “Stylish, exciting, and...
Nancy Wilkoff: Artful assemblage
“WOW!” was artist Nancy Wilkoff’s response when her daughter, East Boothbay resident Pam Riml, told her Studio 53 was interested in showing her work. The events leading up to this “wow moment” started when Pam arrived back home from Tucson where she had been packing up her mother’s art to bring to...
Boothbay Harbor Opera House: Cherish the Ladies
It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” says The Boston Globe of Cherish The Ladies. The Grammy nominated Irish-American super group formed in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in what had been a male-dominated Celtic music scene. On...
Steep Canyon Rangers at Boothbay Harbor Opera House
What does North Carolina sound like? In a state that’s also produced Doc Watson, James Taylor and the Avett Brothers, there’s hardly a more well-rounded answer than the Steep Canyon Rangers. On Friday, July 28 this Grammy winning string band comes to Boothbay Harbor to perform at the Opera House. A...
On Eating and Loving Food
Blueberries for me (and Sal)
Blueberries. What a happy word. How could you say that word and not smile? Go ahead. Say it out loud. Blueberries are a Maine summer thing. Blueberries and lobsters. Say THAT out loud. A hot boiled lobster with melted butter, and a piece of warm blueberry pie for dessert. Okay I’ll stop. Now I’m...
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Did you read the news?
What news? Sun Media Group has agreed to sell its assets to RFB Holdings. Reade Brower, owner of Maine Today Media, as of Aug. 1, will assume ownership of many more newspapers in Maine, including the daily Sun Journal in Lewiston, the Forcasters and Current Publications, American Journal, Lakes...
State gives Wiscasset extra $167K in school aid
State aid for Wiscasset schools for 2017-18 is $167,516 higher than the $1,827,360 Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot projected in the spring, Wilmot said. Wilmot called the news exciting and said the School Committee will talk Thursday, July 20, about what to do with the money it wasn’t...
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Fog
Leigh Sherrill is going to fly again and I want to be there when she does. So, it was going to be this past weekend, but the weather got in the way. Saturday rain was predicted and Sunday the fog rolled in. I went up to Wiscasset on Sunday morning anyway because, sometimes when we are socked in on...
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8/19, Lobster and More, A Real Maine Event at The Lincoln Home
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