• For a Good Cause

    Chewonki students build hoop house

    Workers include: front row, left to right, Olivia Knox of Greensboro, N.C. and Andrew Hollyday of Cape Elizabeth; back row, left to right, Jeremy Epstein of Brookline, Mass., Bill Hinkley (math teacher) of Waldoboro, Phoebe Chatfield of Lincoln, Mass., Izzy Ruffin of Milo and Emmy Longnecker of South Portland. Courtesy of Chewonki

    Students of Chewonki Semester School helped build a hoop house for a local family garden project in Bath.

    This project was part of a larger community service day. Other service projects included the Tedford Shelter in Brunswick, Goranson's Farm in Dresden, Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson, Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association and firewood production for donation to local families. 

  • Wiscasset Primary School

    ‘The Emperor and the Nightingale’

    The cast of “The Emperor and the Nightingale” includes, from left, front row: Lily, Brooke, Amathyst, and Kayla; back row: Gwen, Kyle, Paige and Gabby. Courtesy of Wiscasset Primary School

    Fourth grade students from Wiscasset Primary School recently had the opportunity to perform their play, "The Emperor and the Nightingale," for Kindergarten and first grade students.

  • Wiscasset Public Library

    Mothers, May baskets and alewives at Story Time

    The month of May in Maine means Mother’s Day, May Baskets, and of course, here on the coast, alewives. This past week, children at Story Time heard “One Little Alewife Counting Home” by local author and illustrator Coreysha Stone.

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  • Alna

    Residents help injured dog

    This senior dog, victim of a hit-and-run in Alna the night of May 21, is being treated at Woodbrook Animal Clinic in Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper

    Fate can hang in the balance anywhere, even in the middle of the northbound lane of Route 218 in Alna.

    That’s where an old, mix-breed female dog was standing the night of May 21, right in the path of Joe Mitkus. One of about 700 people who live in Alna, he was driving home from work in Edgecomb when he saw her up ahead.

    “So of course I stopped,” he said.

    She wasn’t budging.

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  • Newcastle

    Tapestry Singers and DaPonte Quartet perform Mozart and Bach, June 1-2

    Tapestry singers performing lighter fare (note silly hats!) in April. Courtesy of Rosie Bensen

    The Tapestry Singers, directed by Harold “Sandy” Falconer, are planning an all Bach and Mozart program, accompanied by the DaPonte String Quartet, flute and double bass. Also featured will be organist Sean Fleming. Soloists for the concert include Amy Lalime and Sue Hunt mezzo-sopranos, Timothy Johnson tenor, and Richard Francis baritone.

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  • Local audience considers the conversation

    Kathy Bean, Executive Director of Miles and St. Andrews Home Health and Hospice. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register

    “Jack” was a vaudeville magician. Now he is close to death, lying in a hospital bed. His priest, Doug Smith, enters his room alone. “We've been waiting for you,” Jack says. “We are going to initiate you into the International Brotherhood of Magicians.”

    Jack begins to chant magical words and sounds.

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  • For a Good Cause

    Wiscasset group helps veterans and families

    Members of the Bradford Sortwell-Wright Unit #54 of Wiscasset of the American Legion Auxiliary have been working on projects to assist veterans and children of military families.

    The members have prepared backpacks filled with coloring books, pens and pencils. Diane Munsey and her daughter, Lena Gage, a new member of the unit, have used their crocheting and knitting talents to make baby blankets, sweater sets and hats.

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  • Consumers beware: new travel and timeshare scams

    With summer approaching, more Mainers may start to receive solicitations from bogus companies enticing them take a free or incredibly cheap vacation or for an exceptional opportunity to sell their existing timeshare.

    Attorney General Janet Mills asks consumers to be leery of any consumer deal that sounds too good to be true, because it probably is.

    Vacation scams

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  • Wiscasset High School

    Wiscasset celebrates diversity

    Left to right are Keynote Speaker El-Fadel Arbab (a Darfur refugee), President WHS Students for Social Justice Cormac Walsh, and WHS student Ali Lambert.

    Wiscasset High School's "Students for Social Justice" Club sponsored their annual Diversity Day May 15. This day of deversified activities and speakers encourages students and staff at the high school and middle school to get involved and learn new and interesting things; everything from French cooking to meeting llamas from South America.

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  • Center for Teaching and Learning

    Alna student wins writing award

    Helena Solorzano

    Over the years of her teaching career, Nancie Atwell’s students at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb have received numerous state and national awards for writing excellence.

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  • What's Cooking

    Incredible, edible eggs

    News flash! And for once, it is some good news about a food that most people eat in some way, shape or form on a very regular basis.

    We all know the bad rap eggs have gotten and in particular, egg yolks because of their high cholesterol count. However, new analysis says that they are not as sinful as once thought.

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  • Wiscasset Middle School

    Wiscasset students receive prestigious award

    Jenna Bickford and Stephanie Jones, eighth grade students at Wiscasset Middle School, were recently named Middle Level Scholar Leaders at a banquet held on May 16 at the Augusta Civic Center.

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  • Lincoln County Historical Association

    Memorial Day at Pownalborough Courthouse

    White’s Company, a local Revolutionary War Living History group, will give a salute at the 59th annual observance of Memorial Day to be held at the 1761 Pownalborough Courthouse in Dresden. The service will begin at 11 a.m., Monday, May 27 at the flagpole on the parade ground.

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  • Wiscasset Selectmen

    Parking, pirates and poetry

    Longtime local realtor Roy Farmer, left, hears from Wiscasset's Board of Selectman Chairman Pam Dunning that this year's town report is dedicated to him. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper

    Relief could be on the way for intown Wiscasset's parking woes. Selectmen decided May 21 to pursue turning a tax-acquired property at 25 Middle Street into a parking lot.

    Several issues remain, including an asbestos check and an abutter's request to buy part of the property for storage. But selectmen decided if the town can swing the cost to demolish a home there, the lot could put a dent in the perennial parking squeeze intown.

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  • St. Philip's Church

    Calling all crafters for the 61st Strawberry Festival

    Things are heating up at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 12 Hodge St., as volunteers are working on plans for the 61st Annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We are excited to be once again presenting this Wiscasset tradition,” said Beth Cowing-Sawyer, festival director. “Each year’s festival is a bit of magic when families can take part in an old-fashioned easy-going, fun day. There’s always something for everyone to enjoy.”  

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  • Wolverines Tennis

    Wiscasset tennis results

    Boys

    May 15: Wiscasset 1, Spruce Mountain 3

    1st singles – Nate Panarese (W) vs. Zack Baillargean (3-8) canceled because of rain

    2nd singles – Tom Anderson (W) defeated Alex Hartford, 10-1

    3rd singles – Logan Grover (W) lost to Mike Paradis, 6-10

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  • A Bird's Tale

    Monhegan Island, birding hotspot

    A Blackburnian warbler. Courtesy of David Bonter

    The blackburnian warbler is a firestorm of a bird.

    Smaller than a chickadee, it travels here each year from northern South America. The male’s throat is such a brilliant orange color that when you see it you think it can’t be real.

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