The 63rd Windjammer Days – a week full of events and spectacles – has ended with lots of memories of fun and hard work. Friends of Windjammer Days, made up of lots of volunteers, is to be…
Editorial
From the editor
The news really poured in for this week’s issue and our coverage of Windjammer Days added to the daily flow. But Houston (and Boothbay, etc.), we have a problem.
Despite being a broadsheet…
From the assistant editor
They said it couldn't be done.
Just kidding. Anyone would know better than to doubt we could come up with five good things a month that happened in or near Wiscasset, for every month of…
From the editor
The fun has just begun. The region has graduated its high school seniors and the ceremonies were a delight to behold. Boothbay’s 114th annual Grand March is a beautiful tradition which will…
From the assistant editor
If it's Saturday on the Midcoast, it might just rain again. That's quite a streak we are on.
If you're reading this the Thursday of our week 24 print edition, Wiscasset's Class of 2025…
From the editor
Nineteen years ago, I was asked by former Boothbay Region High School Alumni Association president Lynn (Gilley) Martin to be the guest speaker at the former Alumni Banquet (hopefully it will…
From the assistant editor
For the last several years, people have only been able to ride the rails off and on in Wiscasset, mostly off, unless they worked on a freight train. It feels like Maine Switching Services'…
From the editor
First of all, it was so nice to cover the Memorial Day celebrations and observances under blue skies and warm temperatures.
Other coverage highlights:
—Christopher…
From the assistant editor
This week's headline is not referring to this spring's zigzagging temperatures, although it could be. No, this is a combo editorial: The May installment of our yearlong, monthly five good things…
From the editor
Should the sun start shining for more that two or three days in a row … and Saturdays being one of those days (it seems every Saturday for the past month has been cloudy, rainy and downright…
From the editor
In the past two weeks, we have been asked several times why we did not cover the Rally for Democracy on April 19 on Boothbay Common.
My answer was simply, we didn’t have anyone available. I…
From the assistant editor
Yes, this is another of my rare but ever hopeful editorials buoyed by whatever latest prospect for business in Wiscasset has made me dream again of a bowling center here. This latest prospect is…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset and neighbor towns, you're making this so easy, thank you! At the close of the first third of 2025, we're four months into our monthly lists of five good things that happened in or…
From the editor
The National Day Calendar has the month of April being National Month of Hope. Hope comes in many forms, personally and reaching outwardly to those needing verbal encouragement, instruction, gifts…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset, like a lot of other towns, doesn't have the numbers of students in its school buildings it once did. Not even close. And last week, for the "peace and usefulness of the schools," in the…
From the assistant editor
In and near Wiscasset in March were at least five good things, so let's get to them before April gets any older. This installment marks the end of the first quarter of our year-long commitment to…
From the editor
These past couple of weeks I have had to deal with the retirement of a longtime local columnist, the ever steady, hard-working and knowledgeable Southport columnist Leigh Sherrill. She has moved…
From the assistant editor
Watch for a catch-up in the coming week(s) on our latest five good things that happened in or near Wiscasset. There were plenty, as you may have read on our pages and at wiscassetnewspaper.com,…
From the editor
Yes, Mother Nature, we get it. You like to humor us at the end of March by dumping snow, ice, sleet and rain – making sure we have a wonderful mud season – as a reminder that spring comes slowly…
From the editor
Spring is here, with hopefully nicer weather each week – so out come the motorcycles, bicycles, more pedestrians, etc.
I was reminded of this while exiting a parking lot in Woolwich on…
From the assistant editor
I thought I was going to do a short article on Wiscasset’s Future of the Schools Committee’s latest meeting. And it might have been very short given nearly everything being said was something the…
From the assistant editor
A two-parter this time. First, just a wow and a well done, Wiscasset police and other agencies on last week's apprehension of a man facing charges out of state and now here. That was, as the new…
From the assistant editor
Sure, in this latest installment in the still-fresh 2025 series, we could list just four good things, because February is so short, and I had a staycation in there. But this is about Wiscasset and…
From the editor
During these tumultuous days, I hearken back to the lyrics and melodies of a couple of patriotic songs we learned in school that stay with us through our lifetime. The songs make us feel proud and…
From the editor
The Boothbay region’s giving community spirit came through once again on Monday as over $4,100 was raised for Robbie and Kristen Campbell at Community Lunch. The couple lost their home to a fire…
From the assistant editor
That was one long and sometimes unusual presidential election season that ended a few months ago, from a change in the Democratic ticket to an assassination attempt on a former president seeking…
From the editor
The idea for Project Graduation began at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School 45 years ago and locally it has been around for over about four decades. The program was started to bring to light…
From the assistant editor
Coming into this week, it seemed we might any day be needing to ask area school superintendents their game plan, given recent news reports of the possible dismantling of the nation's education…
From the editor
Friday was like a nightmare from the past — the work-at-home COVID past. What was I thinking?!
I decided Friday morning that I wanted to work from home, basically, to just have…
From the assistant editor
As anticipated, there were well more than five good Wiscasset-area things for Wiscasset Newspaper to share in January, the kickoff to a planned year of monthly picks of five good things.
If…
From the editor
At 10:22 a.m. Monday, I did not feel the earthquake which occurred off York harbor while sitting in my chair on the second story at the office. Steve Edwards, who works in the basement, said he…
From the editor
You see why I don’t bet on … anything! Last week’s column is a case in point. I predicted right two out of four NFL games. Fifty percent, and if I bet, I probably would have come out even. So we…
From the assistant editor
We cannot take credit for all the good things that have happened around Wiscasset in 2025, since announcing plans here to list five good things per month. Connecting the two would be presumptuous…
From the editor
Between the expanded college football playoff, bowl games and NFL’s 18-week season, and now the divisional round of games this weekend, it has been a busy fall, and now winter, for TV football…
From the assistant editor
In 2025, look here monthly for five good things that happened in or for Wiscasset or its neighbor towns. Had this idea come in '26, it would have likely been six good things, and still can be then…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset is a foody town, an art lover's town, and many more things, such as with the latest dealership looking likely for Route One, even more of a place to car shop, too. Recent months' and…
From the editor
There was fair warning but the weather in southern Delaware on Monday was a shocker, nonetheless. Eight to 12 inches of snow fell on a state that doesn’t normally get that much snow in one fell…
The morning news sometimes gives me ideas for this column. Early Monday, WGME Channel 13 had a nationally generated segment on how learning a new hobby (the spot featured arts and crafts) could…
From the assistant editor
Where are you? Who are you?
I know there is only one Tom Brady, like only one Tiger Woods or Big Papi, or Michelle Kwan, but there is always the next great one, to inspire their generation…
From the editor
Wow, 2024 is almost over! Was it good for you? Did you experience happiness or stress? You probably experienced both.
The presidential election, perhaps a health issue, the weather – those…
From the assistant editor
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…
From the editor
This column was originally published last December but I am revisiting it again here just before Christmas because I feel it has a good message.
Christmastime, as a kid, is an…
From the editor
For those who do not know what the Hot Stove League, as it is called, is about, it is the discussion about the off-season trade and free agent signing possibilities, mostly through the press and…
From the assistant editor
Last week, Alna selectmen stopped their in-person and Zoom meeting about an hour and a half in, because the Internet went out. Monday, when Wiscasset's planning board chair could not get Zoom…
From the editor
Larry Brown could not have picked more worthy honorees to blow whistles to start the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning.
Longtime area residents Dave Parkhurst, Mike Harrison and Clayton…
From the assistant editor
Every year in Maine's Prettiest Village, one of the warmest moments comes on a cold or somewhat cold evening: the tree lighting. For small town or any town nostalgia and holiday and community…
From the editor
It has been about 50 years since I was first introduced to the Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund. Being part of a large family, my parents were not in a financial situation where they could help…
