Our award-winning websites have brought the Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper and our readers a long way in delivering and getting local news, fun features and everything in between. Now we’re broadening our online offerings to include a couple of bloggers on our sites.

And two very unique individuals they are: Andrea Goodman of Boothbay and Eleanor “Ellie” Cade Busby of Damariscotta.

Goodman is well-known in the Boothbay region and Damariscotta and Camden areas. The singer, author, teacher, Reiki master, healer and priestess moved to Barters Island in 1989 from New York City, where she had 14 years of performing, teaching, and touring with the Meredith Monk Ensemble. She has been collaborator-composer/conductor/musician and performer with Figures of Speech theater in Freeport  that features both human and puppet actors.Her work with them is ongoing.  She has also performed locally, in  Heartwood Regional  Theater Company’s production of “Gilgamesh.”

She came to Maine to have a family in a nurturing environment and has stayed to make her home into Ruby-Throated Spirit — a sanctuary-voice studio, where she offers voice lessons, sound-healing, Cosmic Harmony classes, astrology and tarot readings, sacred ceremonies, blessings and retreats. Goodman created a labyrinth on her land bordered by herbs and flowers, perfect for meditation and reflection.

In 1997, she was ordained as a high priestess/minister of the Ministry of Maåt, which she co-founded that year with Reverend IONE and Pauline Oliveros. She considers all aspects of her work to be her ministry; posts on her  blog, “Illuminations,” will be a bright reflection of that ministry.  She describes the blog as, “Thoughts and realizations of a spiritual nature, opening to the awareness of inner and outer light.” For more on Goodman, visit www.rubythroatedspirit.com.

Busby is an accomplished actor, director, playwright, writer, poet, photographer and activist. She was the first person to bring performances of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” to Maine stages from Bath to Camden beginning in 2000, as Girl Power Productions.  All 14 performances were fundraisers for New Hope For Women and other local and world organizations and, over those years, Girl Power Productions raised tens of thousands of dollars for their benefit and to bring awareness to communities about the many forms of domestic violence and its impact on those whose lives are affected by it.  The 14th performance was at the Waldo Theater in 2014. Most recently, she participated in the Women’s March on Washington, and when a protest is happening on the Newcastle/Damariscotta bridge, Busby will be there. Count on it. 

She has performed with Lincoln County Community Theater and River Company, where last year the troupe presented a musical adaption she penned, of Dickens’ classic Christmas story. Busby has also performed on the stages of the Waldo Theatre and Chocolate Church Arts Center, to name but a few of the venues where the footlights have shown on this talented redhead.

This creative and passionate woman’s name may sound familiar for another reason: She was a theater/arts reviewer and events journalist at Lincoln County News for many years.

As a blogger, she will be writing about all aspects of theater, performance, and actors in the form of interviews, reviews, reflections with bits of poetry and other forms of creative expression, which are always screaming to be heard. She says her blog, “What’s the Buzz, ” covers “what’s happening, what might be happening, and what should be happening.” 

To access bloggers’ posts hosted on the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper websites, visit www.boothbayregister.com or www.wiscassetnewspaper.com. Under the mastheads are categories. Click on “TALK.”  You’ll see “BLOGS” at the top of the center column of that page.