Pot Buoy Decorating: By age groups: Young children and adults. Stop by The First bank, pick up your plain pot buoy, decorate it and drop it back off at The First in Boothbay Harbor. You’ll need to use your own supplies for the decorating. Buoys will be judged by the community downtown Saturday morning. Prizes awarded for different age groups. (Pot buoys are $5). This year we will hold a live auction for the pot buoys just before the Tug of War to raise money for the Fishermen’s Memorial. FRIDAY... Read more
42nd Annual Fishermen’s Festival, April 24-26
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Fishermen’s Festival
Live results, photos and video: Codfish Relay, Tug of War, Crate Running and more!
Fishermen’s Festival is finally here! Bookmark this page for up-to-the-minute event results. To check out our ever-growing Fishermen’s Festival Photo Gallery, click here. To submit photos yourself, email pix@boothbayregister.com.Codfish RelayHigh School Codfish RelayFirst: Senior Class wins! (5:37)Second: Juniors (5:41)Third: Sophomores (6:18)Fourth: Freshmen (7:16)The senior class included: Antonio Maulolo, Julian Aponte, Sinead Miller, Lucas LeightonThe junior class team included: Hannah... Read more
Photo Gallery: Fishermen’s Festival 2015
For a full schedule of events, visit www.bbrfishfest.com!Send your own festival photos to pix@boothbayregister.com, post on our Facebook Page, or use the tags #ff207 and #fishermensfestival on other social media.See Saturday event results by clicking here.
From the Editor-at-Large
Fishermen’s Festival: Don’t miss it
Dear Readers,The first major event of Boothbay’s non-snowplow season, the 42nd Fishermen's Festival, is this weekend. In the words of the hyper-annoying furniture salesmen on TV: “Don't Miss It.”Elsewhere in this newspaper and on our fabulous websites, you can read the full schedule of events that begin on Friday evening with the always entertaining Miss Shrimp Princess Pageant.Saturday is the day for lots of fun, including the slippery codfish race, the crate running, bait shoveling, the tug... Read more
Mary’s Musings
Many changes in 42 years
This weekend marks the 42nd year the Boothbay region has hosted a Fishermen’s Festival, which was originally established to pay tribute to Lincoln County’s commercial fishing industry and the key role it has played in our history. The intent then, as it still is today, was to give fishermen a chance to have a little fun and celebrate the end of winter. The contests and events have changed over the years. We no longer have competition to determine the fastest clam or scallop shucker, fish... Read more
Fishermen’s Festival: The music scene for 2015
After the pageantry and the competitions, check out the night life during Fishermen's Festival. Call your favorite guy or gal, and meet some friends — new and old — at local clubs with bands ready to get you dancing and celebrating the arrival of spring.On Friday, April 24, Sweatin' Bullets plays Robinson's Wharf, with traditional country and rock ‘n’ roll classics by lead singer Mike Stevens, bassist David Rodrigues, lead guitarist Lee Sellers and Steve Pogue on drums.The Resistance plays at... Read more
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Dyer Neck Gang plays Fishermen’s Festival
Fishermen's Festival weekend 2015 just got a little louder: Mr. C's Foods and Spirits in Boothbay Harbor has booked the Dyer Neck Gang for Saturday, April 25.The Newcastle-based band, co-founded by Garry Blackman Jr. of Boothbay and Joe Dalton, was launched in 2012 as a modern country act under the slogan “Country that rocks!”The Dyer Neck Gang has gone on to establish themselves as one of Midcoast Maine's finest live acts, covering hits by Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton... Read more
Who will win bragging rights at the 42nd Fishermen's Festival?
Fishermen's Festival.Ayuh. Just the mention of this annual event gives rise to tales of competitions past, complete with good natured ribbing and boasting and a bit of off color roasting.The competitions begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 24 with the Miss Shrimp Princess Pageant. The event will be held at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor where five young ladies, ages 9-12, will compete for what frequent emcee Andrew Morley has called, “the most coveted title on the peninsula.”Plan to get there... Read more
Two Salty Dogs Gift Fest
During the weekend of Fishermen’s Festival, April 25 and 26, anyone who adopts a cat or dog from Lincoln County Animal Shelter will receive a $25 gift certificate to Two Salty Dogs Pet Outfitters in Boothbay Harbor.“We tried to do this in January, but a huge storm hit and the animal shelter ended up being closed,” owner Don Kingsbury said. “It's time to try again and help the people that open their hearts and homes to an animal in need.”Two Salty Dogs is located at 22 McKown Street in Boothbay... Read more