Columns

• ’Round Town

  Windjammer Days, part 2

  Wed, 06/29/2022 - 8:45am

  

  There is an old saying, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” It seems that is a statement I may have heard from my grandmother of Irish ancestors when referring to the “Lightning Glider” sled I had versus the “Lightning Glider” sled I desired! I was a sledding maniac as a kid. Problem was, I crashed a lot. My grandmother recommended restraint, but I preferred something sleeker and faster. I settled for the bird in hand, despite design flaws and patchwork repairs. And, multiple hidden...
• Joe’s Journal

  Halftime in America

  Wed, 06/29/2022 - 7:00am

  

  The solstice passed last week on Tuesday, June 21 at 5:13 a.m. EDT. We are halfway to 2023. Was it just yesterday when I put the snow shovels back in the garage and wheeled the lawn mower from under the back stairs replacing it with the snow blower that blew a gasket last February? If you happen to live under the Boothbay Harbor footbridge or camp out behind the concrete containers at Wiscasset’s former Maine Yankee nuclear plant, you may have missed last week’s news. A lot happened. And, if...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Mystery of a 10 p.m. Late June Wood Thrush Call

  Tue, 06/28/2022 - 8:30am

  

  At 10 p.m. on June 27, while out walking the dog, we very clearly heard a single, rather loud nocturnal flight call of a wood thrush overhead in the dark. Hearing any bird calling as it flies over at night in migration always seems like a miracle even though we have experienced it thousands of times. But hearing a wood thrush this particular night was especially fascinating for several reasons. First is the fact that wood thrushes are not particularly common here anymore. Wood thrushes are a...
• Where It’s At

  New Oyster Bar at Boothbay Craft Brewery ... by Brother Shucker

  Sat, 06/25/2022 - 8:45am

  

  It’s really an experience, eating oysters … they are cool and soft and taste like the sea. Delicate morsels to be savored. Occasionally I will squirt some fresh lemon on one, but I tend to be a purist when it comes to oysters. For me, they are the perfect food – nourishing and decadent with the scent and taste of the sea (or estuary, as in the case of the Damariscotta River). So, when I heard there was an oyster bar at Boothbay Craft Brewery I had to go there. And so must you. Thanks to Lori,...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Fri, 06/24/2022 - 7:45am

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, July 6. Menu is strawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 for reservations. Cribbage results for Tuesday June 21 at 9:30 a.m., with 22 players, were: First place, Pam Frenier, 839; second, Doc Schilke, 834; third, Howard Nickerson, 832; high hand (24), a tie, Roger Downs and Marlene Rines; and low score, Arlene Steen, 599. Thursday, June 23 at 6 p.m., 21 players, first...
• Joe’s Journal

  A Modest Proposal revisited

  Wed, 06/22/2022 - 7:45am

  

  Last week, this column chided some major newspaper chains for eliminating and cutting back on opinion pages, including my favorites, called letters to the editor and op-eds. We argued that those actions censored opinions of those who disagree with those who own and produce the offending newspapers. These overleveraged and self-serving companies risk our tradition of freedom of speech. Without a free discussion of policy and politics, we are all left in the dark, becoming easy prey for...
• ’Round Town

  Windjammer Days

  Wed, 06/22/2022 - 7:30am

  

  Lonny Sisson (may he rest in peace but not far from croquet and golf) landed in Maine early in life. When he started a family, producing income became a paramount concern. He was a likable chap and managed to find jobs in a variety of settings, chief among which involved his continued efforts to advance a painting career. His early watercolors were terrific, loose and inventive, but he needed to promote his work and take advantage of the especially active summer seasons. Above all else, Lonny...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Tue, 06/21/2022 - 10:00am

  The next public supper is Wednesday, July 6. The m enu will be strawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 for reservations. Cribbage results for Tuesday, June 14 at 9:30 a.m. were first place, Marlene Rines, 847; second, Stuart Wyman, 822; third, Nancy Wright, 819; high hand (24) John Downs; and low score, Bob Gilman, 711. Thursday June 16 at 6 p.m., first place, Pete Watson, 847; second, Jeannie Marshall, 841;...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Five Easy-to-Learn Wild Bird Sound Imitations

  Tue, 06/21/2022 - 8:45am

  

  In our modern age of technology, more and more people are tempted to just use an app like Merlin (from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) to identify the bird sounds they hear. But if you really want to learn and remember the identities of the birds making sounds around you, one of the best ways is to try to imitate those bird songs and calls yourself. Here, we give you five easy-to-learn bird sounds to get you started. Pishing : We start the list with a more generic...
• From the Maine Senate

  Protecting Mainers from price gouging

  Mon, 06/20/2022 - 3:45pm

  

  Soaring gas prices are hitting us and so many of our friends and neighbors hard. The fact is, most of us rely on gas to power our cars, and we rely on our cars to get us where we need to go. Public transportation simply isn’t an option for us in rural Maine. When gas prices go up, we don’t have the option of skipping work or a trip to the pharmacy just to avoid filling up our gas tank, so we’re left with little choice but to pay the price. When times are tight and costs are high, it’s more...

• AARP scam alert: Car rental scams

  Sun, 06/19/2022 - 8:45am

  

  For the second year in a row, sticker shock – especially with rental cars – is greeting summer travelers. Reduction in fleet sizes during the pandemic and supply chain issues have once again created a situation where rental care demand is high, supply is tight, and prices are high. Criminals are paying attention and posting fake rental car deals at rock bottom prices online. While everyone loves a good deal, doing business with an entity you aren’t familiar with could be risky. Whatever your...
• Salt ’n Spar

  Let’s consider abstract pictures

  Sun, 06/19/2022 - 8:00am

  

  Abstract photography can be a lot of fun, that is taking a picture of something ordinary that looks well, extraordinary. Over the years, I have taken many different images that have had people guessing what on Earth it could be. Here are a few examples of what I’m talking about and all but one of these were taken right here in Wiscasset. The first was taken one early December morning while I was hiking Cushman Mountain Preserve off Birch Point Road. It’s a closeup showing spring water bubbling...

• AARP scam alert: Student debt relief scams

  Thu, 06/16/2022 - 11:45am

  

  School is out for the year, but for millions the bills keep on coming. More than 43 million Americans are paying off student loans and every one of them is eager to do so as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this eagerness creates an opportunity for scammers. These scams typically start with a "debt relief expert" reaching out with an unsolicited offer to help navigate through state and federal programs to help you reduce or restructure your debt. This “offer” may include instant, easy-to-...
• From the U.S. House of Representatives

  Kids shouldn’t have to beg Congress to keep them safe

  Thu, 06/16/2022 - 8:30am

  

  Last week, I received a letter from an 8-year-old constituent of mine about the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children around her age were gunned down in their classroom. Her words, handwritten on lined composition paper, broke my heart. “I can’t amagin what they are going throgh this 18 year old had no right to do what he did,” she wrote. Her misspelled words make the fact that she’s only in 2nd grade all the more clear—all the more heart wrenching. “Pleas never let anything like...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Elegant Puffin Relative, the Razorbill

  Wed, 06/15/2022 - 8:15am

  

  Once or twice a summer, we have the good fortune of riding on the Hardy Boat out of New Harbor, Maine, to Eastern Egg Rock, five miles offshore. The stars of the show are, of course, the Atlantic puffins that were reintroduced to the island by the National Audubon Society after more than a hundred years of absence. Now there is a thriving population of puffins nesting there, delighting thousands of visitors that take the Hardy Boat from New Harbor or a Cap’n Fish’s boat from Boothbay Harbor out...
• ’Round Town

  Morgan

  Wed, 06/15/2022 - 8:00am

  

  The recent annual graduation celebrations remind us of the same events we experienced with our own daughters, Megan and Morgan. We recall with fondness the festivities at school and then later at colleges in Baltimore and Vermont when friends and family from near and far (mostly far) came together to support and give thanks for successfully completing educations and, in some cases, life-changing experiences. Nana and Pop Kiley (our adopted grandparents) were great supporters, never missing a...
• Joe’s Journal

  A modest proposal

  Wed, 06/15/2022 - 7:15am

  

  The sun is shining, the temperature is just right, our rhododendrons exploded in a blaze of color, and our village streets are seeing dozens of Saturday night strollers. Restaurants are opening, except for the Thistle Inn, which recently closed, much to the dismay of the house ghosts – T’Donald and Leonie. Our high school seniors graduated, traded their jeans for ties and gowns, and marched around the gym to the cheers of proud supporters. As the pandemic wanes (at least we hope so), we all...

• Garden Club of Wiscasset

  Tue, 06/14/2022 - 12:30pm

  

  The GCW held its annual meeting at the Maine Tasting Center Educational building on June 2 from 2 to 4 p.m. Over 30 members enjoyed a lovely tea luncheon. Also in attendance was Linda Redman, director of Medomak District of The Garden Club Federation of Maine. During a brief business meeting, GCW President Lisa Freeman gave out two certificates of appreciation for outstanding support to the community and garden club programs to longtime member Sally Howe and Vice President Robin Grant. Candice...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Sat, 06/11/2022 - 9:45am

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, July 6. The menu will be s trawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 to reserve your meal. Cribbage results for Tuesday, June 7 at 9:30 a.m., with 20 players, were first place, Ken Colby, 831; second, Doc Schilke, 818; third, Stuart Wyman, 814; high hand (20), a tie, Ken Colby, Catherine Rolerson and Ann Pinkham; and low score, Larry Rines, 725. Thursday, June 9 at 6 p.m...

• AARP scam alert: Western Union refund deadline

  Thu, 06/09/2022 - 11:45am

  

  If you lost money to a scam that involved wiring money through Western Union between Jan. 1, 2004, and Jan. 19, 2017, you have until July 1 to file a claim for a refund under a settlement between the payment service and the federal government.​ During roughly that time period, wire transfers were the preferred form of payment for criminal scammers and millions of people lost money through coerced transactions. Western Union admitted to lapsed oversight and agreed to forfeit $586 million to...
• ’Round Town

  Lakeview memories

  Wed, 06/08/2022 - 8:30am

  

  It’s weird sometimes what bubbles up in the wake of tragedy. The “Beach Cove” fire, a s awful as it was, caused me to recall my times at “The Lakeview Motel” where I spent a couple years, off and on, as a handy person who would do, or try, a lmost anything. I mowed, I raked, I washed, I carpentered, painted, washed dishes, tended bar and unloaded luggage from early tour busloads of folks from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. My time at the motel would have been late ’70s, early ’80s. Joe and Helena...
• A Bird’s Tale

  When Two Bird Species Masquerade as One

  Wed, 06/08/2022 - 8:15am

  

  Imagine a theoretical case in which two bird species looked exactly alike. Your first question would probably be, “How would anyone know that they are different species?” Your second question might be, “How would the two bird species tell each other apart in the first place?” There are indeed some species that look so similar that their identities as separate species went undetected for decades. In fact, there are undoubtedly still some of these so-called cryptic species that are undescribed...
• Joe’s Journal

  The Virginia is born

  Wed, 06/08/2022 - 7:15am

  

  On Saturday, a sailboat was launched from the shore just a few blocks north of Bath Iron Works, where the Navy’s destroyers are born. As thousands held their breath and a quartet of buzzing drones watched from above, a pair of giant yellow cranes carefully lifted the 50-foot-long wooden sailing craft off a cradle and set her into the chilly waters of the mighty Kennebec. Thousands cheered, and bands played as dozens of volunteers, many sporting lots of grey hair and fluffy white beards, beamed...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Fri, 06/03/2022 - 8:00am

  The next public supper is Wednesday, June 15. Menu will be vegetable soup, salad, rolls, turkey loaf, gravy, mashed potato, green beans, and chocolate graham cracker cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. For reservations, call 882-8230 . There will be no more Thursday lunches. Cribbage results for Tuesday, May 31 at 9:30 a.m., with 21 players, were first place, Ken Colby, 840; second, Blanche Johnson, 837; third, Sally Grover, 827; high hand (24) Roger Downs; and low score, Pam...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Brilliant and Beautiful Birds of May

  Wed, 06/01/2022 - 12:00pm

  

  For birders here in Maine, the end of May is often seen as the end of the spring migration season and the beginning of the summer breeding season. Many birds are indeed on territory and are nesting or soon will be. But there are also lots of birds, especially those traveling f a rther north into Canada, that will be migrating even through the first week or so of June. Just last night we heard lots of Swainson’s thrushes giving their nocturnal flight calls as they f lew north unseen in the...
• ’Round Town

  Dates

  Wed, 06/01/2022 - 8:00am

  

  We record all sorts of events on our “Around Boothbay Harbor” calendar. Big squares for each calendar date allow for a good pile of information. Among those items of record, we record birthdays, anniversaries, deaths, oil change appointments, significant events, doctor appointments, storms, bloomings, bird sightings and much more. In the bird sightings and plant blooming departments, it is fun to compare, from year to year, how frequently things happen on or near the same date, year after year...
• Joe’s Journal

  An old story

  Wed, 06/01/2022 - 7:45am

  

  Last week, I sat in the Boothbay Harbor ice cream shop as a bright-eyed young woman told me she loves to pick up her cell phone and call her mother. “If I call her and she not pick up, I think something happen,” she said. She is Alina Pushkariuk, 28, a transplanted Ukrainian ballroom dancer working as a hostess at Harborside Restaurant, half a world away from her home and war. Beside her sits her smiling friend, Oman Eser, 31, a native of Turkey who runs the Harbor’s Ice Cream Factory. While...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Sat, 05/28/2022 - 10:00am

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 15, with v egetable soup, salad, rolls, turkey loaf, gravy, mashed potato, green beans and chocolate graham cracker cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Reserve a meal at 882-8230 . Cribbage results for Tuesday, May 24, with 20 players, were first place, Nancy Whitney, 840; second, Marge Pooler, 838; third, Diane Robinson, 826, high hand (22) Marge Pooler; and low score, Pam Frenier, 722. Thursday, May 26, 20 players, first place,...
• Salt ’n Spar

  Wiscasset, Waterville metal sculptures share maker

  Fri, 05/27/2022 - 8:45am

  

  On a recent Saturday, Mrs. Di Vece and I made a trip to Waterville, specifically so she could buy yarn and knitting patterns at the Yardgoods Center which is downtown on the concourse. If you watch MeTV then you’ve probably seen their television commercials introduced by the store’s owner who can usually be found in the store behind the register. While Mrs. Di Vece was shopping, I walked downtown along Main Street and soon found myself on the waterfront at the River Walk, a large park which...

• AARP scam alert: When the caregiver is a crook

  Wed, 05/25/2022 - 12:45pm

  

  There’s nothing more important than knowing that your loved one is being properly cared for. Unfortunately, some of those tasked with providing this care take advantage of the opportunity to line their own pockets. Here are three things you can do to safeguard your loved one from financial exploitation. Regularly check in with both the caregiver and the care recipient to ensure the quality of care. Use technology to be present even when you physically can’t be. Keep an inventory of valuables...
• Joe’s Journal

  Southport broadband

  Wed, 05/25/2022 - 8:00am

  

  A faded wooden sign tacked on the Southport Island town hall says you have to pay 3 cents to ride your horse over the Townsend Gut bridge. It was long ago, no one is sure of the date, but it notes the rates for carriages, sleighs, sheep, and swine. The bridge was free if you were going to church on the Sabbath. I suppose long ago, Southport islanders gathered in this same hall to chew over the proposals to lower or (perish the thought) raise bridge tolls. Last Wednesday, about 50 Southport...
• ’Round Town

  Old friend

  Wed, 05/25/2022 - 7:45am

  

  Some weeks things fall out of my head more easily. This past week has been complicated by some losses of old friends. It’s difficult enough for me to come up with weekly adventures, but this time around I just had to throw in the towel and punt. So, as a fall back, I have dredged up a favorite image from the past. I hope it will be OK. It’s an image from a long time ago. When we first moved to Southport in 2001, one of the first things I did was run to the town office to see if it would be...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Sun, 05/22/2022 - 8:00am

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 1 . The menu will be tomato rice soup, salad, Anadama bread, baked ham, baked potato wedges, carrots, and rhubarb crisp with ice cream. Cost is $10 for members, $12.00 for non-members. Call 882-8230 for reservations. Cribbage results for Tuesday, May 17, with 20 players, were first place, John Downs, 847; second, Pam Frenier, 821; third, Sally Grover 817; high hand (24) Marge Pooler; and low score, Marlene Rines, 695. Thursday, May 19, 24 players,...
• From the assistant editor

  Layers of a season, layers of news

  Wed, 05/18/2022 - 8:45am

  

  The Midcoast takes wearing so many layers in winter, when it and its ghost, the cold winds that underly and undermine spring, are finally gone for about five months, we can’t wait for short sleeves, or at least a single layer of long sleeves; or I can’t, at least. So when we finally went short-sleeved when it hit the mid-80s last week, it felt great, and right. It always does, like we have survived another winter and can get back to just functioning outside instead of withstanding it. But...

• Protecting Mainers’ reproductive rights

  Tue, 05/17/2022 - 1:30pm

  

  Like many in our community, the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade filled me with sadness and fear. Though the news didn’t come as a total surprise, it did drive home for many of us just how close we are to losing a fundamental right that has been recognized in this country for 50 years: The rights of people to be in charge of their own reproductive health, and to decide if and when to start a family. As terrifying as that prospect is, it’s important everyone know that for now...

• Avian Flu in Maine

  Tue, 05/17/2022 - 10:45am

  

  While we humans have been dealing with the difficult and sad implications of COVID, birds have been dealing with a different and very deadly virus called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Avian influenza of various forms has been known to occur in birds for more than a century. It is particularly a problem in commercial poultry operations in which vast numbers of birds are housed in close proximity to each other such that the virus spreads rapidly. The HPAI form is not only highly...

• American Legion Post 36

  Mon, 05/16/2022 - 6:00pm

  

  As you have read in the Register last week, we have elected our new slate of officers for the 2022-2023 term. I am excited that Robin Ford will be our new Commander. Robin has demonstrated amazing leadership as our Vice Commander and is dedicated to the principals and the mission of the Legion. I am also excited to have our relatively new members Kathy Moroney and Erik Hobson agree to be our Finance Officer and Adjutant respectively. Bob Raudenbush, our current Finance Officer and Adjutant, has...

• Elbridge

  Mon, 05/16/2022 - 4:30pm

  

  Elbridge Giles and I bonded over dynamite. Not your average coffee table conversation, but an interesting journey, nonetheless. We had different but similar experiences to share. Elbridge, his father and grandfather all had something to do with the creation of local waterlines, cellar holes, gravel pits and general blasting for construction, building and area terrain revision. I, on the other hand, with my father and, to a lesser extent, grandfather, altered massive expanses of the Earth, much...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Mon, 05/16/2022 - 7:30am

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 1. The menu will be tomato rice soup, salad, Anadama bread, smothered beef, mashed potato, carrots, Indian pudding with ice cream. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 to reserve a meal by 11 a.m. Tuesday , May 31. Thursday, June 2, is g ame day, with a luncheon around noon. There will be v egetable soup, BLT wraps and Congo bars. Cost for the luncheon is $7 for members, $8 for non-members. Cribbage results for Tuesday, May...

• AARP scam alert: We’re all targets

  Sat, 05/14/2022 - 8:00am

  

  If there is one thing everyone should understand, it’s that “scammers” are career criminals skilled at the art of manipulation and no one is immune. These crooks target people of any age; in fact, 41% of those who reported a fraud loss to the Federal Trade Commission last year were under the age of 30. So, what can a person do if they find out they’ve been victimized? One resource is the AARP Fraud Watch Network Helpline. Every weekday, trained AARP volunteer fraud fighters are helping victims...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Yellowlegs Making Heroic Journeys

  Wed, 05/11/2022 - 10:30am

  

  A few days ago, our favorite “pop-up pond” played host to a flock of six lesser yellowlegs. These long-legged birds of the sandpiper family move through Maine in April and early May on their way north to the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Lesser yellowlegs, like their close relatives, greater yellowlegs and solitary sandpiper, in the breeding season occur nowhere else but the region that extends from Alaska across Canada to Newfoundland and Labrador. They nest only within the carbon-rich...
• Joe's Journal

  Town meeting

  Wed, 05/11/2022 - 7:45am

  

  The New England town meeting is a time-honored practice, said Boothbay Harbor’s town manager as she began her annual presentation last Saturday. Of course, Julia Latter is right. It goes back to the days of the Pilgrims, and this year, about 75 of the town’s stalwart residents showed up at the elementary school to hear town officials explain why they were raising taxes (up 5.28 %) and how they would spend the $5 million proposed budget. Given the raucous recent history of out-of-state civic...
• ’Round Town

  Jenny

  Wed, 05/11/2022 - 7:30am

  

  Let me take this opportunity to introduce our local versions of Google and what used to be the telephone book. If these two ladies don’t know where you can be found, you can’t be. Unless, of course, you have moved into the region within the last 24 hours. In that case Jenny, pictured on the left, or Ashley will have been alerted to your arrival before the last piece of furniture has left the moving van. In other words, these two are the eyes and ears of the peninsula. And both are leaving the...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  Mon, 05/09/2022 - 8:15am

  The next public supper at Wiscasset Senior Center will be Wednesday, May 18, the menu as follows: Beef chili, salad, biscuits and corn bread, pasta salad and cookies with ice cream. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Reserve a meal by calling 882-8230 by May 16 evening . Cribbage results for Tuesday, May 3 at 9:30 a.m., with 17 players, were: First place, Larry Rines, 818; second, Ken Colby, 817; third, Nancy Perry, 815; high hand (24) tie! Ann Pinkham and Ken...

• AARP scam alert: Bad news – but some good news – on ID fraud trends

  Sat, 05/07/2022 - 8:30am

  

  Last year, 42 million consumers suffered a staggering $52 billion in losses from identity fraud. Just when you think there can’t possibly be a silver lining – we found one. Much of this activity is happening via “traditional ID fraud” – the kind that happens in a way the consumer may never know, like a data breach. The other form of identity fraud happens as part of a scam (when a criminal directly deceives someone into giving sensitive information. Victims and losses dropped significantly from...
• ’Round Town

  Ship to shore

  Wed, 05/04/2022 - 7:15am

  

  Looking out across the open bay this time of year emphasizes some of the luxuries of our coastal community. Lots of unoccupied space, which for me, appeals to my appreciation for calm. In a world full with all sorts of distractions the simplicity of this view helps me be grateful for the gifts we have been given by the coast of Maine. Sort of whittles down to basics without much fluff. A boat, a church and lots of water. The same as it’s always been, at least during our brief stay. This is a...
• Joe’s Journal

  A special place

  Wed, 05/04/2022 - 7:00am

  

  We live in a special place. No, it is not because we can look out the window at glorious hills, majestic woods, and the rocky coast. Here, people seem to care about their friends and neighbors despite being bombarded by the venom that drivels from the TV talking heads and those snarky posts that appear in the magical online universe. Just for the record, it has been a tough week for the old scribbler who lives in the little grey house on the hill. After 54 years of being banned from the kitchen...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Duck That Would Rule the World?

  Tue, 05/03/2022 - 11:45am

  

  When we first started birding, we saw in some field guides, illustrations of odd, long-necked, long-legged tropical ducks that were called “tree-ducks.” Later, the name was changed to “whistling-ducks,” an equally fascinating name. These were birds that we only dreamed of seeing, most likely if we someday visited some place in Latin America, or perhaps, in the case of ferruginous whistling-ducks, in Florida, Texas, or Louisiana, where the species also was shown to occur. The field guide showed...
• Salt ’n Spar

  WMHS’s prom will be down on the farm

  Tue, 05/03/2022 - 8:45am

  

  After a two-year absence, plans are underway at Wiscasset Middle High School for a prom on the evening of Saturday, May 21. The theme, “A Night at the Casino,” will feature an evening of music, dancing, light snacks, and games. The Morris Farm, located just down the road from WMHS, is hosting the event, which by the way is open to all of the high school’s students, not just juniors and seniors. The junior class continues to take on responsibility for planning the event with the help of advisors...

• AARP scam alert: The problem with gift cards

  Tue, 05/03/2022 - 8:00am

  

  It’s not always risk-free with America’s favorite gift. There are two types of gift card scams. In the first, a criminal convinces a consumer to pay a fake financial obligation buy purchasing gift cards and sharing the numbers off the back of the cards. In the second, scammers have already accessed the cards while on the store racks, leading a consumer to purchase or receive a card with zero funds. Shockingly, the research finds that 73 million Americans have experienced one of these forms of...

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