Long Branch headlines the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, Aug. 27, along with live music in galleries and pubs, and so much more to entertain visitors. Making a repeat sidewalk performance, the…
Dining Out
Wiscasset Art Walk Aug. 27
Paper artist Joelle Webber started making books at the age of seven. Forty-five years later, she is offering a drop-in workshop making…
727 Ocean Sunset Bar
Don’t miss a special evening with Irishman, Gabriel Donohue at 727 Ocean Sunset Bar at Smuggler’s Cove Inn, Thursday, Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Gabriel was born in Athenry, a walled…
North Nobleboro Day Returns
One of the Midcoast’s favorite summer traditions is back! The 54th annual North Nobleboro Day will take place on Saturday, Aug. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Community Hall on…
The Sheepscott Community Church will be hosting a baked bean supper, 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at the Harriet Gertrude Bird Clubhouse, 619 Sheepscot Road in Newcastle. Seating …
LamboLaw Jazz Duet makes really good music! Visitors to Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, July 30 from 4 to 7 p.m., will be treated to a free sidewalk performance of familiar and original jazz tunes…
The Sheepscott Community Church will be hosting a community dinner on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Vestry of the Church at 8 The Kings Highway in Newcastle.
The…
A new show opens Aug. 11 at the Damariscotta River Grill featuring seasoned artists Sandra Leinonen Dunn, Susan Tilton Pecora and Kimberly Skillin Traina. Three distinct styles and mediums…
You can't say "Boothbay region" without "seafood." Well, you can, but why would you?
Ralph Smith, owner of Boothbay Harbor's Mine Oyster and Boathouse Bistro, told us his…
Art at the Grill
A new show opens June 23 at the Damariscotta River Grill featuring seasoned artists Sandy Crabtree, Sandy Harper, and Doug Houle. Three very accomplished painters capture unique viewpoints of the…
Press release
Wiscasset eatery Jodie’s Cafe & Bakery will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) June 16..
America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company…
Brady's Restaurant is about to be added to America's Best Restaurants' (ABR) Maine list when the ABR Roadshow arrives Friday, June 13. Filming will be from 2 to 5 p.m. and owner Jen Mitchell said…
Damariscotta River Grill
A new show opens at Damariscotta River Grill April 28, featuring three talented Maine women artists, Marijke Felix Damrell, Cassie Doyon and Elaine Hranich. Celebrate the artists while enjoying…
The popularity of our recent "Tea with Dame Maggie" series and the enjoyment the audience felt in seeing again the well-loved Merchant Ivory film "A Room with a View," prompted a new…
Listings begin Jan. 22
"A Complete Unknown" - (R; 2 hours, 21 minutes) - Set in New York City during the transformative year of 1961, "A Complete Unknown" explores the meteoric rise of 19-…
Driving back through town from its outskirts at Wiscasset Municipal Airport, Wiscasset Selectman William "Bill" Maloney got thinking about all the restaurants Wiscasset has on Route One and…
America's most famous sausage car is traveling around Maine and coming to…
Geneviève Tailleux, proprietor of Marketplace Café in Wiscasset, is doing a series of benefit dinners for Alna's John Seigars, whose house burned down recently. Tailleux said she has done one…
Harvest on the Harbor's 2024 Lobster Chef of the Year
That award-winning delicious bite created by Lori Mitchell/Boothbay Craft Brewery for Claw Down in June, taking both Judge's Choice and People's Choice awards, was awarded the People's Choice at…
Come and try it, Wiscasset’s Stephen Heald said when Wiscasset Newspaper asked what he would tell readers who always knew 762 Bath Road for…
How many locals have had mititel or, in English, “meat fingers?” If you asked a week ago, probably few. However, thanks to a group of Romanian workers, many got the chance. A crowd of people…
The 21st annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival returns to Mine Oyster Restaurant, 16 Wharf St., in downtown Boothbay Harbor on Sunday, Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival features $2…
A new show opens Aug. 19 at the Damariscotta River Grill featuring seasoned artists Doug Houle, Susan Tilton Pecora and Kimberly Skillin Traina. Three distinct styles and mediums explore a…
Smuggler’s Cove Inn
Smuggler’s Cove Inn is delighted to…
Mango tacos, passion fruit cheesecake, curry noodle soup, and lemon cocktails are some of the ways 62 Midcoast eateries are incorporating the color yellow on their July menus in the second…
Claw Down 2024
Claw Down 2024: What a night June 13 was! Delicious lobster bites prepared by incredibly talented chefs at Bristol Marine, the perfect location for any event: water and ship views outside, and…
The best way to finish a great meal is with a fantastic dessert. In the Boothbay region, dozens of great restaurants have menus filled with delicious choices of desserts. Here are some…
Damariscotta River Grill
A new show, “The Power of Place” opens at Damariscotta River Grill showcasing Maine through the eyes of three talented artists; Jean Kigel, Sally Loughridge and Candace Vlcek. Art is on…
Whether it is an allergic reaction to seafood or you are just not up for consuming the bounty of Maine’s ocean catches, area restaurants do offer a wide variety of menu items that should match…
Steak sells itself, but that does not stop Midcoast restaurants from getting creative on how to serve it and what with.
Enjoy this look at some of what you’ll find when you have steak…
Lobster is still a star of Midcoast Maine dining, but its fellow shell-wearers also delight the palate and, like the lobster, are served in a bounty of ways.
We sought a sampling of what…
Where It’s At
Rochester, New York native Joel Rissinger is totally jazzed for his first season (in his favorite state of Maine) as the new head chef at Robinson’s Wharf. The famous Southport restaurant and…
Since the first new year merriment dating back as far as 2000 BCE in Mesopotania – now Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria – people have marked the last day of the year with celebrations. Back then,…
Wednesday, Jan. 3
The menu at the Wiscasset Senior Center will be: vegetable noodle soup, garlic bread, salad, spaghetti and meatballs with brownies a la mode with chocolate sauce.…
Potluck dinner gatherings are a staple of small town Maine, while Christmas caroling with a group may be more a thing of the past. On Wednesday, Dec. 20, the historic Opera House in Boothbay…
Damariscotta River Grill
A new show opens at Damariscotta River Grill, just in time for some holiday gift shopping! Three talented Maine women artists, Pamela Browne, Lonie Ellis and Cheryl Young will…
A new solo show opens at Damariscotta River Grill Oct. 17, showcasing the work of Philippa Beal. Art is on display through Dec. 3.
…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
Join your friends, neighbors and other area business people at the Wiscasset Chamber’s October Business After Hours, being held Thursday, Oct. 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the lovely Water’s Edge…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, Sept. 30 celebrated the opening of Jodie’s Cafe and Bakery on Water Street, Wiscasset with a ribbon-cutting.
Mine Oyster hosted the 20th anniversary celebration of the Pemaquid Oyster Festival in Boothbay Harbor Sept. 24, after tropical storm Lee postponed the event one week. An enormous crowd…
Where it’s at
Thinking of eating dinner out tonight? Don’t feel like cooking? Celebrating a special occasion from a birthday or anniversary, or because it’s Wednesday, a.k.a. Anything Can Happen Day (for those…
Mother-daughter duo Carol Heaberlin and Mindy Jones, of Alna, have talked occasionally about finding a permanent home for their restaurant Y-Knot since first opening the business…
After a three-year COVID-induced hiatus, Pemaquid Oyster Festival returns to celebrate its 20th anniversary this Sept. 24 from…
Carousel Music Theater (CMT) in Boothbay Harbor is hosting an original 1940s USO musical show, “Liberty Belles,” through Aug. 30. “The show was written in-house, specifically for this cast by…
Glidden Point Oyster Farm in Edgecomb held its first Farmer Friday featuring Ferda Farms of the New Meadows River in Brunswick on Friday, July 28. “Farmer Friday was introduced as a way to…
Internationally known American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 11 Glidden St., Newcastle for a solo concert on Thursday, Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at…
The annual Lobsterbake & More returns to the Lincoln Home on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. Get your tickets early for a fun summer evening under the tent on the shores of the…
The first “Battle of the Boards,” a charcuterie challenge, is coming to Wiscasset Saturday, Aug. 19.
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Maine Tasting Center…
