If you, as I, have not been enjoying the persistent, punching, chilly, power-threatening wind along the Midcoast on several recent days, here are a few good things about the wind and all its gusts…
Editorial
From the editor
There’s usually a catch when you are offered something for free, right? Go online and look at the dozens of websites where you can get stuff for free. The catch being getting emails up the ying…
From the assistant editor
Does anyone think Putin will stop after Ukraine? That’s not how this works. And if anyone thinks Putin considers the U.S. hands off, that we cannot be dominated or ended, that we wouldn’t let that…
From the editor
Early spring in Omaha
My son texted me a Weather Channel graphic showing us that it was 76F in Omaha, Nebraska on Monday. I know he was being kind and happy that spring is coming fast to…
From the assistant editor
Kudos to Wiscasset’s Schoonerfest for, after a year off, coming back with a planned event that sounds like it will still be a nice time. Some of the plans are similar to the…
From the editor
February is National Library Lover's Month.
When I was young and not preoccupied with a job or raising my family, I used to hang out at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library in the…
From the assistant editor
This week’s entry is all positive, devoid of both wind chill and ice. Feel free to write in (news@wiscassetnewspaper.com or on our Facebook page) and add to the list of positives:
Wiscasset…
From the editor
Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback since Tom Brady. He doesn’t get rattled, used the short passing scheme (a la Brady) to drive the team to the winning touchdown in overtime, and has now won…
From the editor
Every Tuesday, this column has to be ready for print as we go to press late that afternoon. Coming up with ideas on what to write is sometimes difficult. I am not an opinionated person so most of…
From the assistant editor
Please take a few minutes to read Arts Editor Lisa Kristoff’s online piece “What’s a healthy…
From the editor
One of the hot topics of conversation around Maine high school basketball about two-thirds through the regular season was the lopsided scores put up by the Oceanside High School Mariners boys’…
From the editor
We should all be proud.
The small group of young people from the region, Boothbay Region YMCA Y Arts…
From the assistant editor
When the forecast called for flooding, Wiscasset made a burrito.
Not just any burrito, this one helped protect the sewer plant. Kudos to town staff for,…
From the editor
I was miles away from the coast in January and February of 1978, attending classes at the University of Maine. However, I do remember coming home during winter break and looking through the pages…
From the assistant editor
An Alna without Everett “Tom” Albee is not quite the same. Albee, who died Dec. 31, always embodied the best of the town, its ruralness and good nature; and when someone has been so much a part of…
From the editor
It’s been three weeks since the Winter Solstice and have you noticed that daylight has been getting longer? More minutes to enjoy the outdoors, like cleaning the snow and ice off your car – now…
From the editor
The holiday celebrations and time off from work are over and we, the newspaper staff, are looking forward to another fine year ahead.
We are currently, however slowly, getting our annual…
From the assistant editor
This is the year repairs will finish on the Wawenock block on Main Street, some project will be announced for Mason Station and it will not snow much.
I put that last prediction in there…
From the assistant editor
Lots of times in testimony, in or out of court, like in last week’s Wiscasset Middle High School principal hearing at Wiscasset Elementary School and Zoom, witnesses will say some thing(s) beyond…
From the editor
The 2020s have been an interesting decade so far. The COVID-19 pandemic, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, massive floods and fires around the world, mass shootings (including a horrendous one…
From the editor
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? What Christmas songs do you enjoy singing along with?
Let’s start with movies.
Every time I watch “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” I…
From the assistant editor
With the windy mess Monday was, towns stepped up as they do, to help all get through.
Wiscasset’s TextMyGov informed subscribers of the free service about the day’s road closures and the…
From the editor
We don’t always do things correctly here at the newspaper when protecting or backing up our digital files. I say “we” but the finger of accusation could be pointed at me in a straight arm manner…
From the assistant editor
A change in administration at a Wiscasset school or the department is usually not huge news.
These days, as in other careers, both public and private sector, people do not tend to stay as…
From the editor
The final month of the year and it seems like the region always cranks up before the new year with all the holiday events that are held. We’re not done yet with 2023, but reflecting back on a busy…
From the editor
Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School Rotary Interact Club for raising $1,000 for the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston in late October. It was a great idea to have the popular…
From the assistant editor
As Maine forecasts never (read, “often”) need tweaking or fully changing in the days and hours leading up to an event, I am moderately comfortable at press time Tuesday, Saturday night’s rain…
From the editor
Thanksgiving 1973 was a great memory. My 30 teammates and I were extra thankful that day as we had just completed a championship football season – being crowned co-champions in Class D. It was the…
From the assistant editor
Are you part of the last generation of kids who were outside from about daybreak to near dark? If that was you working a paper route on bike or foot, and/or playing ball, hopscotch, jacks, and…
From the editor
Using reporter Fritz Freudenberger’s lead question in his article on the CSD board of trustees meeting story this week regarding the aftermath of the Nov. 7 vote where voters turned down the two…
From the editor
I caught a rare cold this week – not surprising since it has hit a few of my office mates – but hopefully our readers haven’t gotten a cold, the flu, the dreaded COVID-19 virus, or any other fall/…
From the assistant editor
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D – Maine, has, thankfully, changed his stance on assault rifles.
Hours after last week’s mass shootings in Lewiston, Golden told a news conference: “Out of fear of…
From the editor
Most people fall in love with their pets, pampering them to no end. But sometimes, animals are hoarded, mistreated and abused.
This week’s news out of Belfast where a couple was arrested…
From the assistant editor
Lawyers’ interpretations and arguments figure prominently in some of this week’s stories, namely the Maine Yankee appeal hearing and Alna’s on the selectboard’s settlement with a resident over a…
From the editor
Congratulations to the recipients of the annual Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce awards. You can read all about who won and the event online and in this issue in the story and photos…
From the assistant editor
Closing in on Nov. 7, Wiscasset may revise its months old cannabis ordinances. As we have reported, this would tweak where the businesses can go, including fixing an error officials said would let…
We are hoping you are keeping up with the Boothbay Region school referendum information online as well as in print. The amount of information supplied by the AOS 98 Superintendent’s Office is…
From the assistant editor
Hope everyone who likes this time of year, for its flavors, crisp air, scarecrow sightings, or anything else fall, finds something for themselves and/or family members this…
From the editor
A few congratulatory messages are in order.
Congratulations to Chris Higgins for receiving the Al Jellison Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maine Water Environment Association (MEWEA).…
From the assistant editor
Sarah Cherry would have turned 47 last May. Thirty-five years ago this summer, the 12-year-old Bowdoin girl was tortured and killed in her hometown. Late the next winter, a jury in Rockland…
From the editor
Either my memory is getting bad or perhaps the region is getting to be, or continuing to be, a destination for tourists late into September.
While growing up here in the region, I do…
From the assistant editor
Kudos to the Wiscasset school system having students attend a selectboard meeting to observe local government. This makes it real for them, and is also nice for the selectmen and others to be able…
From the editor
I envy the workers who prepared for Saturday's storm as well as those who worked through the days restoring power to thousands of Mainers after high wind gusts and rain-soaked grounds brought…
From the editor
Now that we have the ESPN channels back after the dispute between them and Disney, my life is better for it. But the Red Sox games have filled in during the hiatus (my wife won’t miss a game –…
From the assistant editor
You know that Midcoast town where everybody always gets along – always? Where all the selectmen and all the residents who address them are on the same page?
And on only the rarest of…
From the editor
As the last quarter of 2023 rolled in this week, and a music icon passed on, I kind of enjoyed the Labor Day weekend the way Jimmy Buffett would have liked – little work, relaxing (but not by a…
From the editor
Schools are opening next week and the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor committees overseeing their operation are still busy finalizing the warrant articles for the future of the high school and elementary…
From the assistant editor
Last week, it was the Wiscasset area’s turn for whale sightings, if someone was…
From the editor
While I was away last week on a working vacation – working on my house – I didn’t have much time to catch up with the local news. I was, as they say, “plumb worn out’ in the evenings. I haven’t…
From the assistant editor
Words always matter, wherever they are written, on a subway or old mill with spray paint, or into proposed town rules with, these days, a keyboard. Kudos to Wiscasset and Alna for what they are…
