If you have ever worked with me, you hopefully have found I am good at some things. But you will for certain have seen I am terrible at vacations.

Cheers & Jeers is a feature I remember from the days of reading TV Guide. TV Guide, for those born after the advent of cable TV and the internet, is a small, bi-weekly magazine which lists…

Who are the Mason Station vandals?

At press time, we did not know. But besides any clues in the image Wiscasset Police Department released following…

A kindly man from Southport stopped into the office on Monday to see what we could do to get the word out that our shorelines are being inundated with trash, rolling in from the ocean.

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What’s a typo good for? Not much, but when it’s 90F, or an especially busy day, or both, the errant letter that changes a word or phrase can be good for a laugh, as long as you catch it before it…

The summer of 1967 was when I got interested in baseball. Growing up in New England (Boothbay Harbor, Maine to be exact), my family would gather around the TV during the summer months and watch as…

Before delivering news for the past 35-plus years, I delivered food and drinks at Tugboat Inn, Fisherman’s Wharf, a very short stint at Gepetto’s, Lobsterman’s Wharf and Everybody’s over the…

We welcomed running our news contributor Phil Di Vece’s commentary this week on White’s Island and access to the island, since Di Vece, a longtime local and an author of books on Wiscasset, knows…

Can you believe it? A Windjammer Days Festival so beautiful that no events were rained out! What a glorious week it was for the 60th with sunshine, tolerable humidity, events galore and throngs of…

Tell us if you are experiencing otherwise, but as I’ve noted at least once since the state’s downtown project, the bottlenecks are looking nothing like they were. Even if I’m moving about at…

In addition to putting items on our websites 365 days a year and gathering news for print 52 weeks a year, we also plan, execute and publish five special publications from January through late May…

We are halfway through another year’s weekly editions, as the “Issue 26” on the front page denotes. I don’t take too much stock of annual milestones, as in this line of work and maybe yours, we…

Windjammer Days has been the Boothbay region’s summertime drawing card for 60 years. Despite its being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the now week-long festival honoring our boat-building…

Especially in the warmer months when more events happen, we cover them every week, each important for its cause, attendees’ enjoyment, or often both. One in Wiscasset Friday had a lot going for it…

Boothbay Region High School Principal Tricia Campbell said it … and said it well … when she praised senior class advisor Allan Crocker during the graduation ceremony, and mentioned that the staff…

Going through pictures the other day brought me back to a 1970s Christmas parade at Disney World, plus harness racetracks and horsemen, and bowling centers and awards banquets, each trip or other…

Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School and Wiscasset Middle High School 2022 graduates. You’ve made it through 13 years of schooling, the last two having been perhaps the most…

Ever wonder why, in our print edition, you are sometimes reading about what Wiscasset selectmen or maybe the school committee were set to take up Tuesday, two days before the date on the newspaper…

Despite seeing and photographing many of the same faces in the region’s Memorial Day parades, and sometimes hearing the same or very similar messages delivered by clergy and others, I always come…

For an opinion or observation this week, all I think of each one I consider mentioning is, what is the point of saying it here. The Uvalde, Texas school slayings as, according to…

I was going to write a little bit about my vacation in Kansas and Nebraska this past week but about 12 hours after my return to work, the biggest fire Boothbay Harbor has seen in many years broke…

I was 7 when a hotel fire killed four people in Bath, the city I was growing up in. It was on the street where I lived and went to school and would graduate from high school. I remember little of…

Is it just me or have you seen more varieties of birds and more birds in general this month? Perhaps if I hung out at my in-laws’ house I would see even more as they have a virtual aviary set up…

With Lincoln County’s COVID count ticking back up and Maine in recent days second in the nation, Wiscasset, much more mask-free and at times less socially distant this spring, is making some smart…

With all the talk about building a new high school, I have been reminiscing about the old grammar school on School Street in Boothbay Harbor.

Our former sports reporter Keith Alley, whose…

Given the challenges towns and their public safety and other departments have faced this year, including finding staff and paying them enough to stay in that line of work and with that employer, …

This past week was weather-perfect for outdoor projects – not too hot and not too cold, although the wind continues to blow.

One of the projects that happens this time of year is picking up…

All the talk Monday night on Zoom by the ordinance review committee, mulling where to propose marijuana commerce can go and how it could add to the tax base, got me thinking about what else would…

Things are getting busier around the region as evidenced by the amount of news in this week’s issue. We had to bump up the page count because of the news and advertising amounts. That’s a good…

The interest Wiscasset residents and officials have shown over what to do, not do, or when, at and near Wiscasset’s White’s Island and its footbridges, is reassuring.

Memories and tradition…

The newspaper industry has changed over the past couple of decades. Instant access to news through the internet has changed the game, especially for those who have little time, or don’t want to…

Regarding the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District Building Exploratory Committee’s review of the four concepts for the CSD campus … if you are interested in what some of the plans…

Will this be a spring mild in weather and COVID counts, helping it be a good one for businesses and everyone else?

What will turnouts be for the remaining annual town meetings, in the…

I was going to write about my week, day-by-day, from Wednesday through Tuesday, but I thought I would spare you the monotony and just tell you about an embarrassing moment. It was not on the scale…

In area towns last year and a little so far this year, residents’ talk to boards or committees or to one another at the meetings sometimes got loud, at times with interruptions that didn’t help.…

Daylight saving time going permanent? The U.S. Senate agrees with the idea but according to news reports, the measure to have one time zone is having a hard time being passed in the House of…

If hope was ever needed everywhere, it is now. We find it in our towns this week.

A silent symbol of hope, the word in stain glass, was over the shoulder of St. Philip’s Church in Wiscasset…

This week’s news is full of people doing good things, both locally and abroad.

Big thanks to Southport’s Paul Zalucky for finding ways to protect his extended family and other people from…

If someone works at or for schools, they likely like children and want to give them their best start. They probably did not seek that line of work for its pay and, if they have stayed in it, they…

Peter R. Cook. A lifelong friend, high school teammate and best man. Having to say good-bye this week has been tough on everyone who knew him.

One thing that truly sunk in with me during…

Well done, local church members who rang bells March 3 in honor of those killed in Ukraine in the first week of Russia’s invasion; and kudos to First Congregational Church and St. Philip’s Church…

With The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcing 70% or so of Americans now live in areas where they are no longer recommended to wear masks indoors in public settings, there seems…

I can’t recall a less exciting topic our towns have faced lately than Wiscasset’s look at net energy billing. I thought this as I wrote one of our recent stories on it after a Feb. 15 selectmen’s…

Even though the Seahawks won’t be going back this week, it felt good to return to the Augusta Civic Center for the Maine Principals’ Association basketball tournament on Monday.

Like my…

Congratulations to the schools that have taught in the pandemic, first remotely then usually back in person. And with Maine Center for Disease Control’s new blessing on masks going optional, that…

It is a pleasure to publish stories about the successes gained by young people who are/were educated here in our regions.

Whenever semesters end, we receive several updates on college…

Since area towns’ boards and committees began meeting on Zoom and YouTube due to the pandemic, and some still are, have you been viewing and/or participating in meetings you would not have, had…

Even though the New England Patriots aren’t playing in Sunday’s “big game,” we NFL fans will huddle in front of the TV sets to watch the yearly spectacle. Who are you cheering for? I would like to…

Of all the scenarios State Rep. Rachel Talbot-Ross mentioned to Wiscasset selectmen Feb. 1 for…

The Boothbay Register has thousands upon thousands of photos in its office. Some of the prints are either identified with attached paper tags or information written on the back. Other photos, such…