Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) held “PFAS in Casco Bay: Tracking the Fate of Forever Chemicals on Maine’s Coast” …
Education
Join us at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10 for a special screening of “Found in Korea” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nam Holtz. Meggin “Nam” Holtz spent summers in the Boothbay Harbor region…
“The Goonies” - (PG; 1 hour, 54 minutes) - When two brothers find out they might lose their house they are desperate to find a way to keep their home. They find a treasure map and…
Oceans On Tap
Join local author Shannon M. Parker on Thursday, July 31 at 6 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery in Boothbay Harbor as she discusses her third novel, “Love & Lobsters." Celebrated by Down East…
With Wiscasset's Future of the Schools Committee report done, reported on, and headed to selectmen,…
Coastal Senior College (CSC) is pleased to announce its series of fall 2025…
The Monhegan Memorial Library, at 1 Library Lane, will welcome Peter Brown for our Sixth Distinguished Writers Series. An author and illustrator, Peter Brown has created numerous books for…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) hosted the second science talk of its 2025 Café Sci series July 23 on the East Boothbay campus. Partitions…
As anyone who has launched a business knows, it can’t be done alone. The engagement of local community is…
Wiscasset School Department
The proposed 2025-26, $10.74 million Wiscasset school budget passed intact at a special town meeting July 23 at Wiscasset Elementary School, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson said.
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Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library event
Raza Patel, an 11-year-old chess…
Speaking strictly for herself Monday night, Wiscasset Selectmen's Chair Sarah Whitfield said of Wiscasset's future of the schools committee's final report, 69 pages including the appendix, "As a…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) hosted its first Café Sci of the 2025 season July 16. Over 200 seats were filled; other attendees stood…
Three weeks of intensive Heartwood Summer Camp training with Griff Braley and Teralyn Reiter will culminate in a devised performance of "The Epic of Beowulf" in the air-conditioned Poe Theater…
Finding Our Voices
Finding Our Voices has received $10,000 from a Camden National Bank grant that brings the bank's total donation, since 2020, to the grassroots nonprofit to $65,000. …
Wiscasset's school committee July 8 asked Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson for information to help it address any recommendation or other message it might get from selectmen in…
Midcoast Senior College
Midcoast Senior College has announced its list of new courses for seniors in Midcoast Maine who are interested in continuing to learn as they age. Fall Term I begins in September and runs…
Harbor Theater
In light of the ongoing crisis in Gaza, a local group called the People’s Perseverance is hosting a screening of the film "Israelism," an art exhibit, panel discussion, and question and answer…
This coming weekend Friday, July 18 - Sunday, July 20 see 20 games and competitions. Daily entry fee just $5. Concessions will be available. $10 lobster rolls!
Competitions: Skills,…
The $10.74 million budget proposal Wiscasset's school committee passed 5-0 July 8 asks $152,151 less from local taxpayers than the offer voters passed in an April town meeting and rejected at the…
Come one, come all to Ames Supply on Bath Road In Wiscasset Saturday, July 19 from 7:30 to 1:30, to snap up home baked cakes, cookies, pies and such. In the process,…
With Wiscasset's valuation hiking at a higher rate than the state average is hiking, the town's schools stand to get less state aid, the school department's business manager, Cathy Coffey, told…
The first-ever Puddle Dock Village Festival launched over the holiday weekend at Alna’s Puddle Dock Village School, featuring an opening reception for Damariscotta artist Keith Plummer’s first…
Open house July 4, 2-6 p.m., at Carousel Marina
The schooner, Harvey Gamage, will be docked at Carousel Marina, Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay Harbor on Friday, July 4 for an open house from 2 to 6 p.m. to…
Whether you are new to art or more advanced in your skills, the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset offers ways for you to explore a medium, improve your technique, and meet other art enthusiasts.…
Burnt Island Lighthouse tours are now open for the 2025 season.
Steve McCullough and other volunteers from the Department of…
Boat America
Learn boating skills from experienced boaters who patrol Midcoast coastal waters from Small Point to Port Clyde.
Maine now…
Wiscasset's future of the schools committee found June 16, its subcommittee reports needed some more work and the committee's final report might need to note some unknowns that participants said…
The educational schooner Harvey Gamage was in Wiscasset June 22 welcoming people aboard to check out the vessel at the center of a partnership with the…
Wiscasset school committee members June 19 said they want to cut no employees as they prepare the next budget offer. They also urged caution if any cuts in maintenance spending are considered.…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its fourth quarter honor roll for 2024-25:
Sixth grade: High honors, Rickey Clark, Jude Hendershot, Brittany , Everett Oakes, Anna Travis
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Summer in Maine has so much to offer, especially as a camper on one of Hearty Roots’ Coastal Expeditions. These five-day island-based trips invite teens to chill,…
The new Wiscasset school committee decided June 17 to meet again in 49 hours. With a voter-rejected school budget to rework, new member Douglas Merrill asked to meet again that week as a chance to…
The Marine Learning Project is hosting two Open House events onboard the Schooner Harvey Gamage, including one in Wiscasset. First, an Educator Open House…
According to draft subcommittee reports of Wiscasset's future of the schools committee, regionalization is feasible; teachers', voters' and the community's caring set Wiscasset apart; and, if the…
Wiscasset school committee
With an eye toward safety, Wiscasset's school committee held off June 10 on nodding two policies. At Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Sarah Hubert's request, the policy committee will look…
Ocean On Tap
On Wednesday, June 25 from 6 to 7 p.m. the next Ocean on Tap event will be held at Footbridge Brewery, 25 Granary Way, Boothbay Harbor.
The Innovative Gear Library Team of Maine's…
Summer is here at last, and it’s a perfect time to dive into a new artistic medium or enhance your skills in your favorite techniques and tools for making art. The Maine Art Gallery’s (MAG)…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit voters passed the $28.6 million, 2025-26 budget offer June 10. In results Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle provided, Alna's vote ran 37-8; Westport…
Boothbay Region Adult and Community Education (BRACE) graduated nine students June 10 in the Boothbay Region High School library. Commencement was moved from Barrett’s Park due to rain. Over…
The popular Behind Closed Doors Tours of Castle Tucker return Saturday, June 21. Peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker on this leisurely in-depth tour that includes rooms and…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its Class of 2025 scholarship recipients:
Alexander Taylor Memorial Scholarship, $1,000, Sero Sproul; Harold A. and Priscilla L. Campbell Memorial…
Programs and signs of support doubled as fans June 5 in a hot Stover Auditorium as Wiscasset Middle High School Class of 2025's families, friends and community waited to welcome the seniors down…
Press release
On Tuesday, June 3, the Wiscasset Elementary School Chorus visited the Maine State House as guests of Sen. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, and Sen. Cameron Reny, D-Bristol, who represents…
The following local students were named to the dean's list for the spring 2025 semester at Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania.
Jack Herman of Woolwich is a junior mechanical…
Willl Herman, of Woolwich, earned a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry on May 10 from Grove City College. Established in 1876, Grove City College (…
