In what has become an annual theater highlight in this community, Lincoln Academy (LA) and Heartwood Theater present their 22nd collaborative production in LA’s Poe Theater, Oct. 25 –…
Education
Wiscasset Middle High School, Principles of Democracy students recently attended a Wiscasset selectboard meeting to gain a deeper knowledge of municipal government.
Makayla Bush, class…
Center for Teaching and Learning was honored last week with a visit from Penny Kittle and Linda Rief, two long-time teachers of writing and writers about teaching. Kittle is best known…
Maine Art Gallery
Several of Kosti Ruohomaa’s haunting and desolate, yet often beautiful and welcoming photographs of Maine in an earlier time are included in Nocturne, the current exhibit at the Maine Art Gallery…
Midcoast Senior College brings classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning. The following new courses begin the week of Nov. 4 and run through Dec. 13. Courses are four- to six weeks long…
Make time to swing by the Merry Barn,, 417 River Road, Edgecomb, this Saturday, Oct. 5 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the Maine Craft Weekend. Cynthia Marsh…
Wiscasset Elementary School
For the past four years, I have thrown out an invitation on social media in August to sponsor my class so that each student can receive a brand new book each month, for holidays and to provide…
The Merry Barn Literacy and Arts Center in Edgecomb will close its doors on Dec. 31. For the last five years, the Merry Barn has been a space where creativity and…
Have you signed up yet for the Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas fiddle workshop on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 1 p.m. at The Waldo?
Based on the fiddle music of Scotland and beyond, this workshop…
The following students on being named to the summer 2024 president's list. The summer terms run from May to August. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average…
Fall is here and it’s time for the annual cider pressing demonstration at Lincoln County Historical Association’s Pownalborough Court House in Dresden. Families are invited to the court house…
Did you know that if you are a resident of Wiscasset, you can take a tour of Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House for free when the houses are open to the public? Well, it’s true. Both houses…
Announcing ME DEP’s Inland Shoreline Stabilization Practices Certification course on Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust’s David Moses Bridge Education Hall at 3 Round Top…
Dr. Allan “Chip” Teel will present a Free Brain Health Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The Forum will…
Finding Our Voices
Emotional, financial, sexual, and post-separation abuse will be among the topics of community conversation in the Finding Our Voices”Let’s Talk About It Tour” coming to Bangor, South Portland,…
It’s hard to believe that we could have repeated our amazing Wharton Point good luck from last month but, somehow, we did. We ran a series of errands in and around Brunswick and, without…
Midcoast Literacy presents Readers Theater Saturday, Nov. 2, 2 p.m. (activities for kids starting at 1 p.m.) at Morse High School Auditorium; 826 Shipbuilder Drive; Bath.
Tickets are $10…
After Dark is a slide lecture that covers everything you need to know about capturing images after the sun sets and before it rises. Photographer Mike Leonard is a Night Owl of sorts and he will…
With enrollment down 25 students from August’s 397, Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson Sept. 10 detailed the drop and said the newer numbers are likely more reliable. Andersson and…
Area musicians are invited to play music with the Seacoast Community Orchestras this fall. Adults and children, experienced players and those less experienced, are invited to join one or more of…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum
A 60th Celebration Fundraiser is planned for Saturday, Sept. 14 at The Boothbay Railway Village Museum from 6 to 9 p.m.
The evening will begin with a train ride to the…
Merry Barn
The Merry Barn is thrilled to welcome Laurel Dodge as the featured author at The Sounding Board,…
The Sunday, Sept. 15 matinee at 2 p.m. of the popular new film “It Ends With Us” (PG13; 2 hours, 10 minutes) adapted from Coleen Hoover’s romantic novel will include a special opportunity to delve…
With backpacks and many with smiles, Wiscasset Elementary School students arrived to start school Tuesday, Sept. 3. They, families and school faculty and staff got a sunny morning in the mid-50’s…
Wiscasset Elementary School’s Becky Hallowell told Wiscasset Newspaper Aug. 28, she is ecstatic to be a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year. The news came hours earlier from Maine Department of…
Wiscasset school committee
“There is no reason we should lose one (student) to ‘dropout’ (status),” Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson told the school committee Aug. 20. “If they want to leave us, let’s make…
Edgecomb Bus #1 Peter Greenleaf
Morning: Begin Route departing from BRES/HS at 6:40 a.m. heading North on Route 27; 6:50 Right on River Road; 6:53 Right on McKay Road; 6:…
Wiscasset Feed Our Scholars is pleased to announce the “success” of our Back-to-School event, Wiscasset Set for Success, held on Aug. 11 at Wiscasset Community Center. “This event would not have…
Wiscasset School Department has released its 2024-25 bus schedule.
Please see the attachment to this article.
Four local college students, Chloe Arsenault of Boothbay, Kali Andrews and Gerald Gagne of Boothbay Harbor, and Nels Faul of Wiscasset, were named to the 2024 spring semester dean’s list at the…
Salt Bay Chamberfest
Salt Bay Chamberfest (SBC)’s 30th anniversary season concludes in Damariscotta with an exciting concert featuring the powerhouse pianist Shai Wosner and the East Coast Chamber…
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb is proud to announce that the school has been awarded “Best Private Elementary School” in Maine by…
For the second time since the June meeting where it began to regroup, Wiscasset’s Future of the Schools Ad Hoc Committee will not meet. School committee training is now set for…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation
As part of our Take Part in Art series, the Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF) announces an upcoming slide lecture/demonstration by acclaimed maritime and landscape painter Don Demers on…
Peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker on a Behind Closed Doors Tour, Saturday, Aug. 17 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. There is something new to see whether you are a first-time or repeat…
Wiscasset schoolchildren and adults, plan on arriving at Wiscasset Community Center on Gardiner Road, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11 to claim supplies to be set for success. After a…
The next Ocean on Tap event, ‘Another World: A Travelogue of the Galapagos Islands,’ will take place…
Boothbay Region Historical Society
For the second straight year, Boothbay Region Historical Society is fortunate enough to partner with Harbor Theater, bringing you special historical programming in their wonderful cinema setting…
The excitement is building! Put the date on your calendars, Wiscasset school families: Sunday, Aug. 11, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Wiscasset Community Center (WCC) on Gardiner Road.
That’s…
Where It’s At
Mushrooms have long been a subject of fascination for writers – fiction and non-fiction; and their healing properties in their natural state raw or cooked, in powder and capsule form around the…
It seems like everyone is fascinated by wild mushrooms, from foraging and eating, to medicinal use and the use of psychedelics to improve learning and address depression. The only thing standing…
Can whole communities live sustainably? Can we avoid devouring all the world’s resources? These are questions filmmaker Jim Merkel asked after witnessing the destructive international impact of U.…
Monica Wright will share her students’ Green Crab Student Research on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Popham Library as one of the “Summer Series” talks.
Ms. Wright’s hands-on approach to…
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Brynna Nelson of Edgecomb, a member of the class of 2027 majoring in biomedical engineering, was named to the university's dean's list for…
Few people are as uniquely positioned to tell the story of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences’ (BLOS) first 50 years as Dr. Barney Balch, and on July 16, to a crowd of about 160 at the Opera…
The Mitchell Institute, a Maine-based nonprofit scholarship and research organization founded by Senator George J. Mitchell to improve college outcomes for students from every community in Maine,…
Midcoast Senior College brings classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning. The following new courses begin the week of Sept. 9 and run through Nov. 1, 2024. Courses are four- to eight…
