Darn! Wish I’d been in the Lanesboro, Minn., area on June 8 for the annual rhubarb festival. There was a tasting contest featuring pies, crisps, cakes, soups, chutneys…
Life
Wiscasset Primary School nutrition team member Terri Meehan faces a daily challenge that will sound familiar to any parent: how to…
The Lincoln County Animal Shelter/Boothbay Region Human Society Thrift Shop threw open the doors of the thrift shop proper and adjacent…
Lincoln County Historical Association
Last week, Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) committee members surveyed the association’s textile collection on the third floor of the Old Jail in Wiscasset. The room had been…
Graduation 2014
Not everyone gets 41 years in a job they absolutely love, Linda Bleile said.
On June 18, at her last eighth grade graduation as Wiscasset Middle School's principal…
Colleen Hendricks of Wiscasset recently completed the spring semester of her sophomore year of high school at Coastal Studies for Girls in Freeport. Coastal Studies for Girls is a Semester School…
AUGUSTA — Maine females, the Permanent Commission for the Status of Women wants to hear from you. Let them know the issues you find most challenging and what can be done to help. The information…
Healthy Kids summer field trips have begun. The combined Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta Playgroups, along with some summer visitors, have already visited the…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Here's a sneak peek at the Boothbay Region Garden Club's July 25th Home and Garden Tour.
You'll want to know more, but that will come later. Start making your plans now to visit these very…
Graduation 2014
Symbolism was at the forefront on June 16 for Edgecomb Eddy School's sixth grade graduation.
Kindergarteners and first graders gave the graduates owl pillows to…
Last week the sign out front was unfortunately not changed from the previous week so many thought we were going to have pot roast at the Wednesday public supper. We did have the…
As the Midcoast region awakens from a very long winter and unfolds into summer, the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, June 26, from 5 to 8 p.m., kicks off the season. The June Art Walk, one of four…
Grow It In Maine
For bees, enkianthus (“EN-key-AN-thus”) bushes now offer a late spring treat. From where I sit, bumblebees are the biggest fans, scrambling over the clusters or racemes of small,…
Wiscasset Middle School
Depending on the room, Wiscasset Middle School on June 13 was a coffeehouse with song and poetry, or a wax museum of ancient Greek gods and goddesses. Other rooms offered a look into World War II…
Students who have earned honor roll for three quarters of the 2013-2014 school year:
Grade 9: Sarah Barto, Jenna Bickford, Aidan Carlson, Gabrielle Chapman, Grant Hefler…
Wiscasset Public Library
Our last Storytime was enjoyed outdoors with warm, sunny weather. We sat in a circle next to the library’s beautiful lupine flowers and read Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. When the story was…
The kettlehole bog at Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson continues to astonish visitors. On June 6, HVNC hosted Dr. Bob Zottoli and many visitors for an in depth look…
Studio 53 Fine Arts' new show, “Pieced Together,” features the works of Paula Ragsdale, Nikki Schumann, Kim and Philippe Villard. Four artists with distinctly…
Amanda Silverman of Dresden graduated from Beloit College on Sunday, May 18. Silverman earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
Beloit College is a leading liberal arts college founded on…
Ryan T. Hanley of Wiscasset was named to the spring 2014 dean's list at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.
Mason Brewer of Wiscasset was named to the spring 2014 dean's list at Lyndon…
Hunter Reid of Edgecomb and Rebecca Hadik of Woolwich have been named to first honors on the Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) dean's list for the spring 2014 semester. To be eligible for first…
Robert Morton Jr. of Orrington was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at Husson University in Bangor.
The Eldercare Network of Lincoln County will receive the designated proceeds from the second fundraising supper of the summer season to be held on…
Chase Point in Damariscotta honored 30 men and women veterans for their services with a substantial breakfast on the first Wednesday of June.
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Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset and Regional School Unit 12 are off to a good, new start together as the district prepares to take on the school department's business duties, officials for the town and district said.…
Grow it in Maine
Eight-foot, crimson-topped poinsettias formed a hedge by the restaurant.
We were enjoying a late-winter cruise in the Caribbean and had come ashore…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson is offering a great opportunity for high school students (ages 13-19) to participate in a timber frame construction workshop July 17-20. Each year HVNC…
All Saints by-the Sea, the Episcopal summer chapel on Southport, will open for the 2014 season on Sunday, June 15, with Holy Communion Services at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee's chairman-elect wants the panel to have a proposed school consolidation plan ready to show residents in October. The committee could then get the public's input and…
What’s Cooking
Here comes summer! Hold onto your hats because here it’s time for black flies, yellow pollen, and cars, trucks, buses, boats, and planes chock-a-block full of tourists. (And don’t…
In a 72-59 vote at the polls on June 10, Westport Island residents decided to stop pursuing a possible withdrawal from Regional School Unit 12.
Town Clerk Gaye Wagner provided the results…
Eben Musich of North Edgecomb received a bachelor’s degree in community and international development within the College of Agriculture & Life Science during commencement ceremonies on May 18…
One could sense the 2014 election was heating up by the atmosphere at the Lincoln County Republican Committee (LCRC) meeting held June 3 in Edgecomb. At the state level,…
LincolnHealth
Over the past 28 years, Shane Creamer has seen X-ray technology make huge leaps in image quality. But a new wireless digital radiological detector…
Wiscasset High School
With much fanfare, a vuvuzela and a song, the Wiscasset High School Class of 2014 said goodbye and hello during the Thursday June 6 graduation.
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Maine Artists
The Colby College Museum of Art will present “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” an exhibition that brings together nearly 50 drawings, watercolors and prints, spanning four decades, given by the…
Wiscasset Public Library
“Did you know there are more than 4,800 different kinds of dragonflies? They’ve been on the earth for about 300 million years — long before dinosaurs!”
The children at the Wiscasset Library…
Wiscasset High School juniors were recently chosen as delegates to the 2014 Dirigo Boys State and Dirigo Girls State programs. Boys State will be…
What's Cooking
There is much dissension among asparagus lovers as to which spears are better: thick or thin.
It is thought by some that thinner spears are tastier…
Teen actors from Lincoln, Androscoggin and Cumberland counties, their families and teachers turned out for the film premier of the new Sidekicks program’s videos at the Skidompha Library in…
Live Music
Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is one of the largest family musical events in New England. The festival takes place twice a year, bringing thousands of music lovers from all over the world…
D-Day 70th anniversary
In World War II, Chester Crocker of Wiscasset served in the Pacific Theater. On June 3, 1945, a Japanese kamikaze plane struck the Navy ship he was serving on, the USS Allegan.
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Wiscasset Public Library
Poor Duncan just wanted to color, but his crayons weren’t happy. They were overworked and unwrapped and finally wrote him letters to voice their concerns. “The Day…
Adriane Leigh Berry of Wiscasset, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2014, graduated with a major in biology and a minor in philosophy. The college's 209th commencement exercises were held…
A golden retriever named Nell, cairn terrier Bonnie, Lab mix Sally, poodle Hannah and stabyhoun Chance all passed their therapy dog testing in Falmouth on June 1.
All five were students of…
Take this art-rich self guided tour of exciting art exhibits, open house receptions, studio tours and artist demonstrations. Enjoy the variety of fine art in galleries and studios — all located…
On May 20, kindergarten, first and second grade students put on a spring production called “Celebrating American Folk Music.” Upon arriving…
Damariscotta River Association
The 2014 Damariscotta River Association’s (DRA) Archaeology Field School will focus on the Elisha Hatch Homestead site located off River Road in Newcastle. The school runs for two weeks this July…
The Damariscotta River Pirate Rendezvous will end on a somber note this year, with a ceremony to honor the memory of two pirate re-enactor captains…
Grow it in Maine
“I’m way behind,” Nancy groaned. “By this time, I thought I’d have the garden all planted.”
In 2014, there’s been plenty of rain to keep most of us out…
