Chanel Stoddard and her family had a life-altering day on December 11, 2013. They learned she had stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma.
They had another one on May 21, after…
Life
Lincoln County
Helen Weston was the first woman to serve as a Lincoln County Commissioner. She died while serving in office. Her husband, George Weston, established a scholarship fund in her memory and started…
Wiscasset High School
Maeve Carlson, a junior at Wiscasset High School, has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a certificate of excellence from The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a national…
Wiscasset School Committee
When Wiscasset property owners get their next tax bills, they may also get some questions from the school committee.
The panel on May 29 discussed the idea of a questionnaire on school…
As part of the ongoing Ounce of Prevention series, Mid Coast Senior Health Center will host a presentation by Doreen Siddall, Nurse Practitioner with Mid Coast…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee plans to interview candidates for the job of Wiscasset Middle School principal on Thursday, May 29. WMS Principal Linda Bleile is retiring after this school year.…
What’s Cooking
Today I am going to dispel a well circulated myth about food columnists, bloggers and chefs, so hang on to your aprons: The answer is no, we don’t cook fancy-schmancy meals seven…
Wiscasset School Committee
Partners in Education and the Wiscasset School Committee are continuing to talk about the local nonprofit's possible role in helping to create a vision for the town's schools.
…Meet the providers and staff of the new state-of-the-art LincolnHealth Wound Care Center at its grand opening and open house on Wednesday, June 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Wiscasset High School
This year marked the 25th annual running of the Bigelow Laboratory Orders of Magnitude program.
One local high school junior was lucky enough to participate alongside 15 of her fellow…
Grow it in Maine
Not all insects are garden villains.
According to the National Garden Bureau, besides honeybees and butterflies, one finds garden heroes. Six of…
Dale Skillin, chaplain of American Legion Post 54 in Wiscasset, meets with Ruth Applin, 97, of Wiscasset, at a Memorial Day service at the town’s memorial wall on May 26. Applin’s late husband…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
When students arrive to Hidden Valley Nature Center’s Level 1 Chainsaw Safety course there is a palpable feeling of nervousness. Some students are nervous about felling a tree, others are gripped…
The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting a free workshop entitled Essentials of College Planning, for adults 19 and over, at the following times and locations: Midcoast Center for…
Seven people from the Wiscasset Senior Center traveled up to the Richmond Senior Center May 19. It is always a good time to get together with the Richmond Senior Center members for…
Yay Yay Avenue: Lincoln Academy senior Charlotte Harris, sophomores Avery Genus, Lydia Harris and Johanna Neeson, all high honors for the second trimester. Lydia Harris…
Rhode Island School of Design/Continuing Education is presenting an Antiques and Fine Art Appraisal Class in Maine with Jackie Sideli, antiques show manager, writer and dealer, on June 25, 26 and…
Joshua Sullivan of Damariscotta has earned dean’s list recognition at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the spring 2014 semester; and Patrick James Moran, also of Damariscotta received a…
Photo: Wiscasset Garden Club
Recently the Garden Club of Wiscasset held a children's planting event at the Wiscasset Library. The children, along with getting their hands dirty, learned about planting, growing and…
The featured artists at Studio 53’s first show of the 2014 season will be gallery owners Heidi Seidelhuber and Terry Seaman.
On the first floor Seaman will exhibit his new drawings and…
Visitors from Uganda spoke at the Midcoast Friends meeting in Damariscotta recently. Pictured with Patty Seybold of Boothbay, left, is Jacqueline Akello, of the African Rural…
There will be an annual town Memorial Service on Monday, May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Woolwich Wiscasset Baptist Church.
All are welcome and all churches will participate.
Also, on…
Each year, local libraries schedule a program to encourage the community’s young readers to continue their reading during summer vacation. This year’s Summer Reading Program (SRP) FIZZ,…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset Primary School’s top administrators are getting new, key jobs with the Wiscasset School Department as the town exits Regional School Unit 12. Assistant Principal Mona Schlein is moving…
Hyde School
Joe and Malcolm Gauld are not the only familiar faces at Hyde School in Bath who have been a campus presence for many decades.
Chef John Brawn has been a Hyde fixture for the past 46 years,…
Spring has well and truly sprung, and that meant a whole new array of green goodies for Wiscasset’s sixth grade to cook up and share with their school friends on Monday, May 19.
Kitchen…
Grow It In Maine
A single bottle showed Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward a way to preserve growing plants.
In London, the 19th century…
Like all great things, the upcoming feature on artists Carlton and Joan Plummer began with an idea. And, in this case, an idea contained in a letter.
…
What’s Cooking
Happy National Burger Month! Yes, the merry month of May has been designated by some foodie as the month to honor burgers. Americans eat more than 25 billion hamburgers…
Most of us enjoy living in our small towns and along quiet roads. There are days, though, when we envy bus and train services in larger places, especially when getting around Lincoln County…
Midcoast Unitarian Universalists
Rev. Kate Braestrup will be welcomed back to the pulpit of the Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship service on Sunday, May 25.
She is the…
At the Maine Track Medical School Program’s graduation earlier this month, graduating students described Lincoln Medical Partners surgeon Garth Miller, as a natural educator.…
Registered Dietitian Dimsie Clark, MS, RD, will join the Lincoln County Healthcare Diabetes Support Group at the May 28 meeting for an informal and interesting discussion on how to…
Photo: Wiscasset Middle School
Congratulations to April 2014 students of the month! From left are Grace Wehrle, Lily Yeaton, Lucas McFarland, Eliza Paradis, Sarah Foley, Archie Brewer, Sydnie Thayer and Dylan Young. …
Wiscasset School Committee
A proposed police officer in Wiscasset's schools is drawing a positive reception so far from the town's school committee.
“I'm completely committed,” committee member Eugene…
School District Withdrawal
A hearing is set for May 29 in Westport Island, about the referendum that could stop the town’s possible pullout of Regional School Unit 12. The hearing at the old town hall, 1217 Main Road,…
Center for Teaching and Learning
The seventh and eighth grade class of Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning spent three days at the University of Southern Maine, as participants in Maine’s 16th annual Model…
The Senior Center Annual Member Breakfast will be held on Saturday, June 28, starting at 9 a.m. All members are invited and the event is free to current members…
RSU 12 Superintendent Howard Tuttle is proud to announce that on April 30, RSU 12 students competed in a county/…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset High School has its next principal.
The school committee on May 19 unanimously voted to hire Cheri Towle of Newcastle.
The vote in the high school library followed the…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association
The Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, founded in 1969, is celebrating its 45th year. Kicking off the celebrations will be the unveiling of SVCA’s Anniversary Poster at an artist reception…
Wiscasset Public Library
This week’s story hour expanded our learning about the tide cycle of a salt marsh and how different creatures adapt to live there. We read “A Day In The Salt Marsh” by Kevin Kurtz and also…
Obituary
Nancy C. Davis, of Canton, Mass., died May 17, 2014 in Brigham and Womens Hospital after a brief illness. She was 80 years old.
Nancy was a member of the chorus at the…
Wiscasset Middle School
For the third year, Wiscasset Middle School seventh graders, led by natural science teacher Sue Kistenmacher and Lynne Flaccus of the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association enjoyed a day of…
Maeve Blodgett and Clara Mugnai, eighth grade students at Wiscasset Middle School, were recently honored at the Middle Level Scholar Leaders banquet…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee has set a May 19, closed-door session to meet with a Wiscasset High School principal candidate who has the support of the search team, according to Interim…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Sixteen high school students from across Maine will begin a weeklong residential program at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay on …
Woolwich Central School has kept its C grade from the state for another year.
Student test results led to the C, the most common grade the Maine Department of Education handed out. A note…
The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta invites Maine artists to submit a design for this year’s official festival T-shirt. The selected design will be featured on the back of the T-shirt…
