When I moved to Portland in 1969, the city was on the cusp of a major transformation.
A surge of “urban renewal” would soon cut a swath across the landscape, plowing arrow straight furrows…
Life
Wiscasset High School
Wiscasset High School is proud to announce that the following members of the Class of 2014 have earned the distinction of “Top…
Damariscotta
Lincoln County area nonprofits and their supporters may want to consider joining a crew of pirates this June, but they needn’t worry about sea battles, rum drinking or becoming marooned on a…
Southern Maine Community College is paying tribute to returning alumni, 2014 graduates and the college community during SMCC’s first Alumni Day celebration.
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Calling all car buffs! If you have an antique or classic car, you are invited to display it at the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration Festival car …
St. Philip’s Church
St. Philip’s Help Yourself Shelf Food Pantry needs help with donations toward a matching grant from Good Shepherd Food Bank. The matching grant ends the last day of May. If you feel you could…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association
Members of the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association met in April to begin planning the SVCA's sixth annual "Champagne on the Sheepscot"…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset High School head custodian Jeff Speed has been on the job 39 years. Thanks to a Wiscasset School Committee decision on May 1, he's headed for year 40.
His…
The Theater Project’s 6th Annual Benefit Auction takes place on Friday, May 9, in the Robinson Room at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern located at 4 Noble Street in Brunswick. The festivities begin…
Open to students entering grades 3-12, Heartwood presents its 12th season of summer camp training, made possible in part by Heartwood's Season Sponsor, Bath Savings Institution, and Season Youth…
Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School is proud to announce the addition of two new faculty members to its roster of professionals: Nate Martin, double bass instructor and Nicole Rabata, flute.…
Signs of spring continue to appear throughout the Gardens. The horticulture staff has spread the mulch, the gift shop staff has stocked the shelves, and…
Damariscotta
Mobius Incorporated will be holding an art show featuring a variety of art work created by individuals enrolled in the Creative Expressions Program. The event runs from Friday, May 9, through…
May Day! May Day! No, I don't need help, thank you.
I'm just reminiscing about the lost tradition of May baskets. We…
What’s Cooking
An old Russian proverb states “Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.”
Lucky me, as Peter and I come up to our…
What Wiscasset residents do with the school budget on May 14, before it goes to a June town vote, could be pivotal on a number of levels, according to Interim Superintendent Wayne…
The following historical outline of the Wiscasset Senior Center Scholarship Fund was written by Pat Barnes. The next scholarship award will be…
Main Street Bath will celebrate the arrival of spring on May 3 with its annual Mayfair Festival. Mark your calendars to visit Bath that Saturday for a city-wide yard sale with over 30 participants…
May is the beginning of the summer boating season. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxilary is offering a four session About Boating Safely course at Boothbay Region Adult & Community…
Celebrate National Nurses’ Week by having your blood pressure checked by a LincolnHealth nurse or reviewing your medications with a registered pharmacist at the Boothbay Region and…
Wiscasset School Committee
A parent-teacher group plans to ask the Wiscasset School Committee to seek a vision for the school system's future. Partners in Education (PIE) could get to make that request as early as Thursday…
St. Giles Episcopal Church in Jefferson is hosting the last of its free suppers for Midcoast residents this season on Saturday, May 3 at 5 p.m.…
Sen. Susan Collins
Each year, some of Maine's most exceptional students are chosen to attend one of the United States military service academies. One of my greatest honors as a U.S. senator is having the opportunity…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Four respected organizations (HVNC, MOFGA, Maine Farmland Trust, and Maine Forest Service) are coming together to present “Women and Their Woods,”…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District holds its Spring Plant Sale, Backyard Conservation Sale & Garden Fair at Union Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to…
The Midcoast Outreach and Peace Center will host an open house to launch the new center 1:30-3 p.m., May 4 from at the Quaker Meetinghouse…
Colleen Hendricks of Wiscasset and Kate Laemmle of Alna will be among the several students at Coastal Studies for Girls (CSG) in Freeport who will be presenting…
Wiscasset Public Library
How are you feeling? Coreysha Stone’s presentation of "Scary Larry" at the Wiscasset Library Story Time was a very fun way for the children to relate to their…
If you are interested in getting to the roots of your family tree but are not sure where to begin, Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering a course to help you get…
Come join the fun of making music with your ukulele! Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering a four-week “Weekly Smiles from the Hawaiian Ukulele” course taught by Celia Jones beginning…
About 100 family members and friends honored lifelong Woolwich resident Hayden D. Temple on his 80th birthday April 19 at North Woolwich Methodist Church (NWMC). Hosts and hostesses were his…
Maine Artists
Get an inside glimpse into the life of a potter.
This year 19 pottery studios from across the state will be open for the Maine Pottery Tour on May 3 and 4. With tour legs in southern,…
Grow it in Maine
One day, spring trudges out of mud, the next, it dances.
Quickly, look up at the rise above Oak Street at the patch of blue squills, or scilla. Planted years ago, the tiny flowers have…
What’s Cooking
I’ve been so busy getting ready to make the trek from Florida back to my beloved home state of Maine that I forgot to wish you a happy Pecan Day on April 14. I do apologize! So nuts to the column…
Alna Selectmen
Barbara Baston is back serving Alna taxpayers and schoolchildren. Selectmen on April 23 named the retired Wiscasset kindergarten teacher to represent the town on Regional School Unit…
Boston Marathon 2014
Robert McArtor’s legs were tiring on Heartbreak Hill in Monday’s Boston Marathon, and it was warmer than ideal, but the energy of the crowd carried him and other runners onward, the 75-year-old…
Trustee Chairman Carl Hewitt announced at last Wednesday’s dinner that people will have to order and pre-pay for the prime rib scheduled for…
Wiscasset Schools
On Friday, April 11, Partners in Education's ad hoc Strategic Planning Organizing Committee for Wiscasset Schools published a survey to gather community input, ideas and opinions on public…
Wiscasset High School
Keep letting in other towns' students, let ninth grade stay part of the high school, and, most of all, know that Wiscasset High School is the great school its students say it is.
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Wiscasset Sports
The Wiscasset High School baseball/softball teams are looking for sponsors to purchase banners to hang along the fences at the high school.
All area businesses that are interested, please…
The Boothbay Region Ambulance Service’s Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) now also make non-emergency…
Wes Anderson's new comedy-drama recounts the fictional adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his…
A proposed police officer for Wiscasset's schools drew an initial, mixed response among some of those working on the town's next budget.
Local, county and state law…
When she lived in El Paso, Texas, Jean Phillips joined an Irish step dancing troupe.
It was a workout. Phillips, whose mother is three-quarters Irish, lost 13…
All A's
Grade 8: Clara Mugnai, Leah Potter, Grace Wehrle
Grade 7: Alicia Long, Matthew Smith
Grade 6: Shannon James, Kaitlyn Main, Cara Viele,…
Upon hearing he won the drawing for the luxury guest house in sunny Salento, Apulia in southern Italy, Alden Jordan fell over backwards while reaching for his Italian dictionary.
OK, so he…
Photo
Helping the hungry — from left, master gardeners Mary Bausch of Damariscotta, Liz Stanley of Warren and Beth Maxwell of Wiscasset tend beds April 12 at the Morris Farm Master Gardener…
Spring 2014
Clockwise from top: Elijah Bonenfant, 6, of Pittston has a handful of eggs and is headed for more during the Wiscasset Parks & Recreation Department's…
The fifth grade Language Arts classes of Nancy Erkman and Barbara Wyman celebrated April Fools’ Day with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. They have have been listening to the original Lewis Carroll “The…
Coastal Enterprises (CEI), a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the First-…
