Almost all of the Boothbay Region Community Resources' Warming Lunches are now closed for the summer, with one exception: Tuesday’s warming lunch at the Edgecomb…

Thatcher Steele-Maley and Ava Carmolli are fifth graders at Edgecomb Eddy School. Ava is the 2013-2014 Geography Bee Champion of Edgecomb Eddy School and Thatcher is the runner-up.

Ava is…

This is the last time you'll get this reminder this year: Nomination papers are available for town elected offices: one selectman, one planning board member and one…

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath is inviting members of the public interested in volunteering as seasonal docents at its historic Donnell House on Washington Street in…

Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. has announced that Savanna Poole of Newcastle and Katherine Williams of Damariscotta were named to the fall 2013 dean's list at the college.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine hosted over 175 Bigs, Littles and their families at its annual program celebrations, held in January and February at the Penobscot Bay YMCA in Rockport and at…

Join Appalachian Mountain Club members, Mary Hillary and her husband Greg Guckenburg, as they present a slide show and tell…

Three of Maine’s most famous opera singers will return home for a special concert honoring PORTopera’s 20th season. Kate Aldrich, Ashley Emerson and Suzanne Nance will appear at…

Come and join local artist Kerry Rodriguez as she teaches “Beginning and Intermediate Botanical Illustration” through Central Lincoln County Adult Education. The six-week course begins Wednesday,…

Home for April vacation week? Looking for some fun and healthy activities for your teen (grades 6-8) to do? Look no further.

“Cows that type. Hens on strike! Whoever heard of such a thing?” said Farmer Brown in Doreen Cronin’s "Click Clack Moo."

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The public is invited to a weekend of lectures and presentations to consider the topic of end-of-life care from a liberal arts perspective. The two-…

Take a tour through Maine’s rich artistic history on March 27, as the Portland Museum of Art brings a presentation on the Elizabeth B. Noyce Collection to Schooner Cove in…

Just when Wiscasset's interim superintendent of schools Wayne Dorr found more than $300,000 in savings to offer the school committee, new information drove the budget draft part of…

The diversity of mediums represented by the two-dimensional artists of Boothbay Harbor's Studio 53 collective at the Damariscotta River Grill will knock you out. The show…

Perpetual e-Motion, with fiddler Ed Howe of Whitefield and John Cote of Lewiston, will headline this year's Down East Country Dance Festival March 21 and 22 in Topsham. Howe will play an NS Design…

Most of us could use a little stress reduction, and that is exactly what you will get in the Central Lincoln County Adult Education course, Destress and Reenergize with Energy EFT, taught by…

Gardening is a wide (excuse the expression) field.

Apart from the digging and raking, the planting and watering, the weeding, picking, harvesting, and taking pleasure in the resulting beauty…

This Thursday, March 20, parents of Westport students have a chance to learn more about Lincoln Academy. LA’s Head of School David Sturdevant, and Director of Counseling and Studies Sarah Wills-…

Last Wednesday our chef served a delicious corned beef boiled dinner. The tables had a centerpiece consisting of a garden pot of Oxalis with shiny…

On March 3, the fifth and sixth graders at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning transformed themselves into amazing gods and goddesses who…

In the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service station training room, emergency medical responders are preparing for an era in which their role will be as much about preventing medical…

Four distinctly gorgeous properties in France and Italy are within reach, via Heartwood's European Vacation Raffle, running through April 4. Only 200 tickets at $50 each will be sold for each…

During the next two weeks at Boothbay Region Adult Ed you can learn about organic gardening, how to work with digital photos on your computer,…

Condolences to the family and friends of Johnny Barnes. Johnny was Toby Stockford's cousin, but more like his brother. Amy and Tobey have been helping his widow and…

Set during World War II, “A Farewell To Fools” takes place somewhere in Romania. A German soldier is found dead near a village, and the local authorities must identify the murderer or…

Paying for students who don't really live in town remains a concern for Alna selectmen. The board on March 6 approved a letter to send Regional School Unit 12.

“We'…

Molly Brewer, a Wiscasset native who is in her second year of teaching Spanish at Medomak Middle School (MMS) in Waldoboro, will be presented with a Promising…

Wiscasset High School senior Briana Goud is currently competing for one of eighteen $5,000 Sportsmanship Scholarships offered by Hood to New England students. The 10 students from each New England…

Heading up Susie Stephenson’s driveway in Edgecomb, the first thing you notice is the large, fenced-in sloping lawn up to the red Cape, and more fenced in areas beside…

Wiggle and Waggle are two worms that are great friends. They live and work in a large garden making sure the potatoes, carrots, beans and tomatoes have proper soil…

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Knox-Lincoln Farm Bureau and Union Farm Equipment will conduct a tractor safety course beginning…

Driving the River Road these days is like boating on the Damariscotta River itself, full of waves and jolts and splashes. The trees and telephone poles are all day-glo orange BUMP signs. Many of…

A few years ago, Lincoln County Animal Shelter in Edgecomb took in a Maine Coon-mix kitten and found him a home.

On March 15, at Sarah…

After two and a half years as Wiscasset High School's principal, Deb Taylor is resigning and looking ahead to a new job with Regional School Unit 12.

“It was a difficult…

Sending condolences to the family and friends of Lemuel Brown.

I have known Lemuel since his children were little. He…

The Thursday, March 13, meeting of Regional School Unit 12’s board of directors has been canceled, along with a meeting of the board’s finance committee. Both cancelations are due to Thursday’s…

During the announcements before dinner last Wednesday, Trustee Chairman Carl Hewitt asked if anyone had any quotable comments. There were two that I…

On March 3, 2014, New Hope for Women participated in the 15th annual Community Read Aloud program organized by United Way of Mid Coast Maine as part of its “Success By Six” initiative.

The…

The frozen tundra of North America is starting to thaw (maybe?) as we inch closer and closer to the first day of spring. And as the temperatures begin to rise, so does the sap in maple trees. The…

The University of Maine at Augusta Student Government Association will be hosting its annual Leadership Conference, “Exemplary Leadership Through…

Wiscasset has scenic views better than international walkability expert Dan Burden has seen in all of North America.

Protect them and cherish them, Burden told…

What better way to cure the winter blues than with a little green?

Bath will be a bit greener after the weekend.

Living in a coastal area where open ocean water is always nearby and where, for us humans, freshwater is available anytime at the kitchen sink, it is…

On Thursday, March 6, the Garden Club of Wiscasset held its March monthly meeting. Jeff Gillis from WellTree shared with the members present tips on how to prune shrubs and trees correctly, just…

Boothbay Region Adult Ed is offering several classes during the next few weeks, from computers, to digital photography, to medicinal herbs and more…

It’s a win-win!

Purchasing a ticket for Heartwood’s European Vacation Raffle could land you a week’s stay in France or Italy with $1,000 for expenses. And the odds are ever so much better…

On February 27, the students at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning marked a celebration of India with a presentation on the country’s…

After 16 years as principal of Woolwich Central School, Tom Soule still enjoys coming to work every day.

That's why he's retiring.

“I didn't want…