William Cullina, an award-winning leader in horticulture and botanical garden design and management, has been honored with a national “Award of Excellence” from National Garden…
Life
Some of the work the Dresden Historical Society does is highly visible: People in and out of town look forward to the group's harvest supper every fall; and the society's museum is…
Wiscasset High School
The annual National Honor Society induction ceremony was conducted at Wiscasset High School on Wednesday, May 22. Eight students were inducted into the local National Honor Society…
Wiscasset Art Walk
Wiscasset Art Walk, a monthly showcase and celebration of downtown galleries, area artists, restaurants and shops, is seeking volunteers, participants and sponsors to join us this…
Longtime Edgecomb Eddy School teacher Jennifer Gosselin is reluctant to take credit for being named to Maine's “Starting 9” team of extraordinary educators.…
Alna Column
Poppy Moore, Alna's mail lady, wanted to thank the folks here for the food they donated en route. Lisa said they collected more than 250 pounds and thanks the box holders for all…
Westport Island Column
Did you notice the small flags blowing in the breeze on Monday? The Cemetery Committee decorated each gravestone of men and women from Westport Island who died while serving in our…
Grow It in Maine
For a gardener, May can be a busy month.
There are seeds to be planted, indoors or in the garden. There’s raking up of old leaves (and often, blown-in…
Mysterious locations in Boothbay Harbor will be featured in the upcoming June edition of MysteriousDestinationsMagazine.com, an online publication that invites readers to “explore…
Maine History
Historic New England's Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House in Wiscasset will be open for free tours on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours begin…
What's Cooking
As we were cleaning out the last of our gardens over the weekend (hooray), I found my pie plant poking through the earth. Pie plant, you ask? Yup, that’s the old-fashioned nickname…
Mary's Musings
Miraculous stories of survival continue to come to light following the Category 5 tornado, which carved a path a mile wide and 17 miles long through Moore, Okla., last week. It…
Boothbay Region Lions Club
We had another great turnout for our May 22 meeting, with a few faces we're getting used to seeing more frequently, a prospective returning member and five guests from the…
For a Good Cause
Students of Chewonki Semester School helped build a hoop house for a local family garden project in Bath.
This project was part of a larger community…
Wiscasset Primary School
Fourth grade students from Wiscasset Primary School recently had the opportunity to perform their play, "The Emperor and the Nightingale," for Kindergarten and first grade students…
Alna
Fate can hang in the balance anywhere, even in the middle of the northbound lane of Route 218 in Alna.
That’s where an old, mix-breed female dog was…
“Jack” was a vaudeville magician. Now he is close to death, lying in a hospital bed. His priest, Doug Smith, enters his room alone. “We've been waiting…
For a Good Cause
Members of the Bradford Sortwell-Wright Unit #54 of Wiscasset of the American Legion Auxiliary have been working on projects to assist veterans and children of military families.…
Wiscasset High School
Wiscasset High School's (WHS) Students for Social Justice Club sponsored their annual Diversity Day on May 15. This day of diversified activities and speakers encourages students…
Center for Teaching and Learning
Over the years of her teaching career, Nancie Atwell’s students at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb have received numerous state and national awards for…
What's Cooking
News flash! And for once, it is some good news about a food that most people eat in some way, shape or form on a very regular basis.
We all know the…
Wiscasset Middle School
Jenna Bickford and Stephanie Jones, eighth grade students at Wiscasset Middle School, were recently named Middle Level Scholar Leaders at a banquet held on May 16 at the Augusta…
Lincoln County Historical Association
White’s Company, a local Revolutionary War Living History group, will give a salute at the 59th annual observance of Memorial Day to be held at the 1761 Pownalborough Courthouse in…
Edgecomb Column
The Edgecomb Eddy School invites everyone to their spring all-school concert on Thursday, May 30, beginning at 6 p.m. Coordinators Jennifer McIvor and Robin MacCready tell me, “As…
Westport Island Column
What’s your family’s Memorial Day tradition? Here’s hoping it’s a nice mix of honoring men and women who have died while serving our country, planting flowers at family gravestones…
Maine Children's Scholarship Fund
The Board of Directors of the Maine Children’s Scholarship Fund (MCSF) is very pleased to report that they have received an unsolicited, anonymous bequest of $1,200,000.…
St. Philip's Church
Things are heating up at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 12 Hodge St., as volunteers are working on plans for the 61st Annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m…
Wiscasset
The Bradford-Sortwell Wright Post #54 of the American Legion will observe Memorial Day by laying a wreath at…
Get To Know...
A rainy Monday was no deterrent for five crafters on Wiscasset's waterfront May 20. The women were setting up shop for their second summer of selling crafts together, out of the…
Simmons, Harrington & Hall
On Friday, May 17, the staff from Simmons, Harrington & Hall Funeral Home and the family of Arthur Richardson gathered at The Thistle Inn in Boothbay Harbor to celebrate Arthur…
Wiscasset Senior Center
There were three important news items coming out of the Wiscasset Senior Center last week. Each should be of great interest to all members and friends of the Senior Center.…
First Congregational Church
The Reverend Jack Steeves returned to the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset on May 17 as interim minister. Reverend John Potter is on sabbatical leave. Steeves first served…
Memorial Day 2013
As America remembers its veterans on Memorial Day 2013, Boothbay's George Whitten, 89, remembers Christmas, 1945 and the cold and uncertainty of a dark and foreign land.…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association
Members of the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association met April 23 to begin planning for 5th annual "Champagne on the Sheepscot" fundraiser, to be held this year at a Wiscasset…
The Seaside Lodge of Masons #144 awarded two Life Member aprons to Merlin H. Gray and Curtis W. West at a recent Stated Meeting in their lodge in East Boothbay. The presentation…
Damariscotta
Steve Ward will facilitate a discussion about his participation in the Ecumenical Working Group on Homelessness in Lincoln County at the Midcoast Unitarian Universalist service on…
'Consider the Conversation'
“What I tell people is you can make a difference, one person, one conversation at a time.
And if enough people do this, give each other…
Wiscasset Middle School
One day, Wiscaset Middle School students were learning the definition of metamorphosis, and the next thing you know a pod of frog eggs appear in the classroom.
…
Lincoln Academy
Most art tends to beautify any space.
That is why Sheepscot Harbour Village & Resort in Edgecomb is collaborating with Lincoln Academy art…
Boothbay Region Food Pantry
Unfortunately, the steadily rising number of families in need of food assistance in the Boothbay region is outpacing funds and supplies available to…
St. Andrews
Lincoln County Healthcare’s plan to close the emergency room and relinquish St. Andrews’ hospital license means patient beds at St. Andrews Hospital would no longer be licensed.…
Wiscasset Senior Center
At the public supper last Wednesday evening, a flier describing the annual membership meeting was distributed. If you attend the suppers or the lunch, you will receive the flier at…
Westport Island Column
So good to see so many bright yellow flowers in the yard tilting toward the sun … hey, wait a minute! Darn those dandelions.
Folks have been quiet…
Grow It in Maine
Why grow a food garden, anyway?
Really fresh vegetables are better for our health and can often keep us from illness and sadness. They taste good, too…
What's Cooking
I recently received an email from “A loyal fan, Jen” who is having some issues when making her favorite dessert, cheesecake: “I believe I am following the directions carefully but…
On Wednesday, May 22 at 9 a.m., a truck from Shredding On Site (S.O.S) will pull up to the Bath Savings Institution parking lot on Chapman Street in Damariscotta for a community…
Barters Island
Back on May 25, 1867 a group of Christians came together and organized the Barters Island Baptist Church. In 1875 the membership purchased property on which the church building…
Monhegan Island Column
The Monhegan Island Sustainable Community Association (MISCA) was organized in 2002 by residents concerned with decreasing year-round population. At the time property costs were…
St. Andrews Task Force
The Save St. Andrews Task Force phenomenon ended one chapter and began another last week.
On May 7, the four town task force, which formed last fall…
In Memoriam
Dane Bonang bought his mother a blue hydrangea for Mother's Day this year, but he never got a chance to sign the card that went with it. The 26-year-old Wiscasset man died in a…
