Sowing seeds
For the third year in a row Veggies to Table has donated thousands of packets of seeds to local pantries, schools, and partners, giving community members a chance to start…
Life
In need of a mind, body and soul reboot? In search of a cure for Decision Fatigue?
Join us on Pemaquid Pond and Hearty Roots will do the rest. Sauna? Check. Hot Stone Massage? Check. Yoga?…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
JigJam are a multi-award winning quintet from the heart of the midlands in Ireland. Blending the best of traditional Irish music with Bluegrass and Americana in a new genre which has been branded…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a workshop for the home barbeque and smoker cook 4:30–6:30 p.m. April 19 at Southpaw Meat Market, 1233 Roosevelt Trail #12, Raymond.
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Who makes the best potato salad among the employees at Coastal Maine Popcorn?
A discussion on such at the Boothbay Harbor business has…
Author and artist Kathleen Earle Fox’s new book, “An Early History of the Wyoming Valley: The Yankee-Pennamite Wars & Timothy Pickering” published by Arcadia Publishing, will be available…
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
Learn how to balance beauty, wildlife value, and your garden workload! Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) is pleased to welcome Anna Fialkoff, program manager…
Parlons Français, a free French conversation group, resumes its in-person meetings on April 11 at the Edgecomb Community Church on Cross Point Road in Edgecomb. French speakers of all levels are…
A sale of original artworks by Maine artists to benefit the Ukrainian people will take place on April 29 and 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust at the Round Top Farm, 3…
Gov. Janet Mills: ‘reach an agreement that averts the need for such a drastic, damaging move’
PORTLAND – On April 6, MaineHealth announced to the state that its Portland hospital, Maine Medical Center, was pulling out of the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine health insurance…
Applications are currently being accepted at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) for the Lydia R. Laurendeau Scholarship Fund.
Established in 2013, the Laurendeau Fund provides…
LincolnHealth reported 11 new COVID-19 cases out of 293 tests for the week of March 28. The downward trend from over the past several weeks continues with the fewest amount of cases and lowest…
To get Wiscasset Community Center an automated external defibrillator (AED), Nancy and Alton Wyman tapped the account they have for awarding annual scholarships in their late son Daniel Leeman’s…
“Holy Week 2022 will be truly special at First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, UCC, as we emerge from a long winter and the distancing restrictions…
Partners In Education's bingo fundraiser April 1 was a fun community event for all! We had a night of bingo at Huntoon Hill Grange, generously coordinated by the Grange. Total proceeds for the…
Five students from the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb were honored by the Poetry Society of Virginia as part of the society’s international 2022 student contest.
…Edgecomb Community Church, UCC, will gather for the annual Easter sunrise service at Fort Edgecomb, ME, on Sunday, April 17, beginning at 6 a.m.
Easter Sunday sunrise services are a…
Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) will offer its annual Summer with the Past, Discovering 18th and 19th Century Art, Crafts and History for children ages 7 through 11.…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Healthy Kids encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Lincoln…
Alna selectmen
With most of the numbers in, Alna, Westport Island and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s other towns are each looking at about a proposed 3% hike in their share of a $25,665,988 budget for…
Women on the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
LincolnHealth reported 16 new COVID-19 cases from 287 tests for the week of March 21. 81% or 13 cases were breakthroughs, those who were vaccinated and contracted the virus, and 63% or 10 cases…
Singer-songwriter John Schindler of Boothbay will perform a set of his folk-influenced original music during the Lincoln County Democratic Committee’s online Frances Perkins Award Celebration…
Join us at the Merry Barn from April 19-22, to Celebrate Mother Earth in a vacation adventure for kids 7-13. Everyday will be filled with outdoor play, reading, writing, and art. We’ll…
The past two years of COVID have made us all keenly aware of both our physical and mental health. We've all developed coping skills--some healthy, and some not so much. The importance of…
The Edgecomb Community Church announces that its thrift store, which has been closed for the winter months, is now reopening Tuesday, April 5. Their hours will be as last year: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to…
Applications are currently being accepted for the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Patriot Education Scholarship Fund.
This renewable scholarship supports graduates of a Maine high…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering an agricultural symposium for Maine teens April 18–19.
The 4-H Agriculture Symposium is an overnight experience for Maine youth…
LincolnHealth reported 14 new COVID-19 cases from 245 tests for the week of March 14. With testing numbers steady and a decrease by over a half of the previous week’s cases, the positivity rate…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum is in planning stages for a new archive building. Director of Curation and Education Whitney Lytle said a site survey will happen this spring for the building which…
Change is in the air at First Congregational Church in Wiscasset. In addition to tentatively lifting mask mandates, the church has welcomed three new staff members in the past few months.
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The Westport Island Community Association is hosting a film screening of “Votes for Women, The…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an Open House on Sunday, April 3, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. All members of the Midcoast community are…
It was raining outside, but there was plenty of sunshine in the Merry Barn as we celebrated spring with friends of all ages at our March Community Literacy Event. We read “A Seed is Sleepy,”…
Registration is now open for Totally Trades! Career sessions offered by New Ventures Maine (NVME) online this spring. Eleven sessions are offered at no cost and are designed to encourage…
Rev. Tom Junkert has never been to Ukraine to see where his grandparents once lived. If he did want to someday, the Wiscasset man now wonders if, due to Russia’s invasion, there would be any place…
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Wiscasset’s Ammi Bai Chung has been speaking via social media with Ukrainian families the artist-bed and breakfast operator called amazing. She has booked a stay at a…
The nighttime sky is a place of wonder. The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) is delighted to host Russ Pinizzotto and Rob Burgess of the Southern Maine…
The 44th annual Maine Student Film + Video Festival (MSFVF) is currently accepting submissions until June 15. All Maine students grades K-12 are eligible to…
AUGUSTA — Buyer demand for Maine real estate continues to fuel a competitive market, and a lower-than-normal supply of single-family existing homes for sale…
Lincoln County Historical Association
The following article by Laura McCandlish is being released as part of a series offered by Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) on the Women Writers of Lincoln…
LincolnHealth reported 36 new COVID-19 cases from 269 tests for the week of March 7. With a slight uptick in tests from the prior week, positive cases doubled ending a downward trend which began…
New Hope Midcoast is pairing with local healthcare providers for a matching challenge campaign, “Providers Support Survivors.” Local practitioners have donated a total of $3,200. New Hope Midcoast…
Women of the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a…
New Hope Midcoast, Midcoast Maine’s only Domestic Violence Resource Center, invites the public to join them as they host their first Discussion Project with the Maine Humanities Council.
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March 11 was just another day for most Edgecomb Eddy School students, but it was a special day for one sixth-grader. Jax Marshall was assistant principal of the day. Marshall earned the reward for…
The North American beaver is a keystone species, or an organism that supports an entire biological community. However, their engineering projects can put them at odds with humans when they cause…
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Environmental and Community Health tested lead levels at Wiscasset Middle High School and Wiscasset Elementary…
The Worthington Scholarship Foundation is offering $7 million in scholarships to eligible Class of 2022 graduates from 59 high schools in Franklin, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot…
Healthy Lincoln County, in partnership with OUT Maine, and local organizations launched a virtual drop-in space, titled Removing Barriers Together, as a way to help LGBTQ+ youth have a safe place…
