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• Obituary

  Elaine M. Grover

  Thu, 03/23/2023 - 1:00pm

  

  Elaine Merrill Grover, 84, passed away on March 18, 2023, at Cove’s Edge in Damariscotta. Elaine was born on Dec. 18, 1938, in Bradley to Lloyd H. and Evelyn (Garland) Merrill. The family moved to Woolwich where Elaine attended the Montsweag School in Woolwich and then Morse High School. In 1955, Elaine married Ernest H. (Buster) Grover and they were married for 55 years until Buster’s death. Over the years she waitressed at the Davis Island restaurant in Edgecomb and New Meadows Inn. She also...

• Free tax prep services in Lincoln County

  Thu, 03/23/2023 - 8:15am

  Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission will host the final session of IRS-certified volunteer tax preparation in Wiscasset on Saturday, April 8 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are four ways to get an appointment: 1. Call 207-295-6340 2. Call 207-751-3756 3. Email Midcoastcash@uwmcm.org 4. Schedule online by using EZNetScheduler: https://www.eznetscheduler.com/Calendar/MidcoastMaineCASH To be eligible for this service, your household income should be less than $60,000. When you schedule your...
• Wiscasset school committee

  Kim Andersson Wiscasset’s next superintendent of schools

  Wed, 03/22/2023 - 7:00pm

  

  Wiscasset’s school committee Wednesday night, March 22 named past Wiscasset schoolteacher and past Wiscasset selectman Kim Andersson its next superintendent of schools. School Committee Chair Jason Putnam started by saying the superintendent search committee made up of the whole school committee and several teachers and administrators had made a pick. “I think she’s a great candidate, and I think things are going to go very well,” Putnam said. Then he revealed the name: “I would be very happy...

• County sending funds to Boothbay Clean Water Initiative

  Wed, 03/22/2023 - 1:45pm

  

  The check is the mail for the Boothbay Region Clean Water Initiative. On March 21, Lincoln County commissioners approved the first installment of $65,000 to BRCWI to fund administrative costs. The non-profit organization is an amalgamation of Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor, Southport, Boothbay Region Land Trust, Bigelow Laboratories, Boothbay Region Water District, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Knickerbocker Lake Association and Boothbay Region YMCA. The organization’s goal is protecting Adams...

• Home sales decline in February due to the lack of available properties

  Wed, 03/22/2023 - 8:30am

  

  Availability of properties for sale continues to be an issue for buyers of single-family existing homes across Maine. According to Maine Listings, Realtors sold 708 homes last month—a dip of 19.4 percent from February 2022. Prices increased 10.7 percent in the past year, with data indicating a median sales price (MSP) of $329,250. The MSP indicates that half of the homes were sold for more and half sold for less. “Conversations with REALTORS® across Maine indicate that buyer demand remains...
• Wiscasset selectmen

  WCC gym to be named for Robert MacDonald

  Wed, 03/22/2023 - 7:00am

  

  Wiscasset’s Robert MacDonald has had a big month, a huge month, he said, turning 60 March 18 and retiring March 6 after 31 years working for the town, most of them as Wiscasset Community Center’s facilities manager. Monday night, March 21 at Samoset Resort, thinking he was there to see WCC get an award from Maine Recreation and Parks Association, he instead got a surprise. The association gave him its outstanding parks professional honor, Town Manager Dennis Simmons said. And Tuesday night,...
• Obituary

  Charles W. Birlem

  Tue, 03/21/2023 - 10:00am

  

  It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the loss of Charles Wallace Birlem, who passed away quite suddenly and far too soon on March 9, 2023. Charlie was a young 78 years old, born on July 15, 1944 and we had planned on exasperatingly trying to stop him from cleaning his own gutters and mowing his own steep and giant lawn for many, many more years. Charlie was the most steadfast, devoted and kind father and husband that a family could ever ask for. He is survived by his three children,...
• Salt ’n Spar

  Music made by the wind

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 2:30pm

  

  Do you remember the big wind harp off the Cochran Road in Newcastle? It’s long gone but once upon a time it sat on top of a small knoll not too far over the Edgecomb town line just past where Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts is now. The harp was placed there in the early 1970s and was still there in 1979 when I first saw it. It was about 20 feet tall and maybe 10 feet across at its widest point at the top. The frame was a combination of laminated wood and metal; it had steel strings. As I...

• Wiscasset police blotter

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 12:30pm

  

  Wiscasset Police Department reported the following for March 1-15: Arrests/summonses March 2, Randee W. Jarrett, 39, of Wiscasset was arrested for a Warrant Arrest by Officer Nathan Willhoite. March 6, Alexa B. Stark, 33, of Waldoboro was summonsed for Operating with Suspended Registration, by Officer Hunter Farrell. March 6, Kyle A. Sterling, 29, of Wiscasset was arrested for a Warrant Arrest, by Willhoite. March 9, Dean M. Henry, 33, of Wiscasset was arrested for Domestic Violence Assault, by...
• Obituary

  Marcia G. Zeamer

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:30am

  

  Marcia Gayle Zeamer passed away peacefully on March 4, 2023 surrounded by her loving family. Marcia was born on April 12, 1950 to Barbara and Jay Zeamer Jr. in Hartford, Connecticut. She was a lover of animals and spent a portion of her childhood frolicking in the pastures with her favorite pets, Paula her Angus cow, which awarded her ribbons in the 4-H club, Red, and Carry-on her horses which brought her joy participating in the hunt and pony clubs while growing up in Groton, Massachusetts...

• Edgecomb Community Church

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:30am

  The Edgecomb Community Church Thrift Store will be reopening Tuesday, April 4, at 9 a.m. After a winter break, the store manager Sue Sikes is making the store ready for customers’ return in April. The hours will again be Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The drop off bin in front of the church is now open for donations. Clean clothing, kitchen items, books, and other small new or gently used products are always welcome. No electronics please. The Little Corner...

• Boothbay Harbor man apprehended, charged in shooting

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 9:45am

  

  40-year-old Matthew Plummer was arrested and charged early this morning by the State Police tactical team and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies following a standoff on Reed Road in Boothbay Harbor Sunday night. The incident began at about 4:35 p.m. Sunday afternoon when witnesses in the area of Campbell Creek Apartments reported seeing a man with a gun and hearing gunshots in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Before deputies arrived, the victim, identified as a 34-year-old male...

• Fitting out Wiscasset’s new Sweetz & More, and talking candy

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 8:45am

  

  As part of the Pendleton family that had Wiscasset’s Pendleton’s Market about 60 years, Jeff Pendleton worked there in high school. He worked at Mason Station power plant in Wiscasset 28 years as part of his career with Central Maine Power and later worked 18 years for Renys department stores. Friday, March 17, the longtime woodworker was helping a new Wiscasset business get ready to open April 1 at the site of a famous former one, Big Al’s Super Values, next to the still open Big Al’s...
• Obituary

  Wallace A. Dodge

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 8:30am

  

  Wallace A. “Wally” Dodge, 76, passed away March 11, 2023 at St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor after a long illness. He was born in East Boothbay on May 2, 1946 to William Simerson and Dorothy Dodge and lived there all his life. As a teenager, Wally worked at Giuliano’s Fish Wharf in Boothbay Harbor packing fish. Later he bought his own lobster boat and went lobstering for the next 10 years. He gave up lobstering on his own and worked as a stern man with his best friend, Ernest Morton. Then...
• Obituary

  Mary A. Whitney

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 8:00am

  

  Peacefully surrounded by her family, Mary A. Whitney passed away March 16, 2023 at her home in Boothbay at the age of 74. Mary was born June 3, 1948, in Lincoln, Maine to Lillian Backus. She moved to Boothbay in 1996 and had been employed by the Boothbay Register and St Andrews Hospital before retiring and working part-time at the Boothbay Transfer Station Store. She settled down in Boothbay with her love and life partner Jameson "Jim" Brown who previously deceased her. She loved sitting in the...
• Press release

  Law enforcement on scene of Boothbay Harbor shooting

  Mon, 03/20/2023 - 3:30am

  

  Lincoln County deputies, Boothbay Harbor police and the Maine State Police tactical team are on Reed Road in Boothbay Harbor where a man was shot Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Officers remain on the scene where a suspect is believed to be contained. A gunshot victim was transported to Maine Medical Center in Portland via Lifeflight. Updated information will be provided as it becomes available.

• Alna’s alewives contractor could change

  Sun, 03/19/2023 - 8:45am

  

  After Alna selectmen opened two bids March 8 for alewife harvesting, one bidder, the town’s longtime contractor David Sutter, brought up the pandemic and said he “only assumed the town would honor that period of time for me.” First Selectman Ed Pentaleri said he had not known Sutter had any interest in continuing, and the contract expired last June. “Had we (talked) at any time from the end of June last year through the end of February of this year, we might have been able to produce some...

• Alna’s WW&F moves passenger shelter – via rail

  Sat, 03/18/2023 - 8:45am

  

  While Sheepscot Valley’s Narrow Gauge usually brings the passengers to the station, this month WW&F brought a station to the passengers. The Railway is renovating its Sheepscot Station at 97 Cross Road in Alna with new platforms, an enlarged passenger waiting area and improved passenger access. As part of the renovation process, Sheepscot’s extant passenger waiting shelter was made redundant. Instead of demolishing the shelter, Museum volunteers, along with contractor Chesterfield...

• Maine Marathon announces Veggies to Table as 2023 beneficiary

  Sat, 03/18/2023 - 8:15am

  

  Bob Dunfey, the volunteer race director for The Maine Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay, has announced that Veggies to Table is one of four Maine beneficiaries of this year’s event which will be held on Sunday, Oct. 1. Veggies to Table will receive a $15,750 donation from the marathon. “Veggies to Table is truly honored that Maine Marathon has chosen us, and our mission to help end hunger in Maine, as one of their 2023 grantees. We could not be more pleased. The more people who learn about food...

• Alna votes March 24-25

  Fri, 03/17/2023 - 8:45am

  No contests await Alna voters at the polls Friday, March 24. Elections are at the fire station from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The annual, open town meeting follows at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 25 at the fire station. Coreysha Stone will be the lone candidate on the ballot for third selectman and Steven Graham will be the lone one on there for second selectman. Road Commissioner Jeff Verney is running again; Douglas Morier seeks three more years representing the town on Sheepscot Valley Regional School...
• Obituary

  Marjorie A. Desmond

  Fri, 03/17/2023 - 8:30am

  

  Marjorie Ann Desmond, 86, of Strafford, New Hampshire died peacefully in her home on Aug. 28, 2022 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on May 11, 1936, the eldest daughter of Ernest and Florence (Richard) Pilman. Raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, she had a fondness for the ocean air and was an avid collector of lighthouses. As an Air Force wife, she lived in Florida, Texas, Alaska and finally settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where she was in civil...

• Edgecomb will vote on school budget separately from town referendum

  Thu, 03/16/2023 - 4:45pm

  

  This year’s Edgecomb town meeting will be different than any other. The school budget vote will be a public vote while the municipal budget will be a secret ballot referendum. For the past two years. selectmen opted for a referendum-style vote in deciding the municipal and school budgets due to the coronavirus. With the pandemic emergency over, selectmen decided to continue with the referendum deciding both the municipal and school warrant questions to attract more voter participation. But this...
• Press release

  Frances Perkins Center to search nationally for next exec director

  Thu, 03/16/2023 - 2:00pm

  Frances Perkins Center’s board of directors announced March 16 the launch of a national search for its next executive director. The announcement comes at an exciting juncture for the non-profit organization, founded in 2009, to honor the legacy of Perkins, the first woman to serve in a Presidential cabinet, as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a driving force behind the New Deal. With the opening this summer of the newly restored Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic...
• Press release

  In Wiscasset, Sweetz & More unveils ‘New England's largest sweet shop’

  Thu, 03/16/2023 - 11:00am

  

  Sweetz & More is proud to announce the opening of its newest location , April 1 in Wiscasset. With 8,100 square feet of pure sweetness, Sweetz & More is New England's largest sweet shop . Visitors to Sweetz & More can indulge in 835 varieties of retro glass bottle soda, 550 pouches of bulk candy, 300 baskets of pick-a-mix candy, 48 flavors of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans , 80 flavors of salt water taffy, 48 flavors of cotton candy, 100-plus PEZ characters, 30 flavors of ice cream...

• Boothbay Region YMCA offers LIVESTRONG program

  Wed, 03/15/2023 - 1:15pm

  

  Boothbay Region YMCA is now offering LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, which is a free, 12-week recovery program for adult cancer patients and survivors. Registration is currently open for the session that begins on Tuesday, April 4. Classes are held on Tuesday and Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. We do ask that you would commit to the program and attend class two times a week for 12 weeks as the program is specially designed for positive improvement and physical accomplishments. Class sizes are...

• ‘You can’t see hunger’

  Wed, 03/15/2023 - 12:00pm

  

  Veggies To Table, a Newcastle-based non-profit grow-to-donate farm, has increased their grow space for the upcoming season by adding a new caterpillar tunnel and more fields, said founder Erica Berman. Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, expects food insecurity in Maine to increase in 2023 coming off pandemic years, facing inflation, higher food prices and the end of extra federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, a COVID-19...

• Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: Three arrests

  Wed, 03/15/2023 - 9:45am

  

  The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 222 calls for service for the period of March 7 to March 14. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 1,891 calls for service. Summons Kirsten Latter, 25, of Warren was issued a summons March 10 for Failure to Notify Owner of PD Accident, on Pond Road, Newcastle, by Sgt. Kevin Dennison. Arrests David E. Brown Jr., 47, of Sabattus was arrested March 13 on a Lincoln County warrant for the charges of Domestic Violence Stalking; Violation of Privacy and...

• Wiscasset transfer station closed March 15

  Wed, 03/15/2023 - 9:30am

  Wiscasset’s transfer station is closed today, Wednesday, March 15 “due to no electricity,” the town announced via TextMyGov Wednesday morning.
• Obituary

  Rodney C. Foye

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 12:45pm

  

  Rodney C. “ Rowdy” Foye, 63 of Nobleboro, passed away peacefully on the morning of March 12, 2023, after a brief, but courageous battle with cancer. Born in Damariscotta on April 17, 1959, he was the son of Merle and Arlene (Dalton) Foye. Rodney grew up in Wiscasset, where he attended local schools and graduated from Wiscasset High School in 1977. While there, he excelled in sports, receiving varsity letters in soccer, wrestling, track and baseball. Out of high school, he briefly worked at the...
• Press release

  Westport Island water study update

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 8:45am

  On March 7, Westport Is land’s Conservation Commission hosted an informational meeting for residents regarding the ongoing groundwater/well study. This study has been made possible through a grant to the town provided as part of the s tate-funded Community Resilience Partnership. The meeting’s purpose was to provide information on the details of the study, introduce the geohydrologist working with us and give everyone the opportunity to ask questions. The meeting’s main focus was to present the...

• Sen. Reny and Rep. Crafts to provide legislative update at County Dems’ March meeting

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 8:45am

  

  The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) will hold its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 23, via Zoom. The agenda will feature State Sen. Cameron Reny (SD 13) and State Rep. Lydia Crafts (HD 46), who will provide updates on their priority bills and how people can get involved in helping to pass the legislation. "Legislative advocacy is the second act to an election,” said Kelli Whitlock Burton, LCDC chair. "We work hard to elect folks who share our values, then we work hard to...

• Ship Virginia talk at WPL

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Join Jim Parmentier for his program at Wiscasset Public Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 as he presents “Reconstructing the 1607 ship Virginia.” In 1607, English colonists settled at the mouth of the Kennebec River in what is now Phippsburg, to explore the land they called Northern Virginia. The Popham Colony, named after England’s Lord Chief Justice and one of its primary investors, was to be a sister colony to Jamestown. The settlement lasted only 15 months due to an unexpectedly cold...

• Wiscasset mobile home park resolves water issue

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 8:45am

  Water that, for weeks, was sometimes off, is back on and, knock on wood, will stay on, a lawyer representing Whippoorwill Mobile Home Park’s management firm, Maine Real Estate Management (MREM), said. According to attorney Michael Harman of Bloomer Russell Beaupain in Bangor, pumps at the fully occupied, 31-unit park on Route 27 in Wiscasset repeatedly kicked off due to a shortage of water and had to be manually restarted. Whippoorwill retained Maine Rural Water to do sonogram studies, as a...

• Edgecomb selectmen object to 2 school warrant articles

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 7:45am

  

  Edgecomb selectmen are waiting for a response from the school committee on two questions prior to approving the 2023 May town meeting warrant. On March 9, selectmen reviewed the wording of all 61 articles. Chairman Mike Smith and Selectman Ted Hugger recommended approval of all articles except two regarding the school budget. Selectmen objected to a large increase in the system administration’s budget and won’t support the article unless it is reduced by $39,000. Smith characterized the system...
• Obituary

  Philip J. Knapp

  Tue, 03/14/2023 - 7:30am

  

  Philip Knapp, 81, passed away on March 11, 2023 at Maine Medical Center after a very brief illness. Phil was born in Richmond, Virginia on May 3, 1941. He was the son of Barbara and Stuart Knapp. He graduated from Friends School in Wilmington, Delaware and then graduated from Perkiomen School in Pennsylvania. He was in the Army for two years serving in Korea as a medic. After being discharged, he was a member of a rodeo, riding Brahma bulls and then trained horses for various race tracks around...

• Thistle Inn Restaurant to open March 31

  Mon, 03/13/2023 - 2:15pm

  

  After closing 10 months ago, acquiring a new owner and four months of improvements, the Thistle Inn restaurant will open its doors on March 31, according to owner Jenny Chen who said diners will see the results of the efforts in the 162-year-old building on Oak Street, Boothbay Harbor. Work started in December and, “By the time that it’s finished, it will have a substantial investment in improvements,” she recently told the Register. The work included cleaning, painting, new heating systems,...

• Maine lobster fishery sues Monterey Bay Aquarium, alleges defamation

  Mon, 03/13/2023 - 1:45pm

  

  Maine lobster businesses and industry trade associations today filed a federal lawsui t against the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation (the “Aquarium”) for making false and defamatory statements about Maine lobster fishing practices and for misleading consumers and commercial lobster buyers about the integrity of the Maine lobster harvest. The lawsuit challenges the Aquarium’s claims that “scientific data” show that Maine lobster fishing practices are responsible for harming...
• Obituary

  Dorothy F. Lindemann

  Mon, 03/13/2023 - 11:45am

  

  Dorothy F. “Dot or Dottie” Lindemann, of Ocean Point, Boothbay passed away on March 2, 2023 at her Brielle, New Jersey home at the age of 101. Dot was born on April 2, 1921 in Boonton, New Jersey to Mary and Joseph Greffe. She attended high school in Boonton. On March 23, 1946 she married Conrad H. Lindemann of Glen Ridge, New Jersey and settled in Herbertsville, New Jersey where they owned and operated a 13-acre chicken farm. During this period, Conrad was also a science and math teacher at...

• Midcoast Friends invites public to day of prayer for peace

  Mon, 03/13/2023 - 8:15am

  The public is invited to join with the Quaker (Friends) community at the Midcoast meeting on Saturday, March 18, by stopping by to join them in silent prayer between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.. The doors will be open, and people are invited to enter quietly and join in for as long as they wish. The meetinghouse is located at 77 Belvedere Road in Damariscotta. Quakers are a “peace church.” They have historically supported peaceful ways of settling con fl icts and differences, and believe in the dignity...

• Another Wiscasset school administrator leaving

  Fri, 03/10/2023 - 10:15am

  

  Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Kathleen Pastore is resigning effective June 30. In her March 8 letter to Interim Superintendent of Schools Robert “Bob” England Jr., Pastore said this was one of the hardest decisions of her career. She wrote: “A family situation that arose in the spring of 2022 has given me pause to reflect on the need to have flexibility in my schedule in order to be more available for my family in Massachusetts. The role of school principal is an encompassing one, and I...

• Woolwich selectmen review donation requests

  Fri, 03/10/2023 - 10:00am

  

  Woolwich voters will be asked to raise $20,024 for area non-profit organizations. The requests, which are grouped together in one article, will be taken up by voters at the May 17 annual town meeting. March 8, the select board reviewed requests as it continued work on the proposed 2023-2024 town budget. With one exception, the list of nonprofits and the amounts the board agreed to are the same as they have been for the last several years. Although several groups had asked for more, the board...

• Goud fields parks and rec budget questions

  Fri, 03/10/2023 - 10:00am

  

  Wiscasset budget committee member Tom Joyce said March 8, he understands everything costs more now, but he did not know if he could vote for the parks and recreation budget. In budget talks at the town office and carried on Zoom and YouTube, Joyce said Director Duane Goud is “clearly the best manager” that department has had. “This is good for the town. And you’re good for the town. But this is hard for me to vote for.” Depending on how revenues turn out, “this starts to look difficult to...

• Griffin-McLellan wedding

  Fri, 03/10/2023 - 9:30am

  

  Elizabeth Joan Griffin and Dustin Cameron McLellan were married on July 17, 2022 at the Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point, Maine. The Reverend Todd Weir of the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor officiated. After their private ceremony, the couple celebrated with extended family and friends at The Patio at 1578 in South Bristol. They continued their celebration by sailing the Amalfi Coast of Italy for their honeymoon. The bride is the younger daughter of Denise and Chip Griffin of...

• Patten Free Library requests more from Woolwich

  Fri, 03/10/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Patten Free Library of Bath is asking Woolwich for a 2023-2024 contribution of $63,231, an increase of $2,928 from last year. Voters will consider the library’s request at the annual town meeting set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 at Woolwich Central School. WPL Director Lesley Dolinger reviewed the library’s budget with the select board Wednesday afternoon, March 8. Both in-person visits to the library and item withdraws were back to pre-pandemic levels and growing, Dolinger told selectmen. As...
• Press release

  King declares nuclear waste storage scattered across the country ‘probably the worst solution’

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 6:15pm

  Thursday, March 9 in a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) questioned U.S. leaders and experts in the nuclear energy field about the need and timeline for centralized nuclear waste storage. Pointing to nuclear waste storage at the former Maine Yankee power plant in Wiscasset, Sen. King highlighted waste build-up as a fundamental problem which needs to be addressed. Sen. King began by asking Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn...
• Obituary

  Lloyd A. Dinsmore

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 12:15pm

  

  Lloyd A. “Chuck” Dinsmore, 84, passed away peacefully at his home on March 7, 2023 with his loving wife at his side. Chuck was born on Oct. 28, 1938, in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of the late Alton and Elizabeth Coffin Dinsmore. At a young age Chuck moved back to Steuben, Maine where he grew up. Chuck attended local schools and was a graduate of Sumner Memorial High School. After high school Chuck joined the United States Air Force where he served for four years. After his time in the...

• Bigelow Lab receives $5K grant for STEM programs

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 11:45am

  The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation announced March 7 that more than $88,000 in grants to 20 nonprofit organizations across Maine and New Hampshire that are providing critical social and civic services, educational programs, and health and wellness resources to their communities. Locally, $5,000 was awarded to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. This grant will be used to support the Keller BLOOM (Bigelow Laboratory Orders of Magnitude)...

• Rockland investor inquires about Pyro City building for restaurant

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 11:45am

  

  A Rockland man is interested in transforming the Pyro City Maine building into a restaurant. Edgecomb selectmen received a request from businessman Steve Stinson about fire and sewer infrastructure near the former fireworks store. Town officials reported Stinson owns a restaurant, Claws, in Rockland. Selectmen hired local lawyers Chip Griffin and Bruce Harris to research Davis Island Association’s water and sewer capabilities. On March 7, selectmen approved hiring the two lawyers at $350 per...
• Obituary

  Julia W. Moore

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 9:45am

  

  Julia (Julie) Woodruff Moore passed away at her Boothbay Harbor home on March 7, 2023 at the age of 67. She was a potter for 32 years and in 2016 achieved her lifelong dream of having her own studio/shop in Boothbay Harbor. She was a 1973 graduate of Arlington High School in Lagrange, New York, a 1975 graduate of Keystone College in Factoryville, Pennsylvania, and a 1987 graduate of Georgetown University’s Ophthalmic Technology program and worked in that field for 18 years in the Northern...

• Fishermen’s Memorial gets $30k donation

  Thu, 03/09/2023 - 9:30am

  

  The Fishermen’s Memorial Committee accepted a $30,000 donation Feb. 28. The money was raised through the revived Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge held last September. Tuna Challenge Chairman and Carousel Marina Manager Jax van der Veen and Dock & Facility Manager Evan Hepburn presented the check to Fishermen’s Memorial Committee board members Andrew Morley, Troy Lewis, Brenda Blackman, Ryan Casey and Nicholas Morley, who is also the co-chair of the tuna tournament. Andrew Morley noted the...

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