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• Insurance for Special Olympics Maine club

  Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:45am

  

  Liberty Mutual and Safeco Insurance have awarded J. Edward Knight a 2023 Make More Happen Award for its volunteerism with Special Olympics Maine and their new Unified Champion Club. This nonprofit organization is dedicated to promoting social inclusion through shared sports training and competition experiences by joining people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same playing field. The award includes an initial donation of $5,000 for Special Olympics Maine Unified Champion Club,...
• Obituary

  Kathleen Murphy-Ruscetta

  Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:30am

  Kathleen Murphy-Ruscetta of Edgecomb died on May 31, 2023 in Westbrook, Maine. Visitation will be held at Hall Funeral & Cremation Services, 975 Wiscasset Road, Boothbay on Monday, June 5. Burial will be on Tuesday, June 6 in Resurrection Cemetery, Newtown, Connecticut. Hall’s of Boothbay has care of the arrangements.

• Edgecomb approves 2 warrant articles

  Fri, 06/02/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Edgecomb residents approved two school-related warrant articles May 30 during a special town meeting. Selectmen interrupted their board meeting at 6:30 p.m. to hold the hearing and vote which drew a dozen residents. Former selectman Ted Hugger was elected moderator. Article 2 regarded allowing the school committee to use capital reserve funds as it deemed fit for its designated purposes during Fiscal Year 23. School Committee Chairman Heather Sinclair explained the reserve’s purpose as paying...
• Obituary

  Elise I. Andersen

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 11:30am

  

  Elise Isabel Andersen, lifelong resident of Boothbay, died unexpectedly at her home May 4. She was 68. Elise was born Feb. 19, 1955 at St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, the fourth of six children born to Weston and Brenda Andersen, the pioneering Maine craftspeople who founded Andersen Design and Studio. She attended East Boothbay Elementary -- just down the street from her parents’ home and studios -- Boothbay Region High School, Colby College and Boston’s School of Fashion Design. She...
• Obituary

  Elaine J. Benson

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 11:15am

  

  Devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Elaine Jane Benson died peacefully May 19, 2023 at the Sussman House in Rockport following a brief illness. She was 92 years old. Elaine was the second of three daughters born to Rockland police patrolman Carl A. Christoffersen and his wife Dorothy (Mank) Christoffersen of Chestnut Street. She graduated from Rockland High School in 1949 with her high school sweetheart John C. Benson. They were married a few months later, after John enlisted in...

• Edgecomb wants to ‘put some teeth’ into property maintenance ordinance

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 10:00am

  

  Edgecomb selectmen are preparing to resolve an ongoing problem involving unkempt lawns in town. Selectmen recently received a letter complaining that certain properties on Middle and River roads are filled with debris. On May 30, selectmen discussed how best to address the issue with homeowners. The lack of a clear ordinance is a major obstacle in selectmen’s path. "I don’t know what authority the board has because our ordinances don’t have any bite. We can’t really do anything unless there is...
• Press release

  Luxurious new spa, Giselaine’s Spa, opens at award-winning Boothbay Harbor Country Club

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 9:45am

  

  A stunning new spa opens at the award - winning Boothbay Harbor Country Club. The luxurious spa will undoubtedly be unlike any spa in Maine or beyond. Giselaine Coulombe worked in partnership with Knickerbocker Group, known for their except ional craftsmanship, to bring her vision to life. The extraordinary space is rooted in rustic elegance mixing custom high - end details with more natural materials. The spa will feature an installation of coastal Maine images resulting from a uniqu e...

• Alna ethics hearing moves to June 8

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 8:45am

  Alna selectmen’s hearing on resident Ralph Hilton’s ethics complaint against First Selectman Ed Pentaleri, first planned for June 1, is now set for 6 p.m. June 8 at the town office and over Zoom, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88646971966 according to the June 8 agenda at alna.maine.gov The agenda for the board’s June 1 meeting, also at 6 p.m. at the town office and over Zoom, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86060239816 includes ground rules for the ethics hearing.

• Celebration of life for Sue L. Keene

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 8:00am

  A celebration of life for Sue Lewis Keene will be held on Sunday, June 11 at 10 a.m at Hall's Funeral Home, 975 Wiscasset Road, Boothbay. Sue passed away on Oct. 9, 2022 at St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor.

• Maine Board of Optometry in support of DPRF-05, LR 146

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 7:45am

  

  Thomas Nadeau, OD, as president of the Maine Board of Optometry, addressed The Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee of the Maine State Legislature on May 23. Nadeau spoke in support of DPRF-05, LR 146 An act to Repeal and Replace the Laws regarding the Optometry Practices. He stated that the Board deems it necessary to bring the law of optometry current with the evolutions of practice. Optometry is a regulated profession. “How we practice, everything we do professionally...

• New treat for Boothbay Harbor

  Thu, 06/01/2023 - 7:45am

  

  Footbridge traffic this summer is in for a real treat. A new shop will serve coffee and morning pastries beginning at 7 a.m. and ice cream and other sweet delights as late as 10 p.m. Harbor Treats opens Tuesday, June 13 in the former Wannawaf building on Bridge Street. The new owners did not have far to search for a new enterprise. Metehan Sahin owns the nearby Harborside 1901 Bar and Grill. He and his pastry chef Tugba Ciftci are Harbor Treats’ owners. Both have extensive experience in the...

• Serious crash May 31 on Route One, Wiscasset

  Wed, 05/31/2023 - 12:15pm

  

  Route 1 in Wiscasset was closed for roughly six hours Wednesday morning, May 31, after a traffic crash in the vicinity of 342 Bath Road. According to Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine, the crash occurred around 5:20 a.m. when a southbound 2011 Ford Mustang operated by Ryan Graffam, 25, of Friendship crossed the centerline and made contact with a northbound 1992 Peterbilt tractor-trailer operated by Ronald Cunliffe, 33, of Marble, Pennsylvania. Cunliffe was transporting a mobile home to...
• Obituary

  Allen J. Barter

  Wed, 05/31/2023 - 9:00am

  

  Allen Joseph Barter, 75, died May 28, 2023 at Lincoln Health Miles Campus in Damariscotta. Allen was born Jan. 8, 1948 in Boothbay Harbor Maine, the son of Donald Sumner Barter and Helen Virginia Joyce Barter. In the summer of 1952, Allen contracted polio, spent approximately a year in rehabilitation at the Hyde Center in Bath, returning home able to walk with braces on both legs and two crutches. Later surgeries reduced those to one braced leg and a single cuff crutch. In spite of his...

• UPDATE: Route One, Wiscasset reopens after accident

  Wed, 05/31/2023 - 8:15am

  UPDATE: At 11:17 a.m., Wiscasset reported via TextMyGov, that Route One has reopened. Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Shannon Moss said its commercial vehicle unit assisted. Wiscasset Newspaper continues to seek to confirm and receive other information on the accident from local authorities. To sign up for TextMyGov, visit wiscasset.org or contact Administrative Assistant Robin Plourde at rplourde@wiscasset.org or 882-8200, ext. 3. Original post: At 8:07 a.m. Wednesday morning, May...

• Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: Five arrests

  Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:15pm

  

  The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 253 calls for service for the period of May 23 to May 30. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 4,366 calls for service. Summonses Marie Stover, 58, of Waldoboro was issued a summons May 23 for Allowing Dog to be at Large, on Gross Neck Road, Waldoboro, by Animal Control Officer Allen Oliver. Stuart C. S. Wyman, 32, of Wiscasset was issued a summons May 24 for Operating after License Suspension, on Bath Road, Wiscasset, by Deputy Jerold Winslow...
• Obituary

  Sylvia J. Norwood

  Tue, 05/30/2023 - 11:00am

  Sylvia Joyce Norwood (née Snowman), of Southport Island, passed away, May 21, 2023 after a short illness. She was born on Southport and was welcomed to the world as the third daughter to the Snowman family at Newagen on July 1, 1939. Her childhood days were filled with love of swimming with friends in the cove near Newagen Harbor. One of the highlights of her teenage years was an extra in one of the boats in the movie “Carousel” while it was being filmed in the Boothbay region. Sylvia was a...
• Wiscasset planning board

  With Montsweag Flea Market closed, Wiscasset business owner tries for one

  Tue, 05/30/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Wiscasset’s Louis Cataldo asked the planning board May 22 if he could have a small flea market outside his Wicked Good Treasures business, over the Wiscasset line from Montsweag Flea Market in Woolwich. According to Woolwich officials, Cataldo and searches on Facebook and elsewhere online, the nearly half century old Montsweag Flea Market off Route One has not opened for the season and it is not known when or if it will reopen or who would reopen it. Its phone number listed on the flea market’s...

• Post 54 remembers service members, Clara Wentworth; praises youth

  Mon, 05/29/2023 - 1:45pm

  

  Years ago, when Faye Shea wanted help with her “Saving Our Stars” project, she asked herself, “Who’s the most patriotic woman I know,” Shea recalled in the sun at the veterans wall in Wiscasset Monday morning, prior to American Legion Post 54’s Memorial Day ceremony. The answer was Clara Wentworth. “And I asked her to help me. ‘Sure,’ she goes.” The “Stars” project gives away the stars from worn American flags. With the patch comes a message that reads in part: “Please carry me as a reminder...

• Community Day at the Museums: Free admission to LCHA historic sites June 3

  Mon, 05/29/2023 - 10:45am

  Lincoln County Historical Association’s Community Day will offer free admission at the Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, The Old Jail & Museum in Wiscasset, and the Pownalborough Court House in Dresden to everyone on the first Saturday in June. Guests will be welcomed for tours on a walk-in basis during open hours: The Pownalborough Court House is open Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; the Old Jail and Chapman Hall House are open Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m. In addition,...

• Simmons explains grant

  Sun, 05/28/2023 - 5:00pm

  Building on the momentum of last year’s successful cleanup of the ash ponds, the Wiscasset selectboard authorized Town Manager Dennis Simmons to work with Ransom Consulting LLC to submit a new brownfields application for further remediation and cleanup funding at the former Mason Station power plant. Specifically, these funds would be used to clean up an area of the Birch Point property known as the North Point fill area. On May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the town is...
• Obituary

  Tracy A. Bradford

  Sun, 05/28/2023 - 8:45am

  

  This is not an ordinary obituary, because Tracy was not an ordinary person. She was extraordinary. Born Tracy Ann Lindemann on May 18, 1963, she entered this world in the Year of the Rabbit. People born in the Rabbit year are said to be gentle, kind, happy, and creative, with a peaceful, hopeful energy. This was Tracy. Little more needs to be said, but for the sake of history and context, the following is included: Tracy passed away on May 26, 2023, coming full circle to another Year of the...

• Midcoast Literacy’s annual celebration recognizes students and volunteers

  Sun, 05/28/2023 - 8:45am

  Midcoast Literacy held its annual Meeting and Celebration in Bath on May 21, celebrating 53 years of providing free literacy services in Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and northern Cumberland counties. The festive picnic brought together board members, staff, tutors, learners, supporters, and their families to mark the organization’s accomplishments in the past year. “2022 was a year of recovery and growth for our organization,” said Midcoast Literacy Executive Director Daniel Burson. “We are grateful for...

• Fishin For Fashion fun is back!

  Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:45pm

  

  On Saturday, June 17 the Fishin For Fashion show returns to the Shipyard at Boothbay Hartbor/Bristol Marine at 120 Commercial St. in Boothbay Harbor. Designers are tasked with taking marine industry materials like rope, sailcloth, netting, and lobster buoys, and creating nautical haute couture! Local merchants get in on the fun having their season's best strut down the catwalk. Make sure to stick around for the Bespoke Bag Auction, where you could walk away with a unique and stylish accessory...
• Press release

  $700K coming Wiscasset’s way for Birch Point cleanup

  Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:00pm

  May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $16,222,850 from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites in Maine – including $700,000 for a Wiscasset one – while advancing environmental justice. Wiscasset has been picked to receive a $700,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant. Grant funds will be used to clean up the 4.5-acre North Point Fill Area at the northern tip of the Birch Point Peninsula, which is contaminated...

• ‘Stoked’: WACC to fete community center’s 25th

  Fri, 05/26/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is preparing to party Thursday night, June 15, and welcomes the public to join in – grownups only, as there is a cash bar – for its annual meeting, with an extra purpose for 2023: Celebrating Wiscasset Community Center’s first quarter century. WACC Manager Pat Cloutier explained May 24, Parks and Recreation Director Duane Goud is on the Chamber’s board and is next year’s president. “And we were excited to realize that it’s (the Center’s) 25th anniversary and...

• 10th Claw Down coming on June 15

  Thu, 05/25/2023 - 12:15pm

  

  The Boothbay Harbor Shipyard/Bristol Marine (120 Commercial St., Boothbay Harbor) is the perfect location for the 10th annual Claw Down on Thursday, June 15 at 6 p.m. This competition showcases our local chefs who will wow your taste buds, as they battle it out to earn the coveted title of the best lobster bite in town! Which bite will reign supreme? Attendees cast the vote for the People's Choice award! The general admission tickets are $84. Purchase yours at Claw Down (gtgtickets.com) Among...

• Hearty Roots looks to fill Midcoast’s mental health needs

  Thu, 05/25/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Hearty Roots (HR), a Bristol-based nonprofit dedicated to improving children’s lives through social-emotional learning and outdoor adventure programs, has launched a $1.5 million capital campaign for a Midcoast headquarters. Founded in 2017 by social worker and Edgecomb Eddy school counselor Haley Bezon to be “intentionally scrappy and mobile” operating out of the backs of cars and minivans, toting equipment day after day to several camp locations, HR now serves more children than the mobile...

• 20th Annual Southport Firemen’s Dinner May 31

  Thu, 05/25/2023 - 8:00am

  

  Newagen Seaside Inn will host the 20th annual Southport Firemen’s Dinner on Wednesday, May 31 starting with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in The Pub at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will follow at 6:30 p.m. in the Cape Harbor room served by Southport’s finest! Tickets, $45 per person, are required. All proceeds go to support the Southport Fire Department. Book tickets online via RESY ( https://resy.com/cities/sthp/newagen-seaside-inn?date=2023-05-22&seats=2&query=THE%20PUB%20NEWAGEN%20 ) or call (207...

• Celebration of Life for Bob Blackman

  Thu, 05/25/2023 - 8:00am

  A celebration of life for Robert “Bob” Blackman, who passed away on Feb. 13, 2023, will be held on Saturday, June 17 at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor, from 1 to 3 p.m.
• Press release

  McSeagull’s debuts fresh interior renovation

  Wed, 05/24/2023 - 1:00pm

  

  After originally opening its doors in 1976 in the quaint waterfront town of Boothbay Harbor, McSeagull’s Restaurant debuted the newly renovated interior on May 19. The Boothbay Harbor region’s year-round population is roughly 6,000 people but during the summer months, the area surges to approximately 50,000, according to the Sotheby’s Real Estate site. A local favorite place to eat and drink is McSeagull’s. The new owner (as of May 2022) has been working and summering in East Boothbay since he...

• Election submissions deadline

  Wed, 05/24/2023 - 8:15am

  All letters or other submissions pertaining to Wiscasset’s and Westport Island’s June 13 elections or Wiscasset’s June 13 town meeting vote must be received by 4 p.m. Friday, May 26.

• Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: Five arrests

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:15am

  

  The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 197 calls for service for the period of May 16 to May 23. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 4,113 calls for service. The Sheriff’ s Office responded to an underage party on Knipe Masters Road in Bremen, on May 21. As a result of the investigation the following were issued summonses for Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor: Ashton Seiders, 18, of Bristol; a 17-year-old male juvenile from Jefferson; Michael Melehov, 18, of Walpole; Jack Lee, 18, of...

• First National Bank celebrates National EMS Week

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:00am

  First National Bank recently announced it has made donations totaling $2,800 to 14 emergency medical service organizations in the bank’s market area in response to National EMS Week. In 1974, President Gerald Ford proclaimed EMS Week to celebrate and recognize EMS practitioners and the important work they do in our nation. The 49th annual National EMS Week is May 21-27. Receiving donations were Bar Harbor Fire Fighters Association, Belfast Ambulance, Boothbay Region Ambulance Service Inc,...

• Maine Art Gallery wins $10K grant

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 10:45am

  Maine Preservation, partnering for a fourth year with The 1772 Foundation, awarded one-for-one matching grants totaling $128,952 to 17 non-profit organizations maintaining historic buildings in Maine, including Maine Art Gallery on Warren Street in Wiscasset at the former Wiscasset Academy. According to Maine Preservation’s Brad Miller and MAG’s board of trustees president Richard Riese, MAG won the highest possible grant the organization was giving out, $10,000, and it and matching funds will...

• Edgecomb 6th graders memorialize fallen veterans with American flags

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 10:30am

  

  For seven years, Mike Smith has taught local sixth graders an important historical lesson. Each year, the Edgecomb selectman has organized a special event where Edgecomb Eddy sixth graders plant flags for fallen veterans at North Edgecomb Cemetery. The town ordered 200 American flags this year to place an on estimated 165 veterans’ graves at North Edgecomb, Evergreen, Highland, Union, Ancient and Chase cemeteries. Smith began the tradition shortly after being elected. “I was trying to connect...

• Wiscasset police blotter

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 10:00am

  

  Wiscasset Police Department reported the following for May 1-15: Arrests/summonses May 1, Thomas Ring, 72, of Harpswell was arrested for Warrant Arrest, by Chief Lawrence Hesseltine. May 4, Stuart S. Wyman, 51, of Wiscasset was arrested for Violating Condition of Release, Terrorizing and Refusing to Sign Criminal Summons, by Hesseltine. May 7, Wendy D. Couture, 34, of Wiscasset was arrested for a Warrant Arrest, by Officer Nathan Willhoite. May 9, Lauren Eldredge, 39, of Wiscasset was arrested...
• Alna selectmen

  Alna ethics complaint heads for hearing

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Alna selectmen on May 18 agreed to hold a hearing on a resident’s complaint that one selectman broke the board’s ethics policy. Second Selectman Steve Graham said Ralph Hilton has brought the complaint against First Selectman Ed Pentaleri. “I’ve undertaken to do the necessary investigation and am carrying the ball ... The purpose of this meeting is to allow for further discussion,” he explained to meeting-goers at the town office and over Zoom. Based on the policy’s enforcement...
• Wiscasset selectmen

  Residents talk broadband, MAG in hearing

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 8:45am

  

  Two years ago, Susan Murray moved to Wiscasset from Pennsylvania. Tuesday night, May 16, she stepped up to the microphone at the selectmen’s public hearing on the June 13 town meeting warrant and said she wholeheartedly supports the proposed broadband initiative. Broadband’s speed is far superior, she said. Then Nicholas Rioux stepped up and said he is a fairly new Wiscasset resident who has since 2000 spent six months a year in Southport. He asked if anyone has looked at its history pursuing...

• Animal shelter full of pets waiting for new homes

  Tue, 05/23/2023 - 7:30am

  

  Bailey, a 2-year-old mix terrier, is the newest arrival at the Midcoast Humane shelter in Edgecomb. He is a stray dog found by an animal control officer. Bailey joins 30 other dogs, 22 cats, four rabbits and two roosters waiting to find a new home. Bailey will be cleaned and neutered in preparation for adoption. Manager Tammy Walsh said it takes a couple weeks before a stray is ready for adoption. She has worked at the shelter 13 years and before that was a volunteer. Walsh has loved and cared...

• Generous donors make annual CTL Auction a success

  Mon, 05/22/2023 - 3:00pm

  

  This month's Celebrate CTL! Auction was a big success! Faculty, caregivers, and community members enjoyed an exciting evening connecting as a community and raising funds for the Center for Teaching and Learning. We raised $9,625 with the silent and live auctions, $660 in Bucks for Books, and $1,260 from the ever popular Summer Fun Basket Raffle (congratulations to raffle winner Maria Jenness) for a total of $11,545! We could not have done this without the generosity of local businesses,...

• Service for Thomas Tavenner Sr.

  Mon, 05/22/2023 - 12:30pm

  A memorial service for Thomas Tavenner Sr., who passed away on Dec. 5, 2022, will be held on Sunday, July 16 at 2 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, 125 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor. Hall’s of Boothbay has care of the arrangements.

• Boothbay Playhouse events venue hosts open house

  Mon, 05/22/2023 - 10:00am

  

  John and Sara Berkeley have completed a two- and half-year renovation of Boothbay Playhouse and hosted an open house Saturday, May 20, to showcase their venue and trusted service partners. Knowing they wanted to be in the events business, and scouting venues for their own wedding, the Berkeleys happened across Boothbay Playhouse and fell in love with the property in 2020. “We wanted to bring it back to its original beauty and historic roots,” said Sara Berkeley. Inside the lounge hang framed...

• Service for Elaine M. Grover

  Mon, 05/22/2023 - 9:45am

  A graveside service for Elaine Merrill Grover, 84, who passed away on March 18, 2023, will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 4 at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wiscasset. Arrangements are by Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High Street, Bath.

• Brackett apologizes for oversight

  Mon, 05/22/2023 - 9:45am

  

  On May 16, Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett began his report to commissioners with an apology. Brackett forgot to seek commissioners’ approval for out-of-state travel for his department attending the National Law Enforcement Week ceremony in Washington, D.C. earlier in the month. A sheriff’s department contingent attended the ceremony where names of fallen law enforcement officials’ names were added to the memorial. But Brackett forgot to seek commissioners’ approval for out-of-state travel...

• Wiscasset selectmen candidates forum May 23

  Sun, 05/21/2023 - 11:00am

  On Tuesday, May 23, there will be a candidates forum for the Wiscasset selectmen election candidates, resident Linda Winterberg announced. She said a group of concerned citizens organized the event. It will be held at 7 p.m. at Wiscasset Community Center, and the four candidates – Don Davis, Pam Dunning, Terry Heller and Dusty Jones – will be there to give brief statements and take questions from the moderator, Tom Joyce. “All Wiscasset voters are invited to attend, and hear from these fine...

• Maxim wins Edgecomb selectman’s seat

  Sun, 05/21/2023 - 9:45am

  Michael Maxim won the open selectman’s seat May 20 in Edgecomb. He defeated Amy Winston, 57-49, and Paula Swetland received 18 write-in votes and won a planning board term. Town Clerk Claudia Coffin reported all referendum warrant articles were approved.

• Memorial Day observance at Pownalborough Court House

  Sun, 05/21/2023 - 8:15am

  

  Lincoln County Historical Association will carry out its 69th commemoration of Memorial Day at Pownalborough Court House in Dresden Monday, May 29. The gathering will be called together at 23 Courthouse Road at 11 a.m. to be led up the old road to the Court House Cemetery by members of Colonial Maine Living History Association. Veteran soldiers of three wars will be remembered through short reflections on their lives, and bouquets will be placed upon their graves. Everyone is invited to stay on...

• Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games returns to the UMaine in June

  Sat, 05/20/2023 - 10:15am

  

  The University of Maine at Orono will host over 1,500 Special Olympics Maine athletes, coaches, and volunteers for the 2023 State Summer Games on June 9-11. This year’s most cherished two-night, three-day event is back in full swing, after being canceled in 2020-2021 and only offering a one-day event last year. Over the weekend, athletes from across the state will have the chance to display their skills in a variety of traditional and unified competitions; events range from track and field to...
• Obituary

  Charles David Winslow

  Fri, 05/19/2023 - 1:45pm

  

  On Saturday, May 13, 2023, Charles David Winslow of Southport passed away at Miles Memorial Hospital with loved ones by his side. David was 61. David was born at St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor on Dec. 19, 1961, to Eliot and Marjorie Winslow of Southport. Being the only child born into this maritime family, his birth announcement listed him as “Assistant Pilot,” and recorded his birth statistics in nautical terms such as time of launching, gross tonnage, displacement, and length on the...

• Estimated Edgecomb storm damage likely to climb over $100K

  Fri, 05/19/2023 - 11:15am

  

  The late April torrential rainfall is bringing more than May flowers to Edgcomb. On April 30, the heavy rain resulted in significant damage to Spring Hill Farm, Cross Point and Mt. Hunger roads. On May 16, Selectman Mike Smith reported the estimated damage to these Edgecomb roads totaled $97,000. “The county needs to be at $100,000 to seek FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) relief. So Edgecomb alone is going to reach that mark. We are still assessing the damage, and our figure alone may...

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