Westport Island selectmen received a notice from the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) that the island’s annual report had been given a 2015 MMA excellence award as “an exemplary…
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Wiscasset Selectmen
Route 144, Wiscasset resident Roger Jones left Tuesday night’s board of selectmen’s meeting satisfied. He said it was the first time the town hadn’t just told him to take his road concerns to the…
Coastal Veterinary Care, located at 161 Gardiner Road in Wiscasset, is closing its doors on Oct. 28. But it's not really going away.
Coastal Veterinary Care has always been affiliated with…
Woolwich selectmen adopted a communications and social media policy following the board’s first airing Monday night. The vote enacting the new policy was a unanimous one with little discussion.…
A pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) refuse program has gotten off to a good start in Woolwich based on information compiled by WasteZero, the program’s not-for-profit administrator in North Andover,…
A public hearing on the referendum question to repeal Woolwich’s membership in WasteZero’s pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) refuse program will be held 5:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 19, in the hearing room of…
Wiscasset Middle High School
Wiscasset Middle High School’s (WMHS) next principal could be named Thursday night, Oct. 6. A special meeting of the school committee has been set for 6 p.m. in the WMHS library.
The agenda…
Amy and Mike Preston have no regrets about buying The Alna Store in 2004. They love the town and the people, and business has been good, Amy Preston said. But the couple has been thinking about…
Clamshell Quilters will meet Oct. 12 at the Faith Baptist Church, 144 Mills Road, Newcastle.
An optional sit ‘n’ sew begins at 2 p.m. Enjoy laughter and fellowship with friends as you sew on…
Lincoln County Democrats
During the month of October, Lincoln County Democrats are “Celebrating Farming in Maine.” At a meeting on Oct. 14, a panel of guest speakers led by Alice Percy,…
Obituary
David Earl Grover, 78, of Woolwich died Sept. 26, 2015, at the Maine Veterans Home in Augusta.
He was born in…
Volunteer Work Weekend at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Museum in Alna will be daily, Oct. 9-12, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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An Edgecomb man who reportedly struck a toddler in 2014 has pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault.
Matthew Grasser Jr., 22, of Edgecomb pleaded guilty to one count of Class C…
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About 250 suppers were served at the Alna Fire Department’s Oct. 3 fundraiser, Department President Kathy Pendleton said. Saturday’s event benefited the department’s nonprofit arm; the amount…
UPDATE: According to the family, Paul Doelp of Reading, Pa., twin brother of Peter Doelp of Southport, suffered what is believed to be a medical problem as he and Peter were…
The Edgecomb Planning Board denied a building permit application Oct. 1 for a Merry Island Road property owner. The board ruled the proposed site for a modular home violated the state’s resource…
The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club will host Elizabeth McLellan, president and founder of Partners for World Health at its…
Don’t go to the Wiscasset town office Monday, Oct. 5. It’s closed due to a lack of power, Selectmen’s Chairman Ben Rines Jr. said.
The work Central Maine Power is doing to replace a…
Coast Guard suspends search for survivors of El Faro, crew names released
MIAMI, Fla. (UPDATED Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.) — The commander of U.S. Coast Guard 7th District in Miami, Fla., issued a statement Wednesday evening, confirming that the…
The deadline for submissions for the Oct. 15 edition is 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9.
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UPDATE: Boothbay Harbor Police Chief Bob Hasch identified the man found dead yesterday in Boothbay Harbor as Don Johnson of St. Louis, Missouri.
Johnson worked as a line…
Nursing homes are the most highly regulated industry in Maine, with everything from the distance between beds and windows to what items can be laundered together specified and…
If you're looking for a good overland workout, try traversing the Schmid Preserve-River Link Trail System. On one juncture, it stretches five miles from Edgecomb to Dodge Point Preserve in…
An underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, despite…
Lincoln County Superior Court
A couple is denying neighbors’ claims that the pair have been overfeeding wildlife at their Bristol home. They have not been leaving corn around, nor using flash cameras at night, according to the…
Good food, good music, and keeping it local are what the upcoming Farmers’ Feast Dinner and Dance event is all about, according to …
Longtime Wiscasset resident Doris Pendleton, 85, is one of Wiscasset Senior Center’s newer members. She joined a couple of years ago, because she hates eating alone, she said.
“And I like to…
Obituary
Joseph Bruce Merton, 93, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to the late Bentley…
A graveside service for Georgia Norwood Emerson, who died Sept. 20, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Evergreen Cemetery, Barters Island Road, Boothbay.
A gathering of family and…
A volunteer team from the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA) and L.L. Bean Freeport store cleaned up the Western Cuckolds Island off Boothbay Harbor. On a crisp, blue-sky, late…
An N.C. Hunt Corp. pickup truck on Wiscasset’s Main Street Friday morning struck a car, starting a chain-reaction, four-vehicle accident near the post office Friday morning, Wiscasset Police…
Fall job fair season is underway around Maine, providing an opportune time for job seekers looking for work. The Maine Department of Labor’s network of 12 CareerCenters will be sponsoring and/or…
Authorities on Oct. 1 learned of a Sept. 27 accident that put a Whitefield man’s pickup truck in the woods off Wiscasset’s Route 1 near Norm’s Used Cars, according to a Wiscasset Police Department…
Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
Wiscasset’s older properties are part of the town’s beauty and Maine’s history, members of the new Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission said. They are looking forward to helping maintain…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The Boothbay Register's…
The public is invited to join with the Quaker (Friends) community at the Midcoast meeting on Sunday, Oct. 4 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the…
Paul L. Griffin, Jr., 44, an elver fisherman from Waldoboro, was sentenced on Sept. 28, in Lincoln County Superior Court to a jail term of…
The burgeoning coastal marine economy came into the spotlight on Tuesday, Sept. 29 during a stop in Lincoln County on Speaker Mark Eves’ statewide jobs tour.
Eves joined a…
Harvest Supper
On Saturday, Oct. 3, Dresden Historical Society will host its annual Harvest Supper at Dresden Elementary School with two seatings; the first at 5 p.m. and the second at 6:…
At the start of the full agenda at the Lincoln County Democrats’ Sept. 23 meeting, Committee Chairman Jim Torbert reminded those…
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard a contract to repair a tugboat.
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard President Eric Graves announced Sept. 30 that a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 45-…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta
Autumn: When pumpkins fall like leaves in the Midcoast.
When wood and aluminum and fiberglass boats are put away for the winter and pumpkin boats instead dot the Damariscotta River, it’s…
The Morris Farm Store will be transitioning into fall hours beginning Friday, Oct. 2. The store will be open Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and…
Open Creamery Day
At Fuzzy Udder Creamery in Whitefield, there is a special focus on being local.
The sheep, whose milk is turned into yogurt and cheese, can be found outside next to the goats who provide the…
Obituary
John W. Howard died peacefully in Vero Beach, Florida, on Sept. 17, 2015, from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure, which he combated with…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association is having a Stewardship Day at the Griggs Preserve in Newcastle, from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Licensed forester and licensed arborist, Tish…
Lisa Evans and Tim Smith have been growing microgreens in their greenhouse in Roslindale, Massachusetts, since January, ever since Evans…
The Lincoln County Historical Association will host Jim Leamon at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, in the court room of the…
The same doctors and nurses will treat patients. The same staff will greet people at LincolnHealth Hospital and Lincoln Medical Partners practices, but over the next year, the name of the parent…
