Since this year’s Great State Debate was cancelled, Boothbay Region Community Television is offering its own…
News
When Barb and Dan Aube made a trip to Maine from their home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut to visit Dan's parents in September 2012, they bought a copy of Points East Magazine. In it was an ad that…
Underhound Railroad will be featured at The Animal House Early Bird Sale on Saturday, Nov. 1.
In addition to foster/volunteer information and adoptable dogs, they will also be offering gift…
A continuing partnership with nature will be updated in Woolwich at the end of this month, when construction is completed on the new fish ladder at the Nequasset dam.
For the past 300 years…
Damariscotta's Maine Coast Book Shop is looking for ghosts.
Well, ghost stories at least.
The book…
Video
Mary Beth Bonang said she prayed for two weeks for a good day on Saturday, Oct. 25, for the first ever…
Fall 2014
Cheyenne Ryder of Wiscasset came to the Wiscasset Community Center with a devil-horned, Red Riding Hood costume and hope on Oct. 24. Her mother Janelle Haskell went online to get the 6-year-old…
In ongoing efforts to provide the latest information to healthcare providers and Maine citizens regarding guideline updates and developments regarding preparedness and response to potential…
Friends of Windjammer Days
The Friends of Windjammer Days have confirmed the popular spring festival’s dates through the year 2020.
Capt. Pete Ripley released the dates on behalf of the nonprofit group as follows:…
One Wiscasset fire truck and a crew of five Wiscasset firefighters were at the Dresden fire station Sunday night, Oct. 26, while Dresden firefighters remained at a Richmond fire scene, Wiscasset…
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills reminds fuel dealers and consumers to be aware of rules regulating the sale of heating fuel that take effect in Maine from Oct. 15…
I know there is considerable concern about the Ebola virus. I know also that even though there are only a very few cases in this country, people are worried about its possible spread and whether…
Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street in Bath, will hold its fourth annual book sale at Long Reach Hall on the museum campus on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 1 and 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Job Opening
Are you a reporter in the Midcoast region? Do you know one?
The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper news group is seeking a freelance community correspondent to cover community events,…
Three people were taken to hospitals with apparent minor injuries Saturday after a three-car accident on Edgecomb’s Route 1, Lincoln County Sheriff’s officers said at the scene.
The accident…
Maine has received funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather critical data on violent deaths in Maine using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)…
Superior Court
An Alna woman has been charged with felony domestic violence assault after she allegedly struck a four-year-old child with a toy train.
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Banjo and accordion artist Jeff Grosser will bring a band of some of the state’s best jazz musicians to St. Andrews Village on Nov. 2 for a concert…
The Lincoln County Animal Shelter is changing its hours of operation effective Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Formerly closed on Sundays, the Lincoln County Animal Shelter…
Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler will be in the Boothbay region on Saturday, Oct. 25 to visit two businesses, according to his…
The National Garden Club President Linda Nelson will attend The Garden Club Federation of Maine Fall Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on Oct. 30.
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Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset will seek a two-year delay on new high school graduation rules. If the Maine Department of Education grants the request, this year’s seventh grade, the class of 2020, will be the first…
Obituary
Edwin F. Hussa Jr., 91, of Queensbury, New York, beloved husband, father and grandfather, died peacefully on Oct. 20, 2014.
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On Monday, Oct. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m., the FARMS Community Kitchen and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a hands-on, 3-hour food preservation workshop entitled “Preserving the…
Special Olympics Maine is reaching out to people who knit or crochet to help with their 2015 Scarf Project. The goal of this project is to outfit all 500 Special Olympic Maine athletes who attend…
The Edgecomb selectmen want to know why a Gleason Point resident hasn’t fulfilled the terms of a consent agreement.
The town won a $25,000 court judgment against Timothy Stephenson in…
Alna Selectmen
The many cracks on Alna’s Cross Road should be history before winter. The road that connects the town’s main arteries, Route 218 and West Alna Road, near their midpoints and is home to the popular…
When the Animal House first opened its doors in 2005, Aubrey and Dan Martin ran the business from the house they were living in.
Now,…
Maine House District 87 Race
If Jeffery Hanley of Pittston wins the Maine House of Representatives’ District 87 seat, the first thing he will do is nothing.
Anything else would be rash, the Gardiner-raised Republican…
Maine House District 87 Race
State Rep. Tim Marks, D-Pittston, said he learned a lot in his first term in the Maine House of Representatives.
The retired Maine state police trooper enjoyed the work, including his…
Wiscasset School Committee
A decision will need to wait on whether seventh and eighth grades will move from Wiscasset Middle School to Wiscasset High School next year. School committee members expressed varying levels of…
No one was hurt when a car and a Regional School Unit 12 school bus collided at the bottom of Alna’s Head Tide Hill on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
One student was on the bus at the…
This Saturday, youth deer hunters across the state get their own day to hunt deer.
Hunters…
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners received news at its Oct. 21 meeting that the county’s new compensation plan is moving forward on schedule. The plan is…
Weather Report
Rain and wind were making an unpleasant Thursday, but the slow-moving storm producing them was failing to cause flooding in Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties.
That’s because the rain has been…
Western Maine Cross-Country Regionals
Due to the amount of rain Maine has received this week, officials at the Twin Brook Recreational Facility in Cumberland where the Western Maine cross-country regional meets for Classes C, A and B…
New Hope for Women is pleased to invite the community to an open house on Oct. 30 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the organization’s new location in Wiscasset.
Located at 41 Water Street, the Wiscasset…
As a part of St. Patrick’s Church’s bicentennial celebration in 2008, the Craft Group decided to decorate and sell Christmas wreaths.
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Obituary
Carlene Wright, 84, of Dragonfly Way, Woolwich died peacefully on Oct. 21, 2014 with her loved ones by her side, including her best friend, Hazel Adams, at Winship…
Each October, cooperatives all across the country celebrate the role, accomplishments and contributions of our nation'…
Damariscotta River Association
Hawk Henries belongs to the Nipmuc, a northeastern Algonquin tribe. In his travels within and beyond the United States, he enjoys engaging people who come to hear…
An Edgecomb couple claim noise from a nearby dog kennel is a nuisance.
Mike and Kate Kastelein told the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen on Oct. 20 that barking dogs from The Coastal Dog disrupts…
On Monday, Oct. 27, Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools (FARMS) and Rising Tide Community Market are planning their second joint annual event celebrating Food Day, open to…
The Dresden Board of Selectmen tackled a growing traffic hazard on the corner of Route 27 and Route 197 in Dresden, with the draft of a local ordinance to…
Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter was working at the scene of a two-vehicle crash at routes 1 and 27 on Tuesday night, when he heard tires screech. He looked to see a car that had stopped two feet…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Wiscasset voters will decide the town’s next budget by secret ballot in June 2015, one year after an open town meeting that some residents didn’t want.
The turnout of fewer than 200 voters…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset voters on Dec. 9 will give the school committee a green or red light on closing Wiscasset Primary School next year. Selectmen set the referendum date at their Oct. 21 meeting.
“I’m…
Have a spooky day in the Boothbay region by spending your afternoon with Underhound Railroad at Two Salty Dogs Pet Outfitters, at the corner of Boothbay House Hill…
