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.
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News
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…
Edgecomb Planning Board
The Edgecomb Planning Board approved two proposals on Oct. 16. The board unanimously approved Ronna Lugosh’s proposal to build a driveway for the back lot of her 4.66 acre property on U.S. Route 1…
Obituary
Florence M. Connors, died peacefully at her Wiscasset home on Oct. 18, 2014 with her loving granddaughter Anne by her side.
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Morris Farm
“You look old enough that you would know how to dance,” Bristol’s Hale Sparrow told Sheila deBettencourt at Morris Farm’s barn dance in Wiscasset Friday night.
“Or, I’m so old I’ve forgotten…
A Wiscasset man has been charged with harassment after he was alleged to have sent a nude photo of himself to a Boothbay Harbor teen.
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Between John Orne and his wife Cathy, he said he’s the fortunate one.
The Edgecomb couple, married nearly 15 years, were in a…
Wiscasset Fall Sports
On a night that saw Wiscasset High School’s seniors honored for their athletic prowess, there were plenty of thrills, great plays and scares.
Playing at home Friday, Oct. 17, both the boys…
Lincoln County Triad
Nancy Wilson lived in a yurt for 12 years, played the cello, performed with Hearts Ever Young and was a talented writer, Conrad “Doc” Schilke said at the 14th annual Lincoln County Triad Senior…
Wiscasset Selectmen
An issue of interest to local nonprofits and those they serve could be resolved Oct. 21, as selectmen consider a bottle redemption policy. The topic arose from questions Selectman Bill Barnes…
Election 2014
The Boothbay peninsula’s next representative to the Maine House of Representatives will be substantially younger than his/her predecessor, will have been born in Connecticut, but lived mostly in…
A 13-year-old Lincoln County youth left for San Francisco on Oct. 16 to claim an award for his work to save the chambered nautilus, a type of marine mollusk.
Ridgely Kelly of Bremen, along…
Boothbay Railway Village
On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25 from 5:30-8 p.m. the Boothbay Railway Village will once again be cloaked in mystical moonlight and creepy candlelight for the…
American Cancer Society
Three hundred and fifty people walked Damariscotta’s streets Sunday in a sea of largely pink outerwear, pompoms and, in the case of Lincoln Academy industrial arts teacher Shawn St. Cyr, shorts…
The combined websites for the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper were judged top in the state for small weekly newspapers at the Maine Press Association’s 2014 Better Newspaper Contest on…
Dick Mayer was in charge of the traffic coming into and out of Damariscotta for the Oct. 10-14…
Susanna Norwood-Burns has joined the New Hope for Woman staff as a community advocate in Waldoboro.
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The Garden Club of Wiscasset held its October meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2.
The featured speaker was Amy LeBlanc from Whitehill Farms.
LeBlanc spoke to the club about culinary herbs…
Open enrollment begins Nov. 15, 2014 and ends Feb. 15, 2015. Get ready to renew or enroll in health insurance before the deadline for the Health…
Edgecomb School Committee
A higher than normal iron content and slightly elevated magnesium level has produced discoloration in the Edgecomb Eddy School’s drinking water, according to principal Lisa Clarke.
Clarke…
Boards, staff and members from Lincoln County's many historical societies, museums and history-oriented organizations will attend the 2014 gathering of Lincoln County's historical organizations on…
CHANS Hospice Care program will be holding an interfaith memorial event for anyone who has lost a loved one in the past year.
A Time for Remembering will be held on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m.…
Bath Trails is calling all adventuresome kids to complete the 5 miles long Whiskeag Trail on Sunday, Oct. 19. Parents and kids can park cars at the Bath YMCA at 1 p…
Maine Municipal Association
Wiscasset’s 2013 town report that came out last spring has snagged third place, or the “excellence” designation, in a statewide contest. Among 250 entrants in the Maine Municipal Association’s (…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset’s interim superintendent of schools Lyford Beverage is recommending grades seven and eight move next year from Wiscasset Middle School to Wiscasset High School.
The school…
Election 2014
Les Fossel is a busy man.
The Republican state senator candidate from Alna serves on eight boards serving Lincoln County and the…
Elections 2014
Sen. Chris Johnson said his reelection is about the people who put him in the Maine state senate to begin with. The Democrat state senator from Somerville is seeking…
Obituary
Rona Mary Metcalf, a resident of Southport since 1979, died of natural causes on Oct. 4 at her home, surrounded by her children. She was 85.
Born in Winchester, Massachusetts to Wilfred…
Elections 2014
Regardless of whether or not voters hand Republicans control of the U.S. Senate in November, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she will keep working across the aisle to form bipartisan coalitions…
Get to Know...
“The World of Wooden Bobbins” is a book about, well, bobbins. Much of the material provided for the production of the book was supplied by experts on the subject: Ann…
Wolverines Soccer
Goals, like Canada geese, have been coming in bunches at the end of the fall, or so it seems for the Wiscasset Wolverines.
The boys varsity soccer team blasted the Winthrop Ramblers, 2-1,…
The Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene, 255 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset, will host Tim Connelly on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the 11 a.m. morning worship service.
Connelly has been singing since he was…
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At least 100 people took test drives at Wiscasset High School on Oct. 11, raising an initial estimate of about $2,000 for the school, according to Wiscasset Ford employee Colleen Bennett.
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South Bristol Fire Chief Mark Carrothers said, "My wife is going to be happy with me tonight," shortly after his name was drawn as the winner of the $1,000 home heating oil raffle recently…
Stephanie Hawke is well-known in the Boothbay region as a hard working, honest and personable member of the business community.
She lives in Boothbay Harbor, with her husband Andrew and her…
When voters read the ballot to elect a new Lincoln County Register of Probate they won’t see any names, but there are three candidates. No major party candidates sought the nomination in June to…
Fall is the perfect season for motorists age 50 and older to sharpen their driving skills and update their driving knowledge by participating in the AARP Smart Driver program.
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The Morris Farm Trust has been gifted with a work of art from “The Rock Paintings” collection (1975-1987) by the late …
Sometimes, something that takes just a moment to do can go a long way, maybe even overseas.
Among the many display tables that lined the inside of the Woolwich Fire Station on Oct. 15 for…
Obituary
Neil T. Greenleaf, 69, of Westport Island, died Oct. 9, 2014 at his residence, surrounded by family.
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Take out your calendars: The dates for the 53rd annual Windjammer Days in Boothbay Harbor will be June 21-27, 2015.
At an Oct. 14 meeting…
Andrea Main’s petition for a school closure vote has the signatures needed to send it on to Wiscasset selectmen to set a date, Wiscasset Town Clerk Christine Wolfe said Oct. 15.
Main turned…
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson is pleased to announce that they will host George Mason as this year’s artist in residence.
As the artist in residence, Mason will spend two…
Obituary
Leonard Schork, 94, of Westfield, New Jersey and Southport, died peacefully on Oct. 11, 2014 at the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains, New…
By the time John Potter became minister of First Congregational Church in Wiscasset in 2003, he already felt a bit of a connection to it. He’d passed by it every summer of his life, when his…
A Wiscasset parent planned to turn in to the town office Oct. 15 a petition for a town vote on the school committee’s plans to close Wiscasset Primary School.
Andrea Main said Wednesday…
At least one Susan Collins, U.S. Senate campaign sign was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, probably overnight Sunday into Monday, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said Oct. 14.
A…
The eighth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Regatta ended much the same way it typically does: with a flourish, some floundering and a whole lot of pulp.
The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and…
Obituary
Wallace H. Brewer Jr., 67, of Boothbay died suddenly on Oct. 11, 2014 at his favorite camping spot in The West Forks after a long struggle with health issues.
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