Living in New York City, Helen Mohney couldn't get to Saturday's Early Bird sale in Wiscasset. But an Instagram she shared that one of the participating businesses, Rock Paper Scissors, sent out…
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Twenty-five percent off is a sale so big, some fireworks will be below cost, Big Al's Super Values and Big Al's Fireworks owner Al Cohen said about his stores' early bird sales on everything, from…
Sawyer’s Way Auction Company is pleased to announce auctioneer Jeff Dowdy has joined his wife Jen to become a REALTOR® team with Keller Williams Realty. Jen has served as a licensed REALTOR® since…
Kirsten Ingram recently joined Newcastle Realty as an associate broker.
Ingram said she found the group of brokers at Newcastle Realty to be a supportive, welcoming, and enthusiastic team…
Visit the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, in Bath to participate in the following upcoming events…
The Bath Antique Sale kicks off its 30th season on Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Bath Middle School at 6 Old Brunswick Road in Bath, Maine.
Fifty dealers of quality country antiques,…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA is excited to announce they will host many of your favorite Damariscotta Farmers' Market vendors inside at the YMCA starting this week.
Beginning…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay has announced receipt of a $6 million National Science Foundation grant that will empower the institute to develop new genetic research…
New and returning vendors have reserved tables at St. Patrick’s Christmas Fair and will sell locally made items on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Cheverus Hall. Cheverus Hall is…
For the fourth year running, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is welcoming visitors back to Gardens Aglow, its festive seasonal celebration. With more than 650,000 LED lights woven through 14 acres…
HALLOWELL – The Maine Tourism Association (MTA) is proud to announce that it will soon begin operating a staffing service for its members to address the workforce shortage in the…
ORONO — The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine Composites Center) received $500,000 from the Maine Technology Institute to form a technology cluster to help…
Although Monday, Oct. 22 is the deadline for submitting political letters to the editor for Election Day 2018, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper will accept paid political…
Meredith White, head of Research and Development at Mook Sea Farm, will speak at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center on Friday, Oct. 12 at 11 a.m.
White’s talk, “Aquaculture…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in September:
Alna:
Spinney, Jeffry Alan to Olson, James G and Olson,…
Wiscasset Public Library
As the daylight hours shrink, it’s time to curl up with a good book during the long fall and winter nights. The Friends of Wiscasset Public Library are offering a wonderful opportunity to stock up…
Along with other towns, Edgecomb is considering its options for implementing the recreational marijuana law voters approved in 2016. The town’s ordinance review committee discussed it Oct. 4.…
UPDATE: This event has been rescheduled to Thursday, Nov. 1.
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District announces its 71st annual Awards Banquet on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 5 to 8:…
Central Maine Power no longer has Alna's support to expand the transmission lines that run through it and some of its neighbor towns. After hearing from CMP's project spokesman, selectmen voted 3-…
Soon, Joe and Lisa McSwain will say goodbye to the high life.
The company they’ve run together for 25 years — Mid-Maine Restoration, founded in 1983 — will keep going, passed on to their…
A field course on old barns will be offered by MSAD #40 to begin on Oct. 16 in Waldoboro. Future classes will be at the barns of class members. The course will be taught by Les Fossel, who will…
The Woolwich select board will meet with the planning board at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15 at the town office to discuss codes and ordinances including the possible regulation of recreational retail…
The sweet, tangy flavor of fresh-pressed apple cider is always an autumn treat and the 1761 Pownalborough Courthouse in Dresden was a perfect setting for Sunday’s cider-pressing sponsored by the…
When a business has been around for 67 years and word comes it’s changing hands, a natural response might be to wonder: Will the name change? Will it provide the same service?
Dusty and Amy…
The grabber is the color scheme of her signs, Carole Jordan said. Brown and pink, the placards for Boothbay Canine Daycare & Boarding are hard to miss…
The wooden sloop Providence docked in Wiscasset Harbor Tuesday for repairs expected to take until late spring. The Providence will require, among other things, new masts and…
Midcoast Conservancy
The New England Forests and Rivers Fund, a conservation program of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, has awarded Midcoast Conservancy a $73,700 grant to assist with construction at Head…
The so far unnamed downtown Wiscasset group focused on promoting the downtown during and after the Maine Department of Transportation’s construction project met at Sarah’s Cafe Sept. 21 to…
When Cornelia Kitfield, highly allergic to bees, would get stung, her doctor would send the rocks flying as he drove up the dirt road to the family’s home in the country in Durham, New Hampshire…
Orono, Maine — Maine fishermen hauled in 110.8 million pounds of lobsters in 2017 with a value of more than $400 million. While still incredibly large, this volume represented a 16…
Lobsterman Mark Jones recently caught two seahorses when hauling his traps – one in Linekin Bay and the other near the Cuckolds. The range of this species is usually the Atlantic coast from South…
“Tour de Farms” is an annual bike visit to Lincoln County farms, now in its 19th year.
There were four separate rides Saturday. The first was a 17-mile family ride, starting and stopping at…
Darling Marine Center
An international team of researchers, including Heather Leslie of the University of Maine, has released a new tool for assessing ocean conservation.
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Marine scientist Karina Nielsen will be at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole, on Monday, Sept. 24, to present a “brown-bag” seminar. Her talk, “Bringing an ocean…
Patti Corscaden, board certified, licensed massage therapist, is expanding her Newcastle practice and offering therapeutic massage at 56 Maine Street in Brunswick. In private practice since 1994,…
A type of blue-green algae, more accurately referred to as a cyanobacteria, has been found in a cove in Damariscotta Lake for the third year in a row. While likely present in many Maine lakes,…
Space is still available in the fall Midcoast Conservancy Timber Frame course at Hidden Valley Nature Center, from Oct. 10-13. The course is a four-day, hands-on experience, where eight students…
Diatoms, sugar kelp, green crabs, lobsters and oysters are iconic organisms on our coast. Their roles in marine ecosystems, their importance as fished and cultured species and their responses to…
Apifera Farm in Bremen is holding a “Misfit Love Day: on Saturday, Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.
The event is an open farm /fundraiser for the nonprofit Apifera Farm in…
University of Maine marine sciences research professor Richard Wahle has been named director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, effective Sept. 1.
He…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in August:
Alna:
Vonfrank, Arlene R. to Vonfrank, Andrew and Vonfrank, Sarah…
Midcoast Conservancy’s Youth Conservation Corps program completed their 2018 season of water quality improvements with a total of 118 best management practices on properties throughout Lincoln and…
Three men have bought the 1852, former Musical Wonder House on Wiscasset's High Street to live in, and they plan to open a tavern further north into the village. Planning board members were…
Two hundred years ago, thousands of Atlantic salmon traveled up Maine’s rivers to lay their eggs each fall. Now, Atlantic salmon are endangered, and there are very few places where they are found…
The flavors are as exotic as the name of the company behind them: Radiant Red Zingerberry, Cosmic Cold Brew, and Night Blooming Jasmine. They’re the offerings of Wild Island, a Boothbay Harbor-…
Lincoln County Gleaners
On two very hot mornings Aug. 6 and 8, the Lincoln County Gleaners trekked out to Clark Farm in Nobleboro to get food for area food banks, churches, libraries, senior citizen homes and senior…
The Twin Villages Business Forum returns to Lincoln County Friday, Sept. 28. The day-long event will take place in the newly renovated Central Lincoln County YMCA in Damariscotta…
It’s here! Lincoln Arts Festival’s three-day event at Hodgdon Yacht Services on Southport Island returns for an eighth year with a reception and show preview from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9.…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce its next Business After Hours Event hosted by Downeast Medicinals, LLC.
The Business After Hours…
Bruce Burnham’s photography exhibit will be on display in the lobby throughout August and September and can be viewed during normal banking hours. The show, at 77 Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor, is…
