After working in an intensive care unit for undernourished children in Haiti, Brandy Colson knew she wanted to be a nurse.
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Tony C. McKim, President and CEO of The First, N.A. and its parent company, The First Bancorp, recently announced several staff appointments in the bank’s Lincoln…
Mark your calendar! Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay has many opportunities for the public to learn about what its scientists are investigating…
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is hosting five public meetings concerning proposed fishing regulation changes for the 2016 open water and ice fishing seasons.
Each year, IFW…
Jeffrey Gottlieb has been hired by The First, N.A. as vice president, regional manager for Lincoln County.
Gottlieb graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor’s degree…
Cauliflower has come of age as one of the world’s healthiest foods — cooked or raw — and you can find some at the Morris Farm Store this week
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Ariel Johnson decided to go to cosmetology school until she could figure out what direction she wanted to go in as an artist.
“I ended up loving it,” the Wiscasset woman, 24, said July 2,…
There's a little bistro in Damariscotta facing the waterfront, just a ways down from the back entrance of Reny's. It has been there for…
Wiscasset Selectmen
If Desiree Bailey’s idea comes to fruition, the Wiscasset Primary School building will become a holistic health and healing center, salon and day spa attracting clients from around the country.…
Help Wanted
The Boothbay Register is in search of a personable and hardworking person to assist in our front office at 97 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor.
The person will assist customers, answer…
Science On Tap
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) is host of the Science on Tap seminar series at the Newcastle Publick House Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m.
On July 22, the Science…
The Harbor Fest Booth will welcome internationally known resident artist Tony van Hasselt as the featured guest of the week at the Boothbay Farmers Market, Thursday, July 2 from 9 a.m. to noon.…
Deb Boucher makes quilts.
She's also an artist, though she humbly denies it.
Boucher has a studio…
When Sumner and Pam Price Richards moved to Damariscotta in 1985, they had no clue that they would be starting a business that would survive for 25 years.
"I had an idea to open up an old-…
Mark your calendar! The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole marks its 50th anniversary this year.
To celebrate, the center is offering a full line-up of summer…
The Carmolli family have experienced the sweet taste of success for four decades making fudge and taffy. Dave and Pat Carmolli began Downeast Candies in 1974 almost as an afterthought.
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When then 20-year-old Keith Wass took over his ex-wife’s uncle’s hot dog stand in Rockland in 1972, he was studying psychology in college.
The owner of the newest branch of Wasses Hot Dogs…
On Aug. 8 and 9 at Wiscasset Community Center, Wiscasset Rod & Gun Club will hold an event that club president Ed Goud hopes will become an annual one. The half-century-old club will host its…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources encourages all current license holders planning to renew their license online to do so before July 16 when the DMR begins…
It’s become one of the rites of spring, the launching of boats built by students of the Woolwich Central School who are engaged in the Discovery Boatbuilding Program.
On Thursday morning,…
Downeast Dog News has come out with its “Best of the Best” for 2015, where readers vote for the best pet-related places in all of Maine.
Through paper ballots and online, voters choose the…
Wiscasset is losing its town clerk of six years. Christine Wolfe said Friday that her last day on the job will be June 26.
Leaving for the town clerk’s job in…
Noah Oppenheim, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship.
The one-year paid…
While Mainers have been harvesting seaweed for nearly 80 years for a variety of uses and products, in recent years wild harvests have not been able to meet market demand for some species. The…
The Morris Farm Store in Wiscasset has opened for the season with expanded hours. The new hours are Tuesday-Friday from noon to 6 p.m, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The store offers a…
Ron Phillips, founder of Coastal Enterprises (CEI) in Wiscasset, will be retiring as its chief executive officer around July 1, 2016. After nearly four decades, it’s time for the nonprofit’s next…
If you'd like to protect your family and possibly save some serious money, you should consider getting a free Vessel…
The morning of May 19, Robbie Pinkham of Five Islands woke up to a fisherman's nightmare. In his front yard was a blazing fire, consuming 700 lobster traps, buoys, tags, ropes, a boat engine, and…
Dan White, who has served as a sergeant in the Maine Marine Patrol since 2011, has been promoted to lieutenant of Division I, which stretches from…
Spring is finally here and it’s time to dream about tomatoes fresh from your garden. On Saturday, May 30, you can start to make those…
Nearly all the reaction Vincent Thibeault has read and heard about his and wife Sally Thibeault’s plans for an entertainment complex has been positive.
“It’s very promising,” he said May 13…
Tony C. McKim, president and CEO of The First, N.A. and its parent company, The First Bancorp, recently announced several staff appointments in the bank’s Boothbay Harbor and Wiscasset offices.…
Could tenpin bowling be coming to Wiscasset? How about six lanes, along with indoor batting cages, billiards, virtual golf, video gaming, a dance club, an ice cream shop and dining, all in a two-…
Watching fish struggle and succeed in their climb to Nequasset Lake by way of the Nequasset Fish Ladder is an exciting and triumphant experience.
Join the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT)…
Spring is the time of year to start thinking about a safe boating season.
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James Simmons, a 40-year-old lobsterman from Friendship who had all of his commercial fishing licenses suspended in February for two years by the Department of…
Wiscasset Ordinance Review Committee
Light industry would bring jobs to Wiscasset without some of the impact heavy industry can have, members of the town’s ordinance review committee said April 27. The committee and Town Planner…
Fishermen’s Festival
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The 53rd annual Windjammer Days Festival is just a few months away. Work behind the scenes is intensifying for the Friends of Windjammer Days.
“As the festival…
If you are interested in an exciting, in-depth boating safety course, Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering America's Boating Course beginning Tuesday, April 28 from 6…
Coastal Enterprises (CEI) has hired David Wedick of South Portland to become its new chief financial officer, starting May 18.
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The Maine Department of Marine Resources will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, April 14 to solicit input that will inform the development of the Request for…
Wiscasset Waterfront Committee
A paved path along Wiscasset's downtown shoreline would impact the view at Le Garage restaurant and do little to spur job creation in town, the restaurant's longtime owner Cheryl Rust…
Ames True Value Supply in Wiscasset, Renys of Newcastle, King Eider's Pub/Stone Cove Catering of Bristol, and The Animal House in Damariscotta and Westbrook are four of the 32 finalists for the…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will be relocating its headquarters on April 17 from Beech Street in Hallowell to its new location at 32 Blossom Lane in…
There will be a few changes at the Thistle Inn in Boothbay Harbor this summer, according to owner Max Ross.
Ross and his wife, Jennifer, have owned the inn and…
At its 37th annual meeting on March 10, CEI was pleased to announce the election of Ellen Seidman as the new incoming chairman of its board of…
Tony Bickford, formerly the chef at the Thistle Inn in Boothbay Harbor, is opening his own restaurant in Wiscasset.
Bickford, who is…
The Wiscasset School Committee on March 26 heard and denied its first employee grievance. The panel took the vote denying the grievance after a closed-door session at Wiscasset High School.
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