Join the volunteer team at the Owls Head Transportation Museum by becoming a tour guide, or just learn more about our collection. Get to know our world-class collection of ground vehicles,…
Work
Clay Adams, a 24-year insurance veteran, has joined J. Edward Knight Insurance. Adams’ experience includes 10 years of handling complex insurance claims for major…
Newcastle Chrysler owner Randall Miller and his co-workers have been awarded the Customer Experience Elite Dealer Award for the second time in two years.
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Rene Cloutier, a 21-year veteran of the Maine Marine Patrol, has been promoted to major.
“Major Cloutier has earned…
The Commission to Study the Effects of Coastal and Ocean Acidification on Commercially Harvested and Grown Species on Thursday presented its report…
Painting pictures since the age of 10, Schuyler Fairfield thought he might do it for a living. But on the Wiscasset waterfront, near the 1800s building his father George Fairfield bought from Hood…
Darling Marine Center
Timothy Miller, laboratory manager at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, has been selected to receive the 2015 Outstanding Professional Employee Award…
Julie Cromwell with Cromwell Coastal Properties in Wiscasset has been awarded the Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) designation by the Seniors Real Estate Specialist Council of…
It seems the Damariscotta River has a wondrous blend of the perfect water temperature and right amount of nutrients to grow the world’s most renowned oyster.
The Eastern oyster, grown in the…
For the third straight year, Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources increased in overall value and generated over one-half billion dollars for the state’s…
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
On Feb. 24, nearly 30 Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce members gathered at Lincoln County Healthcare’s Miles Hospital conference room to…
For the third year in a row, and only the third time ever, Maine lobster fishermen landed over 120 million pounds with a record overall value of $456,935,346,…
The invisible world of marine microbes will be revealed through a photographic art exhibit at Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery during the month of March.…
If you are like Phil Brooks of Southport, you probably think it a fairly safe bet that the F/V Westward, still moored in Boothbay Harbor, isn’t going anywhere. Or at least not anywhere…
The Boothbay Fire Department recently hosted an event for firefighters at the fire station in Boothbay.
Roger Audette of Pine Point Fire Training & Consulting came to Boothbay on Jan. 21…
Darling Marine Center
University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck is part of an international team that has unlocked an underwater time capsule in the North Pacific that has been monitoring the climate for…
FARMS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing area students and their families closer to local agriculture and healthy eating, has recently hired Youth…
The First Bancorp recently announced that Tony C. McKim has assumed the responsibilities and title of president and chief executive officer of the company and its…
The Morris Farm in Wiscasset, a working farm and education center that promotes sustainable agriculture and stewardship, and Chewonki, an environmental education organization that…
With the near record snowfall Maine has had this winter, it’s no wonder that news stations have been warning people about roofs collapsing under all that weight. One news station stated that a…
Austin Bonang was in a high chair watching an episode of “Sesame Street” when his mother Naomi Bonang drew stick figures of Ernie and Bert. He took over and turned the figures into ones much…
With Radio Shack closings once again making headlines, local franchisee Russell Brackett confirmed that his stores, in Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta, will continue operating.
The…
Nick Erickson is doing something many have dreamed about, but for any number of reasons, never did.
Eri…
Paul Tunkle grew up Jewish in the Bronx. Now he has a home and 38 acres of Dresden woodlands, and on Sunday, Feb. 1, the Episcopal Bishop of Maine will install him as priest of St. Philip’s…
Come Tuesday, June 23, we'll be seeing visiting SchoonersAmerican Eagle, Heritage, Alert and Bowdoin, along with local schooners Eastwind, Lazy Jack sailing in Linekin…
From buying clubs to supermarkets accounts, the surge in demand for locally grown products invites new wholesaling opportunities for Maine farmers during a time when the prices of foods “from away…
Six hours into a 12-hour shift, LincolnHealth Emergency Department Nurse Eric Duffy, RN, has seen seven patients; the oldest 88 years old and the…
Weather Forecast
Update: The winter storm that made its way up the coast has arrived in Lincoln County, and will likely stick around until early Wednesday morning.
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Growing up outside Boston, Robert McFetridge would listen to the police scanner his father, a Millis selectman, had at home. The traffic on the scanner sparked an interest in becoming a dispatcher…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Thomas and Kathleen Bryant said the Wiscasset Planning Board’s vote Monday reapproving a project on JB’s Way was exactly what the couple expected to happen.
But they are not done trying to…
After almost 11 months of opening up the ceiling and replacing walls and floor to expose and enhance the beauty of the building they bought last March, Alison Evans and…
A Wiscasset couple is claiming the town broke state law and the Maine and U.S. Constitutions in handling a proposed addition to a storage building on JB’s Way.
Thomas and Kathleen Bryant…
On Dec. 4, Dr. Beth Orcutt and Dr. Graham Shimmield left Costa Rica for a 14-hour journey into the Pacific Ocean to study the Dorado Outcrop, located near where two tectonic plates, the Cocos and…
Department of Marine Resources
Although the striped sea bass population isn't in danger, plans are on the table to keep it that way.
The Maine Department of Marine…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Wiscasset Selectmen’s Vice Chairman Ben Rines Jr. on Tuesday night proposed a ballot question to pursue the closure of Wiscasset Municipal Airport. He withdrew the motion after board members and…
Maine Department of Marine Resources
The Maine Department of Marine Resources is asking smelt fishermen and anyone else interested in rebuilding this fishery to help the state take an…
Wiscasset town government
The duties that Sue Varney carried out for many years as Wiscasset’s assessors’ agent will not necessarily go to one person. In a post on the town website at www.wiscasset.org on Dec. 31,…
Maine Listings, on Dec. 22, reported a 9.85 percent decline in sales of single-family existing homes in November. The median sales price (MSP) dipped 1.43 percent…
A meeting hosted by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to discuss an addendum to the interstate striped bass fishery management plan recently approved by the…
On Wiscasset Assessor’s Agent Sue Varney’s final day on the job Friday, the Wiscasset woman took a long lunch and left work early. She also came in late that morning, she said.
“Oh, she’s…
The boys from the south who ran the Lighthouse Lobster Shack at the Heritage Village in Wiscasset are at it again.
Robert Harris and…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Recent gas prices excepted, cost drops can be hard to find. But Wiscasset got two good pieces of financial news Tuesday night: Bids on sewer work came in on the low side, and a generator for the…
With the support of U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, the Senate and House Appropriations Committees have reached an agreement on the Fiscal Year 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill that…
Holiday Season
Brewers Trees and Wreaths
Location: 475 Back Narrows Road, Boothbay
Phone: 207-633-4887
Hours: 7 days…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
This is an important season to the economy of our community. So make sure to take advantage of the local businesses who have supported us in many ways through the year and that we in turn give…
Colonel Joe Fessenden, who began his career in the Maine Marine Patrol in 1975, will retire in January after 40 years enforcing Maine’s marine resources laws while building relations with the…
Maine would pursue a broad strategy to combat ocean acidification that includes greater monitoring of marine ecosystems, reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will be conducting an informational meeting to discuss an Addendum to the interstate striped bass fishery management plan…
Retired U.S. Marine Richard Bailey of Dresden has crossed over the old Richmond-Dresden bridge so often, he figured he and wife Faith Bailey should come out Friday morning and see the ribbon cut…
Alna selectmen
Hagar Enterprises of Damariscotta wasn’t Alna Fire Chief Mike Trask’s preference for the town’s snowplowing contractor this year. He publicly favored hiring back the last contractor, Hanley…
