It’s mid-May on Sprucehead Island, and Bob Baines and crew are wrapping up their 2023 kelp harvest. Baines farms four acres near the Lower Gangway Ledge, 13,000 feet of line for a haul of about 50…
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Hodgdon Yacht Services is pleased to announce the launch of Boothbay Boat Rental. The boat rental…
Early morning is Jonathan Tindal’s favorite time of day. The Boothbay man, a broker with Tindal & Callahan Real Estate in Boothbay Harbor, can achieve a good work flow then, when his phone…
Summers in Maine are magical. The air is warm, flowers are blooming, grills are sizzling. We move our entire lives outdoors. We take to our gardens, our yards, our patios. And then, there they are…
While Maine typically receives sufficient annual precipitation, the critical time for vegetable production often coincides with…
Bees are keystone organisms, meaning stability in an ecological community significantly depends on the services they provide that environment. Pollination, their primary ecosystem service, is in…
Coastal Rivers is seeking volunteers for three on-going community science initiatives focused on water quality, plus one new program collecting data on rockweed. Coastal Rivers provides technical…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is requesting our community members join us in the 25th anniversary of Wiscasset Community Center, Thursday, June 15 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at WCC, 242…
Boothbay’s breweries reflect the peninsula’s intense support of local businesses. Made with Adams Pond water, local grains and talented brewers, the beers are deeply imbued with a sense of place…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen on May 4 went with the low bidder for the next three years of plowing. Besides the savings, the board cited the job the contractor, Whitefield’s Mike Jewett, did in the 2022-23…
Boaters and shore-side residents along the New England coast have been reporting distress flare sightings for generations. Everyone takes a distress flare sighting seriously even when sometimes…
Be it a labor of love or the know-how that has been passed down over generations, it takes an accomplished group of shipwrights and boat builders with a unique set of skills to restore the wooden…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
FocusMaine is awarding $89,685 to nine Maine aquaculture businesses through their new Propel Aquaculture Mini Grant Fund. This funding will support projects to enable business growth and job…
Wiscasset selectmen
How to charge vendors at Wiscasset’s town-owned piers? Selectmen decided April 18.
Resident James Kochan took issue with the proposal to…
Wiscasset’s planning board Monday night approved a pharmacy that will serve Wiscasset Family Health at 35 Water St.
According to a letter from Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
With the return of the Fishermen’s Forum in person this year, the Maine State Aquarium was invited to attend, bringing our new mobile touch tank. The Sea Bus was…
Interest rates and lower-than-normal inventory led to a single-family existing home sales decline of 16.78 percent in March. According to Maine Listings, 858 homes changed hands last month,…
Spring is in the air, and that means garden time! Organic perennials from Rebel Hill Farm can help create inviting habitat for the natural community on homeowners’ land. Gardeners can come by…
The Department of Marine Resources’ Maine Coastal Program (MCP) and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Municipal Planning Assistance Program (MPAP) are each seeking…
Westport Island selectmen
Maine Department of Transportation was set to return Tuesday, April 18 to the Westport Island-Woolwich bridge that…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
Preschool students at Sheepscot Valley Children’s House in Wiscasset got to meet their virtually “adopted” baby alpaca, Theodora, April 11 at Cape Newagen Alpaca Farm (CNAF). Shortly after…
Frederick “Fritz” Freudenberger joined the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper staff this week as a full-time reporter, according to editor Kevin Burnham.
Freudenberger’s coverage area…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
Wiscasset selectmen
Town Manager Dennis Simmons said Tuesday night, April 4, the $1.3 million in federal funding Wiscasset recently got for the Old Ferry Road culvert project was great, but it and funds the town…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce invites our members and others who might have an interest, to join us for a Business After Hours on Thursday, April 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Bath Ale Works, 681…
Mid Coast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but within the beauty are hazards that can quickly ruin…
creating a community where everyone can feel safe
New Hope Midcoast, the Domestic Violence Resource Center serving Midcoast Maine, is asking everyone to join them in creating a place where people feel safe, supported and included through through…
Annie Wilcox grew up with a strong foundation on the water in the Boothbay region. She spent many summers as a child at her grandparent’s house on Sawyers Island (Bud & Ann Logan), messing…
Bath Savings has been selected to participate in two home-buying assistance programs: Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s (FHLBank Boston) Housing Our Workforce (HOW) program…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
Mark Gimbel is working with Maine Maritime Academy and the captain of schooner Bowdoin to plan three days of special events in Boothbay Harbor. The schooner will depart from the town dock…
Availability of properties for sale continues to be an issue for buyers of single-family existing homes across Maine. According to Maine Listings, Realtors sold 708 homes last month—a dip of 19.4…
As part of the Pendleton family that had Wiscasset’s Pendleton’s Market about 60 years, Jeff Pendleton worked there in high school. He worked at Mason Station power plant in Wiscasset 28 years as…
After Alna selectmen opened two bids March 8 for alewife harvesting, one bidder, the town’s longtime contractor David Sutter, brought up the pandemic and said he “only assumed the town…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
Bob Dunfey, the volunteer race director for The Maine Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay, has announced that Veggies to Table is one of four Maine beneficiaries of this year’s event which will be…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (KLSWCD) is once again sponsoring an annual trout stocking sale for your home or farm pond. We offer two sizes, 4-5” rainbow trout and 7-9”…
Veggies To Table, a Newcastle-based non-profit grow-to-donate farm, has increased their grow space for the upcoming season by adding a new caterpillar tunnel and more fields, said founder Erica…
Water that, for weeks, was sometimes off, is back on and, knock on wood, will stay on, a lawyer representing Whippoorwill Mobile Home Park’s management firm, Maine Real Estate Management (MREM),…
Maine lobster businesses and industry trade associations today…
The 61st annual Windjammer Days will take place Sunday, June 25 through Saturday, July 1, 2023. This year the Friends of Windjammer Days is celebrating our rich population of Maritime…
A Rockland man is interested in transforming the Pyro City Maine building into a restaurant. Edgecomb selectmen received a request from businessman Steve Stinson about fire and sewer…
The Fishermen’s Memorial Committee accepted a $30,000 donation Feb. 28. The money was raised through the revived Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge held last September.
Tuna Challenge Chairman…
This is a short story of an “American Dream.”
At the age of 17, a young Mark Rigas left his homeland of Greece and set off with nothing more than determination and hunger to succeed in…
ROCKPORT - The 48th Maine Fishermen’s Forum concluded over the weekend at the Samoset Resort. Capacity crowds on Friday and a Saturday snowstorm failed to deter attendees nor diminish spirits. The…
