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Hannaford donates $750,000 to COVID-19 response efforts

AARP state scam alerts: COVID-19 and scammers

The world is rallying to combat the spread of COVID-19. People are looking for guidance to better protect themselves. But lurking in the shadows are scammers seeking to take advantage of this...
Healthy Kids observing Child Abuse Prevention Month

This April, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Healthy Kids, Lincoln County’s parenting resource center, reinforces the role that each person plays in ensuring that children, families and entire...
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Animal House creates two funds

The Animal House, a holistic pet suppy store with locations in Westbrook and Damariscotta, have created two new funds: “Sheltering-in-Place,” which helps provide Animal House food and supplies for...
UNE, Bigelow, DMR and others to share research grant to study impacts of climate change on lobsters

The University of New England will share an $860,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with Hood College in Maryland, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and the Maine Department of...
‘American Pickers’ to film in New England

Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and their team are excited to return to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont! They plan to film episodes of the hit series American...
‘heartening to see dental practices in Maine step up like they have’

Dental practices throughout Maine donate personal protective equipment

The Maine Dental Association has submitted the following statement: A number of dental practices throughout Maine have donated personal protective equipment to their local hospitals,...
Bureau of Parks and Lands announces steps to help slow the spread of coronavirus

Popham Beach among State Parks closed due to overcrowding

Effective Friday, March 27, at 12:01 a.m., the following Midcoast and Southern Maine coastal State Parks and beaches are closed until April 8: Reid State Park, Popham Beach State Park, Fort Popham,...
Making it home from Mexico

For Nikki and Jimmy MacDonald of Boothbay Harbor, life in Oaxaca, Mexico, was the beginning of a new adventure. “We’d been there for about two months and planned to stay indefinitely,” said Nikki...
From counting Woolwich alewives to offering comic relief in pandemic

Andrea Smith has been getting looks when she drives her Subaru Forrester lately. “Just some big smiles from other drivers going by in passing.” Smith has been a Woolwich alewife counter every May...
Wiscasset’s Vanessa Dunn navigates college, travel in pandemic

The coronavirus is affecting everyone's life right now. With stores, schools, and more closing, everyone is coming to terms with our new reality. Life as a college student right now has been a...
‘Solidarity’ in the ringing: Wiscasset villagers take bells in hand

Social distancing had a ring to it in Wiscasset Village Sunday. A lot of them: From a cowbell to Christmas ones, bells rang out at noon in the coronavirus spring. Helen Russell and son Ben, 4,...
‘A way to be together’: Wiscasset villagers, churches to ring bells at noon Sunday; other area volunteer efforts emerge

From fundraising for families, to village bell-ringing from porches and churches, and the new group Alna Cares, area residents are finding ways to connect and to help one another through the...
Dewey defeating coronavirus through laughter

A “sumo wrestler” had a unique perspective March 18 about the world-wide heath crisis known as the coronavirus. He held a multi-colored sign near the Boothay Harbor Hannaford’s entrance stating “...
‘Uncharted territory’: Wiscasset area churches adjust for COVID-19

Rev. Josh Fitterling won’t be all alone in First Congregational Church of Wiscasset when Sunday service gets recorded due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Music minister Linda Adams and a partial choir will...
Change of plans: Pandemic fails to stop Wiscasset woman’s 90th birthday party

Family, friends, and members of the North Woolwich Methodist Church (NWMC) had planned to surprise a Wiscasset woman on her 90th birthday with a party at the church. As the day approached, the...
Courses being charted for 58th Windjammer Days

There are many additions to this year’s Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days & Tall Ships Festival in celebration of Maine’s Bicentennial. This year, the dates are Sunday, June 21 through Monday, June...
Canceled: Benefit pasta supper, raffle at WES

Friday, March 27 Canceled: The Wiscasset Partners In Education (PIE) will host a benefit pasta supper and raffle drawing at Wiscasset Elementary School, 83 Federal St., from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Mac and...

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CANCELED: Conservation District extends plant sale order deadline

Maine Health Care Association launches intergenerational online effort to reach long term care residents