In celebration of national “Take a Hike” day, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust naturalist Sarah Gladu will lead a hike at Salt Bay Farm in Damariscotta from 2to 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 17.  

Rev. John Hogue, pastor of First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, will reach back into history in his sermon on Nov. 9, as he recounts the story of four chaplains. 

It was another successful Nightmare on Federal Street for Wiscasset Oct. 31 with the annual parade, food and other festivities. Our thanks to photographer Bob Bond of 40 Federal Studio for these moments from the event. 

All First National Bank branches are collecting items for local food pantries throughout the month of November. 

If you would like to help, First National Bank welcomes donations to your local branches. Most-needed items include: canned meats/fish, chili, soup, skillet meals, cereal, canned vegetables, and fruit. 

Bob Mitchell (also known as Robert, Mitchell and Mitch) and his wife Susan Endicott have lived in the Boothbay area for over 50 years. Their first home was on Barters Island back in the late ’70s, then they moved to Sherman Street in Boothbay Harbor until, in 2001, the family relocated to Southport, next to the Jean Thompson house and just across Hendricks Hill Road from the Evelyn Sherman family estate.

On Early Bird Saturday, Nov. 1, the Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop will hold a storewide half-price sale. The shop will open at 6 a.m., three hours earlier than usual, and every item except gift certificates will be on sale at half price all day until the shop closes at 4 p.m.

After that day, a special half-price sale on vintage books will continue through Sunday, Nov. 9.

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is excited to announce the opening of a brand-new 950-foot ADA-accessible trail at Castner Brook Community Forest in Damariscotta. Constructed this fall, the trail begins at Piper Mill Road and offers an inviting shaded pathway through the woods to Castner Brook.

Warren and Sally Foster, married 65 years this month, will be among the first residents at Islebrook Village in Wiscasset.

Ten years after 146 Gardiner Road stopped being Wiscasset Primary School and four years after a senior living facility was proposed, the 105-unit community is looking to open the first or second week of November, after final state inspections, Executive Director Jenalee Hill told Wiscasset Newspaper.

"I really just cannot wait to throw those doors open and welcome everybody home," Hill said.

Coastal Rivers is offering a start-to-finish guide pack basket-making class on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Denny Conservation and Education Center at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta. This class is for all ability levels, from beginner on up.

Midcoast Conservancy will be hosting an outdoor gear sale - featuring used cross-country skis, boots, and poles, snowshoes, and mountain and fat tire bikes - on Nov. 21 and 22, at their Hidden Valley Nature Center, 131 Egypt Road, Jefferson.

Viles Arboretum and the Children’s Discovery Museum are teaming up once again to host the Trail of Treats and Discovery, a family-friendly fall adventure like no other, on Saturday Oct. 25 at Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital Street in Augusta.

A nature journaling workshop is being offered at the Edgecomb Community Church on Sunday, Nov. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m. Kids ages 10 and older are encouraged to join with a parent or caring adult for this two-hour outdoor adventure. During this workshop you will explore nature and your power of observation, while exploring your senses, practicing awareness and understanding about how to take that information and put it into a nature journal using words and sketches.

The Center for Teaching and Learning, a Pre-K–8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an open house on Sunday, Oct. 26, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. All members of the midcoast community are cordially invited to tour the school, meet the faculty, and ask questions about the program. We welcome families with children of all ages to attend and learn about the school. Currently, CTL has openings in grades 1-4 for 2025-26, and openings in grades Pre-K–7 for 2026-27. 

"The Lost Boys" released in 1987, is the second full-length selection by The Cinema Clubhouse, being shown at the Harbor Theater at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. Runtime: (1 hour and 37 minutes). Free!

Movie goers receive a score / ratings card. There will be a post-open mic discussion.

For more information, follow The Cinema Clubhouse on Facebook and Instagram

How detailed should Wiscasset School Department get on each of its goals? The school committee and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson deliberated on that Oct. 8 and worked out some potential answers.

The committee will consider approving the goals in November.

This September was a homecoming of sorts for Meghan (Smith) Rice, who joined the staff of Edgecomb Eddy School teaching third grade. She graduated from Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District schools and while there was a member of National Honor Society, a four-year letter winner in basketball and a Mountain Valley Conference First Team All-Star, among other accomplishments.

There’s a ribbon of warm light at closing time that catches the long harvest table through the window of Treats Bakery in Wiscasset. It calls to mind a Rembrandt painting. I mention this to explain why instead of coming out of the bakery last Friday provisioned with scones and coffees appropriate for a late afternoon snack, I emerged only with a photograph I had taken of a young mother cradling her toddler tenderly at the far end of the table, illuminated by that soft light. The bakery counter had closed while I contemplated the beauty of the moment.

Patten Free Library, Age-Friendly Communities of the Lower Kennebec, and Coastal Maine Regional Broadband together will present a series of three workshops on frauds and scams, with the first event Friday, Oct. 17 at 10 a.m. at the Patten Free Library in Bath.

This first session will be a general overview of scams, red flags and what is happening locally, presented by Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry and Julie Casson, Fraud and Scam Specialist with Coastal Maine Regional Broadband.

The holidays are just around the corner and Boothbay-Wiscasset Regional Adult Education is excited to offer four popular cooking classes in October to tempt the taste buds and perhaps inspire gifts from the kitchen. 

Brave and curious lovers of local history are invited by Lincoln County Historical Association to experience a new event, "Shades of the Past," at the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden. Special evening tours, offered on the hour, beginning at 4 p.m. on the evenings on Oct. 24 and 25 only, will highlight some of the spookier aspects of the building’s rich history.