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Education officials create team to support contact tracing in schools

Alna’s giving tree underway

Alna is carrying on with its annual Giving Tree in the pandemic. Here’s how to take part: In the enclosure outside the town office is a paper tree with wishes attached to it by push pins. Take a...
Lighted Boat Parade & Sparkle Fireworks

Saturday, Dec. 12 This much-loved event, traditionally held during the Harbor Lights Festival, will begin at 6:45 p.m. Decorated vessels – both private and commercial - parade around the inner harbor...
Men’s Night

Wednesday, Dec. 16 Merchants in the Boothbay Region offer super discounts to finish those Christmas lists! Sing some carols - you’ll just have to be really loud what with the masks and all! Details...
Gardens Aglow 2020

Nov. 21 through Jan. 2At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 132 Botanical Gardens Drive, Boothbay. This year due to COVID-19, the event is a driving experience. See the gardens transformed into a...
Eastside Waterfront Park ornament judging

Saturday, Dec. 5 Return ornaments received Nov. 21 to the Eastside Waterfront Park on Atlantic Avenue in Boothbay Harbor in the bag it came in labeled with your name and contact information between...
recipes and food safety tips for Thanksgiving

UMaine Extension answers common T-Day question: How to safely thaw turkey

University of Maine Cooperative Extension has several resources to help prepare a safe and healthy Thanksgiving meal. Before buying that turkey, UMaine Extension associate professor and registered...
Honoring veterans in Wiscasset

“It’s very important to do it, and I’m glad that we’re here and to be able to do it,” Sandra Winters said Veterans Day morning, Wednesday, Nov. 11 near Wiscasset’s town office. Moments later, the...
24-year army veteran passionate about patriotism, family and music

At an early age, Chris Armstead had a special affinity for men in uniform. Growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, his father served in the U.S. Air Force. Also many of his friends’ parents wore...
state must dramatically expand renewable power generation and transmission

Building a renewable future poses daunting task for Maine

A protracted fight over the New England Clean Energy Connect plan to wheel 1,200 megawatts of hydropower from Quebec, through Maine and on to Massachusetts has dominated the airwaves for the last two...
Candy, masks, cars: Wiscasset’s creative Halloween

“Oh, you are so, so scary. You are frightening. I don’t know how close I can get,” Terry Heller, under a witch hat and behind a face shield, told a trick or treater in a Halloween mask Saturday...
Mid-Coast Audubon presents State of the Birds

Mid-Coast Audubon Board and Camden Public Library will host Nick Lund of Maine Audubon in a lively Zoom pictorial portrait of the State of the Birds: Decades of Change. The free online talk on...
Maine Audubon online talk

Thursday, Nov. 19 Watch a free online presentation by Nick Lund of Maine Audubon - State of the Birds: Decades of Change at 6 p.m. Email Julia at the Camden Public Library at jpierce@librarycamden....
United Way of Mid Coast Maine

Lincoln County holiday resources available

United Way of Mid Coast Maine has provided the following listing of holiday resources for Lincoln County: Boothbay Region Food Panty: Thanksgiving and Christmas Boxes for Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor,...
Maine DHHS announces plan to distribute rapid antigen tests for COVID-19

AUGUSTA - The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced today its strategy to distribute an allocation of rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to ensure access for all Maine residents,...

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