The Garden Club of Wiscasset welcomed nine new members at the ice cream social at Squam Creek Farm on Westport Island Aug. 9. Potential members were given information on the club, a tour of the…
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Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
The Lincoln Lodge at 17 Fort Hill St., Wiscasset, home of the local chapter of the Freemasons, sought a certificate of appropriateness from the Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission Aug. 22…
According to a Maine Department of Transportation email Monday, work in Wiscasset’s downtown will focus on sidewalks for the next few days.
Weather permitting, contractor Pike will fine-…
The Parent Program of Mid-Coast Maine, Inc. will be holding its third annual silent auction fundraising event at the Skidompha Public Library, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta. The auction will begin…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library was more crowded with book lovers than usual on Thursday, Aug. 22 when it hosted Ken Gloss of Brattle Book Shop and PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow.”
Gloss was…
With some ledge and the abutment gone from Alna’s Head Tide Dam, project manager Maranda Nemeth said Friday, she can already picture how the water and fish will likely travel the channel the work…
The harvest season is just around the corner and the Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) is inviting the public to share in its bounty as they present their annual Harvest Dinner on Sunday…
Obituary
Mary Johns Medders, 81, of Wiscasset, Maine, formerly of Palatka, Florida and Waycross, Georgia, passed away peacefully on the evening of Aug. 21, 2019 at Cove’s Edge in Damariscotta with her…
Rep. Holly Stover, D-Boothbay, will welcome constituents to attend office hours next month. This is an opportunity for the public to sit down with Stover and hear updates from Augusta, ask…
Boothbay Region Historical Society
The Boothbay Region Historical Society has a summer raffle sure to please anyone from 5 to 95. How would you like to invite seven friends and/or family to join you for a tour of the Boothbay…
Retirees considering returning to work part-time are invited to meet with Maine Department of Labor staff on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will…
For Maine residents with drafty windows and high heating bills, WindowDressers is here to help. WindowDressers’ insulating window inserts fit inside existing windows to let in all the sunlight and…
Ismael Martinez, 12, of Westport Island had a favorite order at Miss Wiscasset Diner, the country-fried breakfast. Then a week after his last visit there, he was on vacation in South Carolina when…
Obituary
On Aug. 18, 2019, Alice Brewer Lee passed away peacefully at the age of 92.
She was born Nov. 23, 1926 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the daughter of Arnold Sr. and Madeleine Auld Brewer. Alice…
Students will soon be heading back to the classroom and the American Red Cross is offering tips to help ensure they have a safe school year.
“We can all do our part to make sure that…
In the nineteenth century, Americans ate and cooked differently than we do today. They stored food without refrigerators or cabinets. Learn how they did it during this special talk and tour,…
Obituary
Constance Reed “Connie” Wright, 99, died peacefully Aug. 7, 2019 at Hospice House in Auburn.
Connie was born Oct. 10, 1919 to H. Chandler Reed and Lulu Foster Reed in West Boothbay Harbor.…
Making Woolwich’s Nequasset Park more Americans With Disabilities Act-accessible will have to wait for funding. The select board and park committee will pursue state matching grants but potential…
The St. Giles basement is filling up fast with great items for the church’s Saturday, Aug. 24 yard sale, silent and live auctions, and homemade pie sale. The offerings include new power tools plus…
The Frances Perkins Center announces a “Last Dollar” Challenge to secure the purchase of the Frances Perkins Homestead. At the Center’s 11th annual Garden Party on Aug. 18, board chair Sarah…
UPDATE: The Maine Department of Marine Resources released this statement Wednesday afternoon about the body recovered in Greenland Cove on Monday:
The Maine Medical Examiner's Office has…
A globally important ocean algae is mysteriously scarce in one of the most productive regions of the Atlantic Ocean, according to a…
Press release
Mung Bean is easily Maine’s oldest exclusively American-made craft store as it celebrates 45 years!
Sue Billings and Steve Madden, the sister and brother team, opened their craft shop in…
Lincoln County Registry of Deeds
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in July:
Alna: Rines, Beverly C. to Rines, Johnathan W. and Rines,…
Announcing a Celebration of Life Service for Arthur Stanley Bolster Jr., and to honor his 68-year marriage to Elizabeth Winkfield Bolster. Service at Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, 125…
A $20 million grant announced today from the National Science Foundation will fund a five-year initiative by Maine science institutes to revolutionize the understanding and management of coastal…
In just one year, the Herbert and Roberta Watson Health Center on LincolnHealth’s Miles campus in Damariscotta has transformed the way that healthcare is delivered in Lincoln County.
The…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County commissioners on Tuesday gave the Sheriff’s Office permission to send officers to two out-of-state training courses in September, one on obtaining evidence from mobile devices, the…
Wiscasset selectmen
Tuesday night, Wiscasset selectmen talked over Dresden’s emergency medical services contract.
Wiscasset EMS Director Dennis Simmons spoke of his concern that Dresden voters did not…
Morris Farm in Wiscasset will host the Knox-Lincoln County Extension Association annual meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at 156 Gardiner Road.
Morris Farm board president and University of…
Dresden selectmen
Dresden selectmen and gravel pit owner Heather Beasley on Tuesday night spoke again about Ballard Road. Earlier Tuesday, Beasley said she placed “No Trespassing" signs blocking off the entrance to…
Numbers mean business, and ours are 28.1 million strong. Since launch in 2012, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper websites have racked up 28.1 million pageviews. In the last 12 months…
While obstetrics nurses specialize in supporting newborns and their moms, many are prepared to use their skills in the event of a community emergency. In June and early July, three incidences…
On Tuesday, Sept. 3, the Woolwich Select Board will revisit its decision to support Central Maine Power’s proposed corridor project. The board heard from corridor opponents and the project…
When Holly Nelson moved to Alna 20 years ago, she wanted the town to have nice gardens like the pristine ones in the last place she lived, Long Island, New York.
She said she and some…
“Unfortunately, the money wasn’t there,” said Corporal Dave Chabot of the Landowner Relations program of Maine’s Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife, about efforts to remove the Minesweeper…
Obituary
Jeffrey Scott Howard, 54, of Indian Road, Wiscasset died Aug. 12, 2019 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.
He was born in Redondo Beach, California, a son of…
Obituary
Capt. Eugene “Casey” F. Walsh Ret., USCG, 102, of Newcastle, passed away peacefully at his home on the morning of Aug. 13, 2019.
Born on Feb. 23, 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, he was the…
Obituary
Gardiner Flood of Wiscasset, passed away on the morning of Aug. 13, 2019 at the MidCoast Hospital in Brunswick, after a long illness. He was born on June 11, 1936, and lived his whole life in…
“Pinch me, pinch me,” exclaimed intern Sophie Manning when her childhood idol came through the door of the Maine State Aquarium. Clad in street clothes, instead of his signature…
Obituary
On Aug. 14, 2019, Carl Johan Hamrin, loving husband and father, passed away at the age of almost 87.
Carl was born on Sept. 26, 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a degree in naval…
The Arts & Yachts Exhibition and Sale had fair winds and sunny skies last weekend, to the delight of participating artists and onlookers.
The Lincoln Arts Festival has been bringing an…
The Wiscasset Newspaper got a different perspective of the towns it covers thanks to Flighttime Inc., a flying club based at Wiscasset Municipal Airport.
Sean Rafter of Bradford Road,…
Lincoln County Courts
Matthew Plummer, 36, of Wiscasset, pleaded guilty to two charges related to a domestic violence assault that led to an eight-hour standoff on Heritage Lane in Wiscasset on Dec. 14 and 15, 2018.…
If you thought you saw Amtrak coming down the rails Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, you weren’t seeing things, except maybe the future.
And the views from aboard were great, according to a…
AUGUSTA – Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is reaching out to help educate the public now that the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles is issuing two different types of driver’s licenses and state…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens presents the 9th annual Heafitz Lecture: Who Will Feed Planet Earth?
On Thursday, Aug. 29, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ ninth annual Ina and Lewis Endowed Heafitz Lecture will explore agriculture and its influence on the earth’s biosphere. The event will be…
It took Wiscasset’s Budget Committee less than 10 minutes to approve the select board’s request to draw $11,502 from the undesignated fund balance to cover overdrafts from the 2018-2019 budget.…
