Nursing homes are the most highly regulated industry in Maine, with everything from the distance between beds and windows to what items can be laundered together specified and…
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If you're looking for a good overland workout, try traversing the Schmid Preserve-River Link Trail System. On one juncture, it stretches five miles from Edgecomb to Dodge Point Preserve in…
An underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, despite…
Lincoln County Superior Court
A couple is denying neighbors’ claims that the pair have been overfeeding wildlife at their Bristol home. They have not been leaving corn around, nor using flash cameras at night, according to the…
Good food, good music, and keeping it local are what the upcoming Farmers’ Feast Dinner and Dance event is all about, according to …
Longtime Wiscasset resident Doris Pendleton, 85, is one of Wiscasset Senior Center’s newer members. She joined a couple of years ago, because she hates eating alone, she said.
“And I like to…
Obituary
Joseph Bruce Merton, 93, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to the late Bentley…
A graveside service for Georgia Norwood Emerson, who died Sept. 20, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Evergreen Cemetery, Barters Island Road, Boothbay.
A gathering of family and…
A volunteer team from the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA) and L.L. Bean Freeport store cleaned up the Western Cuckolds Island off Boothbay Harbor. On a crisp, blue-sky, late…
An N.C. Hunt Corp. pickup truck on Wiscasset’s Main Street Friday morning struck a car, starting a chain-reaction, four-vehicle accident near the post office Friday morning, Wiscasset Police…
Fall job fair season is underway around Maine, providing an opportune time for job seekers looking for work. The Maine Department of Labor’s network of 12 CareerCenters will be sponsoring and/or…
Authorities on Oct. 1 learned of a Sept. 27 accident that put a Whitefield man’s pickup truck in the woods off Wiscasset’s Route 1 near Norm’s Used Cars, according to a Wiscasset Police Department…
Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
Wiscasset’s older properties are part of the town’s beauty and Maine’s history, members of the new Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission said. They are looking forward to helping maintain…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The Boothbay Register's…
The public is invited to join with the Quaker (Friends) community at the Midcoast meeting on Sunday, Oct. 4 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the…
The burgeoning coastal marine economy came into the spotlight on Tuesday, Sept. 29 during a stop in Lincoln County on Speaker Mark Eves’ statewide jobs tour.
Eves joined a…
Paul L. Griffin, Jr., 44, an elver fisherman from Waldoboro, was sentenced on Sept. 28, in Lincoln County Superior Court to a jail term of…
Harvest Supper
On Saturday, Oct. 3, Dresden Historical Society will host its annual Harvest Supper at Dresden Elementary School with two seatings; the first at 5 p.m. and the second at 6:…
At the start of the full agenda at the Lincoln County Democrats’ Sept. 23 meeting, Committee Chairman Jim Torbert reminded those…
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard a contract to repair a tugboat.
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard President Eric Graves announced Sept. 30 that a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 45-…
The Morris Farm Store will be transitioning into fall hours beginning Friday, Oct. 2. The store will be open Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta
Autumn: When pumpkins fall like leaves in the Midcoast.
When wood and aluminum and fiberglass boats are put away for the winter and pumpkin boats instead dot the Damariscotta River, it’s…
Open Creamery Day
At Fuzzy Udder Creamery in Whitefield, there is a special focus on being local.
The sheep, whose milk is turned into yogurt and cheese, can be found outside next to the goats who provide the…
Obituary
John W. Howard died peacefully in Vero Beach, Florida, on Sept. 17, 2015, from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure, which he combated with…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association is having a Stewardship Day at the Griggs Preserve in Newcastle, from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Licensed forester and licensed arborist, Tish…
Lisa Evans and Tim Smith have been growing microgreens in their greenhouse in Roslindale, Massachusetts, since January, ever since Evans…
The Lincoln County Historical Association will host Jim Leamon at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, in the court room of the…
The same doctors and nurses will treat patients. The same staff will greet people at LincolnHealth Hospital and Lincoln Medical Partners practices, but over the next year, the name of the parent…
The Edgecomb Community Church, UCC, is in the process of forming a team to walk the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Brunswick on Saturday, Oct.…
The Wiscasset Middle High School varsity boys soccer game that was scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2, will now be played on Thursday, Oct. 1.
The girls varsity soccer game will be played first on…
The Lincoln Home welcomes the public to join former lighthouse keeper Ernest DeRaps from 3 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5.…
The Portland contractor reinforcing the piers of the Nequasset Bridge spanning Route 1 in Woolwich will begin the final phase of project next week.
Greg Scott, president and project manager…
Obituary
Clyde W. Nightingale of Boothbay Harbor died peacefully with family by his side on Sept. 1, 2015.
He was born to Clyde and Beatrice (Gray) Nightingale on Dec. 11, 1934, in Grindstone, Maine…
The town of Wiscasset has been awarded a Coastal Communities Grant from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Maine Coastal Program. This…
The political season may have gotten off to a bad start in Woolwich.
It began last week when the town office received a complaint that David King Sr. had put out his political signs too…
Obituary
Katherine Jane Harrington, 31, of Boothbay, died unexpectedly at her home on Sept. 24, 2015.
She was born April 14, 1984, to Linda Giles and Donald Harrington. She graduated from Boothbay…
Alna Selectmen
People in Alna get to be treasurer by living there and getting elected. But that could change in 2017 if voters in 2016 agree to make it a hired job that people in and outside Alna can seek.
…
Students who helped set up a classroom for a teacher who has been fighting cancer, and others who helped with last summer’s unpacking at Wiscasset Elementary School, had the attention of the…
The Coastal Humane Society is teaming up with Petco of Topsham to host Fall in Love!, a mega adoption weekend to celebrate Petco’s 50th Anniversary. The event, Oct…
Boothbay Charities Classic 2015
Handicapped, celebrity and Boothbay area golfers joined together at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club on Saturday, Sept. 26, to raise money for Special Olympics Maine.
Taking to the course…
October is just around the corner, the evenings are drawing in, and all over Maine craftspeople and artists are preparing for…
The Lincoln County Animal Shelter has received a Belvedere grant from the Maine Community Foundation in the amount of $10,000.
…
Hope Gordon from "Wind Over Wings," was a presenter during a September meeting of the Garden Club of Wiscasset.
The club's October program is "The Wiscasset Gardens of Gertrude and Frances…
BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews from Station Boothbay Harbor, the Coast Guard Cutters Campbell and Ocracoke, and Air Station Cape Cod saved two people from their sunken…
Any guesses who the lone bidder for a 1.5 acre of town-owned property in Boothbay was?
PGC5, LLC’s $275,000 bid was the only one.
PGC5 is located in Boothbay. The corporation also owns…
Lincoln County Superior Court
A New Hampshire woman claims she was at Hotel Pemaquid in New Harbor last July when her boyfriend took a photo of her, then she slipped on a stair tread and became permanently injured.
Anita…
This coming weekend will mark 25 years for the Boothbay Charities Classic. Kicking off the weekend on Friday, Sept. 25, is the lobster bake and silent auction beginning at 4 p.m. and the live…
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) is once again teaming up with Kenneth Kortemeier of the Bristol Folk School to offer two great woodcraft workshops at HVNC. Beginners and experienced woodworkers…
Wiscasset School Committee
If costs hike for Wiscasset schools next year, School Committee Chairman Steve Smith said he would rather raise the budget than cut it. He would also consider increased spending to benefit…
Maine-OK Enterprises, Inc. has sold the Wiscasset Newspaper's office at 47 Gardiner Road to The First NA.
Expect the same coverage of municipal, school, sports, business, church, human…
