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• AARP scam alert: Door-to-door sales scams

  

  Summer is officially here which means door-to-door sales crews are too. But buyer beware, what they’re selling isn’t always legit. Be cautious anytime a stranger comes knocking, especially if the...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  The next public supper will be Wednesday , July 20. Doors open at 4:30. The meal will start at 5 p.m. The menu is carrot soup, salad, herb bread, baked haddock, baked potato wedges, broccoli, and...
• From the editor

  Phew, that’s over!

  

  In addition to putting items on our websites 365 days a year and gathering news for print 52 weeks a year, we also plan, execute and publish five special publications from January through late May/...
• From the assistant editor

  Week 26

  

  We are halfway through another year’s weekly editions, as the “Issue 26” on the front page denotes. I don’t take too much stock of annual milestones, as in this line of work and maybe yours, we look...
• ’Round Town

  Windjammer Days, part 2

  

  There is an old saying, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” It seems that is a statement I may have heard from my grandmother of Irish ancestors when referring to the “Lightning Glider”...
• Joe’s Journal

  Halftime in America

  

  The solstice passed last week on Tuesday, June 21 at 5:13 a.m. EDT. We are halfway to 2023. Was it just yesterday when I put the snow shovels back in the garage and wheeled the lawn mower from under...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Mystery of a 10 p.m. Late June Wood Thrush Call

  

  At 10 p.m. on June 27, while out walking the dog, we very clearly heard a single, rather loud nocturnal flight call of a wood thrush overhead in the dark. Hearing any bird calling as it flies over at...
• letter to the editor

  Thank you voters

  Dear Editor: I thank all who supported me in my run for selectman for the town of Wiscasset. I am grateful to all the Wiscasset voters who supported me in my campaign for selectman. During my...
• letter to the editor

  Community surveys on broadband use

  Dear Editor: The towns of Dresden, Wiscasset and Woolwich have been working collaboratively on the issue of expanding broadband services in the three towns. To improve the knowledge of current...
• Where It’s At

  New Oyster Bar at Boothbay Craft Brewery ... by Brother Shucker

  

  It’s really an experience, eating oysters … they are cool and soft and taste like the sea. Delicate morsels to be savored. Occasionally I will squirt some fresh lemon on one, but I tend to be a...

• Sen. Susan Collins on Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision: ‘Ill-considered action will further divide the country’

  

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Susan Collins issued this statement following the release of the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: The...

• Gov. Mills: ‘My veto pen will stand in the way of any effort to undermine, rollback, or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine

  

  Maine Governor Janet Mills issued the following June 24 statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade:“This decision is a fundamental assault on women’s rights and on...

• Maine Senate President Jackson, Senate Majority Leaders Vitelli and Daughtry react to Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade

  

  AUGUSTA – This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, officially overturning the abortion rights affirmed in the case of Roe v...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, July 6. Menu is strawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 for...
• From the editor

  Welcome to Windjammer Days!

  

  Windjammer Days has been the Boothbay region’s summertime drawing card for 60 years. Despite its being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the now week-long festival honoring our boat-building...
• From the assistant editor

  Great day

  

  Especially in the warmer months when more events happen, we cover them every week, each important for its cause, attendees’ enjoyment, or often both. One in Wiscasset Friday had a lot going for it –...
• Joe’s Journal

  A Modest Proposal revisited

  

  Last week, this column chided some major newspaper chains for eliminating and cutting back on opinion pages, including my favorites, called letters to the editor and op-eds. We argued that those...
• ’Round Town

  Windjammer Days

  

  Lonny Sisson (may he rest in peace but not far from croquet and golf) landed in Maine early in life. When he started a family, producing income became a paramount concern. He was a likable chap and...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  The next public supper is Wednesday, July 6. The menu will be strawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 for...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Five Easy-to-Learn Wild Bird Sound Imitations

  

  In our modern age of technology, more and more people are tempted to just use an app like Merlin (from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) to identify the bird sounds they hear. But if you really...
• From the Maine Senate

  Protecting Mainers from price gouging

  

  Soaring gas prices are hitting us and so many of our friends and neighbors hard. The fact is, most of us rely on gas to power our cars, and we rely on our cars to get us where we need to go. Public...
• letter to the editor

  A special thanks to the voters

  Dear Editor: I want to thank the residents of House District 48 in Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor, Edgecomb, Southport, South Bristol and Westport Island for voting for me in the June 14 primary election...

• AARP scam alert: Car rental scams

  

  For the second year in a row, sticker shock – especially with rental cars – is greeting summer travelers. Reduction in fleet sizes during the pandemic and supply chain issues have once again created...
• Salt ’n Spar

  Let’s consider abstract pictures

  

  Abstract photography can be a lot of fun, that is taking a picture of something ordinary that looks well, extraordinary. Over the years, I have taken many different images that have had people...

• AARP scam alert: Student debt relief scams

  

  School is out for the year, but for millions the bills keep on coming. More than 43 million Americans are paying off student loans and every one of them is eager to do so as quickly as possible....
• From the U.S. House of Representatives

  Kids shouldn’t have to beg Congress to keep them safe

  

  Last week, I received a letter from an 8-year-old constituent of mine about the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children around her age were gunned down in their classroom. Her words,...
• From the editor

  Graduation observations

  

  Boothbay Region High School Principal Tricia Campbell said it … and said it well … when she praised senior class advisor Allan Crocker during the graduation ceremony, and mentioned that the staff...
• From the assistant editor

  Celebrate

  

  Going through pictures the other day brought me back to a 1970s Christmas parade at Disney World, plus harness racetracks and horsemen, and bowling centers and awards banquets, each trip or other...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Elegant Puffin Relative, the Razorbill

  

  Once or twice a summer, we have the good fortune of riding on the Hardy Boat out of New Harbor, Maine, to Eastern Egg Rock, five miles offshore. The stars of the show are, of course, the Atlantic...
• ’Round Town

  Morgan

  

  The recent annual graduation celebrations remind us of the same events we experienced with our own daughters, Megan and Morgan. We recall with fondness the festivities at school and then later at...
• Joe’s Journal

  A modest proposal

  

  The sun is shining, the temperature is just right, our rhododendrons exploded in a blaze of color, and our village streets are seeing dozens of Saturday night strollers. Restaurants are opening,...

• Garden Club of Wiscasset

  

  The GCW held its annual meeting at the Maine Tasting Center Educational building on June 2 from 2 to 4 p.m. Over 30 members enjoyed a lovely tea luncheon. Also in attendance was Linda Redman,...
• letter to the editor

  Maine’s 111-year-old record still standing

  Dear Editor: Little has changed after another year of global warming headlines. Maine’s record high temperature of 105°F, set in North Bridgton on July 10, 1911, is now one hundred and eleven years...

• Wiscasset Senior Center

  The next public supper will be Wednesday, July 6. The menu will be strawberry soup, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and ice cream cake. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Call 882-8230 to...

• AARP scam alert: Western Union refund deadline

  

  If you lost money to a scam that involved wiring money through Western Union between Jan. 1, 2004, and Jan. 19, 2017, you have until July 1 to file a claim for a refund under a settlement between the...
• From the editor

  Go get it, grads!

  

  Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School and Wiscasset Middle High School 2022 graduates. You’ve made it through 13 years of schooling, the last two having been perhaps the most tumultuous...
• From the assistant editor

  The new in news

  

  Ever wonder why, in our print edition, you are sometimes reading about what Wiscasset selectmen or maybe the school committee were set to take up Tuesday, two days before the date on the newspaper?...
• ’Round Town

  Lakeview memories

  

  It’s weird sometimes what bubbles up in the wake of tragedy. The “Beach Cove” fire, as awful as it was, caused me to recall my times at “The Lakeview Motel” where I spent a couple years, off and on,...
• A Bird’s Tale

  When Two Bird Species Masquerade as One

  

  Imagine a theoretical case in which two bird species looked exactly alike. Your first question would probably be, “How would anyone know that they are different species?” Your second question might...
• Joe’s Journal

  The Virginia is born

  

  On Saturday, a sailboat was launched from the shore just a few blocks north of Bath Iron Works, where the Navy’s destroyers are born. As thousands held their breath and a quartet of buzzing drones...

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