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AARP scam alert: Banking imposter scams

One of the most nefarious scams today is bank impersonation. Money stolen through these schemes is rarely recoverable, so it’s particularly important to be aware of this scam and share what you know...
A Bird’s Tale

Mysterious Visitors From Far Away Shores

It sometimes seems hard to believe that so many mysteries still remain within the natural world, including within the most well-known group of wild creatures: birds! But new discoveries of all sorts...
From the editor

Interact, Boothbay Lights and snow

Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School Rotary Interact Club for raising $1,000 for the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston in late October. It was a great idea to have the popular “...
From the assistant editor

Chances are

As Maine forecasts never (read, “often”) need tweaking or fully changing in the days and hours leading up to an event, I am moderately comfortable at press time Tuesday, Saturday night’s rain should...
’Round Town

Moon

I suspect, over the years, in one form or another, that almost everyone has some experience with the moon. We all got a dab of lunar learning in school. You know – waning and waxing, crescent, full,...
Joe’s Journal

Remember the Flexible Flyer?

In case your TV remote misfired over the weekend, as you switched between the dozens of football games, you might have seen a commercial that brought a big smile to many of us who still remember how...
Maine House District 47

Net Zero

One of Maine's Climate Action Plan Goals is to "Reduce Maine’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions" and help Maine achieve its Net Zero Goal. https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-is-net-...
letter to the editor

Reflections on transparency and WMHS principal public hearing

Dear Editor: Thank goodness Ms. Gina Stevens requested a public process with the Wiscasset Superintendent and School Committee. Otherwise, we would not have been privy to the wild laments and four...
AARP scam alert: PACT Act veterans scam

In August of 2022 the Veterans Administration (VA) began the largest expansion of benefits in its history with the enactment of the PACT Act. The Act, which compensates military personnel and...
Wiscasset Senior Center

The next Public Supper will be Wednesday, Dec. 20. Menu will include black bean soup, rolls, salad, roast beef, mashed potato with gravy, green beans, and mocha chocolate cake. Cost is $10 for...
A Bird’s Tale

The Twisted History of the Turkey’s Name

The two most well-known birds in the world would have to be—no, not Steller’s sea-eagles, albatrosses, or hummingbirds—but two species that have probably become rather mundane in most of our...
From the editor

Co-champs 50 years ago

Thanksgiving 1973 was a great memory. My 30 teammates and I were extra thankful that day as we had just completed a championship football season – being crowned co-champions in Class D. It was the...
From the assistant editor

Take it outside

Are you part of the last generation of kids who were outside from about daybreak to near dark? If that was you working a paper route on bike or foot, and/or playing ball, hopscotch, jacks, and jump...
Joe’s Journal

We are blessed

Most of us will soon sit down to the traditional Thanksgiving repast in a few hours. It is a special day set aside for family, food and friendship. As we try not to slop too much gravy on the spuds...
’Round Town

The Kyrenia Ship

Some projects are so vast and expansive it’s impossible to imagine. Such is the case for the massively detailed 400-page book “The Kyrenia Ship” edited by Susan Wormer Katzev (Southport) and Helena...
Wiscasset Senior Center

The next Public Supper will be Wednesday, Dec. 6. Menu will consist of white bean and sausage soup, garlic bread, salad, baked ziti, and pumpkin bread pudding. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-...
AARP scam alert: Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams

The holiday deals have already begun, but buyer beware – not all of those great deals you see online are legit. Because if the online shopping season has started it means that online scam season has...
Westport Island updates

Well, apparently it's winter! That was (too) quick. Firewood donations: The Town of Westport Island is accepting donations of cut, dry, ready-to-burn firewood to make sure all our neighbors stay...
A Bird’s Tale

Good News From Warm Climes

Many long-time readers of this column will remember that we have an abiding interest in the islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire—three islands off the Venezuelan coast that were historically once...
From the editor

Now what?

Using reporter Fritz Freudenberger’s lead question in his article on the CSD board of trustees meeting story this week regarding the aftermath of the Nov. 7 vote where voters turned down the two...
’Round Town

Reflections ... again

I hope my obsession with reflections is not driving people over the edge. It’s just that I am totally captivated by how things are transformed by their appearance in water. My interest in this...
Joe’s Journal

A lost veteran

Last weekend, we celebrated Veterans Day, a time set aside to honor those who wore the uniform. In our little corner of God’s great geography, we saw towns and civic groups host vets while others...
letter to the editor

Now or never

Dear Editor: Our “leaders” are destroying our future. The "American Dream" has been replaced with a dystopian reality. Trust in our government is at a new low and most believe our country is on the...
AARP scam alert: Online shopping scams

Social media has become a dangerous marketplace. Scammers are great at creating slick ads and professional looking websites and for minimal cost they can force them into your feed. According to the...
Wiscasset Senior Center

The next Public Supper will be Wednesday, Dec. 6. Menu will include white bean and sausage soup, garlic bread, Salad, baked ziti, pumpkin bread pudding. Cost $10 members, $12 non-members. Additional...
State reports 1.3 million affected by massive data breach

Mainers are waking up this morning to news of a massive data breach that, according to the Nov. 9 notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office, has affected 1.3 million people. The breach is...
From the editor

Be well and enjoy the season

I caught a rare cold this week – not surprising since it has hit a few of my office mates – but hopefully our readers haven’t gotten a cold, the flu, the dreaded COVID-19 virus, or any other fall/...
’Round Town

Time

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and pets of all makes and models, allow me to introduce “Leica,” our almost 3-year-old Labradoodle. She is full of beans, lots of energy, chases anything that...
Joe’s Journal

PBR: a good guy, a great Dad

For the last week, Maine has been in the national news, and it was not because of our beautiful fall colors, our rugged coastline, or our delicious lobster. We all know it had to do with an incident...
letter to the editor

In support of Gina Stevens

Dear Editor: As a neighbor and friend of Gina Stevens, the current principal of the Wiscasset Middle High School, I was dismayed last week to learn of her being put on paid administrative leave. I...
Salt ’n Spar

When ‘Kings and Savages Ruled’

Let’s take a few moments and revisit “A Royal Tragedy – When Kings and Savages Ruled,” the melodramatic novel set in Wiscasset during the Victorian era as told by Nat Wilder Jr. and issued by...