Boothbay region native Stanley R. Tupper III was one of two attorneys recently honored by the Maine Justice Foundation. Tupper, of Frederick, Quinlan and Tupper, and Nan Heald of Pine Tree Legal…
News
The Edgecomb Fire Department will host an EMS (Emergency Medical Services) responder course in May. Upon successful completion, students will be licensed as a Maine EMS first responder.
The…
The Woolwich Select Board is honoring three citizens who died in 2017-18. The board is dedicating this year’s annual town report to them.
Chairman David King Sr. announced the dedication…
The Medomak District of the Garden Club Federation of Maine to have its annual meeting May 7 at the 1812 Farm, 1297 Bristol Road, Bristol, Maine. The District clubs include, Bath, Boothbay Region…
The small one-lane bridge spanning Nequasset Brook that Woolwich voters will consider discontinuing at next month’s annual town meeting is at least the second one at this location adjacent to the…
On Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Library, Chats with Champions will present Randall Liberty, warden at the Maine State Prison in Warren. His talk is…
Wiscasset School Committee
Due to back-to-back snowstorms, the Wiscasset School Committee is only beginning its preliminary budget meetings. Tuesday night, the committee reviewed proposed budgets for administration,…
The Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary Used Book Sale will take place on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Merrymeeting Plaza, 147 Bath Road in Brunswick. Thousands of gently…
The Second Congregational Church of Newcastle, UCC has announced its Holy Week and Easter worship service plans.
On Sunday, March 25 Palm/Passion Sunday begins Holy Week…
Elections 2018
Alna has two candidates on the ballot for one seat representing the town on Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12’s board: Ralph Hilton and Abbe Manahan.
…
Public encouraged to check their own storage units
ROCKLAND — Maine State Police, working with the four sheriff’s offices in the Midcoast, are asking owners and renters of storage units to check them following the arrest…
AUGUSTA — Following the decision this morning, March 20, by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to conduct a forensic audit of Central Maine Power’s billing system, the company issued its own…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Detective Sergeant Ron Rollins was honored as Deputy Sheriff of the Year at the Maine Sheriffs’ Association award banquet in Biddeford March 15, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Chief Deputy…
Woolwich selectmen
A small, one-lane bridge spanning Nequasset Brook in Woolwich is causing some big concerns for the select board and the couple who own and rent the home it serves.
A public hearing on an…
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 2-5
Would you enjoy boating more if you knew more about boats and navigation? That’s the purpose of boating courses offered by U. S. Coast Guard Flotilla Boothbay Harbor. They are designed to help you…
Alna planning board
Donald and Marcia Lyons got Alna’s nod March 12 for their vegetable, hay and lavender business, SeaLyon Farm LLC, at 1788 Alna Road. Planning Board Chairman Beth Whitney said the board approved…
Wiscasset Selectmen and Budget Committee
On March 15, Wiscasset Selectman Jeff Slack proposed to pay for the nearly $900,000 in recommended capital improvements with interest from the capital improvement fund. Slack, who also sits on the…
Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice (MSAHHH) will be offering a free hospice training course for all those interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. The training will held on April…
Edgecomb Community Church, United Church of Christ, at 15 Cross Point Road will join Christians throughout the world celebrating Holy Week, the most sacred time of the Church year with the…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has been advised of a possible scam attempt occurring over this past weekend. On Sunday, March 18, at about 10:15 a.m., a…
The Edgecomb planning board is asking how a small River Road bait shack became a rental vacation cottage. On March 15, the board requested Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz investigate how the…
Obituary
Ardath E. (Farnham) Wood, 75, of Vassalboro, Maine died March 18, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family following a long illness.
She was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on Nov. 8, 1942…
Obituary
On March 16, 2018, Mr. Ronald A. Pratt Sr., a lifelong resident of Cumberland, Rhode Island, died in Portland, Maine.
A loving husband to Janet L. (Simoneau) Pratt, a father and grandfather…
The Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission agreed March 15 to submit ordinance changes it has been working on for months to the Ordinance Review Committee, with the aim of getting them on the…
First Congregational Church of Wiscasset
Waving of palms and shouts of “Hosanna” will mark the beginning of Holy Week during the celebration of Palm Sunday on March 25 at 10 a.m. at the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset. The title…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their last indoor meeting on Friday, March 23 with a Comb Honey Workshop featuring Neal Kober from Humble Abodes and Betterbee.…
The CLC YMCA’s Child Care is welcoming spring and the Easter season with a pancake breakfast and egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at 9 a.m. Infants and kids up to age 10 will have an opportunity to…
In his family’s Wilton canning plant during World War II, Vance Wells worked alongside friends and neighbors canning vegetables to ship to soldiers overseas. Friday, in the Wiscasset Elementary…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will hold a storewide half-price sale from Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24. Hours are Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and…
Obituary
Neil S. Grover, 59, of Boothbay, died peacefully the morning of March 14, 2018 at Lincoln Health Center in Damariscotta.
Neil was the son of the late Betty L’Hostis Sitton, and Dale Grover…
The Rotary Club of Brunswick is now accepting application for the 2018 edition of “Midcoast Maine’s Got Talent!” In its seventh year, this fun and well-attended local talent show will be held on…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Healthy Kids’ spaghetti dinner on March 21 has been rescheduled and relocated. It will now be held Tuesday, April 10, 5 t0 7 p.m., at the Waldoboro VFW on Mill…
Join us at The Lincoln Home for a fun talk, “Gismos and Whatchamacallits,” with John Bottero on Monday, March 26, from 3 to 4 p.m. Do you have something that you always wondered…
At a time of political change, one thing is clear and consistent: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since 2016, when it was founded by the merger of four land and water…
Maine’s First Ship is pleased to announce its second annual lecture series on 17th century maritime and colonial history. Four presentations, beginning March 22, focus on shipbuilding, tides,…
Local First Federal Savings Bank employees kept the memory of a former employee alive in February through a fundraiser focused on her love of animals. Anita Hodgdon worked for the Boothbay Harbor…
Alna voters on Saturday, March 24 will consider three town office options. If they pick one, they will also decide on a loan to fund it, selectmen said.
Selectmen signed the annual town…
Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends…
Boothbay Region High School
At 10 a.m. Thursday, March 15 – a month and a day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – over 30 Boothbay Region High School students emerged from the…
Probe to include that of 4-year-old Wiscasset girl; Early May report anticipated
AUGUSTA — The Maine Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee (GOC) voted March…
Oxbow Brewing Company will hold its third annual egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at the farmhouse brewery in Newcastle (274 Jones Woods Road). This year’s event will again raise funds for the Maine…
When mindfully engaged with technology like computers and smartphones, we have incredible access to information and one another. However, when not approached with discipline, they can snap up our…
Do you collect copies of the Wiscasset Newspaper?
In the move to discontinue the newspaper office on Gardiner Road and work mobile, we lost copies of two issues from 2014 — Jan. 23…
No fooling, on April 1, Edgecomb will have a new code enforcement officer and licensed plumbing inspector. Selectmen voted 2-0 on March 12 to hire Ken Vinal of Bremen.
Vinal replaces Stan…
Wiscasset Selectmen and Budget Committee
The March 12 budget workshop included cemeteries, public works, the municipal building, the airport, and the parks and recreation department.
A surprise announcement by Town Manager Marian…
Snow-plowing was a lot tougher back in the good old days. The proof is in the pictures Tammy Shaw Given has been posting on the Jack A. Shaw and Sons Facebook page. Given, the Woolwich’s…
Elections 2018
Alna voters have two candidates on the March 23 ballot for the first selectman’s seat. David Abbott did not seek re-election. Second Selectman Melissa Spinney faces…
Wiscasset in the American Revolution
Few people know Wiscasset was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a British naval commander and the Sons of Liberty during the American Revolution. Both sides claimed victory afterwards each…
PARKING BAN: Boothbay Harbor - through 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, March 14
From Maine.gov:…
A Boothbay woman got a response from Central Maine Power Co. she’s been waiting nearly two months for. Sherri Brown is one of hundreds of CMP customers frustrated with an apparent spike in…
