Who makes the best hamburger in Boothbay and the best pancakes in Wiscasset? Those are two of the ten questions Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper readers answered in recent online contests…

Edgecomb is closer to knowing who to give disputed tax incentive payments to.

Maine's business court has taken on the case, putting it on a faster track for trial…

“A table full of welcome” is the reflection title for the pulpit guest from Martha's Vineyard at the Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship service on Sunday, Oct. 13. The quotation is …

Edgecomb voters will consider calling for a study selectmen say will lay the groundwork for the town's sewer decisions.

The board on October 7 planned a special…

Louise Mae (Alley) Downing, 74, of Middletown, R.I., died peacefully at home surrounded by her family.

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Thelma Stanley Chenoweth, 105, of Boothbay Harbor died peacefully in her sleep October 2, 2013, with her family by her side.

She was born September 1, 1908 in Waterville to Newton F. Stanley…

Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Dana Field called the Wiscasset town office recently to ask about a possible veteran's exemption on property taxes.

The married…

Everything has its lifespan, Lucy Martin said.

She and other musicians with the Monday Night Gang have been playing and singing at Erskine Hall in Alna for nearly…

Edgecomb selectmen will be back at work, with possible new word on a number of legal questions. The board's Monday, Oct. 7, meeting starts at 6 p.m. at town hall.…

The Lewiston CareerCenter is hosting its second fall Job Fair on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, from 9 a.m. to noon at its building on 5 Mollison Way, Lewiston. Thirty employers will be hiring.

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Libraries aren't going away; they're leading the way.

Wiscasset Public Library's director Pam Dunning made that point to guests at a Wiscasset Area Chamber of…

Lincoln County Healthcare provides both hospital and residential inpatient care in Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta, as well as assisted and independent living options for seniors (see table).…

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office will be getting a new transport van.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1 the Lincoln County Commissioners gave…

This year’s Fall Foliage Festival stage is going to rock, roll, swing and hop.

Entertainment Coordinator Mellissa Thornton has finalized the schedule for the…

Rep. Mick Devin, D-Newcastle, will host “The Maine Health Insurance Marketplace Explained” on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 6:30 to 8 p.m in the Porter Meeting Hall of the…

Local artist Doug Zyskowski has donated two framed stained glass “windows” to the Southport Memorial Library in Newagen…

Frank Willard “Tripp” Brower III, a summer visitor to Pratt’s Island for many years, died September 29, 2013 surrounded by his family, after a courageous battle with multiple myeloma cancer.

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge continues. Each week, staff members Ben “The Incredible Bulk” Bulkeley, Kevin “The…

The Free Clothing Closet, located behind the United Methodist Church, Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor, will be open every Wednesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., throughout the fall and winter…

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has warned consumers about websites claiming to provide new driver’s licenses and driver’s license renewals.

These websites charge customers, but do not…

Two well-known properties on the peninsula will go up for auction October 18. A Bank of Maine company is looking to sell the Coburn House in Boothbay, the former Davis Island Grill in…

With 300-year-old clay pipe stems, glass beads and charred timbers, archaeologist Tim Dinsmore is slowly and painstakingly putting together a portrait of the lives of the first…

Alna's property tax rate has taken another hike. This year's rate, just set, came in at $22.65 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation, up from $21.80 last year.

The Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association will continue its long-standing tradition of conducting "Old Fashioned Fall Turkey Shoots" beginning Sunday, Oct. 6, and then on every Sunday…

By the time Ralph Keyes spoke in the Wiscasset High School gym September 26, students had spent about an hour learning about the early warning signs of dating violence.

With delayed property tax bills cramping Wiscasset's cash flow, the town will ask Lincoln County for more time to pay its tab.

Selectmen's decision on October 1 to…

Debbie Gray is still adjusting to retirement.

She still associates certain times of day with what her students would be doing then, like having lunch or getting…

A solid majority of Dresden voters at a special town meeting on September 30 favored two measures to ensure the town would have snowplowing and sanding for its roads during the…

An open town meeting is now necessary for Wiscasset because the budget must be approved for the current fiscal year in order to avoid additional serious…

Pediatrician Steve Feder of Edgecomb does whatever he can to help a child, whether that means saving a newborn's life under trying conditions in another land or asking the Maine…

Six years ago the first group of Y-Arts youth headed to Atlanta for the iTheatrics Junior Music Theatre Festival, the largest theatre festival in…

Healthy Lincoln County is partnering with Maine Community Health Options, and the Skidompha Public Library to provide two informational community forums about the Affordable Care Act, the Health…

Fog and mist greeted arriving participants of the first Harbor Fest 5k race held September 29, but burned off in time for the 10 a.m. start. (More photos…

Although there won't be a shortage of boats available, there is a need for captains for an upcoming regatta.

Captains need to be at…

Charlie and his Angels didn’t win the Boothbay Charity Golf Classic on September 28.

Neither did the scrambling five-person golf teams headed by former…

On October 1, the Boothbay Region YMCA began offering Livestrong at the YMCA…

Debby and Mark Jones of Boothbay, and Valerie and Peter Duncan of Underhill, Vt., are thrilled to announce the engagement of their children, Haley Sandstrom Jones and Nicholas…

Wiscasset selectmen will wade into some of their new assessing duties Tuesday, Oct. 1, in a board meeting that starts at 6 p.m. at the municipal building.

The…

Nearly everyone who came to hear guest speaker Lizzy Reinholt at the Lincoln County Democrats' September meeting walked in wearing an "I Like Mike" button.

Reinholt, who is the…

I have been asked several times lately how much longer the Route 128 project is going to last. 

I just got off the phone with the project manager who says that due to coming across some…

Mid Coast Hospital, in association with Families CAN! a program of Midcoast Maine Community Action, is launching its 2013 Click for Babies, Period of Purple Crying Caps campaign.

This…

Maine Craft Distilling will release their newest product, Blueshine, during a 4 p.m. launch party at its Portland distillery on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Blueshine is a blueberry moonshine made…

Mexicali Blues has opened a brand new flagship store on Route 1 in Newcastle.

After a long year of hard work, the chain has moved into the new retail space and are loving every aspect of it…

There are some new rays of hope that Maine Yankee's spent fuel will leave Wiscasset.

But with Congress holding the purse strings, those watching the situation…

There will be an open house at Edgecomb Eddy School this Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine.

Visit…

Wiscasset's budget committee is throwing its support behind most of the spending selectmen propose to address fallout of the assessing agent's layoff.

The committee…

State Rep. Mick Devin, D-Newcastle, received a perfect rating for 2013 from Maine Conservation Voters, a statewide environmental advocacy group.

The seven votes measured by MCV include bills…

Under the Big Top, the water will boil and bubble as sports fans descend on the Boothbay Railway Village to bid on names of their heroes etched in leather. But it's not just the savory lobster and…

Edwin L. Brewer Sr., 83, died September 25, 2013 at his home in Trevett. 

He was born April 3, 1930 in Boothbay Harbor to Archibald and Julia Alley Brewer. He grew up in Boothbay and…