Join Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association for a walk at SVCA’s Trout Brook Preserve in Alna, Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. Naturalist and SVCA’s Programs Manager Lynne Flaccus will lead the walk along the mile-long trail. Operation of the Trout Brook Preserve is generously sponsored by Carleton Realty and Roy Farmer Associates of Bath and Wiscasset who adopted the preserve as part of SVCA’s Adopt-a-Preserve program.

On a rainy Sunday morning, April 13, the CLC YMCA gymnastics team set off for the Old Town/Orono YMCA to compete against teams from Bangor and the host team. With the team's coach, Janice Cormier-Hay, sick, Betsy Lee took over as head coach.

Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills is warning Mainers to be aware of a phone scam that claims to be from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The caller demands a fee be paid immediately over the phone or else a warrant for arrest will be issued or his or her driver’s license will be suspended. 

For the past year, the town of Boothbay has inched closer to a digital revolution. By this summer, residents, businesses and visitors will notice a big difference online.

A new town website is in the works, and it's scheduled to be launched by mid-June, according to Town Manager Jim Chaousis.

Touted as a major advancement in streamlining town services, Chaousis said the new website is just the beginning of the technology roll-out.

Gregory P. Bolster, 57, of Walpole and Pemaquid, died peacefully at his home on the evening of April 15.

A complete obituary will be published in next weeks's issue.

Dear Readers,

At 5:30 a.m., the parking lot at the Boothbay Y is nearly full as some 80 seniors brave the pre-dawn hour to participate in workouts of one kind or another. At about 2 p.m., the facility fills up again with nearly 200 school kids who play, exercise, do homework, while some sit in groups huddling over their cell phones.

Superintendent Eileen King's March projection of what the 2014-2015 school budget might look like ended up being dead on. And on April 9, the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor School Committee approved the $9,311,932.76 budget.

The 2014-2015 budget is up 2.48 percent, or $189,834 over the 2013-2014 budget of $9,048,572.

To arrive at the assessment to the towns, the projected revenue ($1,460,674) is subtracted, leaving $7,888,558 for the towns of Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor.