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Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club
Mon, 06/01/2020 - 5:00pm

The Rotary Club has been meeting “virtually” now for almost two months. We have developed a “Zoom” meeting routine thanks to club president Rick Elder and all the members joining in. The meetings start with “Turpentine Club,” a time for keeping in touch with one another and sharing stories. This week plans were made to do a remote visit to Past President and Past District Governor Bob Jacobson who is recovering at the Zimmerli Pavilion. We also had fun with some “club trivia.” Did you know that...
Salt 'n Spar
My back pages
Mon, 06/01/2020 - 10:15am

Not long ago I was in the office of the Boothbay Register, which for as long as I’ve known it has been located on Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. The outside of the building looks about the same but inside it’s changed a good deal. In December 1978 when I arrived in Maine from Colorado my first newspaper job was working for the Register . Dan DeRepentigny was the owner then, he was also the owner or a part-owner of the Tugboat Restaurant where we sometimes met on Friday afternoons...
Joe’s Journal
Week 11 – What now?
Wed, 05/27/2020 - 8:15am

I have a friend who likes to comment on this column. He says the COVID-19 virus is a hoax cooked up by the media and Democrats who want to defeat the incumbent president. He sends me lots of numbers he says prove his point. I like him. He is a good guy. I think he is wrong. I choose to believe the experts and scientists who track these things for a living. I choose to believe the health care professionals who say nearly 100,000 Americans have lost their lives due to complications from the virus...
A Bird’s Tale
An Accomplished Catbird and a Tree of Bursting Pink
Wed, 05/27/2020 - 7:45am

Two themes have dominated our backyard natural history observations this week. One of them is specific not only to one particular bird species but to a particular individual bird. We have always had one or two pairs of gray catbirds that have territories in and around our yard. Some years we know that a pair has nested right on our property. One year a pair nested in the center of a tangled forsythia bush out back. It’s been some weeks since we spotted the first gray catbird here, and it wasn’t...
’Round Town
Spring
Wed, 05/27/2020 - 7:00am

I love the cool pale green of new growth in spring. It sort of represents the refreshing of things and really never shows up for another year. The birch leaves in particular, however the green leaves of our ginkgo are a close second, but later. Spring here on the coast is an odd duck. I like to refer to spring as “springle” — winter, “springle” then summer. Springle sort of weasels its way into being in fits and starts — more fits than starts. It reminds me of a bank overdraft. Hardly ever...
Southport Yacht Club announces summer plans
Tue, 05/26/2020 - 10:45am
Every summer the Southport Yacht Club welcomes hundreds of members and sailing program families to our corner of Maine. We love our time on the water and we pride ourselves on building life-long friendships and a strong sense of community ashore. This year that warmly anticipated seasonal influx brings with it real risks related to the COVID-19 virus for both our members and the island community that hosts us. Over the past two months, SYC leadership representatives have consulted medical...
Southport Column: Student parade, the store and more
Tue, 05/26/2020 - 10:00am
Such a strange Memorial Day with no parades, but I see that flags have been planted at our cemeteries, and for Decker Cemetery, nature has provided a carpet of brightly colored ground cover that I think is flocks, also to decorate the scene and honor our loved ones. Thanks to whomever first planted that flower. Several Southport news items are also elsewhere in this paper but our Southport School graduates deserve lots of notice so here is the news again from Principal Lisa Clarke. The...
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Tue, 05/26/2020 - 7:00am

You’ve probably read through your backlog of books, borrowed some from friends, and reread your old favorites while you waited for something new from the library. We sincerely hope you had enough reading material to keep you going. But even the most well-stocked home library is probably starting to look a little tired. That’s why we’re so excited to announce that lending services are back! Beginning Tuesday, June 2, BHML will be offering curbside book pickup. Here’s how it’ll work: You’ll...
Where it’s at
Meanwhile … back in the studio with Eben Blaney
Thu, 05/21/2020 - 8:45am

Over Edgecomb way at Eben Blaney’s Fine Contemporary Furniture studio/showroom, there’s something new, something much smaller scale than his gorgeous, inventive tables, chairs and consoles. Eben has created carved, relief wall sculptures of mahogany. Each of the seven wall sculptures are so textural, you can’t help but touch them. And in the sunlight the wood grain and ebonizing technique really pop. Mesmerizing is the word that comes to mind. No, really. Remember the lava lamps back in the 70s...
Lyme Time
Do your tick checks
Wed, 05/20/2020 - 12:00pm

As the weather continues to warm, ticks are becoming more and more active, eager to find their bloodmeal and we need to be vigilant with our prevention against tick encounters. We’ve covered treating our skin and clothing in preparation for time spent outdoors but it doesn’t end there. We need to form habits to check for ticks once we come inside. Because children ages 5-14 and adults over 64 make up the highest category of “At-Risk” for new cases of Lyme and tick-borne disease, when we come...
A Bird’s Tale
Revealing the Mysteries of What Flies Over Us Each Night
Wed, 05/20/2020 - 7:45am

You may remember that most of our birds do the bulk of their migrating at night, which we have written about in previous columns . As they migrate, many species regularly give short calls. The honks of night-migrating Canada geese are instantly recognizable. But the calls of many of the songbirds might sound more like insects to some people. The calls of the Swainson’s thrush sound remarkably like the calls of the spring peeper—except that they emanate from hundreds of feet in the sky where no...
’Round Town
Goranson Farm
Wed, 05/20/2020 - 7:30am

We first bumped into the Johanson-Goranson family at Sheepscot Valley Children’s House in Wiscasset, in the early ’90s. Our children, along with a gang of other area youngsters, attended pre-school and a couple elementary school years together there. Our daughter Mae, and Carl Johanson, started out around the same time and ironically, ended up together years later at Bennington College in Vermont, in the theatre and acting program. Over the years we have kept in touch and visited now and then...
Out of Our Past
Spring 1916
Wed, 05/20/2020 - 7:15am

The front page stories of old Boothbay Registers reveal what was of immediate interest to the region townspeople — in this case, 104 years ago. Every front page story on March 31, 1916 was maritime-related. A report on the Cold Storage Plant stated that it had its most successful year, taking in 6,870 barrels of fish (520,000 pounds). One third was bait fish, and two-thirds consisted of food fish shipped to New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The Townsend Marine Railway (now Boothbay Harbor...
Joe’s Journal
Week 10: Coping with crisis
Wed, 05/20/2020 - 7:00am

It is no secret that much of our region's economy depends on tourism, and no one knows this better than Scott Larson. As the president of Midcoast Hospitality Group, Larson is the boss/owner of a group of premier resorts, including the Newagen Seaside Inn, the Linekin Bay Resort, Edgecomb's Waters Edge at Sheepscot Village, and the Russell House B&B. He also heads Compass Rose Events, which puts on corporate hospitality events nationwide. “It is a tough time to be in the hospitality and...
American Legion Post 36
Tue, 05/19/2020 - 1:00pm

The American Legion National Commander’s message in the May addition of the Legion magazine captures the importance of Memorial Day to veterans. It is worth repeating here: “Among veterans, Memorial Day is a time to honor the men and women who did not return home from service; the unexpected buy always-possible circumstances of armed conflict were their fate. It is also a time to consider those who did come home only to discover later that some potentially fatal consequence of wartime service...
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Tue, 05/19/2020 - 11:00am

It's been weeks since I wrote my last article. The river is still quiet. Lobster traps and buoys are piled high. We solved the mystery of why our favorite ducks haven't visited lately. We discovered a family of foxes making themselves at home under our bird feeders. Well it's clouding up and getting ready to rain. The gardens have been tended to and the leaves raked. My house is in order so it is time to sit and read. James Hayman was sitting next to Tess Gerritsen on my bookshelves. I thought...
Ocean Point Column: Activities changed
Tue, 05/19/2020 - 10:30am
The “unofficial “beginning of the summer season has arrived and as I write this week’s column I can’t help but wonder what summer will look like, not only here but everywhere! Sadly, most summer events throughout the Boothbay region and the state of Maine have either been cancelled or postponed. This holds true of some of our planned activities here at Ocean Point as well. Regrettably, it was announced last month that our 5k OP Road Race has been postponed until the summer of 2021, however,...
Southport Column: Info from the store, library and more
Tue, 05/19/2020 - 8:00am
If you were counting on a breakfast pizza last Monday or a sandwich for lunch, you would have found our Island Store closed for renovations. The good news is that I saw the tables and chairs under the gazebo,which, one hopes, will be available for outdoor feasting. Inside the store the renovation work includes new floors, new product shelving, and newly painted walls. Products are arriving for the Gift Barn that is anticipated to open soon after Memorial Day. The store also has extended its...
Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club
Mon, 05/18/2020 - 8:00am

The Rotary Foundation slogan this year is “People of Action.” Even in this challenging time the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club took action to bring cheer and connection to the residents of St Andrews Village. During a weekly “Zoom” meeting the Sunshine Basket committee was formed. Six Rotary Club members meet at the clubhouse (with social distancing, masks and plenty of hand sanitizer, of course) to put the baskets together. It was a real group endeavor, with everyone bringing something special...
A Bird’s Tale
Watching Big Birds Battle on Mother’s Day
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:45am

On a socially distanced Mother’s Day visit to Mom Wells, two bald eagles appeared as we sat 10 feet apart in the backyard sun. The eagles were far in the distance circling to the south, looking like little more than dark spots over the roof of the barn. In searching the sky for them, Mom discovered two more. These two were a little closer so that as they circled we could see the white head and tail even with the naked eye. One began drifting higher and higher above us—it must have been 500 feet...
Lyme Time
Five Simple Steps of Prevention
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:00am

As temperatures warm up and ticks become more active, how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones and reduce our fear of spending time outdoors? Here are five simple prevention steps that will not only reduce your contact with ticks and the fear factor, but it is guaranteed to get you back outside doing the things that you love. Skin Repellents work by masking your scent, making it harder for insects and ticks to find you. There are many options on the market from products containing DEET to...
’Round Town
Thank you
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 7:30am

Before I step out into traffic today with my weekly adventure, I'd like to comment about an evolving situation in our community. For many many years I have visited our local business establishments with little or no concern and increasing recognition. Recently it occurred to me that I look like many people and am unrecognizable. My mask is very nice, handmade, pastel pink with an attractive paisley pattern. I have orange tinted aviator style sunglasses, and many ball caps, which I tend to...
Joe’s Journal
Week 10: Good news, bad news
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 7:00am

Last week, as we finally got going on our spring chores, Mother Nature threw us a curve ball and treated us with a snowstorm on Saturday. Here on the coast, it was warm enough to melt the flakes as soon as they hit the ground. Not so up north where the TV weathermen gushed about measurable snowfalls. In case you missed it, 2020 is turning out to be a year for the record books. Our local news, as reported by my favorite newspapers, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper, featured a...
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Tue, 05/12/2020 - 10:00am

Even though BHML has been closed to the public for nearly two months, the library staff has been busy working behind closed doors (safely distanced, of course!) to keep services running. One project that Executive Director Joanna Breen and Children’s Librarian Harolyn Hylton pulled off in collaboration with the BRES/BRHS library staff, was to send a letter to every kid at both schools to connect them to the library. Elementary school children who don’t have library cards were mailed library...
Southport Column: School, SIA, museum and more
Tue, 05/12/2020 - 8:15am
To all parents of kindergarten-age children comes this news from our Southport Central School. “Due to the current health crisis, screening for students entering kindergarten for the 2020-2021 school year will be held in August. If your child will be turning five years old by October 15, 2020, he or she is eligible to attend our kindergarten program. Parents are asked to email principal Lisa Clarke at lclarke@aos98schools.org or call the school at 633-3132 to register your child and to acquire...
American Legion Post 36
Tue, 05/12/2020 - 7:30am

Last week, members of the American Legion and others from the community placed American flags at the graves of all members of our community who served in defense of this country. As you drive by these cemeteries, you will get an appreciation of just how patriotic our community is. When you think that less than 10% of our citizens nationally have served, you quickly see that far more of our men and women from this region rose their right hand and committed to support and defend the Constitution...
Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club
Mon, 05/11/2020 - 12:00pm

Who would have ever thought the Rotary Club would have almost 40 members meet on a cold, rainy May evening. But, from the comfort of our own homes we are continuing our weekly meetings and getting together via Zoom. President Rick Elder started with a few words of welcome followed by a lively round of “Happy/Sad Dollars.” The most common reflection of the “Happy Dollar” was how grateful we feel to live in this caring, beautiful community during this unprecedented time. Almost $110.00 was raised...
A resurgence of Victory Gardens could inspire lasting changes in food production
Growing an enduring culture of gardening
Sat, 05/09/2020 - 10:15am

The home gardening boom underway is “totally unprecedented” in the eyes of Frank Wertheim, who for 33 years has helped farmers and gardeners as an educator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” he says. Enthusiasm for vegetable gardens and eating local foods was “trending up over 15 years or so,” according to Wertheim, but grocery supply disruptions, food safety concerns and the economic downturn spurred by the coronavirus pandemic have left...
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Wed, 05/06/2020 - 10:00am

All around the world, May is recognized as Lyme Disease Awareness month. But for hundreds of thousands of patients, it is something that they struggle to make sense of every day. It is something that tears families apart at the seams. It keeps medical providers at odds with one another. And it is something that keeps researchers and scientists busy with new species of ticks, new strains of disease and validation of new forms of transmissions. Information and sharing of data, products and...
A Bird’s Tale
A Sea of Migrating Birds is Overtaking Us
Wed, 05/06/2020 - 8:15am

We’ve often likened the migration of the billions of birds that move across our hemisphere from south to north each spring to be more like the movements of a living sea that takes place in the airspace above our heads. In fact, most of it goes on while our heads are resting on our bed pillows. That’s because (as faithful readers of our column will know) most birds do the bulk of their migration at night . Many decades ago, in an attempt to provide a simple concept to describe migration and to...
’Round Town
Chainsaws
Wed, 05/06/2020 - 7:30am

Over the years I have owned and used many chainsaws. In my younger years, the metal of choice was either Homelite or McCulloch. The McCulloch saw was enormous, heavy and loud with a bar that was over two feet long. It was like lugging a small Evinrude outboard through the woods. But, once you set that baby on a log, it was so heavy, you needn’t do anything but wait for it to finish the cut. No pressure needed. Don’t get it bound up though, it --- took a backhoe to dislodge. Then along came,...
Joe’s Journal
Week 8 – Relax
Wed, 05/06/2020 - 7:00am
Here is the thought for the day: Relax. We have been on hold for the last two months. Why don’t we slow down for a minute? Take a deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Relax. Feel better? Sure, you do. Now put your thinking cap on. We are in the middle of a pandemic – a situation like none of us has experienced. Let’s think of what we know. National authorities tell us more than 65,000 Americans have died of a virus called COVID-19. I don’t have to remind you that more Americans died in those two months...
Southport Column: Alpacas, the beach, bridge work resumes and more
Tue, 05/05/2020 - 8:30am
Even though our Southport Memorial Library is still closed, the garden in front of the building gives pleasure with bright yellow daffodils and tiny grape hyacinths. Watch for other flowers and shrubs to open up. Also watching for the coming of new life is Anne Gobes at the Cape Newagen Alpaca Farm. Several of the farm’s females may be creating new life, but it is hard to be sure. Watching closely is the best way to be present at the birth or very soon afterwards. The farm is closed to visitors...
From the House
More COVID-19 resources and updates
Mon, 05/04/2020 - 5:00pm

For most of us in Maine, it’s been another week at home, and another week of helping our friends and families navigate the greatest public health crisis of our time. I know many of us are feeling nervous, even helpless. For some people, bills are piling up while little income is coming in. For others, the demands of homeschooling children are competing with work responsibilities. And for many, this is taking an emotional toll as we worry about the health and wellbeing of our loved ones. As we...
American Legion Post 36
Mon, 05/04/2020 - 7:45am

Following the directions of Governor Mills and local authorities, this year’s Memorial Day Parade has been cancelled. The American Legion will have a ceremonial team of nine members that will travel by car to each of the traditional memorials, with the addition of the memorial in Edgecomb, starting at Newagen and will follow the normal route, ending in Edgecomb. The team members will vary to include veterans with an affiliation with that location. The team will also have a chaplain and a bugler...
Out of Our Past
The Boothbay Harbor Fountain
Wed, 04/29/2020 - 11:00am

Many people remember when there was a traffic island in what was called Custom House Square in Boothbay Harbor. Though many think that the triangle had been the site of a horse trough, that was not the case. How that little oasis came to be there follows, with help from old Boothbay Registers. Students of local history know that at the turn of the century Luther Maddocks was an influential man in the Harbor. He, like so many other successful Harbor men, left Southport and settled in the Harbor...
Birding in Ways We Never Expected
Wed, 04/29/2020 - 10:00am

We had some interesting virtual birding experiences this past week that we can say with certainty we’d never had before! One morning we participated in a special Birding Buddy project that was set up through a National Audubon Society program to help students in a college environmental studies class. The professor had originally planned on taking the entire class out for a birding excursion together to learn more about birds and how to identify them. The idea was to help them participate in the...
’Round Town
Hola Lola
Wed, 04/29/2020 - 8:30am

Delores “Lola” deHoyos O’Byrne. Without even knowing Lola, her “official” name, to me, was a bit of a mystery. Quite a combination of vowels, for all you English teachers out there. When I first heard her name I couldn’t help but wonder where on Earth had this woman come from. And you know, even now, as she has made the big turn, I’m not sure I know where Lola came from. Oh, I know she was born in New York, grew up in Mexico, lived and had a family there and then somehow, almost miraculously...
Joe’s Journal
Week seven – and counting
Wed, 04/29/2020 - 7:00am

“Stay home. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing. Be safe.” We have all heard this advice over and over and over again from our national and state political leaders and health care experts. We have watched as Dr. Tony Fauci and others explain why we need to do this until big pharma and other big science folks invent a vaccine to protect us from this plague. We watch as the TV news shows us the worst-case scenarios from Gotham City, where it seems to be a war zone as overwhelmed hospitals...
Ocean Point Column: Noise and an Ode
Tue, 04/28/2020 - 12:00pm
These are certainly trying times for all of us with all of the uncertainty of the virus so it was somewhat of a relief to see some states begin to reopen while others are making plans in that direction. I personally received some hopeful news today from my husband Will, who has spent these last several weeks working at our local hospital and today was informed by one of the doctors on staff that activity was beginning to slow down and they had not had to ventilate any patients for a few days...
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Tue, 04/28/2020 - 11:00am
A Lament for the Passing of Abby’s Class at the Y Bruce MacDonald Boothbay, Maine Where is that old gang of mine that used to meet three times a week So ably led by that ray of sunshine Abby, Greeted as we were by Charlie At the desk, and the old guys Gathered round the lobby table, Making big decisions for the world. Where’s Joe in the Corner there, Or Debbie on the roadside wall Or Jim in the corner, back of everyone, Then Kathy, Paula, Georgia, Pam And what’s-His-name; what...
American Legion Post 36
Tue, 04/28/2020 - 10:00am

The day we remember our fallen heroes, Memorial Day, is less than a month away and we are well into our planning for the event. But, of course, just what the event will look like can’t be determined at this time. The American Legion will be honoring our fallen in some form even if nothing changes between now and then. If nothing changes, we will have a small honor guard of Legionnaires going to each memorial to place the wreaths, throw the Spray into Boothbay Harbor with prayers said. If things...
Southport Column: Annual clean-up postponed, SIA helping and more
Tue, 04/28/2020 - 7:30am
The last day of April and we are still uncertain what the future will bring. We know now that school will not reconvene this year, and with a new furnace being installed in the Southport school building, summer school, if any, may be curtailed. Will this notice be the first of many cancellations? Time will tell. For now the notice is that the annual Island Clean-up sponsored by the Southport Island Association,scheduled for Sunday, May 3, has been postponed to an unknown future date. But that...
Meanwhile, back in the studio ... with Richard Macdonald
Wed, 04/22/2020 - 10:30am

Back in 2014 I wrote a feature story about Richard “Dick” Macdonald whose studio and showroom, Macdonald Stained Glass, is in Boothbay Harbor. During the interview he said, “If I'm still here at 80, I'll still be doing this.” Well, guess what? He is – on both counts. My curiosity piqued by Macdonald’s Facebook posts of projects, I decided to give a shout out to the region’s stained glass master last week. I had to find out about these cool creative pieces taking shape during these weeks of...
sea change: In crisis and starting anew
Tackling in tandem the existential threats of coronavirus and climate chaos
Wed, 04/22/2020 - 9:00am
Last week’s storm decimated the trees in our yard, exposing raw tissue where limbs severed. Branches, graced by buds that will never open, lay scattered on the killing snow. Taking in the scene, I felt more grief than shock. Wreckage from erratic weather is one inevitable consequence of an atmosphere turbocharged by excess greenhouse gases. With coronavirus, as with climate upheaval, our species is confronting realities that are horrifying but should come as no surprise. Scientists have warned...
’Round Town
Emma and Sparky
Wed, 04/22/2020 - 8:15am

When I was a kid growing up in the central Pennsylvania land of hunters, my father and I would sometimes head off into the woods in search of elusive wild things to shoot at. Dad used to joke that our rigorous excursions were more like exercise programs for regional wildlife than actual success filled killing missions. I’m not sure we ever actually “hit” much of what we shot at, excepting the occasional hemlock tree or mountain laurel bush. We often laughed on our drives home about what the...
A Bird’s Tale
Our Backyard Discovery Diary: Mockers, Crow Rattles, and Woodcock Twitters
Wed, 04/22/2020 - 7:45am

Paying close attention to the backyard continues to yield some bird surprises for many people, as evidenced by some interesting posts we’ve noticed lately on various social media platforms. Over the past week, we’ve seen photos or videos of broad-winged hawks and barred owls in Maine backyards, an American woodcock on a nest, a color-banded American kestrel in West Gardiner, and a white-breasted nuthatch gathering nesting material. And that’s just a very tiny fraction of what people are...
Joe’s Journal
Week Six: COVIDGATE
Wed, 04/22/2020 - 7:00am

I don't want to be governor, and I never, ever, never wanted to live in the White House. No way, Jose'. I never wanted to be elected to anything. I always said the only thing I would run for was the county line. Here's why. No matter what side of the political aisle you fit, today, we all agree these hot shot jobs are not so hotshot. Leaders at the national and state level discovered what it means to be on the horns of a dilemma called COVID-19. Here is the problem. National public health...
American Legion Post 36
Tue, 04/21/2020 - 11:30am

Once again, I hope this article is finding everyone safe and healthy. We are all guessing just when they will start lifting the “stay at home” order and let establishments reopen. We all want to reopen just as soon as we can. But we don’t want to reopen prematurely so that we are once again at risk. I wouldn’t want to be our political leaders trying to make this very difficult decision. In the meantime, we all are doing what we can to stay safe ourselves and help our brothers and sisters as...
Southport Column: Stuck in New Zealand, Sam’s sanitizer and more
Tue, 04/21/2020 - 11:00am
We have had several stories of people’s journeys home from abroad, such as the Baumans from France and the Jacobs from New Zealand. Now here comes another New Zealand story. As reported previously, after his wife, Marna, died, George Denton left for New Zealand, to do what he expected would be a month or two of research. He is now quarantined there for what appears to be at best, until mid summer and at worst, straight through the Southport season. Kerri Wolcott reports that George is content,...

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