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Shawn Lewin, AARP Maine member

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Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
Participants in the Y’s Business Partners thank-you event with seasonal Southport residents and Dogfish Head brewery co-founders Mariah and Sam Calagione. Courtesy of BRYMCA

The Y was closed last Sunday…

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On Oct. 12, 2026, we celebrated…

A Bird's Tale
With their yellow legs and rusty brown upperparts, pectoral sandpipers look a bit like a larger version of the tiny least sandpiper. They breed in the Arctic but in migration favor shallow, grassy pools and muddy lake shorelines. Photo courtesy of Jeff Wells.

 

Envision birds migrating, let’s say hundreds or even a thousand feet overhead (some birds fly even higher). To us, they’d look like specks in the sky, if we could…

Joe's Journal
Joe Gelarden

Have you seen enough political…

'Round Town
Photo by Robert Mitchell

One of my favorite adventures, if…

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October has been a great month for informative speakers at the Center. If you weren't able to join us in person, our friends at Boothbay Region TV are working to…

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Frost, how brilliant the sparkle on…

Maine Veterans In Need

First, I've heard that some folks…

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Last Thursday's speaker (via Zoom)…

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
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We have some exciting news to share…

Joyce Bucciantini

The November elections are rapidly…

The authors were delighted when a late-for-the-season American restart joined the party at the cheery yellow plant. Courtesy of Jeff Wells

 

We have a six-foot-high stand of…

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Joe Gelarden

What has jumped to the top of the…

'Round Town
Photo by Robert Mitchell

When all else fails, find something…

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Fall, fall, glorious fall.…

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Are you a target for investment fraud?

Find out how to spot it and resources to help you avoid it on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 11 a.m.

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Maine Veterans in Need

In my last column, I wrote about…

BRYMCA Community Catalyst for Good
Happy 90th Birthday Freda. Courtesy photo

 

If you visit the Boothbay…

Drawing by Diane Spofford Randlett

Fortunate today to be writing this from a boathouse with the water lapping along the sides, surface ripples of the current coming in arrhythmically, creating random fluid patterns as tides begin…

Drawing by Diane Spofford Randlett

It’s party time! Join the ghosts…

Shawn Lewin, AARP Maine member

Medicare’s annual open enrollment…

Skip’s Quips
Skip Simonds

Some of you may have noticed that I…

Cemetery Chronicles
Plaque from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Sara Fahnley photo

The United States is celebrating…

A Bird's Tale
The October wave brings the emphatic “chink” calls of white-throated sparrows rising up in wild places, urban parks, and backyards when the first cold front ushers millions of them into the U.S. from the Boreal Forest of Canada, where they have spent the summer breeding season. Photo courtesy of Jeff Wells

 

Fall bird migration has been underway since July. That’s when short-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs and other shorebirds that breed in the Boreal Forest bogs…

'Round Town
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Joe's Journal
Joe Gelarden

You don’t have to be the beautiful…

Where It's At
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Boothbay Harbor friends and fans of Maine’s Blue Collar Author Jerry Farnham were at Brady’s for their copies of the conclusion of the “Red At Night” series.

Entitled, appropriately enough…

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There have been gloomy days which…

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This month's program, starting at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at St. Columba Episcopal Church in Boothbay Harbor, will be presented by a representative from Chewonki, an environmental education…

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
General Assembly moment. Courtesy of Megan Benvenuto

 

Imagine more…

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Our District Governor, Michele Bois…

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Monday, Oct. 12, is Indigenous…

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

 

Save the dates for two new events you won’t want to miss at the Center this month:

Just in time for the new Medicare enrollment period!…

A Bird's Tale
Sanderlings are among the most common birds on Maine beaches during spring and fall, but how many people know that they nest in the Arctic? Photo courtesy of Jeff Wells

 

When you hear the word “Arctic,” what comes to mind?

Is it ice and snow and rocks? Is it polar bears and vast stretches of whiteness?

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'Round Town
Photo by Robert Mitchell

Time marches on as is reflected by…

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Joe Gelarden

Four weeks to go until the mid-term…

The Boothbay Region Land Trust has…

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Mark your calendars! We have lots of events coming up!

Exercise groups come back to the Center from their summer locations over the next…

Drawing by Diane Spofford Randlett

If you recall, I last wrote that…

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The much talked about storm has…

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Our speaker last week was Kate…

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
Jeff Foss is retiring after 16 years at the Boothbay Region YMCA. Allyson Goodwin photo

Every record begins with a groove.…

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If you haven't read a classic…

The Knights of Pythias, Lakeside Drive, Boothbay Harbor will host a couple of dances in October.

On Friday, Oct. 2, the Knights will be holding a dance featuring the country and rock music…

A Bird's Tale
Hawks perch where they can best see the prey they are hunting. The authors recently saw a young red-tailed hawk, like the one here, perched on a mailbox at a farmhouse, perhaps hunting nearby house sparrows. Photo by Department of the Interior. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, courtesy of Wikicommons.

 

Countless times, we’ve driven past the big, white farmhouse next to the long, red milking barn in the center of our favorite local grassland. But a few days ago, we…

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