The Waldo Theatre Education Program is proud to present the Maine premiere of “Penelope and the Gods of Olympus” written by Teralyn Reiter. The performance will be on Friday, Aug. 4 at 3 p.m. on…
Culture
The 51st annual North Nobleboro Day will be held on Saturday, Aug. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Community Hall, 554 Upper East Pond Road. Along with a delicious chicken…
Lincoln County Television is proud to present a one-hour special with legendary Maine broadcaster Don Carrigan on Saturday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m., on Spectrum/Tidewater 7 and…
Puppetry is an ancient form of theater which has been around since the 5th century. It takes on many forms, but they all use inanimate objects to tell a story. Whether it is Kermit…
Salt Bay Chamberfest
Salt Bay Chamberfest (SBC), an annual chamber music festival centered in Damariscotta, is set to open its 29th season next week. This year’s festival, entitled “GODDESS,” celebrates five centuries…
You can’t see hunger. You can help feed the hungry.
With higher costs all around, more local families, children, and the elderly are in peril – 1 in 7 Mainers do not have enough food on…
An artist’s inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere – photographs, events, experiences, dreams, imagination and talent. Six stone sculptors recently spent 10 days, July 21- 30, at Boothbay…
Mathias Fine Art
Michael Culver is the featured artist of the show and he will present a book signing and talk on Thursday, Aug. 10 from 3 to 4 p.m.
His new book, “Sparring in the Dark: The Art and Life Of…
Lincoln Theater is pleased to present the final conversation in this summer’s Talking Aquaculture in Maine series. Presented in partnership with the Island Institute…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
To be there – or not to be there? The answer: “yes!” Heartwood Theater’s production of “Hamlet” - the greatest play ever written, is a must-see, with a gorgeous set and modern…
Auditions! For Lincoln County Communiy Theater’s 2023-24 season on Monday, Aug. 7 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Skidompha Library’s Porter Hall. The 2023-24 season will…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s newly-installed Members’ Show seems to define creative diversity coupled with the saying “great minds think alike.” As such, our featured artists are the sum total…
BOOTHBAY REGION ART FOUNDATION - 1 Townsend Ave. - 633-2793
Lots of new art!! Three shows! The August Members Show downstairs and upstairs: In the Harbor View Room -…
Glidden Point Oyster Farm in Edgecomb held its first Farmer Friday featuring Ferda Farms of the New Meadows River in Brunswick on Friday, July 28. “Farmer Friday was introduced as a way to…
Gleason Fine Art
Southport artist Ed Parker's new show, "All in the Same Boat," at Gleason Fine Art opens Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. 29, with a reception for Ed on First Friday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper
I began writing for the Boothbay Register in the Fall 2022 as a freelance news contributor. I had just graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in sustainable…
The Southport Memorial Library will host a Book and Bake Sale on Thursday, Aug. 3. Baked goods will be on sale in the morning from 9 until noon and books will be for sale from 9 to 4 p.m.
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Storytime, a summer event series hosted by Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, performed a reading and special musical performance of “Frog and Toad” on the lawn Saturday,…
Join us for our first ever Family Read & Watch on the Library lawn on Friday, Aug. 4 starting at 6:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing the Newberry Award Winning book “Holes” by Louis…
The OBD Williams-Fossett Vintage Car Show is back for 2023 as part of the annual Olde Bristol Days celebration. Community interest and participation has grown exponentially leading up to this…
Internationally known American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 11 Glidden St., Newcastle for a solo concert on Thursday, Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at…
“ I’m just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it’s because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth,…
“Asteroid City” - (PG13; 1 hour 45 minutes) - The new film from Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The French Dispatch”), starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson,…
The Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) is poised to host the largest airshow in the state this summer with their Wings & Wheels Spectacular on Aug. 5 and 6. On both Saturday and Sunday,…
On one of the warmest days in August 2015, John Orne, a train engineer at Boothbay Railway Village Museum, invited his wife Cathy to join him in the cab of one of the steam-powered locomotives. He…
Where It’s At
Heartwood Regional Theater Company’s final production of its 20th anniversary season, "Hamlet," is a perfect example of the high caliber performances that have been drawing audiences to the Poe…
The annual Lobsterbake & More returns to the Lincoln Home on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. Get your tickets early for a fun summer evening under the tent on the shores of the…
Sylvan Gallery
Sylvan Gallery is delighted to welcome back renowned landscape artists, Neal Hughes and Crista Pisano, for an exhibition of their latest paintings. The exhibit opens Thursday, Aug. 3 and continues…
LCHA’s party planners were inspired to create this year’s Preservation Party dinner and auction around all things Italian. The annual fundraiser, to be held Sept. 10 on the grounds of the…
The All Saints by-the-Sea organ recital, originally scheduled for July 16, will take place this Sunday, July 30 at 4 p.m. at the chapel on Southport Island. The recital is a free gift to the…
The Waldo Theatre
The Waldo Theatre will hold a Summer Fundraising Gala on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., overlooking Muscongus Harbor in Round Pond. This year’s theme “Once Upon a Time on the Medomak…
Farnsworth Library
Rockland, Maine - The Farnsworth Art Museum is launching a new storytelling series for children ages four to 10 that will feature Maine authors and illustrators reading their own works. The…
Created in the imagination and realized in granite, marble, quartzite, bronze, metal and steel ... carved into abstract shapes, archetypal figures, birds, animals, and people – including two…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
One of my son’s favorite books growing up were the Frog & Toad books by author and illustrator Arnold Lobel written back in the 1970s. There is something timeless and innocent…
Joy to the Wind Gallery
Throughout history flowers have played an important role in human culture. Flowers are woven into the fabric of medicine, cooking, hygiene, embalming, folklore, symbols and environmental…
Lincoln County Television is proud to present another week of original programming for Midcoast residents and visitors on local channel 7 and…
Castle Tucker was Silas Lee’s dream house, on land he spent 15 years piecing together from “teeny” properties he bought up, owner Historic New England’s Midcoast Maine Site Manager Peggy Konitzky…
They said they'd be back, and they're coming back!
Upon learning that the unexpectedly large crowd that turned out for their program at the Boothbay Region Historical Society on Thursday…
“Past Lives” - (PG-13; 1 hour, 46 minutes - In English and Korean) - Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from…
“Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One” - (PG-13; 2 hours, 43 minutes) - Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down…
Yankee Magazine has named the Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop “The Best Maine Used Bookstore.”
The designation appears in the Best of New England section of the magazine’s May/June issue. In…
Ryan Bernsten, author of “50 States of Mind: A Journey to Discover American Democracy,” gave an author’s talk to about 20 attendees at Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library on Friday, July 20. The talk…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (BHML), a community hub since 1924, is gearing up for a busy summer of activities and events. Executive Director Joanna Breen explained, “circulation is almost…
Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper
I started writing as a news contributor for the Register in July 2014, and my first assignments were covering the county commissioners, Westport Island and Woolwich selectmen meetings. Over the…
Witty, whimsical and surprisingly heartfelt, Greta Gerwig’s much anticipated “Barbie” has finally arrived, and is on track to be the biggest three-day debut of 2023…
Friday July 21, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) welcomed hundreds of visitors to an open house on its East Boothbay campus. Throughout the four-hour event, staff scientists gave talks…
We see lots of paintings of lobster buoys and lobster boats, of pretty farm fields, but what about the men and women who haul the traps and pick the produce in our beautiful state? They’re often…
Four quintessential roots instruments: the banjo, double bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle come together on the Boothbay Harbor Opera House stage on Friday, July 28, and what happens next is…
Wiscasset Bay Gallery
"Impressionism and Beyond: American and Continental Art" will open Thursday, July 27 at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery. The gallery is celebrating its 39th year and the exhibition opening coincides…
Where It’s At
The first image directly in front of you as you enter Maine Art Gallery is the color photograph of Kaleb, a Bath Iron Works shipfitter taken by Bath photographer/artist Heather Perry. Kaleb is…
