On Sunday, Nov. 14, from 4-6 p.m., Coastal Mountains Land and Midcoast Conservancy are hosting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. This online event consists of eight short documentary films made…
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The Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) will present a concert with Love By Numb3rs on Oct. 23. The band, whose music spans blues, folk, and rootsy rock, is made up of former…

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar about creating winter holiday decorations from available natural materials,…

“When I’m in the mountains, life is so incredibly simple. After a big climb you appreciate everything,” says climber Marc-André Leclerc. “The Alpinist,” opening at Lincoln Theater this Friday, is…

Welcome back to Harbor Theater. We are now open five days a week, Thursday through Sunday, nightly at 7 with a matinee only on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for members, and…

The beauty of Maine is captured by four photographers at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. In this, the final show of the season, which runs through Saturday, Oct. 16, the visitor is presented…
Hundreds of people headed for Boothbay Railway Village Museum Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 for the 53rd Fall Foliage Festival.
Over 50 vendors guaranteed there were wares to tempt…

The Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation Photo Show at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor will continue through the end of the year or as long as photos are available.
The BRMF Research…

He was a fan favorite when he landed on the big screen as Poe Dameron in Star Wars, and now Oscar Isaac takes on another “solitary man” character, seeking redemption in the long game. In Paul…

Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF) is having its popular "Art in the Square 2021" to open on Nov. 20 at 9 a.m. for Early Bird Sale Saturday. Great holiday gifts can be found among these 12” x…

Welcome back to Harbor Theater. We are now open five days a week, nightly at 7 with a matinee only on Sunday at 2 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for members and…

As the 2021 season enters October, the region begins to quiet down until the trees begin showing their brilliant seasonal colors.
The attendance at the Oct. 1 First Friday galleries…

After going dark 18 months ago, the Boothbay Region’s Harbor Theater opened its doors once more. The number of theater goers was small, but they were enthusiastic about the theater being open, and…

Short stories by acclaimed Maine writers Monica Wood and Morgan Talty are coming to the stage! Midcoast Literacy, a non-profit organization that provides free literacy tutoring to people of all…

“The Lost Leonardo” - (PG-13; 1 hour, 36 minutes) - The inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost…

River Arts in Damariscotta invites photographers to submit work for the upcoming juried “Photo Show” open to original photographic works. Deadline for dropping off work at the gallery is Saturday…

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts welcomes visitors to their campus during Maine Craft Weekend , Oct. 1-3. From a kiln opening and sale, to an exhibition, artist talks, and tours of their new…

Just in time for Halloween, Maine State Music Theatre will host its popular costume sale on Oct. 15 (3-8 p.m.) and 16 (9 a.m.-2 p.m.) at 22 Elm Street, Brunswick.
The sale benefits MSMT…

The Chocolate Church Arts Center gallery in Bath will feature artists Jennifer Goldfinger and Kathryn Geismar in a show titled “Transformation/Identity,” with an opening event at CCAC on Friday,…
Past winners of Boothbay's Got Talent came together at the end of the summer to crown the 2021 winners. Due to the pandemic, the competition has been held online in June for the past two years.…
Take a different route to work.
That’s one of the tips offered by photographers looking for inspiration for their work. And it worked this morning, Sept. 24.
Just after 7 a.m., after…
On display until Oct. 6 in the hall gallery at the Miles Hospital are 30 paintings by Waldoboro artist, Lisa Kyle. The paintings are in both oil and acrylic and explore the beauty of Midcoast…

The DaPonte String Quartet’s weekend concerts, ““Dissonant and Dissident,” featuring Mozart:’s String Quartet in C Major K. 465 and Shostakovich’s: String Quartet No. 8 are in two locations. On…

Learn to paint with wool with artist Kristen Walsh on Thursday, Oct. 7 from 1 to 4 p.m.at the Ocean Point Inn, Shore Road, East Boothbay.
Using wool felt as a base, learn needle felting…

In the Glenn Kenny review of The Lost Leonardo, a NYT Critic's Pick and opening this week at Lincoln Theater, he notes that “this documentary…

Twig artist Susy Perrine will build a garden structure…

New U.S. Junior National Scottish Fiddler Champion Owen Kennedy is among the musical performers at the Fall Foliage Festival Oct. 9 and 10 at Boothbay Railway Village Museum. He’ll be joined by…


Noted mystery author Bruce Robert Coffin met with an enthusiastic group of about 30 guests who gathered on the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library lawn on Saturday, Sept. 18 to hear Coffin discuss…


Welcome back to our newly renovated theater. We hope you enjoy the dark blue color scheme, new concession stand and state of the art acoustical surround sound system while watching some of the…

I haven’t written about the art of Brad Betts for a very long time. I realized this when I was at his Down East Gallery to interview Cilla Alden about her featured show there.
Brad’s…

The Chocolate Church Arts Center will welcome audiences back into its historic theater for its fall 2021 season, beginning on Friday, Sept. 17 with a performance from Maine folk icons, Schooner…

The autumn equinox is Sept. 22, at approximately 3:21 p.m. We will welcome a new season and bid farewell to summer. And with summer’s passing, we will also be saying goodbye to a few of our…

Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for her stunning portrayal of Effie in the movie musical, “Dreamgirls.” Aretha Franklin hand-picked Hudson, to play her in “Respect.”
“The Green Knight…
Espionage, historical fiction, murder mysteries, science fiction, poetry, books for young children, teens and young adults — all were at the Books In Boothbay event at Boothbay Railway Village…

The now annual Sunrise Lighthouse Photography cruise was on Sept. 11 and about two dozen people were at Pier 8 a little before 6 a.m. to attend the cruise.
Some of the best views of the…
Almost 90 people came out to Kermess at Pownalborough Court House in Dresden to raise money for Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA). The beautiful fall evening featured a pig roast and…

“Talking Art in Maine” and “Talking Food in Maine,” both part of Lincoln Theater’s Intimate Conversations series, return this September live on stage. These one…

1991 Boothbay Region High School alumnus Lara Tupper returned home Sept. 9 as the featured speaker at Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library’s “Author Talk.” Tupper discussed her two most recent books.…

How many times have you looked around the rooms in your house, apartment, or condo and thought how bored you were with how they look? The paint, the furniture, the artsy pieces ... boring!
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A Route 27 parking ban may lead to a new home for Trucks A-Go which featured several mobile food vendors last winter. In April, Boothbay selectmen imposed a Route 27 parking ordinance which bans…

“Solace,” a show of limited edition, original linocut and woodcut prints by Deborah Kozak, will run from Thursday, Sept. 16, through Wednesday, Oct. 6 in the River Room at River Arts Gallery in…


Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s (BRAF) final members’ show for the summer of ’21 is providing a seasonal theme with fall colors predominating, along with the “perennial” last blooms of summer. As…

The current show of work by established Maine artists at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset is yet another fine collection of talent brought together by the non-profit organization this year.…

The Waldo Theatre, at 916 Main St., Waldoboro, is hosting its second in a series of new movie nights with a screening of the adventure-comedy “Back to the Future” Friday, Sept. 17 at 7 p…

River Arts of Damariscotta will host a reading by local author Kay Tobler Liss on Sunday, Sept. 19 from 3-4:30 p.m. Her novel, “The Last Resort,” published by Plain View Press, explores themes of…