Continuing our five good things a month in 2025, Wiscasset and its neighbor towns exercised a lot of American democracy in October, particularly in the free speech department.
This month's…
Editorial
From the editor
Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School fall sports teams.
The field hockey team finished their spectacular regular season 11-1-2 and placed first in Class C South. Their first…
Dear data center inquirer (in other words, whoever is scouting a site for one of those techno-storage centers I don't think I had heard of before this came up in Wiscasset),
We've…
From the editor
About 15 months ago, I wrote about my childhood neighborhoods in Boothbay Harbor, reminiscing about our neighbors on our street, Gilead Street, and friends on Union…
From the assistant editor
With yet another potential, significant project on Wiscasset's horizon, in the form of Peregrine Turbine Technologies, LLC's would-be research and development campus, the prospects for economic…
From the assistant editor
What's better than looking back at a month of five good things that happened in or near Wiscasset? A fast-paced roundup of 10, covering two months. August and September were full of events and…
From the editor
Once in a while, especially when a new month arrives (and I don’t know what this week’s column is going to be about), I pop into the National Day Calendar to see what types of celebrations are…
From the editor
Nauseated and upset with the world news, psyched about fall school sports, college and pro football starting, hoping the newspaper continues to get support for its digitizing project, wondering…
From the editor
Sometimes you fall behind on things you want to accomplish. This column is one of them.
I have been meaning to congratulate Katie Sibley, Bill Tompkins and Don Brewer for being chosen to…
From the assistant editor
It can be hard for a town to keep its personnel long term, just like in the private sector these days (our employer thankfully being an exception).
Just ask Alna how many times it has had…
From the editor
From my perspective – if you value it at all – the local tourism season seems to have been very good, as we roll into the unofficial end of summer with the arrival of Labor Day Sept. 1. The…
From the editor
My wife and I have been enjoying the late afternoons this month sitting on our deck, recapping our work day, what the world is going through, planning the days ahead, and more. As the sun sets…
From the assistant editor
Looking back to July before August is also in the rear view, we continue noting five good things that happened in or near Wiscasset each month of 2025.
One is Wiscasset Future of the…
From the editor
va•ca•tion (veɪˈkeɪ ʃən, və-) n. 1. a period of suspension of regular work, study, or other activity, used for rest, recreation, or travel.
By the time you read this, I will probably be…
From the assistant editor
Last week, I said social media helped spread the word when traffic lights in Wiscasset were stuck on red. And I gave a somewhat vague clue to this week's somewhat related topic that stems from a…
From the editor
The Boothbay region’s laugh meter dropped to near zero last week with the passing of two men who incidentally were named after their fathers and who kept us all laughing during their time here.…
From the assistant editor
Were you in Wiscasset last week when the traffic lights turned red and stayed red?
Did you at first get that feeling not uncommon to sitting at most any intersection, the feeling the light…
From the editor
I celebrated with my high school classmates on Saturday, July 26, 50 years, or approximately 18,300 days after we graduated from Boothbay Region High School. As published in this newspaper, there…
From the assistant editor
Even before the Wiscasset future of the schools committee formed years ago after a town vote, it looked to me obvious that tuitioning out the high schoolers would save at least some money, but at…
From the editor
The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper staff hopes for a good turnout at their Business After Hours gathering on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 5 to 7 p.m., at Boothbay Railway Village Museum’s Town Hall.…
From the editor
I just had five days off from my job as editor, returning Monday morning. Family was in town and we had a good time together. It was a nice break from emails and phone calls.
The day before…
From the assistant editor
We agree with Wiscasset Selectmen's Chair Sarah Whitfield's observation last week that when public engagement is said to be part of local planning, the public input tends to end up coming from, as…
From the editor
Yes, I disdain the humidity that comes with summer like some (or most) people, but the sunshine and longer daylight means being able to get outside to enjoy all kinds of activities.
This…
From the editor
The 63rd Windjammer Days – a week full of events and spectacles – has ended with lots of memories of fun and hard work. Friends of Windjammer Days, made up of lots of volunteers, is to be…
From the assistant editor
They said it couldn't be done.
Just kidding. Anyone would know better than to doubt we could come up with five good things a month that happened in or near Wiscasset, for every month of…
From the editor
The news really poured in for this week’s issue and our coverage of Windjammer Days added to the daily flow. But Houston (and Boothbay, etc.), we have a problem.
Despite being a broadsheet…
From the assistant editor
If it's Saturday on the Midcoast, it might just rain again. That's quite a streak we are on.
If you're reading this the Thursday of our week 24 print edition, Wiscasset's Class of 2025…
From the editor
The fun has just begun. The region has graduated its high school seniors and the ceremonies were a delight to behold. Boothbay’s 114th annual Grand March is a beautiful tradition which will…
From the assistant editor
For the last several years, people have only been able to ride the rails off and on in Wiscasset, mostly off, unless they worked on a freight train. It feels like Maine Switching Services'…
From the editor
Nineteen years ago, I was asked by former Boothbay Region High School Alumni Association president Lynn (Gilley) Martin to be the guest speaker at the former Alumni Banquet (hopefully it will…
From the assistant editor
This week's headline is not referring to this spring's zigzagging temperatures, although it could be. No, this is a combo editorial: The May installment of our yearlong, monthly five good things…
From the editor
First of all, it was so nice to cover the Memorial Day celebrations and observances under blue skies and warm temperatures.
Other coverage highlights:
—Christopher…
From the editor
Should the sun start shining for more that two or three days in a row … and Saturdays being one of those days (it seems every Saturday for the past month has been cloudy, rainy and downright…
From the assistant editor
Yes, this is another of my rare but ever hopeful editorials buoyed by whatever latest prospect for business in Wiscasset has made me dream again of a bowling center here. This latest prospect is…
From the editor
In the past two weeks, we have been asked several times why we did not cover the Rally for Democracy on April 19 on Boothbay Common.
My answer was simply, we didn’t have anyone available. I…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset and neighbor towns, you're making this so easy, thank you! At the close of the first third of 2025, we're four months into our monthly lists of five good things that happened in or…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset, like a lot of other towns, doesn't have the numbers of students in its school buildings it once did. Not even close. And last week, for the "peace and usefulness of the schools," in the…
From the editor
The National Day Calendar has the month of April being National Month of Hope. Hope comes in many forms, personally and reaching outwardly to those needing verbal encouragement, instruction, gifts…
From the assistant editor
In and near Wiscasset in March were at least five good things, so let's get to them before April gets any older. This installment marks the end of the first quarter of our year-long commitment to…
From the assistant editor
Watch for a catch-up in the coming week(s) on our latest five good things that happened in or near Wiscasset. There were plenty, as you may have read on our pages and at wiscassetnewspaper.com,…
From the editor
These past couple of weeks I have had to deal with the retirement of a longtime local columnist, the ever steady, hard-working and knowledgeable Southport columnist Leigh Sherrill. She has moved…
From the editor
Yes, Mother Nature, we get it. You like to humor us at the end of March by dumping snow, ice, sleet and rain – making sure we have a wonderful mud season – as a reminder that spring comes slowly…
From the assistant editor
I thought I was going to do a short article on Wiscasset’s Future of the Schools Committee’s latest meeting. And it might have been very short given nearly everything being said was something the…
From the editor
Spring is here, with hopefully nicer weather each week – so out come the motorcycles, bicycles, more pedestrians, etc.
I was reminded of this while exiting a parking lot in Woolwich on…
From the assistant editor
A two-parter this time. First, just a wow and a well done, Wiscasset police and other agencies on last week's apprehension of a man facing charges out of state and now here. That was, as the new…
