It's the biggest secret around each spring. Who's getting this year's Lifetime Service Award (LSA) from the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club? I went to the top to find…
Editorial
From the Editor
My week started with a little bit of stress (personal cell phone died with all my phone numbers), then, as Monday arrived, got even more stressful. By Wednesday morning, the stress level had…
Mary’s Musings
Nearly every day, we watch refugees from one Mideast country or another, be it Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Eritrea, trying to escape their war-torn communities and…
From the Editor
The 2016 Major League baseball season is barely a week old and already the Boston and Portland sports radio personalities are calling for Red Sox Manager John…
Mary’s Musings
Most of us don’t think often about state troopers. After all, we usually don’t see them every day in our own local communities, and we take it for granted that we…
From the Editor
What a wonderful NCAA men's basketball championship game on Monday night! It was great to see the tournament end with one of the best college basketball games I've ever seen (remember Duke winning…
Mary’s Musings
It’s a wonder we’re all alive, if we’ve taken any prescription drugs. Can you believe the attorneys’ advertisements encouraging those who have taken one medication…
We learned this week that what we know about Maine’s unorganized territories would fit on a pin head. Our former superintendent of schools and noted Maine history…
From the editor
The following quote has been attributed to the famous martial artist and actor Bruce Lee: "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
I agree. Every week I…
From the Editor
We agree with this week's decision by the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District School Committee to allow Wiscasset high school students to participate on the Boothbay Region High…
Mary’s Musings
We all need safe drinking water to survive, and often take its availability for granted. Once in a while, however, we’re reminded what happens when we can’t easily…
From the Editor
Walking is good for you but not enough people do it on a regular basis.
Whenever we go to Target or Walmart, or to any "big box" store, all the parking spaces closest to the building are…
Mary’s Musings
Peninsula residents turned out in record numbers last week to hear a presentation on a proposed roundabout near the Boothbay Common, intended to solve some of the…
From the editor
Burnt Island Lighthouse, the second oldest original lighthouse structure in Maine (1821) behind Portland Head Light (1791), needs some work, according to Elaine Jones, who handles the educational…
Mary’s Musings
As caucuses and primaries continue throughout the country, predictions of record turnouts are holding true. Voters are showing they fully intend to exercise their…
From the Editor
The high school and elementary school basketball seasons are over but what a ride it was. A state championship game for the Lady Seahawks — first time in 32 years — and a second straight 17-1…
Mary’s Musings
We’ll be perfectly honest up front: We hate snakes, even if they do play some sort of role in the environmental scheme of things. We’ve never oohed or aahed over a…
From the Editor
Suzie Edwards, a 9-year-old fourth grader at Boothbay Region Elementary School, has been singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” for several years. She has sung the national anthem before several local…
Mary’s Musings
The ongoing fight between the FBI and Apple has folks taking sides as to whether or not the FBI should be able to access the iPhone records of the late Syed Farook…
From the editor
Granted, the Boothbay region had two basketball teams playing in the Class C South tournament at the Augusta Civic Center on Monday, but the turnout was pretty awesome considering the two games…
Mary’s Musings
We’ve found ourselves a bit envious of our neighboring New Hampshire residents of late. Why? They get to personally meet — or at least see and hear — most of the…
From the editor
I am writing as a high school basketball junkie this week, so if you're not a fan, stop reading and walk out of the gym.
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Mary’s Musings
It’s time for some trash talk. While winter isn’t over, we’ve had a lot of bare ground this year and the view out the car window of our roadsides isn’t pretty.…
From the editor
Halleluja! Old Man Winter has traveled south and north of us this year. And Punxsutawny Phil is predicting an early spring.
Either my memory is going or I just can't remember a winter like…
Mary’s Musings
It was with a heavy heart that I prepared the announcement in last week’s issue that the annual Fishermen’s Festival in Boothbay Harbor had come to an end after more…
From the Editor
Congratulations to Coach I.J. Pinkham for amassing 600 wins in his 40-year coaching career. His Boothbay Region High School teams have provided many tournament appearances over the years — perhaps…
Mary’s Musings
A television news item last week, as well as recent written articles, got our attention since it was all about seaweed, something with which all Maine folks, and…
From the Editor
Death is not a topic of everyday conversation, though it is inevitable. As a music fan of the '60s and '70s, death has struck us rock fans hard so far in 2016. Two rock heavyweights have left us:…
Mary’s Musings
With all of the important issues facing Maine folks, we couldn’t help but be a little disgusted when we learned recently that the Legislature’s Government Oversight…
From the Editor
The number of deaths due to drug overdoses for the first nine months of 2015, as recently released by Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills and the Office of the…
Mary’s Musings
Thirty-one of the region’s talented young Y-arts performers will be on their way to Atlanta this weekend to take part in the 11th annual Junior Theater Festival.…
From the Editor
There was only one advantage to being out of work with the flu on Monday; the newspaper paginators left me with only this amount of space for an editorial.
It is just enough space to thank…
Mary’s Musings
After unbelievably beautiful autumn weather, winter finally arrived shortly after Christmas, only a week later than its official calendar date. Here on the Maine…
From the Editor
Through the wonder of technology, I was able to work at home on Tuesday. Getting through my second week with a cold, I didn't want to spread any more germs to my co-workers, managed to get a…
Mary’s Musings
We’re sure Edgecomb selectmen weren’t at all surprised when Maine Department of Transportation state traffic engineer Steve Landry told them on December 21 that…
From the Editor
This week was my 29th Christmas week spent in this office at 97 Townsend Avenue. As always, Christmastime is a bit melancholy, thinking back of the past year, as well as past years, of people you'…
Mary’s Musings
While there are probably a couple of exceptions, most of you have your Christmas shopping all done, and are busy making plans for Christmas Eve, Christmas morning,…
From the Editor
The hustle and bustle of the Christmas season is upon us and taking the time to relax between your holiday chores – shopping, tree, decorating, concerts, wrapping, baking, mailing, etc., etc. – is…
Mary’s Musings
We know many Maine residents make day trips to the Boothbay peninsula in the summer, but in December? Who would believe it? Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has…
From the editor
Having been involved as a player, fan, coach, fan (again) and reporter at Boothbay vs. Wiscasset boys basketball games since about 1971, it has been interesting to see how the "rivalry" has…
Mary’s Musings
Before you can drive a car by yourself, you need to pass both a written and a road test. To open a restaurant and serve food, you must be licensed and then you’re…
From the Editor
Our Thanksgiving gathering and meal was wonderful. Over 30 relatives and friends gathered at the Southport Town Hall and brought more food than was consumed. The ages of those attending ranged…
Mary’s Musings
We’ve enjoyed superb fall weather, and while we’re all hoping there are at least a few more warm days ahead, we’re all painfully aware that the calendar says it’s…
From the Editor
Life is full of unexpected events. These events can be happy, sad, surprising or traumatic. In the past two weeks, it seems like I have experienced them all.
The unexpected and the expected…
Mary’s Musings
At this point in the campaign for the 2016 Presidential election, it appears that many Americans are, as the saying goes, “fired up.’’ For the first time in at…
From the Editor
As a former basketball coach at Boothbay Region High School, I always looked forward to this week — pre-season practice, the handing out of uniforms and insurance forms, and getting the ball…
Mary’s Musings
We don’t like driving after dark. It apparently has a lot to do with age, because we’ve talked to a number of fellow senior citizens who share our sentiments. If it…
From the Editor
We're hoping it came from the heart.
On our way to the movies on Saturday, Nov. 7, our older granddaughter, Ella, who is 7, and the rest of us in the car spied a local resident hanging…
From The Editor
This week, I am offering a few words of praise for organizations and people I have put off for one reason or another.
For weeks I have been meaning to thank our area fire departments and…
Mary’s Musings
TV audiences and the candidates themselves aren’t happy with the GOP presidential debate televised Oct. 28 which was strong on what are being called “gotcha’’…
