Major League Baseball returned to the airwaves – live! – this week. It was something I was looking forward to watching besides the fourth or fifth round of sitcoms, Red Sox or Celtics rewind shows…
Editorial
From the assistant editor
If you think it’s hot wearing a mask around town in July, you are right. But instead of your trip though the grocery store with a brief refuge in the frozen section, maybe lingering with the door…
From the editor
I decided this week to take the first week in August as a vacation week. Like everyone, I have been inundated with daily pandemic news since March and I feel it’s time to take a break. I am going…
From the assistant editor
What’s wrong with running for school committee? Yes, your time put in may outweigh, at times vastly, the stipend. And, like other town panels, a school committee is an easy mark for political…
From the editor
Heading down Shore Road and seeing the white-haired man using a cane to get to the picnic table covered with a red and white checkered tablecloth, while other family members were bringing out food…
From the assistant editor
As the summer of strange and still scary on some fronts continues, our towns are getting down to serious business doing their same old business in new ways and places, indoors and out, and…
From the editor
Did June feel like one long day to you? It did to me. I guess when you don’t do anything exciting, the days turn into weeks and then the month is up, just like that. Other than covering the local…
From the assistant editor
The swimming hole Atlantic Salmon Federation and Alna officials said Head Tide Dam would not lose is still there, and getting a lot of use these hot days. This is the first summer swimmers have…
From the editor
A Boothbay Harbor business owner contacted me a couple of weeks ago. She said business was down and perhaps one of the reasons why – besides the COVID-19 pandemic – was that people didn’t know her…
From the assistant editor
An especially strong gust blew across Wiscasset’s graduation early in Friday night’s ceremony, knocking off one of the floral displays. And a strong one near the end of Morse High School’s at…
From the editor
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers I know and don’t know. Sunday, June 21 will be quite a melancholy day for me despite my being a father. My siblings – six of them, including my older sister…
From the assistant editor
Has anyone noticed a lack of traffic tie-ups on Wiscasset’s Route 1 post-Memorial Day? Usually by now, some of the time, cars are backed up to Ames or even the Woolwich line, not counting…
From the editor
In these troubling times, we all look for words of comfort, ideas to help us make it through the day.
Over the years, I have collected various articles, photos, staff and personal notes,…
From the assistant editor
First, the bad news: 2020 isn’t even half over. Like an especially bad Maine winter and it’s only December, it just feels endless.
Many of us are doing all we can, except those who look…
From the editor
Dear BRHS and WMHS 2020 graduates,
Here’s hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest curve ball you will face in your lives. The pandemic is a hard-breaking curve that made all of our…
From the assistant editor
Raise your hand if you know a senior. Not the seniors so many of us in this region are, or are getting to be. I’m talking about the other seniors: Those just becoming adults and nearly half a…
From the editor
I am amazed and thankful that teachers (and students) adapted to online instruction so quickly and so well because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They – both teachers and students – are a wonderful lot…
From the assistant editor
Will the coronavirus spring make for the summer of strange? It already has, felling everything from St. Philip’s strawberry festival to Pumpkinfest; and more importantly are the lasting impacts…
From the editor
That is our job as journalists – getting the facts. We do our best to find the best sources and get that information to our readers, day after day, week after week, year after year. We aren’t…
From the assistant editor
Nothing but what the seniors’ older siblings and cousins got for a Wiscasset graduation will look or feel exactly right. That big day and then the moving on with their diplomas and lives are the…
From the editor
It felt good to get outside and take some photos of people doing things this week. Besides battling the weather – seems like it has rained every other day this spring – and the slew of…
From the assistant editor
One of the friendly faces around Wiscasset Municipal Airport gave me a call the other day. I have interviewed pilot Lisa Reece and her husband and fellow pilot Steve Williams, or both, many times…
From the editor
No Memorial Day Parade, no Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races, and no Windjammer Days. Three of the Boothbay region’s major events scheduled before the July 4 holiday have been canceled due to the…
From the assistant editor
Be disappointed it hasn’t been a normal spring for getting around to your favorite places to eat, shop and recreate, from Wiscasset Community Center and Boothbay Region YMCA, to the made-over…
From the editor
Not much room in my printed page corner this week, so here goes.
♦ Did you read or hear about the return of Prickles, the barefaced merino sheep who went unshorn for seven years after…
From the assistant editor
Until recently, “Zoom,” for me, was a PBS children’s show when I was a kid. I remember a good egg salad recipe from it (it’s the yellow mustard!) or was that on “Big Blue Marble?” and, on “Zoom”…
From the editor
One of my Mom’s favorite words of advice was “Good things come to those who help themselves.” I adhere to that advice, and I also want to add to it: “Good things come to those who help others.”…
From the assistant editor
Check it out.
You are not seeing double. We have both papers’ names atop page 1 this week. And our editorial and sports and education pages are combined, too. The editorial page, where the…
From the editor
I decided to not write solely about the coronavirus pandemic after four weeks of doing so in this column (too depressing) so I am using my old stand-by of writing about “Three things,” which I…
From the editor
More than one person has contacted me over the past couple of weeks about the proposed (but nixed) delay of the summer water start and about columns which suggest that summer residents and…
From the editor
The COVID-19 pandemic has virtually shut down the world. Our day-to-day routines of going to work or school, taking a vacation, or attending funerals for our loved ones have been altered to the…
From the editor
We are all dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and if you have internet access, you have surely found dozens of ways to handle social distancing, the correct way to wash your hands, isolation,…
From the editor
My apologies to Rachel Carson. I'm not stealing her famous book title. I am using it as a metaphor of what we're all going through right now concerning the coronavirus outbreak.
Don't you…
Selection Sunday is March 15. For the non-basketball fans out there, that’s when they pick the field of teams for the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, which feature dozens of games…
From the editor
I.J. Pinkham and Toby LeConte – two icons of the Boothbay region school system – announced last week that they will be leaving their respective positions.
Having worked with them over the…
From the editor
I had my to-do list ready, got a few things done, then “bam,” our internet provider went down around 8:30 on Monday morning – a replay of what happened in December.
We received email OK,…
From the editor
Basketball tournament time is great. You get to catch up with friends and neighbors as the towns clear out to gather at the Augusta Civic Center to cheer on the high school teams during school…
From the editor
It has been another great season of Seahawk boys and girls basketball — 30 wins and only six losses combined. Our season rival, Winthrop, has had just as fine a season and it may come down to a…
From the editor
We have a new (former) printer, Lincoln County Publishing Company, in case you didn’t read the printed article or the featured story online.
Not much will change in the immediate future as…
From the editor
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, author of “Fight Club” and “Lullaby”
Writing and talking about death is…
From the editor
Cheers to the area public works crews for their fine job of clearing the snow and ice off the roads after the several nuisance storms we've had so far this month. Again, as a reminder, motorists,…
From the editor
For many, many months, I have thought a lot about our area schools. Perhaps it started when Wiscasset shuttered its primary school on Gardiner Road and moved those classes to the elementary school…
From the assistant editor
We don’t do our job for the thanks. We stay in this line of work because it suits our skills, it matters to us, or, ideally, both. That makes the best product, like in any business. But in recent…
From the editor
As editor, I get story ideas, updates, press releases, letters to the editor, photos, etc. through various methods – email, my personal Facebook page, texts, through the mail slot in the office…
From the editor
One of my go-to headlines … three things. We are crunched for time this week to get the paper to the printer by 5 p.m. on Monday because of New Year’s Day. I took a couple of vacation days after…
From the editor
The newspaper depends on area columnists and news contributors to help fill the pages with words and photos that make it a true community grab each week.
The columnists keep their “people”…
From the editor
We have been inundated with the sights and sounds since before Halloween, now it's only a few more days until we celebrate Christmas.
Now, I don't mean to be a grump, but I always have…
From the assistant editor
Unless you were taking full advantage of last weekend’s mild second half, including that glorious Sunday morning as all December days should look and feel, you might have noticed…
From the editor
Cheers to everyone involved in spreading cheer before the holidays in the Boothbay and Wiscasset regions. The events over the past weekend brought out residents and visitors to the towns to…
From the editor
Oh, the weather outside is frightful … You know me, Mr. Winter Hater!
As I type away, we’re having our first big snowstorm of the season. Every year, I try to not get discouraged…
