It took Alna's acting archivist Doreen Conboy a while to get around to looking at the papers tightly stuffed into two brown, paper bags.

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Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts is pleased to announce a partnership with the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay to host Watershed's 2012 Summer Artists Speaker Series.

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The artist whose mural was removed from the Maine Department of Labor last year will speak at the Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta on Thursday, Aug. 2.
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A glimpse into the world of Joseph Jones, who operated a scow shipping business along the Sheepscot at the turn of the century, will be the topic of a presentation given Doreen Conboy at the…

Polar researcher and Bigelow Senior Research Scientist Dr. Paty Matrai will lead a Tuesday, July 31, Café Scientifique discussion titled “Anatomy of an Arctic Cloud — Sea Ice, Aerosols, and…

Interested in finding out about how honeybees live, work, gather nectar and pollen and create a queen? Join John and Jean Webster for a Backyard Beekeeping Demonstration and Talk on Tuesday, July…

Failing to prepare for the inevitable, whether it’s end-of-life care or changes to the tax code, can result in financial losses or saddling family members with hard decisions during already…

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens horticulturist Will Bridges knows his trees, shrubs and vines: woody plants. He’ll present an indoor and outdoor workshop in their uses and benefits at the…

Greg Paxton, executive director of Maine Preservation, an organization whose mission is to provide sound stewardship of historical properties for community enhancement, will speak at the Boothbay…

With the helmet-shaped shell of a Blanding’s turtle, Brutus is fairly easy to distinguish from Carolina, an Eastern Box turtle. Her dome-like shell has a pattern designed to camouflage her on a…

“Poker Tales” by William E. Heise (Jackson-Graham, paperback $14.95) will have its Maine book debut on Friday, July 27, when the author makes an appearance at Sherman’s Books and Stationery to…

As part of the Maine Maritime Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebration, Gazela Primeiro, a 177-foot three-masted wooden sailing ship, will be open for visits Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15,…

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is hosting the second of three public tours of the science facilities at its new Ocean Science and Education Campus at 60 Bigelow Dr. in East Boothbay on…

The director of the National Climate Assessment told a Boothbay audience Tuesday that global warming is very, very real.

“It is about science. It is not a political campaign,” National…

The first workshop this season at Beachcombers’ Rest Nature Center in Pemaquid will be Friday, July 20, from 10:30 a.m. to noon and will about “Lobster Senses.”

Dr. Diane Cowan of The…

Historian Jay Robbins will give an illustrated talk covering the role of alcohol in our local communities and economies from about 1740 until 1800.

This is the period when we made the…

The best way to improve your health is to ignore trendy diets and pill-based health cures and get back to basics, said Dr. Tim Goltz.

Goltz, a Lincoln Medical Partners Primary Care Physician…

The oil, gas or electric bill comes every month, and for the average homeowner energy costs are a budgetary concern and little else.

Unless one is building a new home, the subject of “doing…

When Huntington, an eastern screech owl, was younger, his feet became caught in a fence. That could have been the end of the little guy, but he was rescued. Last year, he came to live in Wiscasset…

Skidompha’s Chats with Champions Committee and Maine Coast Book Shop invite you to hear Monica Wood whose new book “When We Were the Kennedys” has just been published.

Wood will appear in…

Bigelow Laboratory is hosting two separate Café Scientifique events during the third week of July.

In the Boothbay Harbor Opera House at 86 Townsend Ave., Dr. Willie Wilson, director of the…

Medicare workshops are available at Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center in Damariscotta during the month of July.

The workshops are designed for community members who are: ap-…

Jack Bauman will present an informal talk at the Boothbay Region Historical Society’s popular speakers series at noon on Friday, July 13.

The event, part of the society’s brown-bag lunch and…

The Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will be hosting a faith-based training session with The Religious Coalition Against Discrimination and Equality Maine at the Mobius Community Center…

The Southport Island Association is proud to present “Sugar, Sex and Poison: Shocking Plant Secrets Caught on Camera,” a free lecture given by William Cullina, the Executive Director of Coastal…

There will be two natural history presentations followed by walking tours of the Chewonki campus on Friday, July 6, from 1 to 2 p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 2, from 2 to 3 p.m.

Each presentation…

Rebecca Jacobs and Hildy Ellis of Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District will present a lecture series with tips on how you can beautify your home landscape…

Bigelow Laboratory will begin its 2012 summer Café Scientifique series at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10 with a talk by guest speaker Kathy Jacobs, Director of the National Climate Assessment and…

Senator Christopher Johnson (D-Lincoln County) will host two community public forums on the changes to Maine law that were enacted during the recent legislative session. The first will be in…

Mid-Coast Audubon will hold its annual membership meeting on Friday, June 29, at the Farmhouse Gallery space at Round Top Farm, Main Street in Damariscotta.

There will be an hour-long live…

Sen. Chris Johnson (D-Lincoln County) will host two community forums on the changes to Maine law enacted during the recent legislative session.

The first will be at the Waldoboro Fire…