Several local organizations are coming together to provide kids and teens with free, healthy meals throughout the summer through the USDA funded Summer Food Service Program.
The program is…
Life
The Boothbay Region Elementary School Title I Reading Lab held their “Summer Send-Off and Celebration” on May 21 for students and their families.
While Hawaiian music played in the…
On Saturday, June 15 grab your blanket and picnic basket, bring family members, neighbors and friends, your instruments, voices, talents, and dancing shoes - or just your enthusiasm and listening…
Get out your calendar and note the annual “Bands for Books” party benefiting Wiscasset Public Library, on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The event, held since 2014, features…
The Quilters will meet June 10 at 2 p.m. at Faith Baptist Church, Mills Road, Newcastle. Help with a community service project, or work on a project of your own. You may bring your own food and…
Charming, enchanting and enticing are words that easily describe this tiny 1920s home that is filled inside and out with interesting and delightful things to see! Most items inside the home have…
The latest exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine will feature a collection of the artifacts that have been given to the HHRC over the years and compiled in…
On May 22 at the Newagen Seaside Inn, a large and lively group of St. Andrews Auxiliary members and volunteers gathered to celebrate the past year of service to the community.
Significant…
A banana brought down the house.
Southport Central School's annual Spring Concert at Southport Town Hall Wednesday, May 29 was mostly serious, as a number of songs and recitings were about…
Taylor Walby of Boothbay Harbor graduates magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts on May 11.
The ceremony took place on…
The Lincoln Home is once again celebrating its employees for a perfect Department of Health and Human Resources survey. Every two years all Assisted Living communities are surveyed…
Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days Festival
* All events held in downtown Boothbay Harbor unless otherwise specified * All events subject to change…
On Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., an AARP Driver Safety Class will be hosted by the Hodgdon Green…
It’s time to introduce our second “Seeing:” photo gallery offering. This time we would like to receive your best photos depicting “reflections” or “shadows.” Water, glass and mirrors are good…
Boothbay Region Elementary School
Grandparents and grandfriends enjoyed the morning and part of the afternoon with Boothbay Region Elementary School kindergarten through fourth grade classes May 24. Student Hayley Holbrook…
Local historian Jerry Wiles will present the second part of the history of the Berlin Wall on Monday, June 3, from 2 to 3 p.m. For almost 30 years the Berlin Wall stood as a symbol in a divided…
Live, laugh and love!
Wow, what a busy, awesome, wonderful weekend. Lots of amazing people helped me celebrate my birthday weekend. As a kid, having your birthday on Memorial Day was a bummer. Being in a tourist town,…
Three of the winners of Heartwood’s 2019 fundraiser raffle are actually repeat winners from previous Heartwood raffles.
And…
From Magnolia Pictures and Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, a new film “Woman at War” comes to the…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites landowners to learn how to spot and identify common invasive plants on Saturday, June 8 starting at 10 a.m. as part of a two-part series on invasive…
Last week Boothbay Harbor Police School Resource Officer Larry Brown presented a bicycle safety course to students in physical education/health teacher Dennis Dacus’ classes. Officer Brown spoke…
Parents in Lincoln County are invited to complete a local survey for a chance to win up to $250. Healthy Lincoln County is conducting the survey, which is aimed at parents and grandparents of…
Gretchen E. Elder of Edgecomb, a Northeastern University student majoring in communication studies, was recently named to the university's dean's list for the spring semester, which ended in April…
On Tuesday, May 21, Boothbay Region Elementary School’s Jump Rope Club hosted its annual jump rope show. This year teaming up with the school’s twirling club, students from all grades came…
Sue Hochstein of Boothbay Harbor, Barbara Belknap of Damariscotta and Audrey Miller of East Boothbay attended the spring meeting of the Maine Daughters of the American Revolution in Auburn, Maine…
The Boothbay Sea and Science Center, a program that combines experimental marine learning with sailing, finished yet another successful program on May 10. The Exploring the Science of Seaweed…
Indivisible-Boothbay
Plastic floating in the ocean might not look like a bag or bottle. According to researchers and activists, microplastics – pieces no larger than 5 mm – are being found in mass quantities in rivers…
To bee or not to bee. If that is the question, Midcoast Conservancy offers two opportunities to learn more about these valued pollinators. Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the…
Celebrate the start of summer at Historic New England’s annual Open House at Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House on Saturday, June 1. Free guided tours will be given at each house on the half…
Back in 2014, the St. Andrews Auxiliary was searching for a way to honor the memory of those who had faithfully, over many years, served the community through their work with the Auxiliary. A…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
The Boothbay Region Garden Club’s 2019 Home and Garden Tour on Friday, July 19, in Boothbay Harbor and Southport Island, could also be dubbed a walking tour as participants will traverse the…
The seventh and eighth grade class of Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning spent three days at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, as participants in Maine’s Model United Nations…
New Ventures Maine (NVME), a statewide community outreach program of the University of Maine at Augusta, is pleased to announce that the receipt of a $20,000 grant from the Doree Taylor Charitable…
It was a cold dismal late afternoon in Edgecomb. A soft thump sounded on the picture window outside in the damp cold. My husband slowly opened the storm door, peering outside. The small, limp body…
Live, laugh and love!
Okay, back to a real Maine dish – baked stuffed haddock (fresh from Pinkham’s, of course) topped off with a lobster Newburg (once again Pinkham’s, just picked a half of pound of the freshest…
Boothbay Region High School
Rising ninth grader orientation has become a rite of passage for Boothbay Region Elementary School students. Parents and 38 students took part May 17. Students were invited to don their “Class of…
The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce Chip Schwehm is the first recipient of the Chamber’s Outstanding Teacher Award at Boothbay Regional High School. The Chamber’s…
Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club
The Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club announces its new charitable community service program of funding Educational Grants to prepare for working in a chosen vocation in Lincoln County.
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The Plastic Free Peninsula Committee will give a free presentation at the Indivisible-Boothbay meeting tonight, May 21, at the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club from 5-7 p.m.
The committee will…
Heartwood
Heartwood Theater’s Online Fundraiser is nearing the finish line, sales closing at midnight, Thursday, May 23. Winners will be drawn at a fun event at 5 p.m. Friday, May 24 at…
Hannah K. Elder graduated from Simmons University, earning a master’s of science degree from the University’s School of Library and Information Science, with a concentration in Cultural Heritage.…
Popular juried crafters with unique products created on the Midcoast of Maine show their wares at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, 4 Oak Street,…
The Portland Stage Studio Series presents a workshop of “Death Wings” by Portland Stage Affiliate Artist Bess Welden on Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24 at 7 p.m. in the Studio Theater at…
Spring planting at the Boothbay Common and area window boxes will be done on Monday, May 20 at 10 a.m. Spring planting at the Armillary Garden will be done on Thursday, May 23 at 9 a.m.
Who will be crowned our next Miss Windjammer or King of the Harbor?
Youth, ages 9 to 12, wishing to compete for either of those crowns in the Boothbay’s Got Talent event should pick up an…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD
All 17 articles of the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District budget passed unanimously in 27…
Coping with your own or a loved one’s mental health challenges? If so, a combined support group meets on the third Tuesday of each month. The group meets at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Emery…
This year’s Edgecomb Eddy School Yard Sale will be held Saturday, May 25 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Those interested in having a table, the cost is $10 and the proceeds go to benefit the 6th…
Small change over six weeks accumulated to a big donation for the Boothbay Region Food Pantry. In March, Boothbay Region Elementary School students began waging their annual Penny Wars which…
The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) is pleased to announce that the American Legion and Easterseals Maine will be points of contact for distribution of Veterans’ Emergency Financial…
