Join Wiscasset guide Cathy Messmer for a special talk and tour of Castle Tucker focused on food and cooking. The program takes place on Wednesday, Aug. 29 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Find out how young…
Life
Lincoln County College Connection
Are you 19 or older and planning to go to college but don’t know where to start? Could you benefit from one-on-one counseling,…
The Lincoln Home shouts out a huge thank you to over 150 people in our community who came to join in the fun at the Lobster & More event Aug. 18. All ages danced to the lively bluegrass music…
Chester and Alice Trask Fossett celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on Aug. 15 with a clambake at their 1 Atlantic Avenue home, Boothbay Harbor. Ida Decker presided over the renewal of the…
Playgroups are a wonderful way for moms, dads and other caregivers to make new friends, talk about parenting, get out of the house, be reassured that…
Ever wonder what it felt like to wear a bustle or a hoop? Find out at this interactive historic fashion workshop as Site Manager and historic costume collector Peggy Konitzky takes you on the wild…
Emily Sarah Christine Rittershaus, Ph.D., and Richard Benjamin Haggett were married Saturday, Aug. 18 at three o’clock in the afternoon on the harbor side lawn of the bride’s grandparents, Chester…
It might have been just another beautiful summer evening on the banks of the Damariscotta River in Newcastle, had vintage cars not been sitting in the yard of the Lincoln Home at 22 River Road…
No-school announcements
No school announcements will be sent out on Honeywell Instant Alert, AOS98 website (…
Midcoast Conservancy is holding an encore Nature Photo Clinic Snack & Chat on Wednesday, Sept. 12, from 4-5:30 p.m. at its office in Edgecomb. Maia Zewert, marketing & engagement…
Midcoast Senior College is excited to begin its upcoming fall semester at its new location on the Brunswick Landing in the Seeds Center building at 29 Burbank Ave. In July, a ribbon-cutting…
From Maine’s role in the Civil War to power and politics in Renaissance Florence, the breadth of Coastal Senior College’s 14 fall course offerings is impressive. This fall several new instructors…
First National Bank and First Advisors are lead sponsors for ElderCare Network’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. The celebration will kick off with guest speaker Michael Fossel, researcher of…
Nine Maine high school educators completed a week in residence at …
This Saturday, Aug. 25 you can ride the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington (WW&F) Railway to an old-fashioned ice cream social and an evening concert featuring Rough Sawn. Both events will…
2018 Wiscasset Middle High School graduate Vanessa Dunn is following the Boston Red Sox more closely now that she's been to Fenway Park. At the famed major league ballpark July 29, Dunn got a $1,…
The first ghost investigation at Boothbay Railway Village began July 27 with Greg Latimer (Mysterious Destinations, marketing and researcher for Red Cloak Haunted History Tours and author of…
Labor Day is both the traditional end of the summer vacation season and a day to celebrate the hard working people of America. The Westport Island Democrats invite the community to join them at…
Tucked into the corner of Townsend and Eastern avenues is a special place that has been undergoing a transformation. Over the past three years, a meditation garden has been designed and planted on…
On Sunday, Aug. 26, at 3 p.m., Castlebay will present “Bygone Ballads,” a program of traditional songs from Maine, including some from Bremen and Bristol history.…
Who doesn't love a chance to look around a shiny fire truck, a big dump truck, or a speedy race car? There’s going to be the opportunity to explore those and many other vehicles at Wiscasset…
Wiscasset Art Walk
Wiscasset artist Leonard Meiselman will exhibit a selection of recent abstract oil paintings during the Wiscasset Art Walk on Aug. 30, from 5-8 p.m. at Rendall Fine Art, 65 Main St. in Wiscasset…
Children from families whose income is at or below the levels shown below are eligible for meals free or at a reduced rate. A letter and attached application for free or reduced priced meals will…
Breakfast and lunch will be served on the first student day. Kindergarten and all new students will be given a number the first day of school with a picture of the pin-pad and instructions.…
BRES: Routine maintenance and cleaning; annual inspections of fuel tanks, elevators, asbestos, boilers and fire systems; fire panel devices updated, per code.
BRHS: Routine maintenance and…
Times listed are approximate and subject to change after school begins on Aug. 29.
Edgecomb
Bus departing from Edgecomb a.m.
6:40 Depart Edgecomb Eddy,…
Wednesday, Aug. 29 is the first student day for Boothbay Region schools grades Pre-K-9, Southport Central School, and Edgecomb Eddy School. BRHS students in grades 10-12 will begin Thursday, Aug.…
Maine has the oldest population in the U.S., according to last year’s U.S. Census Bureau report.
The good news is a program created in 2014 was designed for seniors to make living at home…
On the third Sunday in August for the seventh straight year, Boothbay Region Community Resource Council held Set for Success in the field house of the Boothbay Region YMCA. Churches, businesses…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Linda Redman, Boothbay Region Garden Club (BRGC) member and local beekeeper, recently addressed the garden club on the intricacies and rewards of beekeeping. Redman walked the group through not…
One of New England’s largest family bluegrass festivals, the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating its 51st festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds (30 Plains Road, Litchfield).…
Camp Knickerbocker kids are riding into the past this summer at Boothbay Railway Village. Each week, the campers arrive for a history lesson. During the two-hour presentations, campers learn how…
AOS 98
The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District Board of Trustees and School Committee talked in the Boothbay Region High School cafeteria to discuss the recent Honeywell energy audit and…
Aug. 22, 5-7 p.m.
The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce will host a Business After Hours for First National Bank. The event will take place at The Gathering on Route 96, on Wednesday, Aug. 22 from 5 to 7 p…
For those struggling with mental health challenges, the strength to tackle issues can come from discussing them confidentially in a group setting.
For those with family members who are…
At 10 minutes to 2 Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 14, the world music drums — 20 in all — sat in a circle at St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor, their resplendent colors cast against silence.
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On Oct. 15 the Central Lincoln County YMCA (CLC YMCA) and Boothbay Region YMCA (BR YMCA) will begin offering the YMCA’s Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program, designed to help participants with…
Wiscasset’s Steve Whitfield has worn a tie to work nearly every day of his 42 years in education, first in Wiscasset, then Lewiston.
Last school year, the Martel School principal never wore…
The Chapman-Hall House Stewardship Committee announces a new exhibit, Dressing the Chapman Family 1750 -1830. Mannequins dressed in appropriate fashions of the period are arranged in five…
The sculptures in the region’s first Food Sculpture Contest held at Boothbay Railway Village’s Town Hall were very impressive and tempting! The contest and the Boothbay Harbor Region Sculpture…
Sometimes Cecile Clifford takes one or two of the Wogs outside and poses them near flowers in her gardens, under trees or mushrooms, takes photos and then imagines a conversation they might be…
August is National Immunization Awareness month. We want to remind everyone that people of all ages should have timely vaccinations to prevent diseases, ranging from polio to the flu, to pneumonia…
Maine’s First Ship is celebrating the end of a very busy summer with a Full Moon Dinner on Sunday, Aug. 26 at the Bath Freight Shed. This farm-to-table favorite began in the summer of 2013 as a…
Friday, Sept. 14
Join us at Cook’s Lobster & Ale House on Bailey Island to raise money for the…
Each August the Garden Therapy team from the Boothbay Region Garden Club (BRGC) meets at St. Andrews Village with flowers collected from several home gardens to assist residents of the Gregory…
Popham Beach's annual Historic Parade celebrates the arrival of the colonists to the village in 1607. The parade is led by founder George Popham and his second-in-command, Raleigh Gilbert,…
Are you looking for a new birding spot? Do you have a question about a bird you might have seen on your last visit to the beach? Join us for this month’s KELT Untapped! The Kennebec Estuary Land…
Central Lincoln County Adult Ed
“But if I write what my soul thinks, then it will be visible and the words will be its body.” - Helen Keller
Elizabeth Potter of Round Pond believes everyone is a writer,…
During 2018 The Eldercare Network of Lincoln County will be celebrating 20 years of service to Lincoln County’s older adults. Through special community based programs including an Age Positive…
Nothing succeeds like success. On Sunday, Aug. 19, at 1 p.m., the Boothbay Region Community Resource Council will prove just that when the doors of the YMCA Field House open for the annual “Set…
