While nothing says winter like the scent of raw shrimp in our kitchens (most years anyway), nothing says spring like…
Life
St. Andrews Village
Alice giggles, her face scrunched up in a grin as she holds Lexi, the Boston terrier.
“I love her. I miss her when she doesn’t come,” said Alice, whose family…
Boothbay Region YMCA
The Boothbay Region YMCA is offering the following free demonstration classes next week.
Monday, April 14: Tony's Dance Fiesta with Tony Garreton, 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
Tuesday, April 15…
The ice is out on the school pond and on Sawyer’s Pond. What is falling from the sky today is rain, not snow or sleet, and fog envelopes the island. Perhaps the winter gods are…
April is the cruelest month, the poet sings, thinking perhaps of the Ides of April when our taxes must be turned in. On the other hand, April brings Easter, with its preludes and antecedents, Palm…
Center for Teaching and Learning
Imagine a school where each day begins with a morning meeting between students and teachers, an informal get together to discuss current events, share news, sing a song,…
What’s Cooking
Garlic — hate it or love it? Scientific evidence supports the idea that we should all eat lots of it. Garlic apparently has a molecular mechanism that may offer some true health benefits. The…
There is some exciting news to report this week. Meredith McFall, daughter of Tom and Kate McFall, will be married this summer at Ocean Point to her fiancé James Kerr…
Center for Teaching and Learning
On Saturday, March 29, 10 third and fourth graders from Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning participated in a poetic shorts event at the Maine Coast Bookshop in Damariscotta to promote the…
Get To Know...
As a teen in Boothbay Harbor in the late 1910s, Deane Keller delivered ice to fellow summer residents, with a horse named Colonel.
Nearly three decades later,…
Palm Sunday
This week, the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor congregation will celebrate Palm Sunday with a parade of palms. Rev. Sarah Foulger will…
The Boothbay Harbor region is one of the most special places in the world. For year-round residents and summer guests alike, the pull of this place is…
March’s soup-er supper was outstanding. The hall was festive with St. Patrick’s Day decorations, and the variety of soups that was dished out was myriad. There was escarole, bean and sausage soup…
The Hyssongs will be presenting a concert of Gospel music at Boothbay Region Community Fellowship at the American Legion Hall in Boothbay on Sunday, April 13 at 6 p.m.
Dell, Susan and…
Adult Education
Now that spring is finally here and the weather is getting warmer, soon it will be boating season. Boothbay Region Adult & Community Education…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District
The CSD School Committee has a full agenda for its Wednesday, April 9 meeting: Adopt the proposed 2014-2015 budget, adopt the 2014-2015 school calendar, and…
Edgecomb Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, will be observing Holy Week with the following services.
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Boothbay Region High School was awarded a $1,500 athletics grant on Friday, April 4…
Boothbay Region YMCA
It’s official! The Montessori school at the Boothbay Region YMCA has a name, date of opening and two…
The following students were named to Boothbay Region High School's third-quarter honor roll:
Freshmen
High Honors: Samuel Betts, Jacob Bishopp, Nicole…
Out of Context
Each week, we compile our favorite quotes from our reporters’ stories, interviews and elsewhere and publish them here. We call it “Out of Context.”
To delve further into the stories, simply…
Coastal Studies for Girls will hold an open house at the Coastal Studies for Girls campus located at 308 Wolfe’s Neck Road in Freeport on Sunday, April 13 from 2-4 p.…
Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund
Who has never dreamed of being a young broadcast sports journalist, seated aloft at Fenway Park, and excitedly describing the home run blast sealing a Red Sox…
Community Lunch, originally known as Warming Space, began in November 2008. A group from St. Columba's Episcopal Church prepared soup, bread and dessert, and hosted the meal one Thursday each…
The Lincoln Academy Student Art Show exhibit on display at River Arts, includes ceramics and sculpture, complemented by two-dimensional pieces from Lincoln’s advanced and AP art students. The show…
Wiscasset School Committee
Talks are under way between Wiscasset and Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 on two potential partnerships, Wiscasset's interim superintendent Wayne Dorr said April 3.
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Boothbay Region High School
Samantha Carter said the day-long Interact Club conference in York on March 29 gave her lots of ideas for fundraising.
Carter, a Boothbay Region High School sophomore and president of the…
Knights of Pythias
Seventeen members and three guests were present when Lodge opened at 7 p.m. March 31. Everyone enjoyed a fish chowder supper prepared for our four new members. Thank you to Garry and Tim for…
The following is a list of Holy Week services at St. Columba's Episcopal Church, Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor.
April 13: Palm Sunday: 10 a.m. service
April 17: Maundy Thursday: 7 p.m.…
Video
The Boothbay Region Student Health Advisory Board recently attended a Maine Youth Action Conference, where they took first place for their public service…
What’s Cooking
Monday dinners are sans meat in our house — are they in yours?
The “Meatless Monday” movement is an international campaign that encourages people to not eat meat on Mondays to promote personal…
The “Meatless Monday” movement is an international campaign that encourages people to not eat meat on Mondays to promote personal…
Last week we were anticipating a snowstorm, but endured wind and rain instead. This week is forecast to be lovely, above freezing and sunny until Saturday. The residual, dirty snow…
Congratulations to Kathryn Barter, winner of the 100 gallons of fuel oil from the Dead River Oil through Project Graduation's raffle.
The next Project Graduation raffle is underway with some…
Sophia Thayer, a senior at Boothbay Region High School, has been selected to receive the 2014 Principal’s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’…
Maine Authors
It had never occurred to her to write about lost pirate treasure, curses and the supernatural. Now, she loves it.
“She” is Bangor native Patricia Hughes, and the book that started it all, “…
What an amazing turnout we had at on March 28 for our fundraiser at Boothbay Craft Brewery. We want to thank all who came to meet the members of the Boothbay Lions…
On Thursday, April 3, youth from New England will be convening on the Hyde School campus in Bath for the Maine Youth Leadership Day: Leadership and Character. They…
Adult Education
Join Dianne Daniels, exercise physiologist, to learn The Ten Best Exercises for Osteoporosis on Thursday, April 10. We will discuss…
The odds of winning a dream vacation in Heartwood Theater’s raffle are simply unbelievable (as low as 1 in 30) depending on the property selection, with the purchase of a single ticket. Purchasing…
Lincoln County Healthcare Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations Cindy Wade, RN, can predict her director of safety’s reaction to a story in Consumer Reports that gave…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Elizabeth Stanley will be the featured speaker at the April 9 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club.
…
Boothbay Region High School
Down the stairs in the shop room at Boothbay Region High School, nine kids are busy over fret boards, carefully soldering wires while teacher Chip Schwehm observes and assists.
These kids…
Savvy Senior
Dear Savvy Senior,
What types of amplification products can you recommend to help people with hearing…
Flowers of the Forest: Let us say farewell to Elizabeth Goodrich, a former Edgecomb resident, who had been living with family in Alna since her husband, Charles…
Grow it it Maine
To some gardeners, weeds are the outcasts of plant society.
To others, weeds can be a matter of taste.
Ox-eye daisies, which hitchhiked to the New World, probably in the hay used as…
The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts will hold the 18th annual Soup Bowl Supper on Thursday, April 3 beginning at 6 p.m. at The…
Healthy Lincoln County, Let’s Go! Lincoln County and Lincoln County Healthcare sponsor an annual winter physical challenge, and this year as a county we all went "…
Jefferson
St. Giles Episcopal Church in Jefferson is hosting another free supper for Midcoast residents on Saturday April 5, at 5 p.m.
This will be the fourth in a monthly series of suppers offered…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) was recently named the 2014 Maine Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year. The award acknowledges not only HVNC’s commitment to…
“New Lives/New England,” a traveling exhibition and series of artist presentations, will have its opening night on Thursday, April 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Michael Klahr Center, home of the…
