Their laughter elevated the energy level in the room.

“1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.”

Director Emily (Moore) Mirabile and her Arts for All singers and dancers are moving to the sounds of “Under…

All are invited to a meet and greet with Lead Montessori School teacher Alexandra Pinkham and Child Enrichment Director Maddie Rideout to learn about the Harbor Montessori School at the Boothbay…

Coastal Enterprises, a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the First-Time…

Chewonki announces open enrollment for its upcoming April Vacation Camp with activities throughout the week in two groups tailored for students in…

The multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin comes to Maine this spring to help kick off the season at Boothbay Harbor’s historic Opera House on Saturday, April 12.

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Seventeen members and two guests were present at the Knights of Pythias meeting on Monday, March 24. Grand Chancellor Michael Sanborn and Brother Allen Frizzell were our guests.

The dart…

If you expect someone who hangs out with dead people to be morbid and dour, you haven’t met Lori Wright Vining.

Vining, secretary/treasurer for the Laurel Grove Cemetery Association in…

“Privilege and Opportunity" by Quinn Gormley of Damariscotta, will be his reflection for the service at Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, March 30. He is currently an…

On Tuesday, March 18, thirty eager seniors turned up at the YMCA between 10 a.m. and noon for the first day of the “Seniors Walk for Free at the Y” program. Most…

The Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF) is featuring artist Elizabeth Palmer, in an art show, at The First Bank in Boothbay Harbor from April 2 to May 30.

Palmer is a New Hampshire and…

As I typed this column just a year ago, I noted it was snowing heavily. Husband Kit’s journal notes that we had 10 inches of snow on March 20, 2013. This year again we have a nor’…

The Boothbay Region Food Pantry continues to serve a record number of clients; 221 families with 529 family members took advantage of our services in…

This winter has tried to do a number on us, for sure, but many of us have found creative outlets to tide us over. Katy Rydell sent out…

This week's featured property in Heartwood’s European Vacation Raffle is a 13th Century Italian stone villa in the hillside village of Ventimiglia, Alpes-Maritimes.

Only 200 tickets at $50…

“Non-Stop” (PG-13) is a suspense thriller played out aboard a jetliner at 40,000 feet. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson)…

Dear Savvy Senior,

Where can I get help with my Medicare decisions? I’m approaching 65, and could use some…

There will be a meeting for all Boothbay Region High School students (and their parents) interested in traveling to Italy next year with Ms. Lewis and Ms. Miller.…

In early April at Boothbay Region Adult Ed you can explore the free tools that Google offers, how to make creative greeting cards using…

Almost all of the Boothbay Region Community Resources' Warming Lunches are now closed for the summer, with one exception: Tuesday’s warming lunch at the Edgecomb…

Scott Lash, Operations Manager of the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service, was the featured speaker at last…

Thatcher Steele-Maley and Ava Carmolli are fifth graders at Edgecomb Eddy School. Ava is the 2013-2014 Geography Bee Champion of Edgecomb Eddy School and Thatcher is the runner-up.

Ava is…

This is the last time you'll get this reminder this year: Nomination papers are available for town elected offices: one selectman, one planning board member and one…

Fifteen members and four guests were present at the Lodge meeting on Monday, March 17.

We welcomed four new members into our Lodge by performing their first rank installation on Monday. We…

Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. has announced that Savanna Poole of Newcastle and Katherine Williams of Damariscotta were named to the fall 2013 dean's list at the college.

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath is inviting members of the public interested in volunteering as seasonal docents at its historic Donnell House on Washington Street in…

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine hosted over 175 Bigs, Littles and their families at its annual program celebrations, held in January and February at the Penobscot Bay YMCA in Rockport and at…

Three of Maine’s most famous opera singers will return home for a special concert honoring PORTopera’s 20th season. Kate Aldrich, Ashley Emerson and Suzanne Nance will appear at…

Join Appalachian Mountain Club members, Mary Hillary and her husband Greg Guckenburg, as they present a slide show and tell…

Come and join local artist Kerry Rodriguez as she teaches “Beginning and Intermediate Botanical Illustration” through Central Lincoln County Adult Education. The six-week course begins Wednesday,…

Home for April vacation week? Looking for some fun and healthy activities for your teen (grades 6-8) to do? Look no further.

The public is invited to a weekend of lectures and presentations to consider the topic of end-of-life care from a liberal arts perspective. The two-…

Take a tour through Maine’s rich artistic history on March 27, as the Portland Museum of Art brings a presentation on the Elizabeth B. Noyce Collection to Schooner Cove in…

The diversity of mediums represented by the two-dimensional artists of Boothbay Harbor's Studio 53 collective at the Damariscotta River Grill will knock you out. The show…

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…

A good crowd of parents, grandparents, swimmers and fans assembled at Hendricks Head Beach beginning about 3 p.m. on Monday, St. Patrick’s Day, for the 14th annual Leprechaun Leap…

Perpetual e-Motion, with fiddler Ed Howe of Whitefield and John Cote of Lewiston, will headline this year's Down East Country Dance Festival March 21 and 22 in Topsham. Howe will play an NS Design…

Most of us could use a little stress reduction, and that is exactly what you will get in the Central Lincoln County Adult Education course, Destress and Reenergize with Energy EFT, taught by…

Last October, when the kindergarten through second grade teachers at Boothbay Region Elementary School returned from a one-on-one iPad program at the Leveraging Learning…

Gardening is a wide (excuse the expression) field.

Apart from the digging and raking, the planting and watering, the weeding, picking, harvesting, and taking pleasure in the resulting beauty…

On March 3, the fifth and sixth graders at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning transformed themselves into amazing gods and goddesses who…

In the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service station training room, emergency medical responders are preparing for an era in which their role will be as much about preventing medical…

Four distinctly gorgeous properties in France and Italy are within reach, via Heartwood's European Vacation Raffle, running through April 4. Only 200 tickets at $50 each will be sold for each…

During the next two weeks at Boothbay Region Adult Ed you can learn about organic gardening, how to work with digital photos on your computer,…

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University is pleased to announce that Eryka Wilson has been named to the dean's list for the…

Set during World War II, “A Farewell To Fools” takes place somewhere in Romania. A German soldier is found dead near a village, and the local authorities must identify the murderer or…

Come help the Southport Central School sixth graders raise money for their spring trip by attending the fifth annual Winter Carnival at the Southport Town Hall on Saturday, March…

Heading up Susie Stephenson’s driveway in Edgecomb, the first thing you notice is the large, fenced-in sloping lawn up to the red Cape, and more fenced in areas beside…

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Knox-Lincoln Farm Bureau and Union Farm Equipment will conduct a tractor safety course beginning…