The Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) is deeply concerned by Canada’s announcement that it will impose a 25% tariff on American lobster beginning Sept. 8.…
News
Aug. 26, Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Cemetery District President Skip MacPhee discussed reaching out to Stevens Monument Co. for an estimate to repair several veterans' stones in Boothbay's Wylie…
The deadline for editorial and advertising submissions for the Sept. 10 edition is Friday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper staff will be observing Labor Day Monday,…
Press release
Many people communicate by text…
Who is freedom for? That was the question Dr. Kate McMahon posed Aug. 18 during her lecture exploring the impacts of…
Hearty Roots Hootenanny in Edgecomb
A little bit of Nashville is coming to the Maine coast this September when rising country artist Cam Shelton headlines Hearty Roots’ Hootenanny: Ho-Down Southern Social at Glidden Point Oyster…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum
The countdown is on to Saturday, Aug. 29 for Cocktails & Chrome, the Railway Village Museum’s 3rd annual event in support of the Museum’s “Driving History Forward” capital campaign for the…
First National Bank is proud to…
The Damariscotta Historical Society will once again hold its annual silent auction event to raise funds to preserve ancient burial…
Join us for the unveiling of a special display featuring photographs, history and memories of the East Boothbay School including a piece of the original slate blackboard saved from the school.…
Obituary
Paul Blais, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 12, 2026, after a month's long illness.
Born on May 22, 1945, in the town of…
Southport Methodist Church hosted An August Afternoon of Song, Aug. 23, to a crowd of about 50. Dr. Mary Miller, joined by nine musical artists, performed songs across a balanced playbill spanning…
Patricia Reh is an art lover and last weekend she didn’t have far to go finding some fabulous works. Reh attended all three days of the “Art for…
Death notice
The family of Anne Porter Butler sadly announces her passing Aug. 23, 2026. An obituary will be forthcoming, with details of a celebration of life at St Columba’s Episcopal Church.
The Boothbay Sea and Science Center…
The next monthly meeting of Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) will be held Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 1:15 p.m. in the Boothbay Region Community Center, located in the Meadow Mall on Townsend Avenue,…
Boothbay Region Elementary School’s (BRES) new assistant principal, Nicole Mathews, knows how to handle a crisis, in more ways than one. And saying she's…
On Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 11:30…
It isn't going to happen, but a data center eyed by a man with a Boothbay tie stood to bring to Wiscasset millions of dollars in taxes and about 1,700-2,300 temporary construction…
Clouds hovered over Southport Island and dozens upon dozens of people hovered in and around Southport Fire Department for the annual SFD Fireman's Auction Saturday morning, Aug. 22.
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The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason will lead the last service of the 2026 summer season at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 30. Her sermon is titled “In the City of Angels.”…
Lincoln County deputies Aug. 21 continued to assist and support the NTSB and FAA with their investigation into the cause of a single engine airplane crash in Bristol.…
Local partners will come together…
UPDATE: The sheriff's office has posted the following on Facebook:
"(The) situation has been resolved safely with one subject taken into custody after extended negotiations. The road is…
Aug. 17, the Community School District (CSD) continued its review of Boothbay Region Elementary School's (BRES) $30 million renovation project. Due…
The first problem caused by Edgecomb being down a selectman occurred Aug. 18 as the board canceled its meeting for lack of a quorum. Selectman Cara Gaffney was present, but Chairman Forrest Carver…
The season is coming to a close at the Maine State Aquarium, but not before visitors have a chance to have a whale-y good time!
On Saturday, Aug. 22, visitors can experience the thrill of…
The SVV Corwith Cramer is bigger on the inside. Clocking in at an impressive 134 feet from bowsprit to stern, somehow a multi-layered world also lives…
