The Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary Used Book Sale will take place on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Merrymeeting Plaza, 147 Bath Road in Brunswick. Thousands of gently…
News
The Second Congregational Church of Newcastle, UCC has announced its Holy Week and Easter worship service plans.
On Sunday, March 25 Palm/Passion Sunday begins Holy Week…
Public encouraged to check their own storage units
ROCKLAND — Maine State Police, working with the four sheriff’s offices in the Midcoast, are asking owners and renters of storage units to check them following the arrest…
AUGUSTA — Following the decision this morning, March 20, by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to conduct a forensic audit of Central Maine Power’s billing system, the company issued its own…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Detective Sergeant Ron Rollins was honored as Deputy Sheriff of the Year at the Maine Sheriffs’ Association award banquet in Biddeford March 15, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Chief Deputy…
This Thursday, March 22, is the final community lunch of the season at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church. A warming meal of soup, bread and dessert will be served from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm, hosted…
Boothbay selectmen want a community fireworks fund to get more bang out of their buck. On March 14, selectmen voted 4-0 to limit the municipal contribution for local fireworks displays to $10,000…
Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice (MSAHHH) will be offering a free hospice training course for all those interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. The training will held on April…
Edgecomb Community Church, United Church of Christ, at 15 Cross Point Road will join Christians throughout the world celebrating Holy Week, the most sacred time of the Church year with the…
Palm Sunday Services
East Boothbay UMC, 9 a.m.
Southport UMC, 9 a.m.
First UMC, Boothbay Harbor, 10:25 a.m.
Holy Week Services
Maundy Thursday Worship, 6 p.m…
"Cure Your Spring Fever" is the theme of the Health Center's first party in 2018. It will be held on Friday, April 20 at the Tugboat Inn & Restaurant, 80 Commercial St., Boothbay Harbor, from…
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 2-5
Would you enjoy boating more if you knew more about boats and navigation? That’s the purpose of boating courses offered by U. S. Coast Guard Flotilla Boothbay Harbor. They are designed to help you…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has been advised of a possible scam attempt occurring over this past weekend. On Sunday, March 18, at about 10:15 a.m., a Bristol resident…
Obituary
Ardath E. (Farnham) Wood, 75, of Vassalboro, Maine died March 18, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family following a long illness.
She was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on Nov. 8, 1942…
The Edgecomb planning board is asking how a small River Road bait shack became a rental vacation cottage. On March 15, the board requested Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz investigate how the…
Obituary
On March 16, 2018, Mr. Ronald A. Pratt Sr., a lifelong resident of Cumberland, Rhode Island, died in Portland, Maine.
A loving husband to Janet L. (Simoneau) Pratt, a father and grandfather…
Palm Sunday
This Sunday, March 25, marks the beginning of Holy Week with a lively celebration of Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday. The last of a series of messages for Lent will be offered by…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
The Boothbay Harbor planning board held a public hearing March 14 on two amendments to ordinances proposed for the town meeting warrant.
The amendments read:
“To see if the voters…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee
On March 14, the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee heard from College Access Coordinator Hannah Johnson and her predecessor Kerrin Erhard on all the…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their last indoor meeting on Friday, March 23 with a Comb Honey Workshop featuring Neal Kober from Humble Abodes and Betterbee. The…
The community is cordially invited to a special Good Friday service at Boothbay Baptist Church on Friday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Entitled “The Living Last Supper,” it dramatizes events…
The Boothbay Region YMCA warmly invites the entire community to attend its Annual Celebration, “Changing Lives, Creating Futures,” on Tuesday, April 10. Tickets are available at the YMCA…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will hold a storewide half-price sale from Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24. Hours are Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and…
Obituary
Neil S. Grover, 59, of Boothbay, died peacefully the morning of March 14, 2018 at Lincoln Health Center in Damariscotta.
Neil was the son of the late Betty L’Hostis Sitton, and Dale Grover…
The Rotary Club of Brunswick is now accepting application for the 2018 edition of “Midcoast Maine’s Got Talent!” In its seventh year, this fun and well-attended local talent show will be held on…
The CLC YMCA’s Child Care is welcoming spring and the Easter season with a pancake breakfast and egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at 9 a.m. Infants and kids up to age 10 will have an opportunity to…
First National Bank recently presented Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences with $10,000 for the Bank’s sponsorship of the Keller BLOOM Program.
“First National Bank is honored to support…
Join us at The Lincoln Home for a fun talk, “Gismos and Whatchamacallits,” with John Bottero on Monday, March 26, from 3 to 4 p.m. Do you have something that you always wondered what it…
The 20th annual Leprechaun Leap at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport Island on March 15 saw the most participants ever plunging into the icy surf.
It was a chilly day by March in Maine…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Healthy Kids’ spaghetti dinner on March 21 has been rescheduled and relocated. It will now be held Tuesday, April 10, 5 t0 7 p.m., at the Waldoboro VFW on Mill…
Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends…
Local First Federal Savings Bank employees kept the memory of a former employee alive in February through a fundraiser focused on her love of animals. Anita Hodgdon worked for the Boothbay Harbor…
Boothbay Select Board Chairman Chuck Cunningham explained the circumstances March 14 why a fellow selectman didn’t participate in a recent executive session. The board held one March 8 with a…
Maine’s First Ship is pleased to announce its second annual lecture series on 17th century maritime and colonial history. Four presentations, beginning March 22, focus on shipbuilding, tides,…
At a time of political change, one thing is clear and consistent: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since 2016, when it was founded by the merger of four land and water…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
Boothbay Harbor selectmen on March 12 discussed dog control ordinances, town investments and an update on the planning board advisory workgroup.
Selectman and workgroup member Mike Tomko…
The memorial service for Beth G. Conant, scheduled for Sunday, March 18, at 1 p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor, has been postponed. A new date for the service…
Boothbay Region High School
At 10 a.m. Thursday, March 15 – a month and a day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – over 30 Boothbay Region High School students emerged from the…
Probe to include that of 4-year-old Wiscasset girl; Early May report anticipated
AUGUSTA — The Maine Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee (GOC) voted March…
A Boothbay Region High School team placed as a state runner-up March 6 at the 2018 VEX Robotics Championships at Biddeford High School.
A quartet of BRHS students — Hayden Brewer, Connor…
When mindfully engaged with technology like computers and smartphones, we have incredible access to information and one another. However, when not approached with discipline, they can snap up our…
Oxbow Brewing Company will hold its third annual egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at the farmhouse brewery in Newcastle (274 Jones Woods Road). This year’s event will again raise funds for the Maine…
No fooling, on April 1, Edgecomb will have a new code enforcement officer and licensed plumbing inspector. Selectmen voted 2-0 on March 12 to hire Ken Vinal of Bremen.
Vinal replaces Stan…
Obituary
I died in the evening of December 26, 2017. I was in the Gregory Wing of St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I had the disease my husband and I feared most, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy…
Wiscasset in the American Revolution
Few people know Wiscasset was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a British naval commander and the Sons of Liberty during the American Revolution. Both sides claimed victory afterwards each…
Snow-plowing was a lot tougher back in the good old days. The proof is in the pictures Tammy Shaw Given has been posting on the Jack A. Shaw and Sons Facebook page. Given, the Woolwich’s…
First National Bank recently announced that it has made donations totaling $15,000 to 21 food banks in bank’s market area.
“First National Bank is grateful for the critical services that…
PARKING BAN: Boothbay Harbor - through 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, March 14
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Customers from around the Central Maine Power service area, including some in Lincoln County, were surprised and dismayed to discover their usage on their most recent bill appears to have doubled…
A Boothbay woman got a response from Central Maine Power Co. she’s been waiting nearly two months for. Sherri Brown is one of hundreds of CMP customers frustrated with an apparent spike in their…
