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News
Dr. Meredith White, a postdoctoral researcher at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, has been named to the study commission recently established by the Maine legislature…
Maine History
The Lincoln County Historical Association will conduct a symposium this month about the creation and use textiles hundreds of years ago in Maine.
Titled “Keeping Warm in 18th Century Maine…
For St. Andrews Hospital Auxiliary, it’s all about the numbers.
At the group’s June 4 annual luncheon, held this year at Fisherman’s Wharf, the auxiliary honored 11 volunteers and recognized…
Colman J. Connelly, 74, of Boothbay Harbor died on June 5, 2014. A time of visitation will be held on Sunday, June 8 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Simmons, Harrington & Hall, 975 Wiscasset Road,…
An Albion man has been convicted of two crimes after striking a Wiscasset man with his car and threatening a mother and daughter.
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The Maine State Aquarium will host a Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours on Wednesday, June 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will take place at the Maine…
WALDOBORO – Waldoboro police reported the following activity, May 13-June 2. Waldoboro officers responded to 162 calls for service in this time period. Below are a few of the highlights…
Obituary
Sally Anne Fletcher Hellens, 90, died May 28, 2014. She was a resident of St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor. She was predeceased by her husband of 58 years, Dr. Robert Linton Hellens.
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A golden retriever named Nell, cairn terrier Bonnie, Lab mix Sally, poodle Hannah and stabyhoun Chance all passed their therapy dog testing in Falmouth on June 1.
All five were students of…
A state fire investigator has determined that the June 5 fire that damaged a wood shop at Two Bridges Regional Jail was accidental, Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry said. No one was hurt in the…
Boothbay Region High School
It's time for visiting relatives, blue and gold balloons, cards and gifts, and the seemingly endless playing of "Pomp and Circumstance," a march composed by Sir Edward Elgar.
It's graduation…
Seahawks Track and Field
The Seahawks outdoor track teams swooped in and scored big at the Mountain Valley Conference Championship meet last Thursday, May 29 in Augusta. The girls team placed second behind Lisbon, the…
The annual Maine lobster boat racing season race will soon kick off once more in Boothbay Harbor.
On June 14 at 10 a.m…
BRHS Boys Tennis
The fourth ranked Seahawks boys tennis team lost to a talented fifth ranked Waynflete Flyers team, 5-0, on Tuesday afternoon, June 3, in the quarterfinal round of the Western Maine Class C…
Local Election 2014
On June 10 residents of Edgecomb, Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor will be heading to the polls to vote in the primary election.
Residents will be voting to nominate candidates for…
Boothbay Region High School
Lucille Machon has seen many, many high school graduating classes honored at the Boothbay Region Alumni Association banquet. After a year of not holding a banquet due to waning interest, the…
Local Business
Hodgdon Yachts has officially launched a new division, Hodgdon Yacht Services, marking the company's significant expansion into both the yacht and pleasure boat service and refit sectors. The…
The June 9 meeting and rally in Damariscotta with Democratic candidate for Governor Mike Michaud has been postponed. Lincoln County Democrats announced that…
Obituary
Flora Manchester Gray, 87, of East Neck Road, Nobleboro, died May 27, 2014 at her summer home in East Boothbay.
She…
Fisherman's Wharf Inn was packed on Friday, May 30 for the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce's annual awards dinner. This year's theme was “Let's Go Green Together.”
Hosting the…
Although no candidates took out papers to run for selectmen, Damariscotta voters will still have plenty of articles on which to vote during the annual town meeting.…
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the Whitefield helicopter crash in which a pilot escaped serious injury on May 30, an NTSB investigator said June 2.
The agency has…
A graveside service for Natalie Demeny will be held Sunday, June 8 at 1 p.m. at the Greenlawn Cemetery…
Chanel Stoddard and her family had a life-altering day on December 11, 2013. They learned she had stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma.
They had another one on May 21, after…
Dominick Thompson is 15 years old and a sophomore at Boothbay Region High School. Until recently, his hair reached far past his shoulders.
On May 22, he cut off 17 inches and donated it to…
Federal investigators planned to be in Whitefield on Saturday, May 31, at the scene of a May 30 helicopter crash in the woods off East River Road, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Detective Ron Rollins…
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…
Central Maine Power is performing tree trimming work in 30 communities in Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties over the coming weeks. The work along utility lines is part of a $20 million annual…
The 2014 North East Region Outstanding Tree Farm award will be going to the same place the…
The town of Boothbay has officially launched the redesign of its website.
Town Manager James Chaousis showed off the final product at the May 28 selectman meeting. In addition to being more…
Local healthcare advocates gathered at McSeagull’s in Boothbay Harbor the night of May 29 to celebrate the state’s decision to require St. Andrews Urgent Care facility to operate 24 hours a day…
For about a dozen springs, Jeffrey DiMauro and his East Boothbay Landscaping crew have spent one May morning replanting flowers and greenery on the traffic island on Route 96 near the traffic…
Local Business
Shannon Schmelzer, owner of Shannon's Unshelled lobster shack, has been awarded a $1,000 grant in the Company Corporation'…
A Southport man was injured after his Toyota Highlander rolled over on Route 27 in Southport on Friday, May 30, around 9 a.m.
According to Lincoln County Sheriff Deputy Kenneth Hatch, Dan…
Voters in Newcastle will be pushing buttons soon enough.
The annual town meeting will be Tuesday, June 10, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at…
Obituary
John A. Bagonzi of Falmouth died May 25, 2014.
John was born on February 11,1957 in Bloomington, Ind., the son of Dr…
Executive Director Tim McFadden opened the doors of the newly expanded and renovated Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library on May 28 to a guided tour for library volunteers.
Ten volunteers walked…
Local Business
A couple from outside London, England stopped at Bet’s Fish Fry in Boothbay Center on May 29. And they couldn’t believe how good it was.
David and Wendy Fitzsimmons were here visiting their…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
The former “Windjammer shop” at 8 Wharf Street in Boothbay Harbor has been purchased, with plans to tear the old building down and rebuild a 30 percent larger structure (the maximum increase…
A 23-year-old Whitefield woman has been charged with two counts of domestic violence assault and domestic violence criminal threatening after reportedly threatening someone with a pair of scissors…
Daniel R. Daigneault, president and chief executive officer of the The First, will retire in early 2015. The board of directors has named Tony C. McKim, currently executive vice president and…
At United Way of Mid Coast Maine’s Annual Meeting, a 2014 Community Builder Award was presented to Damariscotta Bank & Trust Company for wide-ranging support of local people and nonprofits.…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested Quinton Smith 35, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Class A aggravated trafficking in schedule drugs (crack cocaine).
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St. Andrews Hospital
In a major win for local advocates, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has determined that the St. Andrews Urgent Care Center in Boothbay Harbor must be operated 24 hours a day,…
This summer, share the beauty of your community with a Fresh Air child while enjoying the pure joys of summer in your own backyard! Thousands of volunteer host…
Fifty of the nation’s top ocean scientists are at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay this week, May…
Boothbay Board of Appeals
At first if you don’t succeed, apply again. That is Mariner Tower’s strategy to convince the Boothbay Board of Appeals to allow the construction of a cell phone tower in East Boothbay.…
On August 6, 1959, the Boothbay Chamber of Commerce opened the Boothbay Region Information Center for the first time.
Now, 55 years later, it’s still going strong and gearing up for another…
