Sheepscot Valley Chorus is delighted to announce the winners of our 2014 Student Music Awards, given annually to one student from each of the three local high schools, Boothbay Region High School…

Maine Eastern Railroad (MERR) has confirmed that Friday through Sunday train service from Brunswick to Newcastle, starting July 4, that…

Join the Lincoln County Composting Committee and composting guru, Mark King from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at Treats in…

Gov. Paul LePage, and his fellow governors all across our nation, are issuing proclamations naming April “Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month.” It's a fitting time to spotlight the…

Allan Howard Teel died peacefully on April 12, 2014 at Miles Hospital in Damariscotta at age 87 of complications from a recent stroke.

Born to Dorothy B.(Sturges) and C.…

It was April 1, but there were no April Fools’ jokes, as the Lincoln County Republican Committee (LCRC) met at the Edgecomb Town Hall to discuss the…

We invite the young and the young at heart to come celebrate the arrival of spring at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum on Saturday, April…

Jerome Hamilton “Jerry” St. Clair, 86, of Boothbay Harbor, died April 11 at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, with family at his side.

Jerry was born January 31, 1928 in Newark, New…

President Barack Obama has appointed Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, as commissioner of the Council of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation…

Priscilla “Pat” Ruth Frazer died peacefully at Maine Medical Center on April 10, 2014.

Pat was born on March 9, 1928 in Medford, Mass., to Harold Curtis Wells…

New to recreational boating? Thinking about buying a boat and getting out on the water this summer? Then come to the Boothbay Region YMCA on May 3 where the Wawenock Sail and Power Squadron will…

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…

Sarah Beard Buckley of Cape Elizabeth, with her image, "White Calla Lily," walked away with the Jim Taliana Best of Show Award sponsored by The First Advisors at the 2014 edition of the Maine…

A public summer shuttle service will begin transporting passengers from the Maine Eastern Railroad in Newcastle to the Boothbay region starting July 4.

What initially started as a Wiscasset…

On Southport Island, spring is busting out all over.

At Hendricks Head Beach, a few people were taking in the sunshine and breathing…

For Kenneth Chances, it's very simple. He wants to help out his community.

Although Chances has never ran for public office before, he wants to take a chance for a seat on the Boothbay board…

Joseph Pinkham, 27, was arrested Friday, April 11 at his home in Boothbay by…

Kerem Durdag, CEO of Biovation, a young high-tech bioscience company located in Boothbay, will be the guest speaker at the 2014 annual meeting of the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission,…

Looking for something fun to do and "nice to look at" this weekend? Stop into the 2014 Maine Photography Show at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery at 1 Townsend Avenue beginning on…

Damariscotta Hardware will be hosting “Ladies’ Day” on Saturday, April 12. What began as a “Ladies’ Night” was so popular, it has evolved over the past couple years…

Michael Leighton, West Side Road, Wharf & Weir

Boothbay Region YMCA, 143 and 157 Barters Island Road, timber harvesting

Harold Warren, 8 Meadow Cove Road, 8’ x 15’ dormer extension…

The Boothbay Fire Department responded to single vehicle accident near the department's station on Route 27 in Boothbay the morning of April 10.

Chief Richard Spofford was the incident…

Peggy Pinkham sure knows how to liven up a room.

Pinkham, outgoing president of the Boothbay Region YMCA Board of…

Loose ball joints, rusted brake cables and worn out struts are signs that winter’s waning months have left our roads (and vehicles) in pretty rough shape. 

And while we…

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…

St. Andrews emergency room in Boothbay Harbor has been closed for six months, and its former inpatient wing has been reconstructed for outpatient physical therapy.

In March, the Maine…

When someone in Edgecomb gets a burn permit online, Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter gets a text and an email about it.

Close to half the permits for burns in…

A legislative bill, LD 1809, that limits the use of remote technology at public meetings is close to being enacted in the Maine State Legislature.

Earlier this week LD 1809 passed both the…

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,…

Maine cartoonist, author and humorist Jeff Pert died Friday, April 4 in Portland. He was 55.

Pert was born November 28, 1958 in Bath…

Christopher Williams, 74, of Middletown, Conn., and Barters Island, died peacefully on April 4, 2014, after a long fight with cancer.

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Spring has sprung on the Midcoast, and spring cleaning isn't far behind.

For the second year, Newcastle and Damariscotta will ask…

Keith Bachelder, 86, of Boothbay Road, Edgecomb died April 7, 2014 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick with his family by his side.

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The Boothbay Region Health & Wellness Foundation and the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service are jointly releasing the first of what we hope will be an informative series of reports to inform…

As Richard and Vanessa Jordan get Wiscasset Speedway ready for the new season, they say the West Alna Road track continues to become what they hoped it would after they got it in a…

Peter Joseph Shalins, 67, of Lothrop Road, Alna died March 31, 2014 at his daughter’s residence.

Patricia Pauline Albee, 75, of Alna died April 4, 2014 in her home.

She was born May 2, 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta,…

Numerous Maine corporations have received mailings recently from a business operating under the name Corporate Records Service, whose address is usually listed as 125 Western Ave. #338 Augusta, ME…

More rain is on the way for all of Lincoln County late Monday night, April 7, through at least early afternoon on Tuesday, meteorologist Stacie Hanes of the National Weather Service’s Gray office…

The Maine Better Transportation Association’s “Worst Road in Maine Contest” has become a sure sign of spring. As the weather warms and potholes pop up on local roads and highways like crocuses, we…

Maine Historical Society opens a new exhibition, From Slavery to Maine, on April 4 in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall, on 489 Congress Street, Portland. A…

St. Andrews emergency room in Boothbay Harbor has been closed for six months, and its former inpatient wing has been reconstructed for outpatient physical therapy.

In March, the Maine…

Boothbay Region High School was awarded a $1,500 athletics grant on Friday, April 4…

It’s official! The Montessori school at the Boothbay Region YMCA has a name, date of opening and two…

The Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary was in the Twin Villages before Route 1.

It has been around for 16 presidents of the United States…

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.

The Rotary’s Soup Bowl Supper kicked off April 3 at the American Legion Hall for the 18th consecutive year.

For the nearly…

The John Booras Collection of historic photographs of the schooner Bowdoin, probably taken in 1924 on a return voyage of Arctic exploration from Greenland…

The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen gave Fire Chief John Roberts the go-ahead Wednesday night, April 2 to pursue a grant that would purchase safety equipment for the department.