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• 2020 Miss Windjammer gets crowned

  Mon, 09/21/2020 - 10:45am

  

  Former Miss Windjammer winners and the reigning King of the Harbor came together this past weekend to officially crown Miss Windjammer 2020, Scout Martin. Due to the pandemic, the 2020 competition was fully online but the competition director, Emily Mirabile, felt it was important to give Martin another moment to shine. The group met at the Water’s Edge Events Center in Edgecomb and took part in a photo shoot with the new Miss Windjammer. For the competition Martin sang “Sing Your Own Song”...

• Community Lunch delayed until January

  Fri, 09/18/2020 - 3:30pm

  The start of the weekly Community Lunch served on Thursdays at St. Columba's Episcopal Church will be delayed until January, 2021. The continuing concerns with COVID-19 necessitated the change. Community Lunch has been served every Thursday from November to April and hosted each week by a group from area churches and the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club. About 60 people gathered each week to enjoy food and fellowship, and donations from those in attendance went to the Boothbay Region Food Pantry...

• October events

  Thu, 09/17/2020 - 2:45pm

  8 – Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker - This special tour includes rooms not seen on the general tour. Filled with original furnishings of the Tucker family. Admission is $15 for Historic New England members, $25 for nonmembers. Advance purchase recommended. Space limited. Buy at www.HistoricNewEngland.org or call 882-7169. 9 – Tom DiMenna - Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, performing his Cat Stevens Tribute, plus originals. Seating limited to 50. All...

• November events

  Thu, 09/17/2020 - 2:45pm

  7 – E arly Bird Sale! - Damariscotta and Bath businesses offer holiday discounts beginning in the early morning hours ... Check the special pages in the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper the week before for specifics. 14 – Early Bird Sale! - Wiscasset businesses offer holiday discounts. Check the special pages in the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper the week before for specifics. ...

• December events

  Thu, 09/17/2020 - 2:45pm

  1-31 – Hike the Holiday Story Trail - Follow the illustrated signs that tell a tale along the trail at Boothbay Region Land Trust’s (BRLT) Oak Point Farm, 60 Samoset Road, Boothbay Harbor. Easy one-mile loop. Suitable for children of all ages. Free. FMI: Environmental Educator Tracey Hall at thall@bbrlt.org or 633-4818. 1-31 – Gardens Aglow - At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, transformed into a magical winter wonderland with 600,000 lights – through Dec. 31...

• Waldo Theatre looking to cast volunteers

  Wed, 09/16/2020 - 3:00pm

  

  We’re ready to start reupholstering the Waldo Theatre's seats and we need your help: Waldo Board Member and sailmaker, Heidi Sawyer, and two of her professional upholstering friends are standing by to revive our 1930s seats with updated cushions and new fabric. Before they can do this, the seats and backs have to be disassembled and prepped for fabric. That’s where you come in. We’re scheduling three weekend work mornings, asking volunteers to come to the theatre and - safely distanced- take...

• Church’s Road Rally winners announced

  Mon, 09/14/2020 - 1:30pm

  

  The Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor is pleased to announce the teams that won the raffle prizes for the three trivia questions included in the rally course. Winner of the first prize, a copy of Rachel Carson’s book, “The Edge of the Sea,” was Team Karma made up of Germaine and Rodney Waltz, Lyndell Brackett, Melody Davis, Jenna Davis and Levi Smith. The Rachel Carson memorial on the shoreline and its moving message, “Here at last returned to the sea-‘to Oceanus, the ocean river, like...

• ‘You Be the Light’: Walk Around Wiscasset theme

  Sun, 09/13/2020 - 7:45am

  

  Dusk settles early in late September and so Walk Around Wiscasset invites strollers to help light up the Village. ‘You be the Light’ is the evening’s theme with participants carrying – or wearing – lights! Only two days after the Autumnal Equinox, the final Walk Around Wiscasset on Sept. 24, 5-6:30 p.m., becomes a communal farewell to summer and a hearty welcome to autumn. ‘Accessorize!’ Is the final fashion theme for the Walk Around season. This is the last chance to show off that new hat, new...

• LCRC chicken barbecue fundraiser

  Tue, 09/08/2020 - 10:45am

  On Sept. 19 the Lincoln County Republican Committee will hold a fundrising chicken barbecue dinner. The event will be held at the LCRC headquarters located at 241 Route 1, Damariscotta from 1-4 p.m. The menu will include barbecued chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, a roll and dessert. There will be a ‘pick up and go’ option for those who wish to contribute and take their food home to enjoy. The donation will be $15 per adult with a reduced rate for children. We will have a voter registration...

• Wilma the Whale has resurfaced

  Thu, 09/03/2020 - 8:15am

  

  Good news everybody! Wilma the Whale of Southport fame has just surfaced from five years of hibernation at her new East Boothbay home. Thanks to the muscular efforts of her neighbors, Rich Elliott, Esq. Peter Hunter, and David Smale, she now rests comfortably (when not in the water) on her dolly. Some of you may remember her from early Boothbay Region Boatyard’s family barbecues where the children had a blast tooling around the anchorage in her. Her dry land gig was the wine bar for Lincoln...

• Last tent sale of the season at Pemaquid Lighthouse Park

  Fri, 08/28/2020 - 8:00am

  

  The Pemaquid Group of Artists will host an outdoor Art Under the Tent Sale at Lighthouse Park on Saturday, Sept. 5, weather permitting. Several artists will be painting plein air on location during the event from 10 to 4 PM. Work from over 20 juried artists, working with a variety of mediums, including pottery, will be on display and for sale at affordable prices, in two large tents. Pemaquid Art Gallery has been closed for the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and hopes to reopen their...

• Dave Rowe at the Opera House

  Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:00pm

  Friday, Sept. 18 The Maine musician brings folk, Celtic music and a sea shanty or two to the stage at 7:30 p.m. Seating limited to 50 in these COVID-19 times. All tickets are reserved and only available at through the box office - 633-5159. 86 Townsend Ave. Boothbay Harbor.
• Walk Around Wiscasset

  Handmade carillon featured this month

  Tue, 08/25/2020 - 1:15pm

  

  A handmade carillon with 49 bronze bells will ring out on the new Village sidewalks during Walk Around Wiscasset on Thursday, Aug. 27, 5-6:30 p.m. The carillon will be played by Mike Everett of Dresden who designed and fashioned the instrument about 30 years ago. This unique carillon, which looks most like a xylophone or marimba, is made up of circular bells and has a four-octave range. Everett plays on the edge of the bells, laid sideways, by striking them with a xylophone mallet. He compares...

• ‘Summer’s End’ art show at Ocean Point Inn

  Mon, 08/24/2020 - 10:45am

  

  Ocean Point Inn will host “Summer’s End” an art show featuring the works of local and regional artists. The show will open on Wednesday, Sept. 2 and run through Monday, Oct. 12. An opening reception for the artists will be held Sept. 2 from 5-7 p.m. at Ocean Point Inn, 191 Shore Road, East Boothbay. Any local artists who would like to be included in the show may pick up an application at the inn. The deadline for submission is Friday, Aug. 28. Each artist may submit two pieces of work. In...

• Looking for ways to help your community? Join the Lions Club

  Wed, 08/19/2020 - 8:30am

  

  Like many nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lions clubs are faced with changes. Changes with meeting venues, changes with meal servings, changes with membership and the list goes on. The Boothbay Region Lions Club was formed in 1953 by a group of citizens able and willing to serve their community by becoming Lions. Throughout the years membership has varied from a high of 65 members to our now 19 members. The Lions motto of “We Serve” has kept the club intact – we may be small in numbers...

• Boothbay Railway Village introduces The Village Voice series

  Tue, 08/18/2020 - 8:30am

  

  The Boothbay Railway Village team is operating at full speed ahead this summer, and since you can't come to us, we will come to you! We hope you enjoy the Old Stories and New Beginnings within the pages of The Village Voice. Volume 1 of the four-page newsletter is attached to this article.

• Brunswick Veterans Plaza groundbreaking Aug. 17

  Sat, 08/15/2020 - 7:30am

  On Monday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. in downtown Brunswick there will be an official groundbreaking ceremony for the highly anticipated Veterans Plaza. Dignitaries for the event range from representatives from area Veterans organizations, office of U. S. Senator Angus King, the town of Brunswick with Todd Richardson, the landscape architect for the project. The special guest speaker will be Captain Debra Couture, USN (ret.) who was one of the first women to serve in a command position in the Naval...

• Frances Perkins Center hosts virtual Garden Party

  Wed, 08/12/2020 - 9:30am

  

  Newcastle, ME: Sunday, Aug. 16, 5 to 6 p.m., on YouTube at bit.ly/393QLYU: Inspired by Frances Perkins’ legacy, the Frances Perkins Center is rising to the challenges of our time. Each time she faced difficulty, Frances, ever a problem solver, would not merely carry on–she forged boldly ahead. In that spirit, we hope you’ll join us as we transform our traditional August garden party in Maine to a virtual event to host friends from around the globe. Join friends from around the globe on Frances...

• LCHA misses summer visitors, but looks to the future

  Mon, 08/10/2020 - 7:30am

  

  Just as many stores, restaurants, and other businesses have fallen victim to the dictates of the coronavirus, museums and historic sites including three that are maintained by Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) remain closed to summer visitors. In a normal year, volunteer docents would share stories of these buildings to show how history intertwines with the heritage of this part of Maine. LCHA’s Chapman-Hall House, Pownalborough Court House, and the 1811 Old Jail span 200 years of...

• The Great Boothbay Region Road Rally

  Tue, 08/04/2020 - 4:15pm

  

  “Begin at the Congregational Church parking lot. 43° 51’ 24” N 69° 37’ 27’ W Set your odometer to 0.0 and you will be ready to go!” This was the beginning of the adventure for the 75 teams participating in The Great Boothbay Region Road Rally – including me! The Road Rally was the brainchild of Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor member Marion Coleman, a self-professed “trivia nut.” A group of members were called together in late spring by Interim Pastor Peter Ilgenfritz to come up with...

• Spark Change: Join Rotary while you’re young

  Mon, 08/03/2020 - 6:00pm

  

  What’s your life like in Boothbay Region when you’re 18 to 35? Rotary does more than help during crises like COVID-19; it also works to help bring young people into leadership positions through service, providing experience for a better future in any career. The Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor created a new membership level for those under the age of 35 to make membership accessible. Generous club members have also chosen to underwrite the cost of membership for the first 5 in this category,...

• Rev. M. Cristina Paglinauan to lead All Saints services Aug. 9, 16

  Mon, 08/03/2020 - 8:30am

  

  All Saints by-the-Sea is pleased to welcome back the Rev. Cristina Paglinauan to preside over the online services for the next two weeks. The virtual services may be accessed on the All Saints website, www.allsaintssouthport.org (click on Services and scroll down) and will consist of organ music recorded amid the beauty of the chapel setting, prayers, hymns, and a sermon by Rev. Paglinauan. The organist for Aug. 9 is Mr. Henry Lowe, music director emeritus of the Church of the Redeemer in...

• American Legion family buffet breakfast

  Sun, 08/02/2020 - 4:45pm

  Sunday, Aug. 9 American Legion Post 36 is having its next breakfast at Sherman Hall, 25 Industrial Park Road, off Rt 27 in Boothbay. Outside dining has been set up if you so choose. From 7-9 a.m. We will be serving plain and blueberry pancakes, home fries, sausage, bacon, corned beef hash, scrambled eggs, Belgian waffles, baked beans, cereal, coffee, tea, juice and milk. All you can eat! Suggested donations: adults/$8, school age young people/$3. Children under 5 eat free.

• Craft Gin Dinner with guest Blue Barren Distillery

  Sun, 08/02/2020 - 10:45am

  

  With an eye towards spotlighting regional flavors and the people who create them, Spruce Point Inn announces a locally inspired dinner party pairing the Inn’s new Executive Chef Rick Koplau and his team with Blue Barren Distillery, a Camden producer of small batch, Maine inspired gins. The evening of culinary collaboration on Friday, Aug. 7 at 6 p.m. will present a special four-course experience crafted by Chef Koplau to guide guests through perfectly paired aromas and flavors in sync with Blue...

• Sunrise Lighthouse Photograph Cruise Sept. 12

  Fri, 07/31/2020 - 8:00am

  

  Mike Leonard, contributing photographer for the Boothbay Register, is once again hosting the Boothbay Harbor Sunrise Lighthouse Photography Cruise on the Balmy Days II on Maine Open Lighthouse Day, Saturday, Sept. 12, 6 to 8 a.m. Leonard, who has hosted this event and others through Balmy Days Cruises for several years, offers tips and advice to photographers during the two-hour adventure. This is a unique opportunity for people to be able to make photographs of the areas lighthouses...

• WW&F Railway season to open with music, more

  Tue, 07/28/2020 - 2:30pm

  

  On Friday, Aug. 7 Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum, 97 Cross Road, Alna will reopen to the public for the 2020 season with a special excursion at 5 p.m. to Milepost 8, at the foot of the new Trout Brook Bridge, over the Railway’s newly constructed Mountain Extension. Saturday, Aug. 8 will be the annual picnic, with picnic lunches, train rides at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m., a farm stand run by SeaLyon Farm and antique auto rides from Sheepscot Station. Another excursion to...

• Hallowell Community Band concerts return

  Fri, 07/17/2020 - 5:30pm

  

  Hallowell Community Band returned to the Boothbay Region for the band’s first concert of 2020 on July 16, but on the Boothbay Common. The band has played summer concerts on the lawn of Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library for decades, beginning with a concert in the Waterfront Park on the Fourth of July. The pandemic prompted the move to the Common where it is easier to maintain the 6-foot social distancing requirement to prevent spreading COVID-19. The concert had Sousa marches, Italian...

• Castle Tucker reopens

  Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00pm

  

  Historic New England announces the re-opening of Castle Tucker in Wiscasset on Friday, July 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Castle will be open Friday through Sunday throughout the summer. All visitors must wear masks and follow social distancing rules. The maximum tour size is six people. Tours will be given on the half hour. with the last tour leaving at 3 p.m. Tickets: $15/adults, $13/seniors, $7/students, and $6/ children, must be purchased in advance at www.historicnewengland.org/property/...

• COVE by Knickerbocker Group® Design Resource Studio summer self-guided tour July 23

  Wed, 07/15/2020 - 8:15am

  

  COVE by Knickerbocker Group® invites you to a self-guided tour of our Design Resource Studio in Boothbay on Thursday, July 23 at 8 Builders Square (off Route 27), Boothbay. Please register by Monday, July 20 by calling 633-3818. COVE by Knickerbocker Group® is a new brand expressing the heart and character of a Knickerbocker Group home. Launched in 2019, COVE features a collection of homes, furniture and décor, carefully selected and designed by Knickerbocker Group architects and interior...

• Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor virtual services

  Wed, 07/15/2020 - 7:45am

  

  Please join the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor for live worship Sundays at 10 a.m. You can join us at www.congochurchbbh.org , Facebook , or tune into BRTV , channel 1301 for Spectrum subscribers. This July and August we will be focused on the Exodus journey to the Promised Land. The story of this interim pilgrimage has wisdom to offer all of us in this “liminal” time we are in as church, nation, and world community. The story of the 40-year exodus in the wilderness provides the...

• Virtual science seminar

  Mon, 07/06/2020 - 3:30pm

  Friday, July 10 Darling Marine Center Virtual Science Seminar Series presents Maine’s changing lobster fishery: some direct and indirect impacts of climate change. 10:30-11:30 a.m.Register at: https://dmc.umaine.edu/science-seminar-series

• First Friday is a go at Studio 53

  Tue, 06/30/2020 - 8:00am

  

  Studio 53 will be hosting a First Friday event July 3 from 5-7 p.m. Due to the current circumstances this will not be in our usual freewheeling format, but have no fear, here's how it is going work: only five guests will be allowed in the gallery building at any one time. Guests must wear their masks in the building. However, we will still be offering complementary food and beverages out back behind the building by our Sculpture Garden. The menu will be limited but includes individually...

• Pie/bake sale - new day this week

  Mon, 06/29/2020 - 12:30pm

  

  Boothbay Harbor's Methodist women will be having a sale on Friday, July 3 at 9 a.m. instead of Saturday this week. Come get a pie or some home baked goodies for your Fourth of July celebration. The church is at 81 Townsend Ave., across the street from the Opera House.

• On stage in July and August at the Opera House

  Mon, 06/29/2020 - 11:30am

  

  Wide open spaces around everyone, but the music bringing us together in spirit this summer. The Opera House in Boothbay Harbor “reopens” in July after several dark, quiet, lonely months! Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. All with limited seating. No online tickets available. The Boneheads show (sponsored by J. Edward Knight Insurance and Peter Southwick and Jean Rosenberg) on July 3 is sold out, but tickets are still available for other shows this summer: July shows: 10 - Seth...

• CCAC announces outdoor entertainment for limited audiences

  Fri, 06/26/2020 - 7:45am

  

  The Chocolate Church Arts Center, at 804 Washington Street in Bath, has announced the first in a series of small concerts to be held at various, remote locations around the MidCoast area. The CCAC Real Outdoor Concert Series (CCAC ROCS) will kick off on Saturday, July 11 with a standup comedy show headlined by Bath-based comedian, Johnny Ater. Audiences at CCAC ROCS shows will be limited to fifty people, and audience members will be spaced at least six feet apart. Staff will enforce distancing...

• ‘Kevin Beers: Points Of Light’ at Gleason Fine Art

  Thu, 06/25/2020 - 9:00am

  

  Beginning Thursday, June 25, and running through Tuesday, July 21, "Kevin Beers: Points of Light," new paintings of Midcoast Maine, Cuba, and Beers' signature portraits of old cars and trucks, are offered for sale at Gleason Fine Art, 31 Townsend Ave., in downtown Boothbay Harbor. Beers has been with the gallery for more than 20 years and continues to be one of the gallery's most popular and recognizable artists. Four years ago, Kevin Beers and his wife Amy decided to sell their New York City...

• Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor virtual services

  Thu, 06/25/2020 - 8:15am

  

  Please join the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor for live worship Sundays at 10 a.m. You can join us at www.congochurchbbh.org , Facebook , or tune into BRTV , channel 1301 for Spectrum subscribers. There have been some complications the past two Sundays with channel 1301, if you are having trouble viewing the service please follow the Facebook link to watch LIVE. The Facebook LIVE platform seems to be working well. Interim Pastor, Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz shares his new Season After...

• Camp Knickerbocker season has begun!

  Wed, 06/24/2020 - 10:00am

  

  Hello muddah, hello faddah, your kids are now at Camp Knick-a-bockah; It’s a place they really like - going swimming or for a hike. They take their temperature, real reg-u-lar, Kids wash their hands a lot, every 45 minutes on the dot! Arts & Crafts and STEM too, there’s so much here for them to do-oo; They are gardening and planning an escape room, so much more fun than watching it on Zoom! Yes, Camp Knickerbocker opened for the...

• Announcing the ‘Great Boothbay Region Road Rally’

  Tue, 06/23/2020 - 7:15am

  

  Are you ready to get out of the house and have some fun? Would you like to see parts of our beautiful region that you may have never explored? How about discovering some fun facts that you never knew about this historic area? And best of all, it won’t cost you anything but the gas in your car tank. The Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor is delighted to announce the “Great Boothbay Region Road Rally” to be held from June 29 through July 31. Event organizers Marion Coleman and Lee Corbin...

• Rev. Canon George Maxwell to lead All Saints services June 28, July 5 and 12

  Sun, 06/21/2020 - 7:00am

  

  All Saints by-the-Sea is delighted to have the Rev. Canon George Maxwell, vicar of the Cathedral of St. Philips in Atlanta, Georgia, providing the sermons for our virtual worship services for the next three weeks. The services may be accessed on the All Saints website, www.allsaintssouthport.org and will consist of organ music recorded at the chapel, prayers, hymns, and the meditation by Rev. Maxwell. The organist is Mr. Jay Zoller from South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, Maine...

• Anderson-Lincoln wedding

  Tue, 06/16/2020 - 7:15am

  

  Nathan Lincoln and Maggie Anderson were married on April 24, 2020. The wedding took place in the memorial garden of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The bride is the daughter of Mary Anderson and the late David Anderson of Richmond, Virginia. She is a fourth-year resident physician at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. The groom is the son of J. Kenneth Lincoln Jr. and Kathleen Lincoln of Wiscasset, Maine. He is a key account manager for C.H...

• Church on the Common

  Tue, 06/09/2020 - 2:00pm

  Church on the Common services on the Boothbay Common will be held, weather permitting, Friday, June 12, Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14 at 6 p.m. Participants should bring a chair. For more information, call 315-1305.
• reopening June 17 with reduced rates; reservations required

  Owls Head Transportation Museum reopens to the public

  Fri, 06/05/2020 - 12:00pm

  

  Owls Head Transportation Museum has submitted the following: After a temporary 3-month closure in response to the ongoing public health crisis, the Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) will officially reopen to the public on Wednesday, June 17. After a careful review of state and national safety guidelines, the museum has implemented temporary service modifications that support the health and wellness of both visitors, members, and employees. Plan a Visit With...

• Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor virtual services

  Wed, 05/27/2020 - 11:00am

  Please join the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor for live virtual worship Sundays at 10 a.m. You can join us at www.congochurchbbh.org , Facebook , or tune into BRTV , channel 1301 for Spectrum subscribers. Interim Pastor, Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz will preach about growing from dormancy to vibrancy in his Eastertide sermon series, EMERGE. In many of the resurrection stories, Jesus appears to the disciples in closed rooms which is so appropriate to remember during this season of physical...

• Pie sale!

  Wed, 05/27/2020 - 7:30am

  

  United Methodist Women will be doing a pre-order pie sale this Saturday, May 30 and Saturday, June 6. To order: call Doris Welch: 633-4304 or Cathy Blake: 633-4254. An outdoor sale is planned for June 30!

• Squirrel Island summer may have fewer people

  Wed, 05/27/2020 - 7:15am

  

  There are many things quintessentially Boothbay region, but few more so than a bustling footbridge and packed Squirrel Island parking lot on a balmy July afternoon. That might be a different picture this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic upheaval. Squirrel Island harbormaster and constable Rob Hopkins said as Memorial Day Weekend wanes, the pandemic has clearly affected the small community. And comments from summer residents do not paint a great picture for the upcoming season. “It's very, very...

• Red Cloak Tours introduces ‘TeleTours’

  Sat, 05/09/2020 - 7:45am

  

  Red Cloak Tours is offering a new product that will allow small groups or families in Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset, and other Maine locations to enjoy a personalized, guided outdoor adventure while learning about history and/or mystery, all while staying within COVID-19 distance and safety guidelines. The new 30-40 minute TeleTours will be walking tours done by telephone on speaker as a Red Cloak guide narrates the folklore, history and sometimes ghostly tales of each area. The TeleTours will be...
• Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District

  CSD teachers, staff parade peninsula

  Wed, 04/01/2020 - 8:15am

  

  Boothbay Region Elementary and High School teacher, staff and administrators formed a parade March 30 to wave and say hello to students around the peninsula. BRES Principal Shawna Kurr and BRHS interim principal Tricia Campbell led the parade on a CSD school bus decorated with hearts and the words: “WE MISS YOU.” Said Kurr, “Seeing students, parents, grandparents, siblings, and community members waving and cheering back at us on this drizzly day, was incredibly touching. There were so many...

• When the college-bound become home-bound

  Tue, 03/31/2020 - 2:00pm

  

  Many Boothbay Region High School alumni have returned to the peninsula as colleges and universities concentrate on keeping students home to practice social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. BRHS College Access Coordinator Hannah Johnson said she has been reaching out to post-secondary alumni letting them know she is still a resource for them, especially students who cannot or do not wish to stay with their families. “… Mostly I'm hearing that folks are glad their universities have taken...