Please don’t miss our Opening Party on Sunday, July 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Linekin Heights Green!

Bring an appetizer to share, and the Sprucewold Association will provide beverages. Our wonderful Social Committee is already busy taking inventory and getting everything ready for another fun and festive gathering.

Parking is available along the edge of the Green, with limited additional parking on Nahanada. If you are walking, you may use the rights-of-way on Crest next to the Lodge and 11 Crest, as well as the path on Bayberry between 23 and 25.

Reminders about upcoming events will also be posted on the mailbox message boards.

We hope you’ll join us! It will be a lovely chance to catch up with old friends, welcome new neighbors, and celebrate the start of another beautiful Sprucewold summer together.

We now have a full complement of members of the Sprucewold Association Social Committee: Leigh Pumilia, Pat Thompson, Holly Fischer, Elisa Goldsmith, Jody Lawrence, Suzie Roche, Kimberly Sullivan, Barbara Tobias, Rachel Romanowicz, and Elaine Fossett Rittershaus. With such a good group of volunteers, we will have plenty of help at both of our signature events. It also allows for flexibility with arrivals to Sprucewold for the season and all the family and friends events we all schedule for ourselves during the summer. Thank you to one and all. 

Cabins that have changed hands over the past year are: Smith’s on Bayberry now home to Carlos and Tina Louise Ortiz, Hutchinson’s on Crooked Pine now home to Kathryn and Nathanial Hennigar, Lippincott’s on Nahanada now home to Janet Gianopoulis, and Vieira’s on Crest now home to Nancy Sloan and Brett Plummer. We will miss the former Sprucewolders but welcome the new residents! Please greet your new neighbors and invite them to our events. Thank you to Danielle Bazinet for all her hard work in preparing the 2026 directory for us. 

We had a little Sprucewold mystery last weekend!

Sprucewold Association President Annaliese Rittershaus Neff and her husband, Dan Neff, spent Saturday at the LHA picnic pavilion restoring the historic Sprucewold sign. The sign once stood at the front of the Lodge and was generously donated to the Association by Shawn Chapps, owner of the Sprucewold Lodge.

After a good day’s work, Annaliese and Dan brought the sign to the corner of Bayberry and Crest, where it will be hung among the trees. They realized they didn’t quite have all the right materials to install it securely, so they tucked it safely behind the trees, planning to return the next day.

But when they came back, the sign had disappeared!

After a post went up in the Sprucewold Interest Group, several neighbors quickly shared helpful information, and the mystery was solved. A neighbor had seen the sign on the ground, worried it might have been stolen or left behind, and kindly took it for safekeeping.

Thank you to everyone who helped piece the story together. We are so glad the sign is safe, and it should be up this weekend!

On our way to the Kingfield Pops last weekend, we discovered a new restaurant, The Dresden Cafe, on 769 Gardiner Road/Route 27. It is an authentic Polish family restaurant serving a variety of food, from cappuccino, coffee, and teas with breakfast sandwiches to lobster pierogies to blueberry pierogies and zapiekanka which is a delicious hot open-face cheese and mushroom sandwich, soups, and beautiful homemade croissants, pies, and pastries. They also have many gluten-free selections. When on your way north, stop and try it; I highly recommend it!

The Boothbay Register columnists for the summer so far are: Liz Fazulo, Ralph Kimball, Mary Otto, Jim Rayball, Doug Reilly, and Elaine Fossett Rittershaus. There are more weeks available if you would like to contribute your words, memories, and thoughts to our weekly Sprucewold column. If you don’t have a subscription already, please order one or renew your subscription to our local award-winning weekly newspaper, The Boothbay Register. It takes all of us to keep newspapers alive.

And lastly, don't forget to contact Firewise chairpersons Randy Lehman or Curt Audin to sign up for the Aug. 8 annual Chipping Day! It takes all of us to keep Sprucewold safe!