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Maine Veterans In Need

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Shawn Lewin, AARP Maine member

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Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
Participants in the Y’s Business Partners thank-you event with seasonal Southport residents and Dogfish Head brewery co-founders Mariah and Sam Calagione. Courtesy of BRYMCA

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With their yellow legs and rusty brown upperparts, pectoral sandpipers look a bit like a larger version of the tiny least sandpiper. They breed in the Arctic but in migration favor shallow, grassy pools and muddy lake shorelines. Photo courtesy of Jeff Wells.

 

Envision birds migrating, let’s say hundreds or even a thousand feet overhead (some birds fly even higher). To us, they’d look like specks in the sky, if we could…

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October has been a great month for informative speakers at the Center. If you weren't able to join us in person, our friends at Boothbay Region TV are working to…

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I appreciate the honesty of science, math, and logic. These disciplines have brought us the wonders of the modern world. Let’s bring them into Maine politics.

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Canvassing voters throughout Lincoln County has offered me the opportunity to visit with folks from across the economic spectrum: farmers, fishermen, retired and employed,…

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On the first day voting was offered, I went to my town office and voted. I voted for Troy Jackson, our candidate for U.S.…

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Thank you to the Boothbay Fire Department for the quick response to my house on Ocean Point for a gas leak last week. Job well done.…

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My parents taught me the meaning of conservatism and I have stood alongside people of every political stripe. We disagreed…

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Maine Veterans In Need

First, I've heard that some folks…

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Last Thursday's speaker (via Zoom)…

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
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We have some exciting news to share…

Joyce Bucciantini

The November elections are rapidly…

The authors were delighted when a late-for-the-season American restart joined the party at the cheery yellow plant. Courtesy of Jeff Wells

 

We have a six-foot-high stand of…

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If you have already voted in Wiscasset on the Nov. 3 questions, thank you, well done and feel free to move on to some more scintillating read. For the rest of Wiscasset, we hope you will stay on…

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It is to the point that we tune in cartoons, the Turner Classic Movies channel, flip to a new channel, or shutting off the TV altogether to avoid the myriad of political ads. The amount of Troy…

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'Round Town
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When all else fails, find something…

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With millions being spent on the United States Senate race, Mainers need to be just as focused on campaigns for the state House and Senate. In Maine, the…

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I am writing to thank our State Senator Cameron Reny for helping secure Community Action Grants for area towns like Edgecomb, Monhegan Plantation, Newcastle, Whitefield…

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Are you a target for investment fraud?

Find out how to spot it and resources to help you avoid it on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 11 a.m.

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If you visit the Boothbay…

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Fortunate today to be writing this from a boathouse with the water lapping along the sides, surface ripples of the current coming in arrhythmically, creating random fluid patterns as tides begin…

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It’s party time! Join the ghosts…

Shawn Lewin, AARP Maine member

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