Dear Editor:
I would like to congratulate Heather Sinclair on her re-election. Anyone running or serving in any public office deserves credit.…
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Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Several years ago, my husband and I purchase a walkway paver to be place in the Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation Park in memory of a lifelong friend. Unfortunately, due…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
In his shamelessly self-aggrandizing 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy report, Donald Trump equates “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists” with…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
There is no greater responsibility, nor greater reward, than giving our children every possible advantage as they make their way in the world. Raising…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Graham Platner has been direct, clear, and, in my estimation, a man of character who both admits and has learned from past…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
We are writing to strongly voice our family’s concern to MaineHealth’s leadership and to alert the people of the Boothbay region that yet another vital…
Edgecomb Fire Rescue responded to 14 calls in April, compared with 34 calls in March. April calls included two mutual aid requests for structure fires, one brush fire, five medical emergencies (ME…
Home repairs are inevitable—whether from everyday wear and tear or unexpected damage. But when you’re looking for help, the wrong contractor can make matters worse. Some promise quick, low-cost…
Rainy and cold again today. Do May showers bring June flowers in the Gulf of Maine? It always seems like spring is a late bloomer here. That beautiful, but…
Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good
Whether he is sponsoring the Maine Cornhole Classic to support Special Olympics Unified Champion Clubs, picking up trash during Barters…
2026 Windjammer Days
As Boothbay Harbor prepares to celebrate the 64th annual…
Editor's note: The Boothbay Register erroneously published an Edgecomb political letter past our announced May 4 deadline. We regret that error and, because…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Early in the 21st Century, the United States appeared to falter. Iran was advancing its nuclear program while…
Imagine if you can, a 118-foot, 12,000-pound tree lying on the ground with all sorts of branches dangling from the top one third of its length. Now, visualize lifting…
Joe's Journal
With all the bombast going on in the Maine Senate race, the strangeness of Washington, D.C., the not really a war in the Middle East, and our local town meetings and elections, last week Columbia…
From the assistant editor
All five of Wiscasset's selectboard candidates for three seats, both of Wiscasset's school committee candidates for one seat, and Westport Island's lone selectboard candidate on that town's ballot…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
On June 9th, Wiscasset voters will decide whether to approve a school budget of more than $11 million dollars. …
Dear Editor:
Our corrupt and partisan supreme court has gutted the long standing Voting Rights Act of 1965, an act that made it possible for millions of voters to go to the polls who had…
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Dear Editor:
Our serial lawbreaker, the 34-felony-count president, has led a charmed life — until now.
Racism? Dad will handle it. Broken contracts? Call Roy. Insurance fraud? Talk…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The Boothbay Region Garden Club hosted the Medomak District Annual Meeting on Monday, May 4th at the Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences’ new…
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms still with us and those that are not, where might we be without the love, care, teaching, and nurturing of these incredible women, we…
As Boothbay Harbor prepares to celebrate the 64th annual Windjammer Days, this year’s theme proudly honors the past, present, and…
Gift cards are popular and convenient for consumers—and for criminals who favor them as easy and hard-to-trace forms of payment.
They may claim the fastest way to fix an urgent financial…
BRYMCA Community Catalyst for Good
Imij Armstead, affectionately named by her parents after Jimi Hendrix (her first name is “Jimi” spelled backward), has become a vibrant force in the Boothbay Region’s thriving performing arts…
Press release
In 2024, the Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, L.D. 2104, An Act to Amend the Charter of the Wiscasset Water District. The bill did several important things, which were:
1. It…
A new door is ready to welcome everyone to the BICA Hall (24 West Side Road). …
Joe's Journal
Working through my usual morning routine early Saturday, I glanced out the window and saw Bambi. He/she had wandered over the stone wall that delineates my ground from that of my neighbor, Joey…
'Round Town
I know it is ancient history but so much community fun! Events with a focus on what makes the region a community. No great fanfare, no fireworks, nothing but a real treat to celebrate special…
As we approach Memorial Day, I find myself reflecting on my service and how much has changed since I was in uniform.
So, I enlisted in the Navy…
As I write this week’s column we are finally experiencing some spring weather for a change. These past weeks have been anything but spring-like; I do hope that the good weather will continue as we…
Another delightful rainy day helping to replenish the 11 inches we are still behind from last year’s drought, those vital veins deep beneath the surface do not refill so easily, but this rain is…
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Edgecomb School Board candidate, Maureen Heffernen,…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
It seems proper to offer this prayer for our nation as Thursday, May 7 is our National Day of Prayer:
May we return to virtue's hallowed ground,
Where justice…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I just attended and voted on the 2027 school budget at the Edgecomb Eddy School. It was a long and civil meeting where people expressed their support for quality education for…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
There is a certain kind of magic in a small-town school like Edgecomb Eddy. I know this because I have two children who went through that school; they grew up within its walls…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The results of Edgecomb’s annual town meeting for the School Budget this past Saturday offer something worth holding onto: optimism grounded in action. With the adoption of the…
