Dear Editor:
For the 2022 election cycle, Cameron Reny was untested. She had little to use in her speeches, except her warmth, ideas, and genuinely projected…
Talk
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Cameron Reny represents our needs. She is fighting to make medical services available and affordable. As a member of the Health Coverage, Insurance,…
Commentary
As a marine harvester in the Midcoast and Downeast, part time sternman and advocate for keeping our waters clean and open to everyone, I urge you to look at what is happening along the Maine coast…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
A convicted felon meets a former attorney general on the debate stage. It doesn’t go so well for one of them.
Bruce MacDonald
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Dear Editor:
Lincoln County Republicans have been doing a flag wave on the Wiscasset bridge every Friday afternoon for the past eight weeks. We are…
Last Thursday we were enchanted by Lynn Chadwick from Pittston, Maine, the home of Doom Forest Distillery and Chadwick's Maple Craft Spirits. Lynn is a teacher turned distiller. Chadwick, Master…
In last weeks article, I bragged about our VA in Maine and that they received 4 stars overall Hospital Quality Star Rating from the Centers for…
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps like Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App have made sending money between family and friends easier than ever before. But consumers beware: while these apps make exchanging…
Fall is coming, cooler evenings and earlier sunsets. Enjoy the late summer weather.
The Community Center still needs more volunteer drivers for our People Helping People…
A Bird’s Tale
It’s a cool, early-September evening on the Maine coast. On the point across the water from where we’re standing, tall white pine trees create a light green curtain against the impossibly blue sky…
From the assistant editor
How long does it take to inadvertently prove Wiscasset attracts? As in, it attracts people who don’t live and/or work here and therefore who are in town limits because they want to spend time here…
From the editor
Fifty years ago was a pivotal year for me. It was the start of my senior year in high school and deciding how I wanted to get through life – what college to apply to, what to major in, where I…
Joe’s Journal
Here is your question for the week.
Did you sneak out of bed the other night, tip-toe to the linen closet, and pull out a blanket? Or did you just close the bedroom window?
Maybe you…
’Round Town
This is my “F bomb!”
Many years ago, while photographing in the bowels of steel ships, I purchased a used and rather unique Canon lens – the 50mm F1.0. It is a lens that Canon manufactured…
If you are here vacationing you are experiencing some of the best pre -fall weather ever. Each day features clear blue skies and perfect temperatures and it appears that this great stretch of…
Boothbay Region YMCA Community Catalyst for Good
September always announces its arrival with crisp change in the morning air. Busses winding down back roads. School playgrounds swollen with laughter. But September is also Hunger Action…
Cool nights have turned into cooler mornings, slipper weather! Hope to get a few more trips out on the old Seaway before putting it up for the winter. It’s been a bit…
Those of us not attending Saturday night parties instead made a good audience for the talk at the Southport Town Hall, sponsored by Joyce and Donald Duncan and arranged by Friends of the Southport…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
In 1976, the small business economy was growing in Maine.
The Maine Legislature declared that centrally managing the economy is an essential government function to be…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I am writing in regard to the polluting, noisy, and traumatizing fireworks. They scare children and older adults; traumatize veterans, animals and younger children; cause…
From the House of Representatives
Every Mainer deserves to be able to age with dignity. But when I speak with many older constituents in our community, I often hear from people who…
Summer is fleeting, the parking lot has thinned out, boats have gone off to winter storage, the leaves are turning on the huckleberry bushes, and the juvenile osprey are cruising above…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The Republican Study Committee FY 2025 Budget Proposal for 2025, now available online at…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The intent of this letter is to reach those folks who are still undecided.
The hard core Democrats will follow their mantra regardless, and true Republicans are…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
In a half page advertisement in a recent Lincoln County News, the Lincoln County Republican Committee stated the following:
“I am voting for the next Supreme Court…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Leadership can come from unexpected places. If you’d like to witness it firsthand, visit Pier 1 Pizza Pub. On a Tuesday night it will be…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
There are multiple challenges facing everyday Mainers: Healthcare, housing, and the environment all impact our economy.
In her first term…
I have addressed this issue before but feel it is important to discuss it again.
The issue is, getting VA healthcare. Many veterans joined the military out of high…
Passion to give back comes in numerous flavors.
Last week David Eastwood spoke on the Coast Guard Auxiliary, of which he is a member, of the work of the Auxiliary in general and Coast…
Community of Hope
Historically, the movement to address domestic abuse has been very focused on the experiences of cisgender women, that is, women whose gender identity corresponds with the sex they were…
Planning to take a road trip soon? Gas prices and traffic jams aren’t your only concern. Cybercriminals are now deceiving drivers into paying fake highway tolls. Here’s what you need to know: …
Where It’s At
The Barn Project’s current show, “Blue: A Spatial Dialogue,” features work by local artist and sculptor Douglas Gimbel and Alejandra Seeber of New York City – and it’s one no one should miss.…
A Bird’s Tale
Life forms that live all around us but that we never (or almost never) detect may be kind of freaky to think about. Viruses, bacteria, prions—those microscopic living (or maybe not really living,…
From the assistant editor
As longtime readers and wiscassetnewspaper.com viewers can attest, we cover bigger, ongoing local government news stories pretty wall to wall, like with last year’s principal removal controversy…
From the editor
We have a small but talented reporting staff but we can’t always get all the news, all the time, every waking hour of the day. Yes, we do follow Facebook posts where people post immediate news as…
Joe’s Journal
Labor Day Weekend is in the rear view mirror, maples are starting to show a bit of red, and you can usually (OK, sometimes) find a parking place on the streets of Boothbay Harbor.
Our…
’Round Town
For many, Labor Day marks the end of summer and the start of the school year. When we first moved here, the streets rolled up after Labor Day. Restaurants and motel/inns closed and things got real…
September is here. Where did the summer go? Hot, humid, chilly, rain, and, of course, beautiful weather! I hope you had a good Labor Day weekend.
And the winner is….. Gail MacPhee. She won…
First off, many thanks to Peter Edwards for writing such a terrific column last week. He’ll be the designated sub next year for sure!
When you read this…
YMCA Health and Wellness
When I first started personal training, I thought it was critical to pull out all the stops; use every piece of gym equipment, keep up with the latest and greatest fitness trends and put my…
As we close the last vestiges of summer, I wanted to also take this opportunity to shift gears from our typical fire prevention and education topics and discuss with you two very important issues…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Last week, a writer to our editor warned us that Vice President Kamala Harris will do “exactly the opposite of what she and the Biden administration did in the past.” (Details…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
As self-employed residents of Maine, my husband and I face the burden of purchasing our health insurance out of pocket. We find ourselves in a challenging position:…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I am writing to express my strong support for Cameron Reny’s re-election to the Maine State Senate representing District 13. Cameron has consistently proven herself to be a…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I must admit that my family and I were quite saddened by all the “upgrades” done to the Maine State Aquarium. The aquarium has a special place in our hearts and is somewhere…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Boothbay Region Meals on Wheels Board of Directors, our volunteers and the staff at St. Andrews Village, I would like to thank the Register and your most…
After a great social time and dinner entertaining several fun guests, we all “galloped” into a fun evening of horse racing Aug. 29.
Our social committee outdid themselves. Charlotte Jameson…
First a correction of last week’s column. I had written that Mel Rines was an Air Force pilot. Kathy Bugbee informed me that he flew for the Navy. Thanks, Kathy.
Our library was overflowing…
What beautiful days we have had at the end of August. It was a low tide week at the beach. The cooler temperatures and long afternoon shadows of the trees made it…
