Eat your fruits and vegetables. Choose lean meats and fish. Limit your sugar and salt intake. We all hear these messages daily, and have for many years. There’s only one big problem: It…

Are you confused about the secret investigation into allegations of Russian involvement in the 2016 election? Like you, my knowledge of the Russians and international espionage is limited to Jason…

We are experiencing wonderful success with the Memory to Memoir Workshop. The spring session is full and we have a waiting list. Be sure to watch for…

Thursday, March  15, was a busy day on Southport. In the morning about 20 of us gathered at the Southport Memorial Library to listen to Robert Devine tell tales from his book “Ketchup in my…

Greetings from the Knights of Pythias Lodge #32 and welcome to spring! Well, the calendar said we made it.

Coming up at the K.P. Hall on March 26 at 6 p.m. is a roast beef dinner for…

A delicious birthday cake was the special dessert at last Thursday’s Rotary meeting, celebrating the birthday of The Rotary Auction’s co-chair, Debbie Graves. American chop suey with salad was the…

My daughters and I listened to “The Giver” by Lois Lowry in the car this weekend. It was so good! So good, in fact, that I downloaded the eBook and finished reading while the kids were watching a…

The exciting news, the bi-monthly, famous, American Legion breakfast will resume on April 8. All your favorite items will be back, including the beloved Belgian waffle station, sponsored by the…

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We finally get a member on the board of selectmen for the town of Boothbay, who was elected by the people and willing to work for the people, and what happens — she…

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On March 14, 2018, Congress passed bank deregulations as was previously done by President Reagan. For the second time, I watched the movie “Too Big To Fail,” based on Andrew…

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How disappointing the article and the letter to the editor about the select board’s childish response to Ms. Ford's   letter to the editor about running for…

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I happened to be substitute teaching in an elementary school in New Hampshire on St. Patrick’s Day. The hallways were decorated with pictures of luck four-leaf clovers,…

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We need to really push back hard on this MAV wind turbine “development” project, which is being funded by taxpayers with $10 million, and much more subsidy money to come, from…

The next meeting of the Boothbay Region Senior Citizens Club will be held on Wednesday, March 28 at the Boothbay Fire Station starting at 11:30 a.m.  Please arrive by 11:15 a.m. The meals…

If you happened to be driving by the club last Friday about 6 a.m. (and doesn’t everybody?), you would have seen a large yellow truck with arms and pipes and who knows what else plus a concrete…

As a society, we form opinions based on what we see, hear and experience. Sometimes it’s firsthand, other times, it’s based on what is shared with us. Many times, its hard to form an opinion based…

His name was Rufus Benedict.

Rufus was about my age, maybe 15, when he worked for my Uncle Jim, the owner of a dairy farm in Nova Scotia. It was 1938, my third summer in Nova Scotia working…

Lyle Lovett. When some hear his name either an image or a song pops into their mind’s eye. Or ear, as it were. For me, it’s a song: “Hello. I’m the guy who sits next to you and reads your…

On the day of that gorgeous, serene snowfall last week (easy for me to say – I didn’t lose power) Sue Mello sent me a link to a recipe for bread: “Slow bread.”

The headline, on Slate.com,…

Many thanks to Maria Doelp who gathered news and wrote this column for the past two weeks while Kit and I soaked up some warmth with friends, Joanne and George Carlisle, in San Miguel de Allende…

Seventeen years ago, Penelope M. Thumith agreed to manage the St. Andrews Hospital Thrift Shop.

Penny, as she likes to be called, says it was a way to take her mind off the trauma triggered…

The Southport Fire Department meets regularly once a month, and more often when updates and training are needed/required.

This time of year we generally don'…

The weather has been the major topic of discussion this past week, with a brutal nor’easter dumping 15-plus inches of snow on our peninsula, and as we prepared our column, forecasters were…

As we struggle to believe that spring is indeed on the way despite an onslaught of winter storms, we find hope in the arrival of the earliest spring migrant birds. We wrote about one of those last…

Greetings from the Knight's of Pythias Lodge #32. We hope everyone is getting through this winter as best as you can. Spring is coming!

We want to thank Larry Smith for running the meeting'…

I don’t care what the calendar says: winter in Maine officially ends the first day that those bright orange “Heavy Loads Limited” signs go up on telephone poles.

So happy spring, folks! We’…

The last article provided the East Boothbay background on Andrew Hagan who left the village in 1877 to board the tea clipper Golden State in New York city for voyages to China. His 1877 and 1878…

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News trollers are often given an assignment to keep hate language going by using words like “Democrat” or “Ideologue” as if a person does not exist in any other capacity than…

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I am writing to express my dismay at a recent photo you published in a news article on Matthew Forgues, Olympic hopeful. My concern is with the photo of Forgues and another…

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It was with great sadness I read about another school shooting, in Florida this time. Watching the CNN…

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History may not repeat itself, exactly, but it does seem to favor symmetry.

In April 1917, the government of Imperial Germany used a weapon of mass destruction to…

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I would like to take this opportunity to share my thoughts on several issues that have been brought up regarding the roundabout landscape plan…

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Re: Virginia Rickeman’s letter to the editor of March 5 concerning Rt. 27 landscaping:

I come from Texas, where mesquite trees grow like a bad weed over 65 million acres…

The construction crew lost part of a day and a half last week to the snowstorm but two of the workers were able to work inside on the ground floor preparing the area for concrete pouring by laying…

We have posted several articles on our Facebook page lately about the growing number of people living alone and suffering from the pangs of isolation…

This past week, it became very apparent what I would write about. Something very personal to me, something that got me through the darkest, most painful moments of my journey towards health and…

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I was encouraged to read a recent news article about Edgecomb Eddy School’s enrollment continuing to grow, including its pre-…

Have you ever answered your phone only to find that the local number displayed is not really the number that is calling you?

This practice, known as “spoofing,” has been around for…

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This past week I called 911. I thank our EMS system. Everybody is great! They are respectful, kind, caring. Response was immediate. Directions on next steps clear. A police…

Greetings from the Knights of Pythias Boothbay Lodge #32.

We were very pleased to help out with the use of our lodge to some local families for various functions.

Our second night of…

I’ve been pigging out.

It’s been a few weeks of, well, not quite hell, but not exactly Disneyland either, for me.

This is a food column, so I’m not going to dwell on the gory details…

Here in Maine we’re used to seeing a variety of hawks that can occur throughout the year. Cooper’s hawks and sharp-shinned hawks are regularly seen in winter, usually diving into a backyard where…

Our island did experience some of the weather resulting from the storm on the weekend. Extreme high tides reached 13 plus feet resulting in flooded basements and several docks that…

Central Maine Power is being investigated by the Public Utilities Commission regarding metering, billing and customer communications after the PUC received hundreds, possibly thousands, of…

The smile is the first thing you notice about Deborah Bronk. It sits just below her twinkling eyes that seem to dance as she talks about her new job as president and CEO of the East Boothbay…

Kevin Kiley and Paul Noah helped us create the most extraordinary Halloweens.

Most of us have no idea whatsoever what goes on behind closed doors except our own, and generally tend to mind our own business. It’s not a bad philosophy. Running our own lives is usually…

There has been very little Ocean Point news of late, however, we have experienced some severe weather in the form of a Nor'easter, two in a week! Coco Webber reports that Ocean Point did not see…

The Oscars, seeing the movie, and reading the book

Doesn’t it seem like the best movies are usually adaptations of books? I was checking out Oscar winners this morning to see if that was…

Last Friday morning, before the storm, our Birding 101 group went to Ocean Point and Little River inlet to see what birds the impending bad weather had driven in to shore. They saw…