If you were driving by the new Sailing and Education Center in the past week you would have seen considerable activity on the grading of land space adjacent to the building. This is in preparation…
Talk
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
I love advocacy work because I love solving problems and helping others. Advocacy work is not easy. It’s long and enduring, tedious at times, frustrating as hell and requires thick skin. You learn…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Like Boothbay Harbor, the town of Boothbay does advertise when nomination papers are ready.
As a matter of fact, the Boothbay Board of Selectmen have determined it…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I live on Southport where the winters have been rough on the roads this year — even on our little street. Earlier this week (Feb. 28),…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
With all the serious problems and controversy surrounding our town of Boothbay, the last thing residents need to read in our local paper is biased reporting of infighting…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The article about Route 27 landscaping stated an admirable goal: a design reflecting the community’s history and natural surroundings.
That being the case, why would…
The Boothbay Region Lions met on Feb. 28 with 22 members in attendance and two guests. Lion Terry provided piano music which included “The Star-Spangled Banner” and…
Gathering at Dana and Jane Mulholland’s home
The weather co-operated so that Solon Road was thawed and ice free, making for easy access to the top of the hill where there was plenty of…
Garden Therapy will be held at St. Andrews Village on Tuesday, March 6 at 11 a.m.
A round-table will be held at St. Columba's Episcopal Church on Wednesday, March 14 at noon. Have you ever…
Greetings from the Knights of Pythias Boothbay Lodge #32.
Well, the weather dealt us a blow on our dance night but the show went on. For those who braved the roads we thank you for…
Imagine being able to glide slowly over the ground at dawn somewhere along the Atlantic Coast of North America, listening to the songs of birds as they awaken on a spring day. Now imagine doing…
We are almost there ... as Mollie Moore told me ... “just another week and we switch to daylight saving and then three more weeks and it will be spring.” Plue ... check out the yellow witch hazel…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I am so glad I got out of teaching before I had to go the shooting range to get certified? Just when I think Trump can't say anything more ridiculous, he comes through with…
The 90th Annual Academy Awards are coming up this Sunday and you can bet I’ll be watching – along with everyone who loves everything movies and the art of acting. We can’t be kept away from our TV…
From the editor
I was a local high school basketball coach for about a dozen years. I know that basketball is a team sport. However, there are players on every team which stand out, and I would like to recognize…
On Eating and Loving Food
There’s cheese fondue. Then there’s Kim Martin’s cheese fondue.
On Jan. 6, Michael Maxim posted a comment on my Facebook page: “Hey Suzi Thayer, I need some fondue tips...where’s my article…
’Round Town
June Elderkin makes a mean blueberry coffee cake. When I visit, if the blueberries are in at Hannaford, there's a good chance for fresh baked goods. So, I got a little anxious when…
Mary’s Musings
The potholes aren’t showing today, as we write this column; it’s snowing. However, the weatherman promises very little accumulation and a quick melt, so we’ll all be able to SEE the potholes…
Joe’s Journal
As if the nation was not riled up enough, what with wars, politics, and the Mueller investigation into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 election, a 19-year-old waltzed into a Florida high…
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
Snow, rain, thaw, melt, repeat. This pattern tells us that mud season is approaching. For weeks, I’ve heard people comment on the unexpected snowfall levels as they tried in vain to prepare for…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The article about landscaping the Route 27 construction zone (2-22-18) sounded great until I came to the part about putting a Colorado blue spruce in the middle of…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
In 2015, there were about 125,000 public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. Two armed guards per school would provide 250,000 more jobs, at a cost of $9…
I love a mystery!
Author Tony Hillerman, known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels, is my subject this month.
His Navajo name means Who is Afraid of His Horse. Having lived…
Last weekend’s Daily Catch delivered the sad news that Don Walker a longtime BHYC member (and friend of all) had passed away. Don and Lois were active in many areas of service to the club and to…
This week, Thursday March 1, District Governor 2019-2020 Andy Glazier will be our guest. On March 8, our own Patty Seybold, accompanied by a local doctor, will be speaking about Boothbay Region…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
A huge thank you to the awesome community we have from the family of Kathy Barter.
How can we begin to thank you all for the many cards, food, prayers, and help with…
Birding 101 begins this week and will meet every Wednesday in March from 3 until 4 p.m. The class is open to anyone interested in birds. There will be class discussions about…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
My growing up years were east coast and west coast oceans. I saw the ocean as belonging to the states with coastlines. California beaches were mostly public and new…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I felt compelled to write this letter. I feel that everyone should be outraged at this most recent of school shootings, and the ones that came before. To suggest that only…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I would like to have had just one day since Jan. 20, 2017 when I did not learn of some new assault on our integrity as a people and our decency as a…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
After thinking about the Florida shooting for a week, I have reached a personal conclusion that this society, with its cultural gun mentality, has reached the point that, as a…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Here we go again; Congress has just passed a massive tax cut, which will benefit mostly the wealthy. It will also vastly increase our national deficit. Have Republicans…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I encourage all registered Democrats to attend your local caucus on Sunday, March 4.
I do not want another eight years of LePage politics in our state. And after the…
From the editor
Another school shooting massacre, this time in Florida. Let’s wake up, America, and do something about stopping this senseless violence. Even President Trump seems ready to get serious about…
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
Back in November, I wrote a column titled Who You See Matters and I wrote about the variances in care (re: tick-borne disease) that a patient gets depending on how much knowledge the provider they…
Greetings from the Knights of Pythias Boothbay Lodge #32.
We want to wish our Seahawks good luck in this year’s playoffs.
Coming up on Friday night, Feb. 23, we have Garry B…
’Round Town
I was all set with my “Register” adventure for this week and brewing my second cup of Vallejo coffee, produced by our friend Cris, of California. His coffee is terrific.
As my dollup of raw…
Maria Doelp will be your columnist for the next two weeks. Please send her information at pdoelp@roadrunner.com or put written information in the envelope at the Island Store. Thanks, Maria.
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Out of Our Past
In the mid-1830s the village of Hodgdons Mills, now East Boothbay, was being transformed from an extended Murray family farm into a shipbuilding village with multiple shipyards. Most of the…
Everyone knows a puffin. With that big orangey bill, the puffin image is on cereal boxes, company trucks, convenience store signs, Maine tourism brochures, and much more. A fair number of…
On Eating and Loving Food
You know how all of a sudden it’s, like, 1 p.m., and you’re starving? You start searching the fridge, hoping lunch will magically appear.
That happened…
Mary’s Musings
Why is it that so many elected officials, company heads, and others who don’t have to answer to higher-ups, find it so tempting to waste someone else’s money? If they don’…
Joe’s Journal
On Friday, the national news was all abuzz with the 37-page indictment alleging a group of Russians tried to influence our 2016 presidential election.
The weapon they used was “Fake News…
We are always up to something new around here. The latest is that we have some Junior Volunteers on board. These young people are doing community service hours as part of their educational…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
A question was once asked “Why do you write letters to the editor?” If my father were alive he would ask why don’t you write letters to the editor. So here I sit writing…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Unlike Boothbay Harbor, the town of Boothbay doesn’t advertise when nomination papers are ready for any resident interested in being elected to a town officer position. As a…
Two of our good friends and past members have sailed their final voyage during the past weeks. Lee Yereance and Charles Barker are gone but never forgotten by their good friends at BHYC.
…
Black History Month at the library
When Joanna Breen suggested I write this week’s column about Black History Month here at BHML, I wasn’t sure I had the knowledge base to pull that off…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
A picture speaks a thousand words, as did the photos on the Feb. 8 editorial page of a huge gaggle of Canada geese on lawns in the inner harbor. In the spring, each female lays…
