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…
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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…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
We are writing to invite residents of Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor, Edgecomb, Southport, and Westport Island to join us at the Democratic caucuses for those towns on Sunday,…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
If we really want to end the shootings in our schools, we need to stop arguing, and actually begin doing the simple things that we already know will make all the…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Saturday , Feb. 10 was the first ever Boothbay Frozen Court Classic JV basketball tournament. Six teams participated in the one day tournament which included teams from…
I hope each one of you, Dear Readers, had someone to hug or someone to hug you yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, as well as every day. Kit and I celebrated with a hug and with eating some of the…
Greetings everyone.
We wish to thank everyone for the great turnout for our dance. And we would like to see more of you to come out and enjoy our future events.
Coming up at the…
Mary’s Musings
It’s about time, say many of us, that L.L. Bean will no longer quietly let some unscrupulous customers take advantage of them and hurt their bottom line.The company is discontinuing its long…
A Bird’s Tale
Early one fall morning more than 22 years ago, we and 10 or so of our colleagues from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology piled into a large, white van. We rode south from Ithaca, New York, for about…
From the editor
February is a good month for thinking. The days are getting longer – yeah – and with 321 days left in the year – as of Tuesday – this week seemed like a good time to ponder over what has…
As I sat down to write about local blues musician and songwriter Don Brewer and…
Joe’s Journal
Valentine’s Day is an event designed to celebrate romance and friendship — and to peddle lots of sweets and flowers.
It seemed a good time to talk to a couple who know a thing or two about…
On Eating and Loving Food
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw
That was the first quote I borrowed for my…
’Round Town
How many of you have ever wondered where the Boothbay Register (and Wiscasset Newspaper) comes from? That's what I thought.
Contrary to popular belief, it…
The old adage “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes,” certainly applies this year. The weather has consistently been erratic; one-day snow and…
Are your hearts fluttering? This is St. Valentine’s Week and we are having our third annual Cookie Walk here at The…
I’ve joined a new book club at the Library and it’s fantastic.
The first meeting of the Refreshing the Whodunit: Moving Beyond Christie and Doyle book talk series, sponsored and facilitated…
It is now four of our winter potlucks (three last year) that have been cancelled due to snow. But BICAers are not daunted by this statistic and are going to try again on Feb. 21 at…
From the Senate
In the Maine Legislature, there are times we need to take immediate action to address emergencies, and other occasions where we need to take a step back and wait for additional, crucial…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
As a child, a dentist visit was not something leading you to jump for joy. This was before high speed drills and Novocaine. Dentists for children had to be creative. When he…
Yes Houston, we have a building! It wasn’t a liftoff, it was lift UP. And a major crane did the job of lifting all the Mod Boxes from their trailers onto the foundation and into place forming the…
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
King of Soul singer Sam Cooke said it best when he crooned, “It’s been a long, a long time coming but I know, a change is gonna come.” That is what hope looks and sounds like. It’s believing that…
Renoir, Degas, Da Vinci, Picasso, Klimt, Cezanne, Botticelli, Gaugin, Pissaro, Bouguereau, Michelangelo, Rodin … the list of artists known for their paintings or sculptures of nudes – well, there’…
Identity Theft and Fraud
Remember last fall’s big news about the data breach at Equifax? Information about 143 million U.S. residents, including their social…
A Bird’s Tale
Every winter, a few of the tiniest of geese spend the winter along the Maine coast. These geese, called brant, are another of the species that we celebrate in this The Year of the Bird because, if…
Many thanks to Maureen Kinsey who took up the challenge and kept the Southport news flowing last week while Kit and I were in Vermont. Weather there was similar to here: warm, cold, snow, ice ---…
Dear Editor:
My family has lived in Alna for 38 years. I have held most offices in Alna, from fire department president, to school board, to selectman, to…
KINDNESS MATTERS is a campaign designed to change the way people interact with each other. It is the legacy of a 13-year old who took his own life after…
From the Editor
I have been lost in the middle.
I’ve known about the “baby boomers,” because I am one, but ask me about who is a “Generation X” or a “millennial” and I am lost. Not that it’s really…
’Round Town
For this week’s issue of the “Bob files,” I’ve decided to dig back into some of my more recent digital archives and share an image not often seen this time of year by many of us.
I offer…
On Eating and Loving Food
Roast a chicken. It costs somewhere around 6 or 7 bucks for a smallish one, and if you live alone, like I do, you can get a lot of mileage out of it. I love that,…
Mary’s Musings
Every time we watch one of the TV shows on hoarders, we breathe a sigh of relief that we’re not that bad yet, but we do feel guilty that we save far more than we should. Some folks can claim…
Joe’s Journal
As the snow and winds swirled around the Boothbay Fire Station last week, about 50 of our friends and neighbors gathered to talk about the future of our communities.
It is about time.
…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Let’s get one thing straight. If the Left wins DACA amnesty, then they win everything, simply because the inevitable ‘next wave’ of so-called Dreamers would…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I was very disappointed when Angus King voted against the tax reform measure in Congress. Even though he voted against it, we have seen companies view the tax reform more…
Weather seems to be influencing many events in our area and we are in the midst of a very…
Greetings from the Knights of Pythias.
We have some fun times coming up at our hall and we hope to see you there! On Saturday night, Feb. 10, we have Tim Sprague & the Murky Water Band…
Among North American birds, what color descriptor word is found in most bird names? Maybe it was the grayness of the day that got us thinking about colors, but over breakfast this morning we…
Greetings from the Knights of Pythias.
We want to thank our members for getting their dues paid, as well as getting caught up on there current mailing addresses. We want to hear from more…
Who doesn’t love going to a fair? Mid-summer and fall months bring the agricultural fairs – just reading the phrase agricultural fairs conjures up the scents and sounds we associate with them.…
From the Editor
It’s Super Bowl week and our beloved (depending on who you talk to) New England Patriots are in it again. For a record 10th time! They’ve won five and lost four — and if it wasn’t for a couple of…
I become very excited at this point in the year as January is behind us and there are only a few short months before we all begin to return to Ocean Point.
…
Out of Our Past
After my October hurricane Carol article, I heard from or called a few people regarding their stories about the Sept. 1, 1954 storm. Bob Jacobson's story appeared a few weeks ago.…
’Round Town
It was a big music weekend.
Our daughter and her husband traveled to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall for a “Khalid” concert. Not the Rockettes but according to Morgan and Andrei, a…
On Eating and Loving Food
I love bubblies of all colors and prices. It’s been a while since I’ve drunk Andres, but give me an eight-dollar bottle of Barefoot Bubbly and I’m good to go.
Not all sparklers are…
Joe’s Journal
This is a plug for a movie called “The Post.”
I urge you to go see it, especially if you can still remember the early 1970s.
For those too young to remember the 1970s and late 1960s…
Mary’s Musings
Being a celebrity can have its drawbacks. Take “The Price is Right” television game show host Drew Carey, who found himself on the floor of the stage a couple of weeks ago…
