Dear Editor:
The growing tax burden on small towns like Edgecomb is simply unsustainable. Schools, emergency response entities, and even the town management are all subjected to…
Talk
It sure feels like winter in Maine lately. Time to stay home by the fire sipping tea or other stronger libations. Unless, you’re a member of the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club, because this month we…
The ocean has had its way with us! As I began this column on Friday, Jan. 12, we await another storm tonight and tomorrow, this time arriving in Midcoast Maine at the same time as an extraordinary…
If you’re like a lot of people, you spent a lot this holiday season and you might be in the mood to tackle your debt in the new year. Getting yourself out of debt is hard work. It takes time…
Boothbay YMCA Community Catalyst for Good
The Boothbay Region YMCA is proud to announce the completion of Phase One improvements to the connecting trail between Camp Knickerbocker and the Baldwin Center. The trail is a long-established…
A Bird’s Tale
It was Saturday. Grocery shopping needed to be done. Prescriptions needed filling. The floors needed a vacuuming and the towels needed to be folded and put away.
A major snowstorm was…
From the editor
It’s been three weeks since the Winter Solstice and have you noticed that daylight has been getting longer? More minutes to enjoy the outdoors, like cleaning the snow and ice off your car – now…
Joe’s Journal
Three years ago, I was driving down I-95 en route to Boston when I heard something on the radio that almost made me swerve off the road.“They have breached the Capitol,“ said an NPR announcer.…
’Round Town
Well, we finally got it! And maybe then some. At 5 p.m., right now, it is still snowing. I plowed all our roads once around 1 o’clock thinking that maybe the weather folks might have an inside…
Welcome to our first snowstorm of the year! Unfortunately, by the time you read this column in the newspaper, most of the pretty white stuff will have been washed away by buckets of rain and…
As I sit and write the first column of 2024, I am witnessing the first snowfall of the new year. If you are an outdoor enthusiast I’m certain this is what you have been anxiously awaiting; finally…
Cold has finally arrived with most coves showing icy rims. Too bad the liner for the skating ring is not yet in as perhaps the rink would be frozen enough for skating. Most people I talk with who…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Our local CSD Board of Trustees and School Board run one of the largest organizations in the region…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
This past Election Day, the voters of Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor resoundingly defeated two questions concerning proposed capital expenditures for our…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
I grew up in East Boothbay, and I am reluctantly writing today to say how glad I am that I no longer live there…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Launching a battle of attrition won’t work.
He is the Teflon Don. This recent utter stupidity will also bounce off of him.
Just another feeble attempt by an…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
It’s been a good eight months of pondering as to whether I should bring this forth.
I am hoping that this strikes a note among those less than willing to welcome…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Thank you to the following organizations The Lions Club, The Community Lunch Bunch, The Community Resource Council, The Congregational Church, Bayview Masons Lodge, The…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The 21st edition of the Penguin Plunge was a great success with 48 plungers. Thanks to them and the generosity of others in our community, $1,500 was raised to fund free swim…
Last week was all about looking at the successes in 2023. This week we look forward to the new year!
First, we wish for everyone’s good health and we pray for civil discourse through this…
Tom, a retired minister, shared a career of joy filled experiences as he served various churches. Ministers officiate at many weddings and memorial services always intent to meet the expectations…
It’s New Year’s Resolution time. Time to make a commitment to be fraud aware in 2024. For the next 52 weeks, like clockwork, scammers will be on the prowl looking to steal our money or sensitive…
A Bird’s Tale
Something unusual seems to be happening.
Here in Maine, it started off with the discovery of the western sibling species to our familiar eastern towhee, a spotted towhee, at Fort Foster in…
From the assistant editor
This is the year repairs will finish on the Wawenock block on Main Street, some project will be announced for Mason Station and it will not snow much.
I put that last prediction in there…
From the editor
The holiday celebrations and time off from work are over and we, the newspaper staff, are looking forward to another fine year ahead.
We are currently, however slowly, getting our annual…
’Round Town
Without a wintry look right now I thought it might be fun to dig out an image from a winter past. Not that I’m complaining, but there is only so much one can do with fog and rain, especially at…
Joe’s journal
Months ago, when the world was younger, and we were too, we looked forward to the coming primary election season.
The Iowa caucuses are in a couple of weeks, and Super Tuesday (and the…
The Community Center wishes everyone a very Happy New Year. The schedule below is for the first full week of January. Somehow. it’s hard to believe that it’s January with the temperature in the…
Happy New Year to all!
A brief reflection on 2023 tells a story of a generous community that supports our veterans in so many ways. In February, the Topsham American Legion held their…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
After Biden took the office of president, I wrote that those who voted for him had unknowingly voted for the ruin of our country. At that time I couldn't imagine the damage…
Tucked away in the corner of our Children’s Room is a resource all parents and teachers should be aware of, The Parent/Teacher Collection, or as the call number goes: J[P/T].
…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
When I checked the messages on my answering machine that day, there was a man signing…
Well there it is in print, 2024! I remember when I was a child about 12 years old, as I was playing with my close friend, both of us wondered if we would live until the year 2000 and what life…
Happy New Year to you. Can you believe it is January 1, 2024? Here’s to the New Year, may it be a good one, full of laughter, friends, family, all that and the joy of Rotary too. Here’s to 2024…
If there is one thing we know, it’s that criminal scammers are not stupid. They often use cutting-edge technologies to make their schemes more sophisticated and harder to detect. However, these…
New Hope Midcoast
Many believe that substance use is an underlying cause of domestic abuse, but this is a misconception. There is nothing in drugs or alcohol that causes someone to believe that they have the right…
Salt ’n Spar
There was a time, much to the chagrin of lobstermen, when huge tanker ships laden with fuel oil journeyed up the waters of the Sheepscot River. Their destination was Central Maine Power Company’s…
From the assistant editor
Lots of times in testimony, in or out of court, like in last week’s Wiscasset Middle High School principal hearing at Wiscasset Elementary School and Zoom, witnesses will say some thing(s) beyond…
From the editor
The 2020s have been an interesting decade so far. The COVID-19 pandemic, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, massive floods and fires around the world, mass shootings (including a horrendous one…
Joe’s Journal
Here we go – the last column of 2023.
I am writing this one in advance as my kids sent me an airline ticket so I could be with them over the holidays. I am grateful for their…
The Community Center wishes everyone a very Happy New Year. We hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas Holiday.
Here is our schedule for Jan. 1-Jan. 5:
Monday, Jan. 1: Closed …
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Here’s the logic of it. All the legal entanglements of the ex-president are said to be orchestrated by the Biden administration to undermine his presidential campaign. So Trump…
Community Catalyst for Good
It’s 4:45 a.m., dark, and this time of year, mighty cold. A distinguished gentleman lets himself into the front door of the Y and walks down to the pool deck. He scans the pool area and then picks…
Where it’s at
Morgan Mitchell’s Creative Flow Circles got their start while she and husband Andrei Bazaiac were living in Portland. Morgan was working at an ad agency and observed how mentally drained her…
A Bird’s Tale
The Augusta area Christmas Bird Count took place Saturday, Dec. 16. It was a very mild day for mid-December, another in a series of rather mild days that increasingly have become the new normal as…
’Round Town
This will be the second installment of my season-enhancing attempt. Without the expectation of snow for the foreseeable future it only seemed right to offer a view from winter past. I hope you…
Southport seemed to fair well in the wind and rain storm on Monday, Dec. 18. A few trees were down, one near the Methodist Church. I heard one did fall on a house and the support structure for the…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
During this very special time of year we tend to put our own needs aside and think of family and friends and gather to celebrate those relationships. We also remember those…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The 17th Gingerbread Spectacular was indeed spectacular! Thanks to countless hours spent decorating by staff member Kevin Kiley and his team of elves this season, the Opera…
The holidays are a time when friends and family of all ages gather together, share updates on their lives and recount cherished memories. One thing to add to that list this year: a conversation on…
