Spring is springing little by little. Here on Southport Island things are moving along at a snail’s pace.

Wiscasset is in full bloom along the Route One corridor. We know this because in…

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Last weekend, I was in the produce aisle of Hannaford market when I got a pointed suggestion from one of my favorite readers.

No, it was not one of the three online…

Our annual Indoor Yard Sale is coming up soon – Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3. Mark your calendars! Come join the fun picking up your next little treasure. Are you a seller? Would you like…

As you drive down Route 27 from the Boothbay Town Hall into Boothbay Harbor, you are reminded that we are about to honor our veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice for this great country and are…

Recognition and celebration of our fallen veterans’ service to our country will begin at the normal times and places on Memorial Day…

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On Saturday, May 20, the American Legion, area Boy and Girl Scouts, and other volunteers placed the American flags on each of the veterans graves at our local cemeteries.…

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None of us on the School Committee who voted “yes” loved voting for the school budget for next year. But we did so because, just to maintain…

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As local law enforcement leaders, we frequently speak about crimes after they have been committed and about our efforts to apprehend the criminal. But today we want to talk…

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Memorial Day is a day to honor those who served our country when we needed them most. Remember – all gave some and some gave all.

So, to my friends, Stott, Miles,…

Last Thursday a stalwart gang of Rotarians raked, mowed, shoved and weed whacked the Rotary Club grounds in our annual spring clean up. The hillside of very invasive Japanese knotweed…

I have written and submitted the following letter on May 15 to Commissioner Bruce Van Note, Maine Department of Transportation, following my attendance at the Edgecomb Selectmen’s meeting May 2…

Cut Off

Remember we're still before the age of the widespread use of motorized land transport. Cut off by the footbridge from waterborne access were a number of businesses…

We have had the good fortune to be able to be spending time with family in Central Florida, from where we are writing this column. While many birds are just returning to Maine in mid-May, the bulk…

Good idea on taking a year off, Schoonerfest, for all the reasons stated in the announcement in this week’s print edition and online.

Schoonerfest has not blossomed into a Damariscotta…

Tradition: the body of customs, thought, practices, etc., belonging to a particular country, people, family, or institution over a relatively long period – Collins English Dictionary

Using…

It was a packed house! Hundreds of people coming to pay their respects on a beautiful spring day when anyone could have been elsewhere – a very impressive gathering for Mr. Farrin and his family…

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The last thing I want to do on this sunny Sunday morning is sit in the house and pound out a column. But duty calls.

On a normal week, as if there is ever a normal week…

Our annual Indoor Yard Sale is coming up soon – Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3. Mark your calendars! Come join the fun picking up your next little treasure. Are you a seller? Would you like…

Hear ye, hear ye! Things are beginning to change around the island. One more week for spring hours at the Southport General Store:…

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Last year when what is still known as “LD 2003” was enacted as an emergency, there was a looming immediate emergency that…

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On behalf of the fishermen of Carter's Wharf, we would like to thank Paul Coulombe for the gracious offer of dock space at the former Lobster Dock. Not only had we lost dockage…

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Tom Perkins was right on the “money” suggesting that the trustees, school committee and community members perhaps search for alternative solutions…

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I attended the selectboard meeting on Monday evening, May 8 and am writing to introduce myself and the…

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Most parents have roughly 18 years to worry, save, and figure out how they are going to afford to send their child to college one day. But they only have about nine months to…

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If you didn’t otherwise view the May 8, 2023 Boothbay Harbor Selectboard meeting you should check it out on boothbaytv.org’s website or their Facebook page. What did you miss…

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The theatrics at Monday’s (05/08/2023) Boothbay Harbor Selectmen’s meeting were reminiscent of the scene from Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein.” You know. the one where a town…

One of the great things about having been in the military is that from the time you rose your right hand and swore allegiance to this country, you became one of the less than 10% who made this…

The guests welcomed to our meeting were Ann Prost and Holly Stover, our speaker.

Judi White shared a recent exciting trip to Portsmouth where she met the Rotary…

If you want to photograph or just look at the Virginia without the cover it had on this winter in Wiscasset, by the time you read this you may still be able to, before it returns to Bath a…

Last week, my younger (and much brighter) brother invited me to visit with him and his talented wife.

As many know, for the last year or so, I have been holed up in the house, so I thought…

UPDATED: Reminder of the public hearing on May 17 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Southport Town Hall to allow citizens to listen to the reasons the Boothbay Region Water District needs to raise its…

As each weekend passes it is wonderful to see Ocean Point slowly coming alive again. For those lucky enough to be at the Point this past weekend we were treated to some spectacular weather, almost…

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Has forsythia forsaken us?

For over 50 years we have had mounds and masses of forsythia blooming in our yard, waves of tiny yellow flowers resplendent on their branches…

There won’t be a taco Tuesday but tacos will be on the menu at the Wednesday, April 17 potluck. Hosts, Paul and Louise, will be providing the main dish of tacos with the trimmings and are asking…

This past weekend was beautiful, signs of spring everywhere, and thoughts of getting the kayak out and the bike tuned up in the foremost of my mind. Guess I need to put the skis away first (…

One of the things that struck me during a recent visit with Dr. William M. “Barney” Balch, senior research scientist at Bigelow Lab, was his sense of curiosity. Our conversation reminded me of our…

The heavy rains last week in Central Maine brought some major flooding across many parts of our region. By one estimate, a month’s worth of rain fell in about 24 hours. As that water collected…

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Finding Our Voices sends a huge thank you to the Boothbay select board and voters for their generous support of Finding Our Voices, with a $500 grant. This grant is wonderful …

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Funds for public boating access is on the warrant again. This year we will vote by absentee or in person on May 20th.

After a few years off due to COVID, I collected…

Nothing brightens a rainy day like a fun Rotary Meeting! President Bruce Harris began our May 4 meeting sharing a recent report from the U. S. Surgeon General revealing that loneliness is bad for…

Looking across the valley during a noontime dog walk around our neighborhood a few weeks ago, there among the drab, gray trunks and limbs of yet-to-leaf-out maples and oaks was a burst of yellow.…

Some of the speeches at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on TV last Saturday night tipped a hat to local news and reminded me of some of the reasons reporters do what they, we, do,…

Thank you, Chuck Cunningham, for pointing out my error in last week’s column. I wrote that because Boothbay changed its annual town meeting to Monday, it produced a quandary regarding the…