Eight-foot, crimson-topped poinsettias formed a hedge by the restaurant.
We were enjoying a late-winter cruise in the Caribbean and had come ashore…
Standard Post
Coast Guard issues recommendations
If there was one positive thing to be taken from the sinking of the Bounty in 2012…
Windjammer Days 2014
James B. Perkins III grew up in Boothbay Harbor. Before graduating from Boothbay Region High School, he and his fellow team mates on the football team brought home the state championship trophy in…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I was glad to see and read Jim Powers' letter to the editor (6/5). In his letter he proposed the creation of a veterans memorial park instead of basketball courts and expanded…
Howard Rosenfield, 938 Back River Road, Demolish and rebuild SF residential
Dean Rich, 28 Mud Flat Alley, 10’ 37’, 12’ x 18’, 4’ x 4’ deck, 3’ x 15’ stairs
Dwight Swisher, 83 Bryers…
You never know what pathogen they are carrying
ROCKPORT — Steve Hand is not a man who gets tired, but last month he was wiped out. He made a visit to the third floor of the Knox Mill in Camden in mid-May, and when it came time to leave, he…
Are you an aspiring writer but have no audience for your works?
Would you like to hear what others are writing?
The Writers’ Group meets at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library at 6 p.…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson is offering a great opportunity for high school students (ages 13-19) to participate in a timber frame construction workshop July 17-20. Each year HVNC…
Fans packed the Wiscasset Speedway grandstands June 7 to watch a fabulous lineup of events. The Speedway celebrated “NEMA night” (Northeast Midget Association). Both NEMA and NEMA Lites raced on…
Wally Huber Schweighauser has been an artist for most of her life. She has worked with all mediums, from clay to watercolors, wax resist acrylics, and stained glass pieces basically, if you can…
All Saints by-the Sea, the Episcopal summer chapel on Southport, will open for the 2014 season on Sunday, June 15, with Holy Communion Services at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m…
Southport Island's Boy Scout Troop 238 boarded the Amtrak Downeaster on Saturday, June 7 and traveled to Boston to earn their Citizen in the Nation Merit Badge and walk the Freedom…
Boothbay Region Health and Wellness Foundation
When we were children, we all wrote letters to Santa telling him what we wanted for Christmas. Do you remember what it felt like when Santa decided that what you wanted was not what you needed and…
What’s Cooking
Darn! Wish I’d been in the Lanesboro, Minn., area on June 8 for the annual rhubarb festival. There was a tasting contest featuring pies, crisps, cakes, soups, chutneys…
Obituary
John “Jack” “Saint” Edgar St. John, 77, died peacefully June 8, 2014 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick with his wife by his side.
Born in New York on January 12, 1937, he was the son of the…
The Maine lobster roll has made the final round of Congressional Quarterly Roll Call’s Taste of America contest, and the polls are currently open for Americans to…
Obituary
Mabel (Knapp) McAfee, 94, a longtime resident of the Gardiner Road, Wiscasset died June 7, 2014.
She was born on June…
‘Round Town: Robert Mitchell
Geese, like red squirrels, are either loved or hated. Sometimes loved and tolerated, depending upon the circumstances. It’s one of those, “not in my…
A Celebration of Life Service for Frank A. Donnell, who died in Sebring, Florida on April 18, will be held at the First Congregational Church in Wiscasset on…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
People have been enthusiastic about the news that LincolnHealth soon will…
The Woolwich Recreation Department is seeking crafters, artisans and other vendors who would like to participate in the Woolwich Day Celebration on August 2. Ten by ten (10' x 10') areas are…
What’s Cooking
Here comes summer! Hold onto your hats because here it’s time for black flies, yellow pollen, and cars, trucks, buses, boats, and planes chock-a-block full of tourists. (And don’t…
Boothbay Region High School
The Boothbay Region High School Class of 2014 graduated June 6. Fifty-two students received their high school diplomas and said so long to teachers, friends and…
The Boothbay Railway Village celebrates Father's Day, Sunday, June 15 with free admission and train rides to all fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers when accompanied by their little ones…
A comedic adventure from one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn, comes to the screen this week when we broadcast from London on Thursday.
Ayckbourn holds…
We have two people to thank for the flags flying around Southport. Duane Lewis has made the island a gift of the new flag flying on the pole at the Southport Bridge. Gail Richter,…
Obituary
Ruth E. Gay, 69, of High Street, Bath died June 10, 2014 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.
She was born in Bath on…
One person was injured and another arrested for allegedly operating under the influence following a two-car head-on collision at the intersection of Beath Road and Back Narrows Road in Boothbay…
Approximately 250 ballots were cast in Damariscotta, and most of those went to support the school budget.
The Great Salt Bay school…
Henry Rowe’s legs can’t take it anymore.
Rowe, at “80-plus” years old, is a member of the Woodchucks group in Boothbay, which cuts and splits firewood for the needy, and he’s in need of some…
Boothbay Region High School
Boothbay Region High School students elected incoming senior Karl Alamo as their new student body president for the 2014-2015 school year. The students elect the class officers in the spring…
Boothbay Region Community School District
At the last Community School District Trustees meeting for the 2013-2014 school year, the trustees discussed donations made to the school, nominated new officers,…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
At their June 9 meeting, Boothbay Harbor selectmen discussed goals they were looking to achieve this year.
Chairman Denise Griffin spoke about short-term projects, such as completing the…
From the Editor-at-Large
Dear Readers,
Now that the primary season is over, it won't be…
Maine Eastern Railroad is looking to make Wiscasset its excursion hub, with new, short round trips to Newcastle and Bath, company officials said.
The Wiscasset…
Addie Barter of Boothbay was the raffle winner at the first-ever West Harbor Pond Watershed Association Plant Sale.
Barter received a $25 gift certificate to Conley’s Garden Center and a…
The pilot in a May 30 helicopter crash in Whitefield cited a fuel issue to both police and his employer, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
The pilot of the C-130 said one gust of wind blew the aircraft 400 feet upward, and when that gust passed it plummeted 300 feet. The co-pilot was the first to spot the Bounty in the…
A Bird’s Tale
Like many a Mainer, we have awoken each morning in recent weeks to the squeaky songs of a gray catbird echoing around our neighborhood. Gray catbirds are a common summer bird in Maine and indeed…
After a long but active winter of preparing for its first full season of sailing and science programs, the Boothbay Sea and Science Center launches…
As is our usual custom, we began the last Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club evening with cocktails, snacks and lots of conversation. At 6:30 p.m., the bell was rung, we sang a few songs…
Bigelow Laboratory
A global campaign promoting generosity is coming to the Boothbay region! We’re no strangers to these ideals, as a community that always steps up to help a…
WHS Baseball
After months of work, it all comes to this:
State tournament time.
The Wiscasset High School boys…
Morris Farm has received approval for a three-year AmeriCorps Vista position from the Maine Commission for Community Service. The Vista will work to help the Morris Farm recruit and coordinate…
A former Coastal Enterprises, Inc. employee has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $300,000 from the company over a four-year span.
…
Obituary
Jeanne E. Benson of Wollaston, Mass., died March 27, 2014 at the age of 101 years and some months.
She was a frequent visitor to the Boothbay…
Obituary
Paul K. Hodgdon, 64, of Las Vegas Nev. and formerly of Wiscasset died peacefully with his family by his side, on …
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I’d like to take this opportunity to publicly show my gratitude to the fire…
