Join us at The Lincoln Home for a fun talk, “Gismos and Whatchamacallits,” with John Bottero on Monday, March 26, from 3 to 4 p.m. Do you have something that you always wondered what it…
News
The 20th annual Leprechaun Leap at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport Island on March 15 saw the most participants ever plunging into the icy surf.
It was a chilly day by March in Maine…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Healthy Kids’ spaghetti dinner on March 21 has been rescheduled and relocated. It will now be held Tuesday, April 10, 5 t0 7 p.m., at the Waldoboro VFW on Mill…
Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends…
Local First Federal Savings Bank employees kept the memory of a former employee alive in February through a fundraiser focused on her love of animals. Anita Hodgdon worked for the Boothbay Harbor…
Boothbay Select Board Chairman Chuck Cunningham explained the circumstances March 14 why a fellow selectman didn’t participate in a recent executive session. The board held one March 8 with a…
Maine’s First Ship is pleased to announce its second annual lecture series on 17th century maritime and colonial history. Four presentations, beginning March 22, focus on shipbuilding, tides,…
At a time of political change, one thing is clear and consistent: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since 2016, when it was founded by the merger of four land and water…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
Boothbay Harbor selectmen on March 12 discussed dog control ordinances, town investments and an update on the planning board advisory workgroup.
Selectman and workgroup member Mike Tomko…
The memorial service for Beth G. Conant, scheduled for Sunday, March 18, at 1 p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor, has been postponed. A new date for the service…
Boothbay Region High School
At 10 a.m. Thursday, March 15 – a month and a day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – over 30 Boothbay Region High School students emerged from the…
Probe to include that of 4-year-old Wiscasset girl; Early May report anticipated
AUGUSTA — The Maine Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee (GOC) voted March…
A Boothbay Region High School team placed as a state runner-up March 6 at the 2018 VEX Robotics Championships at Biddeford High School.
A quartet of BRHS students — Hayden Brewer, Connor…
When mindfully engaged with technology like computers and smartphones, we have incredible access to information and one another. However, when not approached with discipline, they can snap up our…
Oxbow Brewing Company will hold its third annual egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at the farmhouse brewery in Newcastle (274 Jones Woods Road). This year’s event will again raise funds for the Maine…
No fooling, on April 1, Edgecomb will have a new code enforcement officer and licensed plumbing inspector. Selectmen voted 2-0 on March 12 to hire Ken Vinal of Bremen.
Vinal replaces Stan…
Obituary
I died in the evening of December 26, 2017. I was in the Gregory Wing of St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I had the disease my husband and I feared most, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy…
Wiscasset in the American Revolution
Few people know Wiscasset was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a British naval commander and the Sons of Liberty during the American Revolution. Both sides claimed victory afterwards each…
Snow-plowing was a lot tougher back in the good old days. The proof is in the pictures Tammy Shaw Given has been posting on the Jack A. Shaw and Sons Facebook page. Given, the Woolwich’s…
First National Bank recently announced that it has made donations totaling $15,000 to 21 food banks in bank’s market area.
“First National Bank is grateful for the critical services that…
PARKING BAN: Boothbay Harbor - through 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, March 14
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Customers from around the Central Maine Power service area, including some in Lincoln County, were surprised and dismayed to discover their usage on their most recent bill appears to have doubled…
A Boothbay woman got a response from Central Maine Power Co. she’s been waiting nearly two months for. Sherri Brown is one of hundreds of CMP customers frustrated with an apparent spike in their…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD Board of Trustees
In a letter to the parents, guardians and communities of students at Boothbay Region elementary and high schools, Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 Interim Superintendent Bob Webster…
Join us Monday, March 19 from 3 to 4 p.m. to hear Patti Corscaden, licensed massage therapist, discuss the many benefits of therapeutic massage as we age. Patti will demonstrate how massage can…
An annual collaborative luncheon with Y members and the Community Center Walkers will be held Tuesday, March 20, the first day of spring, at noon in the Y Coastal Room.
The Y will offer a…
Obituary
Florence Lillian (Barlow) Haggett died peacefully on March 10, 2018 at the remarkable age of 105.
Born in East Boothbay, Maine on Nov. 13, 1912, she lived in Boothbay Harbor, Maine until…
Lincoln County Courts
The Lincoln County Clerk reported the following closed cases for February. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at Two Bridges Regional Jail.
Christopher Lennon Gilley, 33, of…
Indivisible Boothbay
Looking for answers about the projected changes to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare? On Tuesday, March 27 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., representatives from LincolnHealth, and Boothbay Region…
Obituary
Lorraine (Lemay) Reed, 87, of Boothbay Harbor, died peacefully on March 9, 2018 at her daughter’s home on Southport.
She was born in Lewiston on October 28, 1930, the youngest daughter of…
Starting April 4 online and May 2 in Boothbay Harbor, New Ventures Maine will offer My Next Career Move, a free month-long class to help you take charge of your career and create an action plan to…
Wiscasset Public Library
Jefferson author Kay Hardy Campbell will discuss changing conditions for women in Saudi Arabia at the Wiscasset Public Library March 28, at 5 p.m. The talk, “Saudi Women: Change and Challenge,”…
Obituary
Edward W. DeCosta Jr., 89, of Boothbay, died peacefully on March 7, 2018 at St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, with his family by his side.
Ed was born on Jan. 5, 1929 in Boothbay Harbor…
Little did she know some 17 years ago when she said “yes,” that stay-at-home mom, Penny Thumith, having no background in retail management , would build the St. Andrews Thrift Store into the…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
As a result of the continued investigation into the March 9 shooting on Clark’s Cove Road in Walpole, Angela Lemire, 39, of Walpole was taken into custody and charged with Domestic Violence…
There’s a new brewery coming to Midcoast Maine. Westport Island will be the home port of Sasanoa Brewing, at Tarbox Farm …
On Saturday, March 3, 111 students, community members, and representatives from local organizations and businesses participated in the fourth annual Community Forum on Food Security in…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, and Midcoast Farmers Alliance present the second program in the 2018 Farmer and Gardener Workshop Series, Food…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
One person was being treated at Maine Medical Center in Portland after being shot in Walpole Friday, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Lt. Brendan Kane said Saturday.
The injuries are non-life-…
Boothbay Region High School
Boothbay Region High School teacher Emily Higgins has been treating her AP biology class to as many class outings and lectures with professionals as possible. Higgins started teaching the class…
March is National Reading Month, and at the Lincoln County Historical Association, we are taking a look at one of the book lovers who lived at the Pownalborough Court House, one of the three…
Joint Economic Development Committee
The Joint Economic Development Committee on March 6 discussed how the committee should move forward on the Festival of Lights and the economic development plan brought to the committee and…
In recognition of The Fresh Air Fund’s 142nd summer of bringing together New York City children and volunteer host families in Maine, Governor LePage has proclaimed March 20 “…
On Sunday, March 4, more than 3,000 democrats convened biennial caucuses across the state. In Lincoln County, 18 towns gathered in seven locations to rally for victory in 2018. #…
The St. Andrews Auxiliary Board will meet Wednesday, March 21 at 10 a.m in the private dining room at St. Andrews Village.
The board meeting will be followed by the Annual Spring Brunch,…
A New Harbor fisherman put his and about 50 others’ opposition to a proposed wind power pilot program in Boothbay pretty succinctly during the Feb. 28 selectmen’s meeting: “We have nothing to gain…
Midcoast CA$H is providing free tax preparation by IRS certified volunteer tax preparers. Keep 100 percent of your refunds without worrying about hidden fees or unexpected charges.
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G&J Bottle Redemption in Boothbay will close March 15, after 19 years in business.
Owner Janet Fairfield said she and her husband Gary are sad to be closing their business, but the…
The Boothbay Harbor Board of Selectmen will meet Monday, March 12 at 7 p.m. at the Boothbay Harbor Town Office.
Following the usual agenda items, selectmen’s reports will include an update…
Boothbay Region High School
On Wednesday, March 14, high schools across the United States will be emptying in protest to gun violence in schools – Boothbay Region High School will be among them. The 17-minute walk-out is as…
