The Boothbay Planning Board meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 17 has been postponed until Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m., according to the Boothbay Code Enforcement Office. The agenda will remain the…
News
The Boothbay Region Interact Club has been holding a hat, mitten, and scarf drive to donate to local resource closets. The end date of the drive has been extended to Friday, Jan. 26. Please place…
Lincoln County Commissioners
The federal government has issued a declaration of disaster in the wake of the October windstorm that caused massive power outages, tree downings and other damage to Lincoln County. The…
Lincoln County Courts
Shawna Gatto, 43, of Wiscasset, accused of murdering her fiancee’s 4-year-old granddaughter, Kendall Chick, in December, pleaded not guilty to the charge at her arraignment Jan. 12.
Her…
Obituary
George A. Jones, beloved father and grandfather, died Jan. 14, 2018 after a long and joyful life.
George was born on Jan. 29, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts…
The new Boothbay Region Health Center is now providing affordable, walk-in, and by appointment primary care seven days a week. On Sunday, Jan. 21, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., the newly…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
The planning board advisory workgroup met for its second time on Jan. 10 to discuss resolution of permitted uses, a zoning approach, and residential density and location to the current maritime…
Kara Griffin and Dustin Cyr were married Sept. 23 at Barrett’s Park, Boothbay Harbor. The ceremony was performed by Chip Griffin. An outdoor reception followed at the home of Mike…
Obituary
Walter R. Hauck of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania died unexpectedly on Dec. 27, 2017 surrounded by his family.
He was the husband of Lorretta, father of Anne Hauck Maurer, (Timothy) P.…
Lincoln County Republicans will conduct caucus training for upcoming Republican caucuses on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. at the Newcastle Community Center, 86 River Road. Light refreshments…
On Feb. 8, Maine Maritime Museum in Bath will introduce a new winter educational program series, “On Deck.” The hour-long programs, which will run Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. from…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee
The CSD School Committee discussed the search for a new superintendent Jan. 10.
The committee elected members Bruce MacDonald and Peggy Splaine as representative and alternate…
Nearly three weeks after Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, the defendant, the town of Boothbay, received notification on Jan. 9. The next day, selectmen held…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
The Boothbay Harbor Planning Board heard a proposal Jan. 10 to expand a non-conforming structure in the shoreland zone. Paul Coulombe owns the property at 101 Commercial St. His vice president of…
On Dec. 14, residents and their family members gathered at St. Andrews Village for a festive Christmas celebration complete with a special visit by Mrs. Claus. Sponsored by the St. Andrews…
Environmental DNA will be the research focus of Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine in its proposal for national Track I EPSCoR funding — a five-year, $20 million grant funded by the National…
Boothbay Harbor Sewer District
Despite the cold and destructive weather, the Union Street Pump Station replacement project is close to being finished. Boothbay Harbor Sewer District Superintendent Chris Higgins said that while…
It’s last call for Maine photographers planning to enter the Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s 13th annual Maine Photography Show. All entries must be submitted by midnight on Friday, Jan. 26…
It’s time once again for the annual Souper Bowl at the Southport Town Hall, Monday, Jan. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Southport Memorial Library Aides, the…
The Edgecomb Fire Department responded to 25 emergency calls between Dec. 1 and Dec. 29.
On Dec. 1, first responders answered an emergency call at the intersection of Eddy Road and Route 27…
Midcoast Conservancy is a renter no more on the land of Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. With private and public funds raised over one year, the Edgecomb-based conservancy has bought the…
Obituary
Dr. Bruce Cameron died Friday, Jan. 5, at St. Andrews Village’s Gregory Wing with his wife Joanna by his side. He was 83 years of age.
Bruce was born in 1934 to Louis and Dorothy Cameron in…
Edgecomb
The search is on for a new Alternative Organizational Structure 98 superintendent and Edgecomb school officials want community input in the process. The Edgecomb School Committee discussed how…
Boothbay Region Land Trust
It was a very busy year for Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) in 2017. We now have an incredible new property under our management, an organizational location change and, of course, have been…
Andy Tyska, president of Rhode Island-based Bristol Marine, has announced the acquisition of Boothbay Harbor Shipyard. Located at the head of Boothbay Harbor, the shipyard joins…
Neighbor to Neighbor: A series of articles to raise awareness of suicide prevention and support resources available in our community. Sponsored by your local Hope & Resiliency Coalition
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Boothbay Harbor Board of Selectmen
At the Monday, Jan. 8 Boothbay Harbor Board of Selectmen meeting, Paul Coulombe brought forth an application to extend the length of one of three finger floats from 82 feet to 112 feet at Boothbay…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Wiscasset woman with sex offenses involving minors. After an investigation stemming from a child abuse referral from the Maine Department of…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
In a short meeting Jan. 9, Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett informed commissioners he decided to terminate Deputy Kenneth Hatch III’s employment Jan. 3.
The action came following an…
Boothbay Region Health Center opened on Monday, Jan. 8 in the same office as Dr. Nancy Oliphant’s practice at the Meadow Mall. Practice manager Lynn Thompson said Oliphant, who remains at the…
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency
The Jan. 4 snowstorm, together with the brutally cold weather before and after it, could have been a lot worse, Deputy Director Melissa Temple said in an interview Monday.
“I think that the…
As Lincoln County prepared for the Jan. 4 bomb cyclone of weather, Casey Stevens, Lincoln County EMA director, sent local towns news that President Trump had just signed FEMA-4354.
This “…
Obituary
Edward R. “Ted” Kern of Cumberland, Maine died peacefully on Jan. 8, 2018, in the loving company of his family, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. Through all the adversity that…
Obituary
Audrey A. Kelly, 90, of St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, died on Jan, 5, 2018 while under hospice care at the village with her loving husband, Bob and her twin daughters, Jan and Joy, by her…
This Monday, Jan. 15, join fellow Inn Along the Way supporters for lunch or dinner at the Harbor Room, located at 2477 Bristol Road in New Harbor. As part of its “Make…
As Human Trafficking Day (Thursday, Jan. 11) highlights a global crisis that often seems overwhelming, a small Maine-based nonprofit is pointing the way toward lasting solutions. Friends of Thai…
Senator Dana Dow (R-Lincoln) has introduced LD 1739, “Resolve, Authorizing the Lease of the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site,” to provide the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid…
The Boothbay Planning Board will consider a new Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens application Jan. 17 for constructing phase one of a $30-plus million expansion project. The board previously…
Lincoln County Courts
A Lincoln County grand jury on Jan. 3 indicted Shawna Gatto, 43, of Wiscasset, in a charge of depraved indifference murder in the killing of Kendall Chick, 4, also of Wiscasset. Chick had been…
Obituary
Patricia E. “Patty” Grant, 77, of Edgecomb, died at her home on the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2018 surrounded by her loving family.
Born Dec. 7, 1940 in North Conway, New Hampshire, she was the…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Could the recent Garden Therapy craft choice be more appropriate to this particularly snowy winter season?
Several members of the BRGC Garden Therapy team gathered at the Gregory Wing of St…
Obituary
Edward Smith Gilfillan III died after a brief illness on Dec. 14, 2017. Ed lived in Harpswell, Maine and is survived by his wife of 53 years, Katherine (Kathie).
Ed was born on June 1, 1941…
When local residents signed up last April for a workshop called From Memory to Memoir, they had no inkling that their writing would be appearing in print by the end of the year. Their prior…
Madeleine Atwood Rideout and Samuel Ray Kaler were married Oct. 21, 2017 at All Saints by-the-Sea on Southport, Maine. The ceremony was officiated by the Reverend Kit Sherrill. The reception was…
Boothbay Harbor Sewer District
Despite the cold and destructive weather, the Union Street Pump Station replacement project is close to being finished. Boothbay Harbor Sewer District Superintendent Chris Higgins said while…
Following last year’s successful interfaith Martin Luther King Jr. Day service, People United Against Racism (PUAR) has organized two days of community events on Sunday, Jan. 14 and Monday, Jan.…
Danielle Feltis of Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice is the third recipient of the John A. Bowers Innovation Award for her vision for a software solution and the key role she…
Obituary
Geraldine Brown Plezia, lately of Horizons Living Center in Brunswick, died Jan. 3, 2018, finally using up the last of what she liked to refer to as her nine lives. She determined…
Hope you weathered Thursday’s “bomb cyclone” as well as possible, with the high winds and up to 10 inches of snow falling on the region. The high tides flooded area buildings and other damage was…
