The Boothbay Harbor Fire Department (BHFD) lobster bake fundraiser Aug. 9 was a big success according to Lieutenant Jesse Peters. Peters said the event raised around $14,000.    

The next public supper will be March 19, the meal will consist of vegetabel soup, salad, Irish soda bread, corned beef and cabbage, potato, crrots, and key lime cake. The cost is $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Additional meals may be purchased for take-out at the same cost when reserved. Takeouts should be picked up at 5:45pm. For more information or to make a reservation, call 882-8230. Please join us for this delicious meal.

The Rev. Virginia Rickeman will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 17. Jim Swist will serve as organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!

Virginia "Ginger" Rickeman grew up in Massachusetts spending summers in Boothbay Harbor.

In partnership with the non-profit Maine Federation of Farmers’ Markets (MFFM), the annual Boothbay market is breaking down barriers to fresh, local foods with its new SNAP/EBT and voucher program.

A quick stop at the market’s Information Booth next to the gazebo, run by members of Healthy Lincoln County, to pick up a shopping sheet, is all people need to get started.

Back by popular demand, Boothbay Region Land Trust will again be hosting a Field & Forest Family Fun Day! On Saturday, Aug. 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Oak Point Farm, the community is invited to come out for a variety of activities that are fun for all ages. Explore the beauty and everyday opportunities available at BRLT’s preserve headquarters, along with additional fun offerings including a bounce house, dunk tank, music, food, and much more at this free event!  

Organizers of this weekend’s Olde Bristol Days Parade are pleased to announce this year’s grand marshal. Allison Keeton, author of “Blaze Orange, Book One,” in the Midcoast Maine Mystery series. “Book Two” will be released in February 2026. Besides writing mysteries, she’s the author of “The Largest Ball of Twine” and human resources articles. She lives in Bristol with her muse, Tom Aylesbury, and their two dogs, Kelton and Roger. She can be reached at akeetonbooks.com

The month of August is jam packed with summertime fun for all ages at the Boothbay Railway Village!

The very popular Children's Day returns this Sunday, Aug. 10 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with steam and barrel train rides, waterslides, a scavenger hunt, transportation dig, games and activities for all ages - get a temporary tattoo. Meet Willow the owl at the Pollination Station  Festivities are included with museum admission and members are free.  Lunch options will be available for sale, as well as face painting.  

Boothbay Harbor has long been a summer tradition for the Stevens family—but this year, their decades-long vacation ritual turned into local mini golf legend.

The Rev. Patricia Hatch will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 10. Margaret McEldowney will serve as organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!

Taking pictures is all about collecting light and the time of day that you do that can make a huge  difference in the resulting photograph. Lighthouses in the Boothbay Harbor region can be seen and photographed from some easy to access places that afford good look angles but at very different times of the day. The Cuckolds is best seen from the Newagen Town Landing in the later afternoon light, Ram Island Light can be seen from Ocean Point a little before local sunset and Burnt Island looks nice from the road to Spruce Point in the morning hours after Sunrise.

In the summer of 1999, Carl Dooley was fifteen. It was time to get a job. Carl’s childhood summers with his buddies on Juniper Point had been the stuff of super hero adventure — riding bikes, jumping off the swim float at Reed Beach, building forts in the woods, sailing Optis in the harbor. Carl was in no hurry to leave behind his boyhood pursuits, but Carl’s mother gave him an ultimatum.

On Monday, Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. at Southport Town Hall, 361 Hendricks Hill Road (Rte. 27), Southport, Duane and Dwight Lewis will share fascinating and unusual experiences from their family’s long history, tending to local bridges. Along with their father Norman Lewis and sister Ruth, the family logged nearly 150 combined years working on the Southport, South Bristol, and Trevett Bridge. From 1940 until Duane retired in 2013, there was always a Lewis tending the bridge; Dwight retired in 2012.  

After a month of powerful exhibitions and events that drew over a thousand visitors, the Puddle Dock Village Festival concludes this weekend with two programs centered on wellness, ritual, and community care.

Join us at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10 for a special screening of “Found in Korea” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Nam Holtz. Meggin “Nam” Holtz spent summers in the Boothbay Harbor region beginning in 1977 where her grandparents rented a house in Harbor Fields for extended family. Nam directed and produced the award winning "Found in Korea" and would like to share it with us when she visits Boothbay Harbor again this summer.

The annual 5-Mile Yard Sale down Cross Point Road in Edgecomb will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 beginning at the Edgecomb Community Church. From 8 a.m. to around 1 p.m. items will be on sale in the upper parking lot of the church at 15 Cross Point Road. The Thrift Store will also be open, and a bake sale will be taking place in the church vestry. Handmade items offered by the church’s Busy Hands group will also be on sale downstairs in the church parish hall. Free coffee and church restrooms will be available for visitors as well. All proceeds will be used for the church’s mission efforts.

“The Goonies” - (PG; 1 hour, 54 minutes) - When two brothers find out they might lose their house they are desperate to find a way to keep their home. They find a treasure map and bring some friends along to find it. They are all out looking for the "X" and trying to get away from a group of bad guys who also want the treasure. Playing Thursday, July 31 at 1 and 7 p.m.

Enjoy Maine art and meet the artists of the Plein Air Painters of Maine at a reception hosted by Historic New England on Thursday, July 31 from 4 to 7 p.m.

The theme of this year’s show is “Old, New and In Between." Share experiences seen through the eyes of 21 artists in the beautiful historic Nickels-Sortwell House barn, 121 Main St., Wiscasset. The reception is free, casual and open to the public.

Dogfish Head Ale craft brewery may be in Milton, Delaware, but its "heart" is in Southport. Sam and Mariah Calagione founded the brewery in 1995 at what Sam describes as the "smallest brewery" in America in Bristol, Delaware.

But the brew was inspired by Sam's seasonal home in Maine. "Our spiritual home is Southport, Maine because I named it after Dogfish Head," he said. "We wanted to build a nautical brand for the ale which resonated up and down the East Coast. The logo is a shark and a shield which is a really cool way to represent us."  

Join local author Shannon M. Parker on Thursday, July 31 at 6 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery in Boothbay Harbor as she discusses her third novel, “Love & Lobsters."  Celebrated by Down East as “a love letter to Maine,” Parker’s book has been optioned for film and is Maine Public Radio’s August pick for “All Books Considered.”

While Parker relied on talks with Maine lobster fishers and the wide body of research around lobster behavior to inform her novel, she also drew from the pervasive commitment to community, care and sustainability cultivated by Mainers.