University of Maine Cooperative Extension announces a virtual Equine Speaker Series for 2025. The theme of the summer webinar series is “From Foaling to Farewell: Essential Knowledge Covering the Equine Lifecycle” with presentations by topic experts from Maine and across the country. All webinars start at 6 p.m.

Searsmont, Maine resident, The Rev. Canon Victoria Sirota will be returning to lead worship at All Saints by-the-Sea chapel for her fourth summer this season. Rev. Sirota will celebrate the service of Holy Communion at 8 and 10 a.m. on both June 22 and June 29. Our organist, an accomplished church organist and world renown recitalist, Mr. Henry Lowe, will continue to provide music at all services.

Mine Oyster won first place at Claw Down 2025 on June 12 amidst applause, shouting, whistles and hollers. The winning bite, De-Constructed Lobster Bake, was composed of a fried potato crisp, warm corn salsa, butter poached lobster meat, hollandaise sauce, crispy fried clam, seaweed salt, seaweed nest and blueberry coulis.

Tickets are on sale now for comedian Paula Poundstone, who will bring her distinctive brand of spontaneous observational comedy to the Strand Theatre on Friday, Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m.

 Poundstone regularly plays theaters across the country, hosts a weekly comedy podcast, “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone” and is a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.”  She also voiced the character “Forgetter Paula” in the feature films "Inside Out" and "Inside Out 2."

The Steep Canyon Rangers are excited to embark on their summer tour! They are head to many stops on this tour including New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, and several others. Steep Canyon Rangers are Asheville, North Carolina’s GRAMMY winners, perennial Billboard chart-toppers, and frequent collaborators of the renowned banjoist (and occasional comedian) Steve Martin.

The annual Workers from Away Welcome will be held Thursday, June 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Congregational Church, 125 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor. 

We invite all seasonal workers to join us for food and fellowship! Great food & gift bags. Community resources available. Bike Lending Program will be on site.                               

For more information, call 207-633-4757.

On Wednesday, June 25 from 6 to 7 p.m. the next Ocean on Tap event will be held at Footbridge Brewery, 25 Granary Way, Boothbay Harbor.

The Innovative Gear Library Team of Maine's Department of Marine Resources will be speaking about their collaborative project testing alternative fishing gear and providing real-world feedback. There's a slight overlap with the Windjammer Days Street Parade, but we hope you can join us after for this fascinating conversation!

The Boothbay Region Democratic Committee is excited to announce our participation in this year's Windjammer Days Parade in Boothbay Harbor on June 25, and we're calling on all local Democrats and unenrolled voters to join us! 

A fundraiser for Midcoast Humane – a sunset cruise provided by Balmy Days Cruises in Boothbay Harbor – will be held Friday, June 27 from 5 to 8:30 p.m.

The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta is open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. now through Labor Day.

The shop is located on the river at 17 Backstreet Landing, behind Elm Street Plaza. It is normally open from 9 to 4.

It offers thousands of paperback and hardcover books in dozens of categories for adults and children, as well as music CDs and records, movie DVDs, audiobooks, games, and puzzles. All items are donated, all staff members are volunteers, and every purchase supports the programs and collections of Skidompha Public Library. 

All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal summer chapel is pleased to announce that our opening services, on Sunday, June 15, will be led by our Boothbay Harbor neighbor, the Rev. Suzanne F. Colburn. Please join us at 8 and 10 a.m. as we celebrate Holy Communion and rejoice in the beauty of the new season on Southport Island. Rev. Colburn will also lead a discussion of the week’s scriptures on the chapel porch on Tuesday, June 17 from 9 to 10 a.m. Organist Mr. Henry Lowe will enhance our worship with his tremendous musical talent at both Sunday services.

"Thunderbolts*" - (PG13; 2 hours, 6 minutes) - Marvel assembles a chaotic crew of misfit antiheroes for a black-ops mission no Avenger would dare touch. Recruited by morally murky CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the team includes assassin-turned-reluctant-hero Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), the brooding Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), the bombastic Red Guardian (David Harbour), and intense U.S. Agent John Walker (Wyatt Russell)—each carrying heavy baggage and shaky loyalties.

Graduation morning, Friday, June 6, the Class of 2025 walked through the halls of Boothbay Region Elementary School in their blue caps and gowns where many of them began their education. 

Pre K through sixth graders and middle schoolers (seventh and eighth graders) held signs, high fived, and cheered as the seniors and the recently retired walked through the halls.

Good afternoon, my name is Maddie Orchard, and as the valedictorian for the Class of 2025, I have the opportunity to talk a little bit about the people I’ve grown up with.

My name is Cleyton Splaine, I am the now former Boothbay Region High School student body president, and today, your honor speaker and I am honored to be here today, with this class and you all.

I want to briefly discuss my favorite thing with you today.

Good afternoon and welcome to the graduation ceremony for this year’s graduates of Boothbay Region High School. My name is Anna Gosselin and I am the salutatorian for the class of 2025. I just want to start by saying how proud I am of my class. It’s so amazing to see all the different directions we are headed, even though we were all brought up in the same school. I wish you all the best and I hope you are all blessed with success in whatever you choose to do.

This is the second of two photo galleries of the Boothbay Region High School Class of 2025 graduation ceremony on Friday, June 6.

Contact the Boothbay Register for reprint information.

This is the first of two photo galleries of the Boothbay Region High School Class of 2025 graduation ceremony on Friday, June 6.

Contact the Boothbay Register for reprint information.

If you want to know how to avoid losing your marbles as you age, come join us for lots of information about maintaining a brain-healthy lifestyle. In honor of Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month, the Boothbay Region Health Center is hosting the movie "Memories for Life: Reversing Alzheimer’s" on Wednesday, June 11 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Harbor Theater, Boothbay Harbor.

There will be brain healthy food served before the movie starting at 5:30 p.m. courtesy of members of the Brain Health program. The movie itself will and run 6 - 7:35 p.m.

The 114-year tradition continued Thursday night, June 5 as Boothbay Region High School held its annual Grand March.

The BRHS Class of 2025, with the boys wearing tuxedos and girls adorned in white gowns, promenaded around Porter Memorial Gymnasium in the familiar pattern for about 20 minutes for the large crowd of appreciative onlookers, with music provided by the Boothbay Region Community Band.