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Cabbage Island’s Bennie Alice Moore turns 100 Oct. 2

Scary Readings

Thursday, Oct. 29 It’s the Halloween season, which means it’s time for Scary Readings at the Opera House - 86 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor! The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. Feel like wearing a...
Legion buffet breakfast

Sunday, Oct. 4 American Legion Post 36 is having its next family buffet breakfast from 7-9 a.m., at Sherman Hall, 25 Industrial Park Road off Route 27 in Boothbay. The menu will include: Plain and...
Church book sale

Saturday, Oct. 3 From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Wiscasset is having a fall book sale. Wear your favorite mask. Members will be outside the Parish Hall with lots and lots of...
FTD awareness event this Sunday

On Sunday, Sept. 27 from 1 to 2 p.m. Karen Beal and Katherine Haynes will be hosting “Food for Thought” an event to raise awareness of Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) in the Whale Park on...
Pageant in a pandemic: Wiscasset’s Heather Demeny Mrs. Maine American 2020

Heather Demeny has always wanted to see Las Vegas. She hopes to go this year and, if she does, the trip will be all expenses paid. And she could come home to Wiscasset with a crown, like she did Sept...
Finding connections on Damariscove Island

In June of 2019, when Bailey Romaine and Ed Vlcek first arrived as seasonal caretakers on Boothbay Region Land Trust’s Damariscove Island, they were immediately struck by the stark contrast between...
Fall 2020: Not your usual flu season

Should you get the seasonal flu shot this year? Absolutely, everyone six months and over, with rare exception, should, according to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s...
Giant yard sale

Saturday, October 10 Two garages loaded with bargains in St. Mary’s church parking lot at 144 Lincoln St., Bath. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 11 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please wear a...
Upcomng pie sales

Saturday, Sept. 19 The outside pie sale season for the Boothbay Harbor United Methodist women is starting to wind down. It's been a great summer and we want to thank all our pie patrons for your...
‘You Be the Light’: Walk Around Wiscasset theme

Dusk settles early in late September and so Walk Around Wiscasset invites strollers to help light up the Village. ‘You be the Light’ is the evening’s theme with participants carrying – or wearing –...
Shop at the Rotary barn

Want to help sustain the reputation of our Boothbay region, “where life is as it should be?” One hundred percent of your purchase funds, however small or large, made at the Rotary barn will go to...
Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker

Thursday, Sept. 17 Peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker (2 Lee St.,Wiscasset) not seen during the regular tours at 10 a.m. Maximum tour size: 6 - with social distancing. Castle Tucker...
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces new leaders

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Greater Portland area, gathered online (due to pandemic restrictions), to sustain a new area Stake President (spiritual local leader...
Seeing: Pandemic reminders

Glenda Booth of Alexandria, Virginia, who has contributed photos to the newspaper in the past, has visited the Boothbay region every summer for many years and recently spent a month here. In an...

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