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  Coastal Rivers’ Midcoast Stewards graduates give back to the community

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  Summer fun at local historic sites

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  BRHS seniors celebrate with field day

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  Tuesday morning surprise

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  Aiden Nunan honored for donation

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• First Responders meet with Community Center volunteers to show support for emergency sign program

  

  Recently, several of our local First Responders met at The Community Center (185 Townsend Ave.) to show their support for the Emergency Sign Program. This program offers blue signs with white...

• Communities nationwide struggle to provide drinking water

  

  As the United States’ population increases and its freshwater delivery systems age, more communities around the country struggle to provide a consistent supply of clean drinking water to their...
• Skidompha Book Shop

  Children’s books and movies on sale at half-price

  Children’s books and movies are on sale at half-price from June 1 through June 14 at the Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta. All genres of books are included, with fiction and...

• Anne Barker: For the love of music and family

  

  Anne Davis Barker is a familiar healthcare provider in the Boothbay Region as advanced practice registered nurse-family nurse practitioner at Family Care Center in Boothbay Harbor. And for the past...
• Friends of Southport Historical Society

  Annual meeting and Burnt Island talk

  

  Please join the Friends of the Southport Historical Society for their annual meeting on June 14 at 7 p.m. at the Southport Town Hall at 361 Hendricks Hill Road/Route 27, Southport Island. Following...

• Coastal Rivers and Damariscotta Historical Society partner to improve cemetery access

  

  Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust and the Damariscotta Historical Society (DHS) worked together this month to improve access to the House-Day cemetery, a small family plot located in the woods off of...

• Sewer District facility dedication honors late John Arsenault

  

  Boothbay Harbor Sewer District honored John ‘‘Jolly’’ Arsenault May 20 for his service to the community by dedicating the water reclamation facility on Sea Street in his name. Arsenault, a lifelong...

• LCHA hosts online talk on Civil War

  

  Lincoln County Historical Association presents an online talk by author Amy Truesdell on Thursday, May 25 at 5:30 p.m. Truesdell will discuss her new book, “From Binghamton to the Battlefield: The...

• St. Philip’s welcomes crafters to 69th Strawberry Festival

  St. Philip’s Church, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, invites craftspeople to join with the likes of basket weavers, hand stenciled items, or wood turned goods at its Strawberry Festival 69 on Saturday, June...

• 69th Strawberry Festival at St. Philips

  Saturday, June 24 St. Philip’s Church, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset is the place, and the Strawberry Festival the reason for celebration, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Strawberry shortcakes of homemade biscuits,...

• Morris Farm plant sale

  Saturday, May 27 Join us at the Morris Farm annual plant sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The entire main floor of the barn will be filled with a variety of plants awaiting new homes. Proceeds to benefit...

• POSTPONED Celebration of Life with boat parade for Butch Brewer

  

  This event has been postponed due to a family emergency. It will be rescheduled. Please join friends and family for a boat parade and Celebration of Life for Thurlow "Butch" Brewer on Saturday,...

• Scenes from the BRHS pre-prom gathering at Barrett’s Park

  

  Dozens of Boothbay Region High School students continued the tradition of gathering at Barrett’s Park, Boothbay Harbor for photography opportunities before their prom at Spruce Point Inn on Saturday...

• ‘Be The One Walkathon’ in Boothbay Harbor June 3

  

  The American Legion Auxiliary Unit #36, Boothbay is supporting a national platform to reduce the rate of veteran suicide by sponsoring a Walkathon in Boothbay Harbor on June 3. Current statistics...

• Pumpkinfest’s Seedling Sunday May 21

  The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta will launch its first event of the season: Seedling Sunday, on Sunday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pinkham’s Plantation. Seedling Sunday marks the...

• The case for bugs

  

  Summers in Maine are magical. The air is warm, flowers are blooming, grills are sizzling. We move our entire lives outdoors. We take to our gardens, our yards, our patios. And then, there they are....

• Coastal Rivers seeks community science volunteers

  

  Coastal Rivers is seeking volunteers for three on-going community science initiatives focused on water quality, plus one new program collecting data on rockweed. Coastal Rivers provides technical...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  

  Beginning Tuesday, May 9 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and continuing for 4 weeks, we will hold a series of special classes with our renown Nationally Certified Master Flower Show Judge Sandra Leonard, who...

• Plant sale May 13

  

  The Garden Club of Wiscasset is holding its annual plant sale this Saturday at the Wiscasset Municipal Building located at the corner of Routes 1 and 27 from 8:30 a.m. to noon. It is an outdoor only...

• Community Center needs driver(s)

  

  Drivers are needed to bring people from the Community Center in the Meadow Mall to the Boothbay Region Food Pantry during its open hours on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Dodge Caravan has an...

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Education

• A new home for Boothbay Sea and Science

• Kyra Blake, Jonathon Rines honored at HiSET graduation

• BRHS Class of 2023 salutatorian Grace K. Campbell

• Announcing ‘Operation Restoration VBS!’

• St. Columba’s answers fourth grade’s ‘prayers’ for classroom

• Boothbay Region Garden Club helps with Edgecomb Eddy School pollinator garden

• Cola on dean’s list

• BEC approves cost estimating for CSD building designs

• Rachel Barter named 2023 class valedictorian

• BRHS Seahawk Singers perform Spring Concert

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Cooking

• Pie sale!

• Chef and ‘Chopped’ champion Christian Hayes comes to Lincoln Theater

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Health and Wellness

• U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Suddenly in Command course

• Maine Board of Optometry in support of DPRF-05, LR 146

• Health Center receives $25k matching grant

• Health Center welcomes new primary care provider

• Yoga on the deck

• Yoga on the deck

• Stress be gone with outdoor Qigong!

• Hearty Roots looks to fill Midcoast’s mental health needs

• Outdoor yoga classes at Spruce Point Inn begin June 5

• Kelp boosts Maine’s marine economy and ecology

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Home and Garden

• Indigo Arts Alliance, Botanical Gardens partner on summer symposium

• Boothbay Region Garden Club annual Home and Garden Tour July 21

• Wiscasset Homes On Tour

• Dahlia tuber sale at Veggies to Table

• Calling all gardeners! Support the library by donating plants

• Real estate profession takes diligence, communication, time management

• Get your landscape buzzing

• BHML plant sale

• Trends in Gardening 2023: Support the natural landscape

• Dealing with drought in your home garden

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Social

• All Saints by-the-Sea services begin June 18

• Sheepscott Community Church hosts baked bean supper

• Southport Memorial Library’s Book and Bake Sale

• Send-off dinner

• Bake sale

• Pie sale

• Antique Engine Meet

• Lincoln County Historical Assoc. Garden Tour

• Behind Closed Doors

• First Friday Art Tour

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