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Lighted Boat Parade & Sparkle Fireworks

Saturday, Dec. 12 This much-loved event, traditionally held during the Harbor Lights Festival, will begin at 6:45 p.m. Decorated vessels – both private and commercial - parade around the inner harbor...
Men’s Night

Wednesday, Dec. 16 Merchants in the Boothbay Region offer super discounts to finish those Christmas lists! Sing some carols - you’ll just have to be really loud what with the masks and all! Details...
Eastside Waterfront Park ornament judging

Saturday, Dec. 5 Return ornaments received Nov. 21 to the Eastside Waterfront Park on Atlantic Avenue in Boothbay Harbor in the bag it came in labeled with your name and contact information between...
Gardens Aglow 2020

Nov. 21 through Jan. 2At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 132 Botanical Gardens Drive, Boothbay. This year due to COVID-19, the event is a driving experience. See the gardens transformed into a...
Fire Truck Parade & Contest

Saturday, Nov. 28 New event with Spectator voting. Open to all Midcoast fire stations. Parade of holiday decorated trucks begins at the Boothbay Fire Station on Route 27 at 4 p.m. The parade passes...
24-year army veteran passionate about patriotism, family and music

At an early age, Chris Armstead had a special affinity for men in uniform. Growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, his father served in the U.S. Air Force. Also many of his friends’ parents wore...
state must dramatically expand renewable power generation and transmission

Building a renewable future poses daunting task for Maine

A protracted fight over the New England Clean Energy Connect plan to wheel 1,200 megawatts of hydropower from Quebec, through Maine and on to Massachusetts has dominated the airwaves for the last two...
Candy, masks, cars: Wiscasset’s creative Halloween

“Oh, you are so, so scary. You are frightening. I don’t know how close I can get,” Terry Heller, under a witch hat and behind a face shield, told a trick or treater in a Halloween mask Saturday...
Mid-Coast Audubon presents State of the Birds

Mid-Coast Audubon Board and Camden Public Library will host Nick Lund of Maine Audubon in a lively Zoom pictorial portrait of the State of the Birds: Decades of Change. The free online talk on...
Veterans Day video on BRTV

Wednesday, Nov. 11 The annual Veterans Day program at the Southport Memorial Library has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. Instead, at 11 a.m. on the holiday, Boothbay Region TV (channels 7 or...
Maine Audubon online talk

Thursday, Nov. 19 Watch a free online presentation by Nick Lund of Maine Audubon - State of the Birds: Decades of Change at 6 p.m. Email Julia at the Camden Public Library at jpierce@librarycamden....
United Way of Mid Coast Maine

Lincoln County holiday resources available

United Way of Mid Coast Maine has provided the following listing of holiday resources for Lincoln County: Boothbay Region Food Panty: Thanksgiving and Christmas Boxes for Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor,...
Maine DHHS announces plan to distribute rapid antigen tests for COVID-19

AUGUSTA - The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced today its strategy to distribute an allocation of rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to ensure access for all Maine residents,...
Merchants rally to provide safe Trick or Treat

If there ever was a holiday perfect for mask wearing then Halloween is it. But concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic resulted in two longstanding Halloween events’ cancellation. Boothbay...
cases at rockland’s woodland memory care increase to 12

‘This is not about shutting down, but about hunkering down’: Gov. Mills, Dr. Shah urge citizens to control COVID-19 spread

AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills, Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah and Dept. of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew convened a special briefing Wednesday afternoon in Augusta, by...

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