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Veggies to Table launches silent auction July 27
Swimmers plunge into the water at the start of the 2024 Pemaquid Beach Triathlon. Kris Christine photo
Pemaquid Beach Triathlon set for Aug. 24

U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree. Courtesy photo
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree to speak at Aug. 3 Family Fun Lobster Bake

Teacher’s desk
Wiscasset future of the schools committee report heads to selectboard
53rd annual North Nobleboro Day

Local Resources

  • Church Services: Boothbay, Wiscasset and Damariscotta
  • Domestic Violence Resources
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Education

  • Southport Historical Society events
  • 11-year-old chess enthusiast launches chess charity to aid children in need
  • BRHS Champions of Change: Better equipment for sports
  • Right whales, large crowds kick off Bigelow's 2025 Cafe Sci series
  • Harbor hosts swashbuckling treasure hunt
  • FOV receives $10k grant from Camden National Bank
  • Boothbay Sea and Science Center goes ‘Top to Bottom’
  • Coast Guard Auxiliary course: Navigating Mid Coast Maine
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Health and Wellness

  • Studio B’s Peter Bruun honored at Governor’s Opioid Summit
  • St. Andrews Auxiliary celebrates its own
  • MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital joins program to improve care for older adults
  • Reaching out from Within
  • French travel-themed auction gala updates
  • MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital welcomes local board member
  • Veggies to Table second annual French and Travel-Themed Auction Gala drawing closer
  • July Diabetes Support Group focuses on edema
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Home and Garden

  • 15th annual Ina and Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture Series presents: Adventures in Ecological Horticulture
  • ‘Gardening with Native Plants’ at next Boothbay Region Garden Club meeting
  • The benefits of neutral colors
  • Tips to make a bedroom a more relaxing space
  • Boothbay Region Garden Club’s “The Sea Around Us” Home and Garden Tour, Home #3: The Rockmere
  • Pros and cons of open concept floor plans
  • Organic insect pest control in vegetable and flower gardens
  • Lights, camera, antiques: 'Roadshow' draws thousands to Boothbay
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Social

  • Village opens its doors for WAW July 31
  • Art in abundance at BRAF this August
  • The Golden Cup returns to spin all the old tunes
  • See local maritime films during Lobster Fest weekend
  • MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital hosts Family Reunion and Ice Cream Social
  • Celtic music at WAW July 31
  • Boothbay celebrates Fourth of July on Common
  • SUMC Cookie Sale 2025
  • Keith Plummer art exhibition launches Puddle Dock Village Festival
  • Ice Cream Social held at Southport museum
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Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band to play benefit concert for the Travis Mills Foundation in Sidney
Lt. Dan Band poster

The Gary Sinise Foundation proudly presents Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band live in concert at Bowl in the Pines at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts on Sunday, Aug. 3, with a 7 p.m. start.

This unforgettable night of music and patriotism will benefit the Travis Mills Foundation, which supports post-9/11 recalibrated veterans and their families.

OBD Vintage Car Show announces six trophies
“Trophies are in,” announced 12th annual OBD Williams-Fossett Vintage Car Show organizers.  Six will be awarded by popular vote at the upcoming event. Free vehicle registrations are invited. Courtesy of Jeff Friedman

Organizers of the 12th annual OBD Williams-Fossett Vintage Car Show announced that six trophieswill be awarded at the upcoming family-friendly event

St. Giles Country Fair this Saturday, July 26
A sign for the St. Giles Fair, posted at Sheepscot General in Whitefield. Courtesy photo

Be sure to attend the St. Giles Episcopal Church fair this weekend held on the church grounds in Jefferson under the tall pines at 72 Gardiner Road (Route 126). The fair is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a live auction at 11 a.m.

Indigo Arts Alliance, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens symposium July 26
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As the culminating installment of their three-part collaborative multi-year series of public symposia, Indigo Arts Alliance and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens are pleased to announce Deconstructing the Boundaries: Tending to Communities.

Summerfest at First Congo in Wiscasset July 26
Come and enjoy Summerfest July 26. Courtesy photo

First Congregational Church of Wiscasset is holding the annual church fair on the Common from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 26.

Texas native climbs Kilimanjaro, raises funds
Greg Godkin will ascend Kilimanjaro next week to raise funds to honor a girl lost in the Camp Mystic floods. Courtesy photo

Mt. Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, is the tallest mountain in Africa, standing at 19,341 feet above sea level. It is one of the Seven Summits of the World, and longtime regional visitor Greg Godkin, 53, is going to climb it, even if he’s never done anything like this before.  

BRHS Class of 1975 50th reunion
Boothbay Region High School

The Boothbay Region High School Class of 1975 will hold its 50th reunion the weekend of July 25-27.

The "main" reunion will be held Saturday, July 26 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Brady's restaurant. It's "come as you are" — or dress in 70s clothing to win a prize — with a cash bar and some hors d'oeuvre platters. Attendees may purchase food off a menu as well. A band, 3 Day Funk, will be providing 70s music. Donations to help pay for the band will be appreciated. There will be prizes for various games and a special reunion cake.

Boothbay Region Historical Society announces $1,000 matching gift challenge
Joseph Patten Ledger, dated 1753-1762. Account Books Collection. Courtesy of Boothbay Region Historical Society

A generous donor will match up to $1,000 raised through this challenge. Your donations will help fund the assessment and conservation of some of our oldest holdings. Items such as a 1682 bible translated and annotated in England by John Canne and a ledger belonging to Sawyers Island resident Joseph Patten dated 1753-1762 may require professional assessment.

Heartwood Summer Camp presents the epic 'Beowulf'
Heartwood Summer Camp cast of "Beowulf." Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17 and Friday, July 18. Courtesy of Joy Braley

Three weeks of intensive Heartwood Summer Camp training with Griff Braley and Teralyn Reiter will culminate in a devised performance of "The Epic of Beowulf" in the air-conditioned Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy, 81 Academy Hill Road in Newcastle, Thursday and Friday, July 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. 

Characters of the County: Dickie Spofford Shares the Credit
Richard “Dickie” Spofford plucks a favorite banjo, a White Lightning model, handcrafted by friend and Thomaston banjo teacher Jim Cox. A multi-instrumentalist, Spofford also plays guitar, bass, drums, and saxophone. Sherwood Olin photo

In the days when Richard “Dickie” Spofford was Boothbay’s fire chief, the firefighters under his command would refer to him in the reverential tones sailors might use for a particularly effective captain.

It is not so much what is said, but how it is said: the voice drops in volume, a spare few words are uttered – rarely is a full sentence necessary, and everyone in earshot nods solemnly, as if to say, “Yes, of course!”

It’s what respect looks like.

St. Andrews Thrift Shop update
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St. Andrews Thrift Shop in the Meadow Mall has removed the collection bins from the alley. Anyone wishing to make donations are asked to come to the Thrift Shop during open hours which are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Should assistance be needed, someone at the counter will call for help within the shop.

Support the animals

Local pet advocate Lawrence Pitcher has reported that a new donation container to support the local animal shelters has been set up at Grover's Hardware on Townsend Avenue Boothbay Harbor. He also said that the local shelters need cat and dog food, dog toys, cat litter and grooming items. The donations may be left in the bin at Nathan's Pharmacy, Meadow Mall, Boothbay Harbor.

Lincoln County Historical Association
Rock around the jailhouse block
LCHA volunteer Dan Watts assists a youngster with a Jenga tower at last year's Jailhouse Rock event. Courtesy of LCHA

It’s party time at the Old Lincoln County Jail on Federal Street in Wiscasset! Gather your friends and family for a rousing good time at Jailhouse Rock on Saturday, Aug. 9. from 5 to 8 p.m. Jailhouse Rock is an event for all ages with dancing, food, lawn games, and tours of the jail cells.

The stewardship committee of Lincoln County Historical Association’s (LCHA) Old Jail invites young and old for an evening of music by the jazz-rock-blues band Leopard Girls and their set of foot-tapping music. 

Learn to dig softshell clams at Reid State Park Aug. 1
Clam digging

The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust's (KELT) most popular summertime event is coming up on Friday, Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at Reid State Park in Georgetown.

Ed Epping exhibition confronts incarceration through visceral art
"ISOLATE" by Ed Epping, made of 100,000 hand-embroidered stitches on a vintage canvas cot cover.

It’s a numbing number: 100,000. 

According to artist Ed Epping, that’s how many people are in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons on any given day — and it’s also the number of hand-sewn stitches he used to embroider the solitary figure in his piece Isolate. 

Lincoln Theater
One-night screening of hit documentary ‘Far Out’
Courtesy of Charles Light

Lincoln Theater is pleased to present the award-winning documentary “Far Out: Life On & After the Commune,” Thursday, July 24 at 7 p.m.  Through interviews, archival footage, and personal reflections, “Far Out” paints a vivid portrait of an era defined by experimentation and idealism—and the realities of sustaining those values over decades. Step into the world of 1960s counterculture in this intimate 85-minute documentary, and join special guests, including the film’s Director Charles Light, for a speci

Opinion
BRHS Champions of Change: Student elected to school board?

Historic tax credit workshop July 22
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On Tuesday, July 22, 3-4:30 p.m., Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission (LCRPC) will facilitate a panel discussion with experts about state and federal historic tax credits as a tool for economic and housing development.

BHML falls down the rabbit hole for 101st
Don't be late for a very important date! Guests got treated to an outdoor tea party July 11 in honor of BHML's 101th birthday.  ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (BHML) commemorated 101 years of service July 11 with a Mad Hatter tea party on the lawn. The 30-person table was filled as community members and visitors enjoyed fresh tea, mini confections and card games to celebrate the library's birthday and their “unbirthdays.” 

Programs & Technology Manager Bethany Schmidt explained, last year’s 100-year bash was about honoring the library’s legacy, but faculty decided to take a different approach this time.  

Rev. Tom Lenhart at Wilson Chapel on Ocean Point July 20
Rev. Tom Lenhart

The Rev. Tom Lenhart will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, July 20. Jim Swist will serve as organist.The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!  

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