An underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, despite…
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Obituary
Joseph Bruce Merton, 93, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to the late Bentley…
A graveside service for Georgia Norwood Emerson, who died Sept. 20, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Evergreen Cemetery, Barters Island Road, Boothbay.
A gathering of family and…
The public is invited to join with the Quaker (Friends) community at the Midcoast meeting on Sunday, Oct. 4 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the…
Fall job fair season is underway around Maine, providing an opportune time for job seekers looking for work. The Maine Department of Labor’s network of 12 CareerCenters will be sponsoring and/or…
A volunteer team from the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA) and L.L. Bean Freeport store cleaned up the Western Cuckolds Island off Boothbay Harbor. On a crisp, blue-sky, late…
An N.C. Hunt Corp. pickup truck on Wiscasset’s Main Street Friday morning struck a car, starting a chain-reaction, four-vehicle accident near the post office Friday morning, Wiscasset Police…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta
Autumn: When pumpkins fall like leaves in the Midcoast.
When wood and aluminum and fiberglass boats are put away for the winter and pumpkin boats instead dot the Damariscotta River, it’s…
Boothbay Region High School would like to honor the members of the 1975 state champion football team on Oct. 9.
If you are interested in being recognized at halftime of the varsity game,…
Good food, good music, and keeping it local are what the upcoming Farmers’ Feast Dinner and Dance event is all about, according to …
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The Boothbay Register's…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
It was to a full crowd of supporters on Sept. 28 that Robert Maroon Jr., owner of the Chowder House, made a proposition to the Boothbay Harbor Selectmen: It is time to take a serious look at the…
The burgeoning coastal marine economy came into the spotlight on Tuesday, Sept. 29 during a stop in Lincoln County on Speaker Mark Eves’ statewide jobs tour.
Eves joined a…
Paul L. Griffin, Jr., 44, an elver fisherman from Waldoboro, was sentenced on Sept. 28, in Lincoln County Superior Court to a jail term of…
A Boothbay Harbor fisherman doesn’t know what he’ll do now that his boat is at the bottom of sea. Kelo Pinkham’s boat, the Jeanne C., sank Sept. 25 about 50 nautical miles east of…
Lisa Evans and Tim Smith have been growing microgreens in their greenhouse in Roslindale, Massachusetts, since January, ever since Evans…
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard a contract to repair a tugboat.
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard President Eric Graves announced Sept. 30 that a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 45-…
Open Creamery Day
At Fuzzy Udder Creamery in Whitefield, there is a special focus on being local.
The sheep, whose milk is turned into yogurt and cheese, can be found outside next to the goats who provide the…
The Portland contractor reinforcing the piers of the Nequasset Bridge spanning Route 1 in Woolwich will begin the final phase of project next week.
Greg Scott, president and project manager…
The Edgecomb Community Church, UCC, is in the process of forming a team to walk the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Brunswick on Saturday, Oct.…
Obituary
John W. Howard died peacefully in Vero Beach, Florida, on Sept. 17, 2015, from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure, which he combated with…
‘Round Town
So I gave in. Like 6 zillion other folks with cameras and phones, out we went in search of the supermoon.
It's funny. The last time I tried to photograph a supermoon was 2011. Remember? The…
Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association is having a Stewardship Day at the Griggs Preserve in Newcastle, from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Licensed forester and licensed arborist, Tish…
The Lincoln Home welcomes the public to join former lighthouse keeper Ernest DeRaps from 3 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5.…
Brooke Spaulding loves cooking and designing, so she has come up with a plan to combine these interests to start a business.
Spaulding, a 2007 graduate of Boothbay Region High School, is…
Barters Island Road traffic was rerouted Wednesday morning, Sept. 30, due to a downed power line.
The Boothbay Fire Department directed traffic away from the power line near Coastal Maine…
The Lincoln County Historical Association will host Jim Leamon at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, in the court room of the…
Instructor Judy Nielsen has returned to Boothbay Harbor and will offer beginner classes in tai chi chuan at the Yoga Firm Studio in Boothbay Harbor,…
At the start of the full agenda at the Lincoln County Democrats’ Sept. 23 meeting, Committee Chairman Jim Torbert reminded those…
Harvest Supper
On Saturday, Oct. 3, Dresden Historical Society will host its annual Harvest Supper at Dresden Elementary School with two seatings; the first at 5 p.m. and the second at 6:…
On Sept. 26, exactly 35 years to the day that Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) officially became a nonprofit land conservation organization, it held its annual…
The Morris Farm Store will be transitioning into fall hours beginning Friday, Oct. 2. The store will be open Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and…
All meetings at town offices unless otherwise noted
BOOTHBAY
Selectmen: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.
BOOTHBAY HARBOR
Planning Board: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 6 p.m.
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Tony Cameron has resigned as the executive director of the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce. His last day will be soon after Columbus Day on Oct. 12.
Cameron, a native of Brunswick…
Obituary
Clyde W. Nightingale of Boothbay Harbor died peacefully with family by his side on Sept. 1, 2015.
He was born to Clyde and Beatrice (Gray) Nightingale on Dec. 11, 1934, in Grindstone, Maine…
Boothbay Harbor
On Friday, Sept. 24, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torreson ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to sell the F/V Westward, including all its equipment and fishing permits, to the highest…
The same doctors and nurses will treat patients. The same staff will greet people at LincolnHealth Hospital and Lincoln Medical Partners practices, but over the next year, the name of the parent…
The Boothbay Region High School Lady Seahawks cross country team continued its winning streak with a victory at the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Augusta on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The boys team…
The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors announces a comprehensive search to fill two positions at the business office. They are executive director and the…
Obituary
Katherine Jane Harrington, 31, of Boothbay, died unexpectedly at her home on Sept. 24, 2015.
She was born April 14, 1984, to Linda Giles and Donald Harrington. She graduated from Boothbay…
Boothbay Region Water District averted a potential emergency recently thanks to the quick and skillful actions of a local sewer employee.
The water district’s back-up generator malfunctioned…
BRHS Soccer
The Boothbay Region High School Seahawks girls soccer team played Carrabec at home on Sept. 25.
With defense strong on both sides, there was no score during regulation time.
The first…
Three panelists will give a presentation, "A Layperson's Guide to EMS," at the Boothbay Region YMCA on Monday, Oct. 5. The free public event will begin with light refreshments at 5:30 p.m.,…
Lincoln County Superior Court
A New Hampshire woman claims she was at Hotel Pemaquid in New Harbor last July when her boyfriend took a photo of her, then she slipped on a stair tread and became permanently injured.
Anita…
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Five of the original members of the Boothbay Region Alumni-Community Band are still performing since the band's inception in 1991.
The Coastal Humane Society is teaming up with Petco of Topsham to host Fall in Love!, a mega adoption weekend to celebrate Petco’s 50th Anniversary. The event, Oct…
Boothbay Charities Classic 2015
Handicapped, celebrity and Boothbay area golfers joined together at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club on Saturday, Sept. 26, to raise money for Special Olympics Maine.
Taking to the course…
The Boothbay Fire Department on Route 27 will hold its annual open house, in recognition of National Fire Prevention Week, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Tour the station and meet your…
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Dave Hodgkins and Bryan Colby caught and released a pair of stripers on Sept. 15 in the Kennebec River.
Also along on the trip were Nick Robichaud and Bill Morton.
All four anglers…
Harvest Fest is Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library.
This event has been…
