Monica Wood,novelist, memoirist, and playwright will be the first speaker at this year’s “Summer Serie…

It's easy to forget the chill of winter as summer nears. But preparing for Maine’s coldest weather is year-round work for the Woodchucks, a group of Boothbay-area volunteers who meet twice a week, all year, to help keep area households warm.   

Coastal Rivers is hosting a two-day Wilderness First Aid certification course through Wilderness Medical Associates International from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 21 and 22.  

Boothbay Region Water District (BRWD)’s Hendricks Hill Road water main replacement project has officially gone out to bid for construction. As previously reported in the Register, the work will convert 8,000 feet of seasonal water main along Hendricks Hill Road in Southport to a buried year-round main. The deadline for bids…

No, Stephanie Hawke is not running for governor or any other office. The weekend of June 7-8, Hawke received phone calls regarding a pink lawn sign on the traffic island at the Route One and Route 27 intersection. Signs with a pink background and white lettering were used five years ago when Hawke last ran for the legislature…

Something remarkable is taking shape in Alna this summer. From July 5 to Aug.  3, the Puddle Dock Village Festival will turn the town into a stage for creativity, connection and courageous conversation.

Boothbay Region Adult and Community Education (BRACE) graduated nine students June 10 in the Boothbay Region High School library. Commencement was moved from Barrett’s Park due to rain. Over 50 friends, family members and administrators gathered in honor of the students' achievement of their high school equival…

Because Thursday, June 19 is a federal holiday, there will be an early deadline for submissions of copy for the June 19 issue in order for the newspapers to be mailed to subscribers. U.S.

Community School District voters passed the $11.4 million CSD budget for the 2026 fiscal year June 10. Overall, voters approved the Budget Validation Referendum 310-273. 

Members of the MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital and MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital Community Health Improvement Committee announced their support for two organizations focusing on providing safe, affordable housing and the needed support services for low-income individuals and families who may ot…

Coastal Rivers is hosting an “after hours” Trail Tamers work partyat Bass Rock Preserve in Round Pond on Wednesday, June 18 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. …

Waldoboro Lions Club was presented the eighth annual Coulombe Center Award for Innovation in a brief ceremony at St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor. 

The Lions were nominated for their innovative support of eye care for school-age students who cannot afford care. The selection committee…

The Boothbay Region Democratic Committee is excited to announce our participation in this year's Windjammer Days Parade in Boothbay Harbor on June 25, and we're calling on all local Democrats and unenrolled voters to join us! 

Lobster boat captains up and down the coast and right here in Boothbay Harbor are revving up for the 2025 racing season. The races begin with the Charlie Begin Memorial Lobster Boat Races Saturday, June 14. Since 2005, Boothbay Harbor’s races are held in honor of Begin, a beloved native lobsterman and racer.

Diplomas were handed out to the 39 members of the Boothbay Region High School Class of 2025 during Graduation Exercises in a humidity-filled Porter Memorial Gymnasium on Friday afternoon, June 6.

While the event programs made for makeshift fans, the hundreds of family members and friends watched, listened and cheered during the ceremony…

A fundraiser for Midcoast Humane – a sunset cruise provided by Balmy Days Cruises in Boothbay Harbor – will be held Friday, June 27 from 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Boothbay Region High School (BRHS) freshman Adaline Barter spent a whirlwind weekend representing Maine’s American Spirit at the National World War II Museum.  

All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal summer chapel is pleased to announce that our opening services, on Sunday, June 15, will be led by our Boothbay Harbor neighbor, the Rev. Suzanne F. Colburn. Please join us at 8 and 10 a.m. as we celebrate Holy Communion and rejoice in the beauty of the new season on Southport Island…

Two Lincoln County emergency 911 dispatchers received recognition June 3 for changing the lives of two familes. Craig Balsdon of Boothbay Harbor provided verbal assistance to a couple who gave birth to their son in a vehicle. Richard Hasch of Southport provided a bystander instruction by phone to perform cardiopulmonary rescitation.

Since 2007, a dedicated group at First United Methodist Church of Boothbay Harbor has sold homemade pies on the church lawn. For about a dozen Saturdays, Memorial Day through September, visitors and locals can have their tastebuds tingled with offerings ranging from strawberry rhubarb to pecan, lemon meringue to cherry, chocolate cre…

Due to weather June 7, the American Legion Auxiliary Veterans Suicide Awareness Walkathon has been rescheduled to its rain date: Saturday, June 14 at 10 a.m.

Graduation morning, Friday, June 6, the Class of 2025 walked through the halls of Boothbay Region Elementary School in their blue caps and gowns where many of them began their education. 

Pre K through sixth graders and middle schoolers (seventh and eighth graders) held signs, high fived, and cheered as the seniors and the…

My name is Cleyton Splaine, I am the now former Boothbay Region High School student body president, and today, your honor speaker and I am honored to be here today, with this class and you all.

I want to briefly discuss my favorite thing with you today.

Good afternoon and welcome to the graduation ceremony for this year’s graduates of Boothbay Region High School. My name is Anna Gosselin and I am the salutatorian for the class of 2025. I just want to start by saying how proud I am of my class. It’s so amazing to see all the different directions we are headed, even though we w…

The Boothbay Region High School Class of 2025 paraded the town’s streets Friday, June 6, kicking off their post-graduation celebration with a car parade. Students loaded into decorated cars, trucks and convertibles and waved at onlookers as they looped through the inner harbor before turning north towards the rotary and Boothbay Com…

This is the second of two photo galleries of the Boothbay Region High School Class of 2025 graduation ceremony on Friday, June 6.

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The Southport Island Association would like to announce that it will hold both its Annual Meeting and Bolster Day on Sunday, June 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Newagen Seaside Inn.  …

Family, friends and community members gathered at Porter Memorial Gymnasium June 4 to celebrate the accomplishments of graduating students and outstanding underclassmen at the annual Boothbay Region High School awards night.  

The Maine State Aquarium, located on the McKown Point Road in West Boothbay Harbor, is set to open its doors on Wednesday, June 11.

Boothbay Region Cemetery District trustees on June 4 began the process of revising their bylaws. The changes largely focused on cleaning up language, reorganization and updating procedures.…