Too many students are sustaining injuries while participating in sports at Boothbay Region High School (BRHS). In the 2024-2025 season, two BRHS girls’ basketball players tore their ACLs, and this spring, two baseball players did the same. Each case led to months of recovery and ended the athlete’s respective sport’s season.

BRHS should have physical therapy available on site and provide more education on injury prevention to help their athletes prevent devastating injuries like these.

The risk of sports-related injuries can be greatly reduced through proper strengthening and injury-prevention

Dear Editor:

As an abutting property owner, I support protecting Beach Road and improving public infrastructure. However, I oppose the proposed 12-foot by 6-foot concrete box culvert because the project documents do not demonstrate why a structure of this size is necessary.

The existing culvert is only 18 inches in diameter. A 6-foot by 6-foot box culvert would increase the opening area about twenty-fold, while the proposed 12-foot by 6-foot culvert would increase it nearly forty-fold. Although the reports conclude the existing culvert is undersized, they never explain why increasing the

Oystercatcher. It’s an evocative name. Even if you didn’t know that it refers to a bird, you would probably imagine some living thing that catches oysters. Even without considering its wonderful name, the American oystercatcher (there are 11 other oystercatcher species worldwide) is a memorable species. Its big, bright orange bill, black head, orange ring around the eye and bold white stripe visible against its otherwise dark brown wings and back—this all makes for a striking sight. Add in its loud, piping, whistled calls and you have a bird that is somewhere between a garish clown and an

Did you ever think summer would arrive – especially after a long winter and spring?

Well, it’s here and the Boothbay and Wiscasset regions have come alive with events and visitors filling the roadways and sidewalks.

Even before this week’s 64th annual Windjammer Days got underway, and before the calendar’s first day of summer, Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce sponsored the annual Claw Down and Fishin’ for Fashion events which drew great crowds and participation. They were a great kickoff to summer.

The Windjammer Days schedule is once again full and there’s more to come after this

The President of the United States says the war with Iran is over, and we won. Bully for us.

He also says Iran should have nuclear technology and ballistic missiles because their neighbors do. OK?

But, and please correct me if I am wrong, didn’t he pull the trigger in the first place to prevent them from joining the nuke club? And he says he wants to quit bombing and blockading, and open the Strait of Hormuz to prevent a worldwide economic catastrophe due to a lack of Gulf oil products.

Surely his SECDEF, a sage, ex-Fox News weekend substitute couch sitter, warned the boss that, despite the

“Build it and they will come!” I think a movie baseball metaphor is appropriate for our annual big event here in the Boothbay region. Only, in our case, perhaps a slight modification of the phrase might be, “Sail it, and, weather permitting, we hope they will come!”

Every year at this time, there are big doings here in “River City.” Windjammer Days sort of officially marks the liftoff of the summer season as the Harbor fills with visiting guests, seasonal residents and, fingers crossed, sailing ships from near and far. Ultimately, however, the final determining factor lies with the great

Dear Editor:

I am writing in support of the Hendrick's Head Beach Restoration Project, which will be presented for voter approval on July 1 at 6 p.m. The project proposes raising the height of the current seawall, and enlarging the culvert under the parking lot in order to allow seawater to more naturally flow into the marsh with the tide. As a climate adaptation professional myself, I can attest that this approach is consistent with best practices for coastal restoration in the context of sea level rise and it will also save the Town of Southport money because there will be far less damage to

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JULY 1st TICKETS TO "1776" ARE GOING FAST!

CELEBRATE WITH US!

A series of glorious days, some wicked winds, passing rains and an abundance of flowers. Among the grasses king-devils, hawkweed, stitchwort, vetches, clovers, the beginning of yarrow and so many more. Beds filled with showy iris, peony and roses, window boxes and planters filling and spilling, early summer.  On the beach the crabs do their best to hide, but are caught and moved into pails, eventually released only to be hoisted from the water again and again.  Kitten Island is climbed by almost every person that arrives, gradually wearing underfoot, gulls seek opportunity to grab untended

Dear Ediitor:

We live on Southport Island adjacent to Hendricks Head Beach, the only public beach on our island. Between our home and the beach, a paved road forms the top of a sea wall that was rebuilt following The Blizzard of ’78.  In the storm of January 2024, the highest since ’78, sea water again overflowed the road and tore it up. Since that time consultants have been working on plans to raise the seawall to protect the road and beach parking lot. For no apparent reason, the plan also includes raising the road and placing a huge 6-foot x 12-foot culvert under that road to replace an 18

Dear Editor:

A recent letter to the editor called for us to teach “harmony” in our schools. While that may be a laudable goal, particularly in the music department (sorry, I couldn’t resist), I think that it is an attempt at a band-aid on the real problem. What is lacking is far more basic and starts far earlier.

We need to teach a fundamental respect for human life and individual rights and responsibilities. We need to teach the basic principles of right and wrong and the “Golden Rule” right from day one of education and continue through high school. This is something parents should be

Dear Editor:

President Trump has stated that U.S. troops could be stationed at polling places when "necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States," a standard the administration has suggested could apply to "civil unrest" or "alleged fraud."

This is hard to square with the administration's stated concern for election integrity. Despite that rhetoric, the Department of Justice has:

- Dismantled the Public Integrity Section, which was responsible for maintaining an election day command center

- Canceled all election training sessions

- Removed the 281-page election fraud prosecution

Dear Editor:

I am writing to express my gratitude to Boothbay Region TV Station (BRTV) for allowing me to shadow their work this school year. Their head Station Manager, Lang Sheppard, was immediately on board when I asked to do a mentorship with them. Since then, I have been a part of everything from live sports broadcasts and community events to assisting in the production of their in-house shows, and most recently, covering the high school’s graduation. The number of skills I’ve learned from shadowing Lang are too many to list, but all are ones I’m grateful for.

Since Boothbay TV covers so

Dear Editor:

It’s amazing how little you get for your money these days of Trumpflation!

The 97 millionaires and their spouses who are subsidizing Susan (“Our Senator”) Collins may help her win a sixth term, but all they will get is an elderly, MAGA-esque politician who casts occasional, meaningless votes to feign independence.

We the taxpayers of the United States contributed $79 million (and eleven months of work by government employees in seven Cabinet-level departments) to buy President Donald J. Trump’s big, beautiful birthday present — an obscenely large “Claw” for blood sports and dirt

Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:

The Boothbay Region Community Center is proud to provide respite from loneliness and social isolation and we are happy to offer a full schedule of activities for residents of all ages. But we are feeling some growing pains and need more volunteers.

Our People Helping People program needs drivers to serve a growing list of clients. We generally provide transportation to the grocery store and to medical appointments on the peninsula. Volunteers drive as frequently and on a schedule as they are able.

We would like to increase the hours of the Community Center from four hours, 10 a.m

Cabins are slowly coming to life as families return for the summer season. Thank you so much to Jim Rayball of Bayberry Road for last week’s 2026 inaugural column. Jim is Holly Fischer’s husband, the late Janet Fischer’s son-in-law, and has a long history here which he described so beautifully. Thank you, Jim. Looking forward to other columnists this summer. Please let me know if you would like to write for the Boothbay Register weekly column for our summer colony.

Mark your calendars for these social events from the Sprucewold Association: the Opening Party at the Linekin Green on Sunday

Dear Editor:

This letter is regarding the “Boothbay/Wiscasset track and field awards presented” article from the Boothbay Register published from this week.

I want to thank Bill Pearson for coming out every year to support the Boothbay Region High School track team by showing up to awards and covering the latest meets that took place in different towns. You make the community feel more alive by informing the community about the heart and soul of our school, the sports.

Can’t wait to see what you write for the upcoming fall sports season that is around the corner. Hope you enjoy your summer and

Like many of you, I was hoping that the first day of summer would be filled with sunshine and warmer temperatures from start to finish. We woke up to a beautiful sunny but cool morning and then the afternoon clouds rolled in followed by rain.

The entire spring season with the exception of a few days has been unseasonably cool and rainy here.

It’s nice to see that this past weekend was a bit busier with Ocean Pointers arriving for the season and boats bobbing on moorings.

Tim and Abby Mahoney have arrived to begin their shared AD duties that will begin this week. The Activities Committee