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• News and Notes from the Community Center

  We will be holding our semi-annual Lobster Raffle fundraiser on June 30. Raffle tickets are available at The Community Center Monday – Friday and Thursday at the Farmers Market. Come check us out....
• letter to the editor

  Applause for Urgent Care

  Dear Editor: Several generations of my family have come to the region since the 1890s and visited St. Andrews Hospital since its inception. We were sorry to see its passing. However, the past week I...
• letter to the editor

  R.I.P. America

  Dear Editor: "... and to the republic for which it stands ...." R. I. P. The Republic of the United State of America. July 4, 1776-January 20, 2021. It was a good run. Joe Scorcia Boothbay
• letter to the editor

  Home rule means we do not have to align with state law

  Dear Editor:In 2007 I participated in a public-private government contest for small businesses that impressed me as exploitative and so I began reading the statutes and other history found at the...
• letter to the editor

  Re: Fix Route 27

  Dear Editor: I would like to add to your column regarding Route 27. From my personal experience, traveling up and down that route for doctor visits, etc., I have seen people driving all the way to...
• letter to the editor

  Land for Southport’s Future - Where are you?

  Dear Editor: The other day I received a nice letter from the Southport Community Project asking for a donation to enhance the wooded play space at our island school. The committee’s goal is $75,000...
• letter to the editor

  A great grand opening

  Dear Editor: It was a wonderful grand opening on Friday, May 26 for the Clifford Park upgrade and the weather was great. We thank Paul Coloumbe for his generosity and, of course, cutting the ribbon...
• letter to the editor

  Strong support for our schools

  Dear Editor: Thanks to everyone who turned out from Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor to attend the annual meeting of the Community School District ( the CSD) to discuss and approve the school budget for...
• letter to the editor

  Burnt Island’s Living History program not available this summer

  Dear Editor: If you haven’t read “101 Reasons to Love Summer in Maine,” it is the feature article in Down East magazine’s May edition. The article includes Burnt Island’s Living Lighthouse Tour as...
• letter to the editor

  Route 27 perspective

  Dear Editor: To add a little perspective to the stories about the cement mixer that is Route 27 from Edgecomb to the Harbor, consider our experience a couple of days ago. We were driving southbound...
• letter to the editor

  A great day and honor

  Dear Editor: I would like to thank all the people who nominated me to be a grand marshal of the Memorial Day Parade. It was a great honor and I really appreciate it. Eighty years ago, on June 6,...

• Down East Yacht Club

  

  A change of venue was just what the Commodore ordered! The familiar setting at Tugboat Inn was the perfect location for the traditionally well- attended annual DEYC meeting. As is normal for the...

• American Legion Post 36

  

  As has been mentioned in previous articles, and will be repeated periodically until the event, the Legion Community Yard sale is Saturday, Aug. 5. It will be held on Boothbay Common this year which...

• Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club

  

  What a joy. What an honor. Youth, energy, and creativity. Tonight, our club welcomed the Boothbay Region High School seniors for dinner. Always a fun time, so much youthful enthusiasm. Four of the...
• Keepers’ Klippings

  The Birth and Rebirth of the Hendricks Head Lighthouse

  

  Why Build a Lighthouse on the Sheepscot River? In the early 1800s, mariners involved in fishing and maritime trade were in need of a navigational aid to guide them safely in and out of the Sheepscot...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Piping Up for Piping Plovers and Other Endangered Birds

  

  Like many people on the recent very warm, sunny Memorial Day weekend, we decided to head to the beach, where the temps were markedly cooler. We went to a spot that is a favorite of many Mainers...
• From the assistant editor

  Not good, good

  

  Not good was realizing Monday’s Memorial Day service in Wiscasset was the first since longtime participant Clara Wentworth and community events regular and past selectman Katharine Martin-Savage died...
• From the editor

  Fix Route 27

  

  It has been two weeks since Rep. Holly Stover (D-Boothbay) submitted a letter to Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner Bruce Van Note about the importance of fixing Route 27 from Edgecomb...

• An apology

  

  I am sorry Paul Adams. On the front page (and later on in the June 1, 2023 issue), I called you Paul Dodge in the cutlines under the photos you are in for some unknown reason. I have corrected your...
• Joe’s Journal

  Memorial Day

  

  Did you view our Memorial Day parades? Do you know why we cheered the old marching veterans? Today, our newspapers, television sets and smartphones bring us the news of a European war half a world...
• ’Round Town

  Hugh

  

  Alice Hodgdon Thompson, Hugh’s mother, was a bright and shining light when I photographed at the Hodgdon Yachts yard on Murray Hill Road in East Boothbay. She would always alert the crew when she...

• News and Notes from the Community Center

  Our annual Indoor Yard Sale is coming up soon – Friday, June 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturday, June 3, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.. Mark your calendars! Come join the fun picking up your next little treasure...

• Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library

  

  With the warm weather approaching, the Mystery Book Club will take a summer break. Over the past four years, the MBC has read many enthralling mysteries. Our stories have taken us from the Maine...
• letter to the editor

  Are we cash-cows for an emir?

  Dear Editor: If someone were to prove to you that $255,000,000 of Central Maine Power’s 2021 profits left Maine and the United States, to enrich Iberdrola — a Spanish multinational corporation whose...

• Fly our flag first

  Dear Editor: Because it continues, and with Flag Day coming up in a couple of weeks, I will repeat myself. Before our political leaders let our country go completely down the drain, if you support...
• letter to the editor

  Grateful for donations

  Dear Editor: We recently offered the communities we serve the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We were so humbled by the response. Most of us know that not everyone is...

• Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor: Be Awe-some

  This title doesn't mean what you think it might mean. I'm not telling you to go out and be great, chase fame or capture your peak moments and carefully curate them on Facebook. This is an invitation...

• Southport Column: SYC potluck, Memorial Day ceremonies and more

  Summer friends and summer activities are surfacing with a bounce, so have your calendars ready. If you are reading this column online in time, the first news is that the Southport Yacht Club...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Familiar and Fascinating Blue Jay

  

  It should come as no surprise to learn that some of the greatest mysteries of the bird world are within some of our most common and familiar birds. Take the ever-present blue jay, for example. On a...
• From the assistant editor

  Will you turn out?

  

  We have been pleasingly swamped with letters to the editor supporting local candidates. Does this portend a strong turnout June 13? We shall see, but either way, it has been wonderful to see so much...
• From the editor

  It’s happening!

  

  What, you may ask, is happening? News and lots of it! Thursday, May 25 at 6 p.m. in the Boothbay Region High School gymnasium is the annual CSD budget meeting. Hopefully voters will turn out to...
• ’Round Town

  Spring

  

  Spring is springing little by little. Here on Southport Island things are moving along at a snail’s pace. Wiscasset is in full bloom along the Route One corridor. We know this because in the last...
• Joe’s Journal

  Of funerals and fun

  

  Dear Reader, Last weekend, I was in the produce aisle of Hannaford market when I got a pointed suggestion from one of my favorite readers. No, it was not one of the three online musketeers who...

• News and Notes from the Community Center

  Our annual Indoor Yard Sale is coming up soon – Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3. Mark your calendars! Come join the fun picking up your next little treasure. Are you a seller? Would you like to...

• American Legion Post 36

  

  As you drive down Route 27 from the Boothbay Town Hall into Boothbay Harbor, you are reminded that we are about to honor our veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice for this great country and are...

• Southport Column: Memorial Day, water and more

  Recognition and celebration of our fallen veterans’ service to our country will begin at the normal times and places on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29. We will gather at the Southport Memorial Library...
• letter to the editor

  Destructive and false rhetoric

  Dear Editor:The media and politicians (mostly Democrats) keep throwing around the threat of a "default" if Congress does not increase the debt limit above the already staggering $31.4 trillion. This...
• letter to the editor

  Questioning BHWP’s wisdom

  Dear Editor:In recent weeks, Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation has adopted a new and aggressive legal and PR strategy against the town. It started with the filing of a new court appeal against...
• letter to the editor

  Flag placement volunteers

  Dear Editor: On Saturday, May 20, the American Legion, area Boy and Girl Scouts, and other volunteers placed the American flags on each of the veterans graves at our local cemeteries. These flags...
• letter to the editor

  Re: CSD budget increases

  Dear Editor: None of us on the School Committee who voted “yes” loved voting for the school budget for next year. But we did so because, just to maintain our current level of education, we had to...

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