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• Ocean Point Column: Here comes winter, down goes a tree, and more

  Returning to Eastern Standard Time is my least favorite time of year as it means the winter season is upon us. After a spectacular fall here, the forecast is unfortunately changing this week to a...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  Thank you, bakers, for your overwhelming response. We do still need baked goods — pies, cakes, muffins, breads, etc. for the Thanksgiving Pie/Bake Sale. Buyers, your choices this year will be...

• American Legion Post 36

  

  Good news for those on Social Security, those receiving VA financial benefits, including survivors’ benefits, as of 1 January 2020, will receive a 1.6% increase in those benefits. Of course, that...

• Southport Column: Another passing, hot coffee and cookies, and more

  Perhaps you will find an obituary in this week’s paper for Joyce Duncan, who died peacefully this past Friday. A vibrant, friendly woman of many talents, Joyce lived a long and fruitful life as a...

• Boothbay Region Garden Club

  There will be a Festival of Trees candy workshop at the Southport Town Hall on Friday, Nov. 15 at 9 a.m. We will wrap and decorate 72 candy bars and make 36 chocolate sleighs. Please bring glue gun...
• letter to the editor

  God bless our veterans

  Dear Editor: Veterans Day is a day to be thankful for the many blessings we have. We owe them all to our veterans. Thanksgiving Day would have a whole new meaning if not for the sacrifices of our...
• letter to the editor

  Hall of Fame induction thank-yous

  Dear Editor: The Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame would like to thank the following businesses/individuals for sponsoring an ad in the 2019 Induction Banquet Program. Mail It 4U, Dow Furniture, Tucker...
• letter to the editor

  Saddle up with us

  Dear Editor: As winter is bearing down on us, many are looking for fun things to do since our normal activities have ceased. My friends at Burke’s Island Farm have something new to offer. Every...
• letter to the editor

  Keep it simple

  Dear Editor: Memo to Democrats: The Constitution, Article II, Section 4 says the president can be impeached and removed from office for: “Treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”...
• over 10 percent of Maine citizens are veterans

  Senator Angus King: On Veterans Day, a chance to honor American heroes

  

  It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, when the Allied Forces and Central Powers laid down their arms to formalize the end of the First World War. One year later,...

• Ed, Westie and the Schlitz can

  

  In a recent Southport column of the Register, in a very nice mention of our father’s funeral, a certain amount of curiosity regarding the presence of a beer can on a Methodist altar was raised and we...

• Trevett Column: Next potluck Nov. 20

  The social calendar is filling up. The next potluck will be Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Barters Island Community Hall. Please bring an appetizer, main or side dish or dessert to share along with your...
• A Bird’s Tale

  When a Sea Duck Becomes a Lake Duck

  

  We made it out to what has become one of the best-known waterfowl hotspots in Maine—Sabattus Pond—over the weekend. It was a gorgeous fall afternoon, still reasonably warm for November as we scanned...
• Where It’s At

  Another tic on the bucket list ... Melanie in concert

  

  Melanie Safka. I can still remember the first time I heard her on the radio. The song was “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).” She wrote it about the scene before her during her performance at...
• From the editor

  Thank you veterans

  

  The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club, Southport Central School, Boothbay Region Garden Club, Southport Memorial Library, American Legion Post 54 in Wiscasset and the town of Woolwich are honoring our...
• ’Round Town

  Dominic's bench

  

  In October 1968, Dominic Garvey made his motion picture film debut in the movie “The Night of the Living Dead.” Fifty-one years later, this past rainy foggy Halloween morning, a stone bench honoring...
• Live, laugh and love!

  Italian hot and mild sausage soup

  

  I’ve been blessed to have spent the last 10 days in Tuscany and Dublin. We met many incredible people and soaked up many different food ideas. We ate and drank local chiantis from the region we...
• Joe’s Journal

  Boys, the rules may have changed

  

  On Halloween, the day the House of Representatives voted to proceed with an impeachment probe of the president, the TV experts and pundits told us what we wanted to hear. If you like or support the...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  The Van Trip for November will be this Thursday, the 7th. Don’t forget ... We will leave the Center at 10 a.m. for a trip to Bowdoin College Art Gallery and lunch at Applebee’s. We have room for one...

• Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library

  

  What a fantastic indoor Halloween Parade we had last week! For those of you who weren’t among the hundreds who turned out for our annual extravaganza, we moved the Halloween Parade into the Boothbay...

• American Legion Post 36

  

  I am frequently asked by families of veterans that are near the end of life what VA benefits the surviving families, most specifically the spouses are eligible for. This is sometimes a difficult...
• Lyme Time

  We Did It!

  

  Last week, former Senator Kay Hagan (N.C.) passed away from complications due to the tick-borne disease known as the Powassan virus. That same week, the Senate Health Committee voted unanimously to...

• Southport Column: Veteran celebrations and more

  From Sandra Seifert comes this news of the Southport Memorial Library. The art show at the library will change this week. The photographs of Lois Glaser and country and nautical scenes of Bruce...
• letter to the editor

  Three trees are now one

  Dear Editor: Three trees at Ocean Point, which numbered two in the recent past, are now down to one tree standing. The southeaster and strong winds we had the other evening did it again. The second...
• letter to the editor

  Another day, another Dollar store

  Dear Editor: Dollar type stores are popping up in rural communities like acne before prom night. These stores compete with the grocery stores by offering the shelf stable items without the expense...
• letter to the editor

  Stover scores 100

  Dear Editor: Tuesday, Nov. 5, marked the 100th anniversary of Maine’s vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women the right to vote. The amendment finally was ratified nationwide on Aug...
• letter to the editor

  In praise of Rev. Foulger

  On Sunday, Oct. 27, I witnessed my pastor, Rev. Dr. Sarah Foulger, retire. A pastor that has confirmed me, baptized me, taken me to Guatemala City on a mission trip where I had the experience of a...
• letter to the editor

  David Landry Memorial Scholarship

  Dear Editor: In lieu of flowers, David Landry's family has requested that donations be sent to the Boothbay Region Boosters Club in his memory. The Boosters Club has decided to take it one step...
• Lyme Time

  Recap of My DC trip: Use Your Voice!

  

  Last week, I spent three days in Washington, D.C. meeting with politicians, participating in a Congressional luncheon and networking with other Lyme advocates, all in a focused effort to build...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Harper the Heron Makes 38-hour Nonstop Flight

  

  Great blue herons are one of the better known of Maine birds even if not always by that name. Many’s the time we have also heard them referred to as “cranes,” “egrets,” and the even occasionally as “...
• From the editor

  Vote on Nov. 5

  

  The voter turnout on Tuesday, Nov. 5 will be light – much lighter than next November, a presidential election year. However, ballots will be handed out at our local town offices from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m...
• Joe’s Journal

  Trick or treat

  I love Halloween. I really do. As a kid, a thousand years ago, I always loved the idea of dressing up, going to the neighbor’s homes, and announcing: “Trickertreat.” Instead of calling the cops,...
• ’Round Town

  Bird

  

  If you were a seagull looking to pick off a tourist's burger at Robinson’s Wharf, this could be your circling-for-attack view. An observant gull would be waiting for Keith's famed blackened haddock...
• Live, laugh and love!

  Homemade oatmeal bread

  

  As you read this week’s column, I will be traveling around Ireland and vast areas of Italy. I’m pretty excited and truly blessed that I’m able to go back to such a beautiful country. This week I’m...

• Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library

  Fall appeared early this year. Beautiful shapely leaves were dropping so fast that it that it looked like a colorful rain. Suddenly a storm with winds so strong it took down trees and power lines. I...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  We had a wonderful time at the Spooktacular at the Railroad Village this past weekend and are especially proud of Jen Field and her daughter, Brianna, who designed the booth and manned it all day....

• Southport Column: Remembering Ed and more

  Our woods are ready for Halloween, decked out in orange and black, with bright red leaves mostly on the ground but some still in the trees. What a gorgeous fall this has been, even with the storm and...
• letter to the editor

  A memorable ‘Railway SPOOKtacular’

  Dear Editor: The “Railway SPOOKtacular” Committee would like to send a sincere thank you to the community and all who attended our family Halloween event on Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Boothbay Railway...
• letter to the editor

  Great improvements in Boothbay

  Dear Editor: I would like to say how wonderful it is to see and experience the many functional and attractive improvements that have happened in the Boothbay Common area. The roundabout works well...
• letter to the editor

  Incredible kindness and care

  Dear Editor: When my parents made their final wishes, they wanted their cremated remains to be mixed and spread over their most favorite spot, Pemaquid Point. I don’t think they knew how difficult...

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