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Southport Junior Yacht Club

This week Southport Yacht Club saw a few beautiful days for being on the water. Friday the 16th, SYC welcomed Naval Academy sailors to the yacht club after students from the morning and afternoon...

Juniper and McKown Points Column: Guests, tennis and more

With the pandemic summer last year, we forgot how busy the last two weeks of July can be. Everyone seems to have a house guest, relatives snugged in or is entertaining other people’s house guests and...

Trevett

The time has finally arrived. A celebration of the opening of the new Barters Island swing bridge will take place on Monday, Aug. 2 at 8:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend a short ceremony...

Ocean Point Column: Thank you activity chairs and volunteers

I would like to clarify something mentioned in last week’s column that concerns the service and gathering for Pat Waldman on Saturday July 31. This is a private event by invitation only and not open...

American Legion Post 36

Our annual Yard Sale is fast approaching! We have made room in our storage unit behind the Hall for those who would like to donate smaller items. For larger items, we will be able to put them in the...

Southport Column: Alpacas, children’s events and more

A reminder that this evening, July 29 at 6:30 a.m. at the Southport Memorial Library, Gerry Hawes, a Southport homeowner and author of “Albatross,” his first book of fiction, will be talking about...

letter to the editor

Thank you Senator Collins

Dear Editor: I would like to thank Senator Susan Collins for her continued advocacy in Washington on behalf of small towns across the country who are unfairly saddled with the cost and headache of...

Addressing the student loan crisis

Forty-five million Americans carry $1.71 trillion in student loan debt. Put another way, one in every eight Americans is in debt for a degree. According to CNBC, that’s about $780 billion more owed...

letter to the editor

Plumbers over physicists

Dear Editor: I write this note that I learned many years ago regarding physicists and plumbers. I've read the notes in the Boothbay Register regarding Rachael Townsend earning a Master Plumber's...

letter to the editor

Need my space

Dear Editor: So what is it with the campgrounds in Maine? I've got a small trailer, been doing the trailer thing for a while. I live here, now your neighbor is like a couple of feet away. I get it...

Sprucewold Column: Back in Maine

The Reillys are now in Sprucewold. We leave New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, and arrive in Maine, The Way Life Should Be, five days later. Then we realize again how fortunate we are to live in...

Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club

Last week’s Rotary meeting was all about saying good-bye to one dear friend and welcoming back others. President Jeff Long started off the meeting with a moment of silence for Skip Kreahling, who...

Bayville Buzz

The sun continues to shine and those of us without AC hope the temps drop soon. The plants are in desperate need of rain, but restrictions only allow watering on alternate days. Well, that may be...

Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library

It always brings a smile to my face, whether I'm at the library or Hannaford, when someone comes up to me and wants to share a new mystery novel or author they like. A while back one such person...

From the assistant editor

Teetering time

I used to be afraid of heights, including on the teeter-totter. Being really high up, enough so you could fall, was not fun. It was something to get through. Being back on the ground was a relief,...

From the editor

Three 'sports' things

Olympic Games: Are you looking forward to watching the 2020 Olympic Games from Tokyo, Japan the next two weeks, July 23 to Aug. 8? Even with a few American athletes already out of the Games due to...

A Bird’s Tale

‘Snipe Hunt’ in Farm Country

We didn’t know we were on a snipe hunt. Nothing in our plans suggested we were on a wild goose chase or any other made-up adventure designed to make us look foolish. And yet last week, high up over...

’Round Town

Mae and Ben

In 1971 I bought my first new car! It was a VW Super Beetle with Pirelli tires, bigger engine, tighter shifter, fatter steering wheel, and fake leather seats. Bright yellow with black pinstripes. She...

Joe’s Journal

One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy

With apology to Lily Tomlin, here are a few thoughts as I try to figure out why we still have an actual landline telephone at our house. I called the phone service, to which I send a fat check each...

letter to the editor

Enjoys Opera House

Dear Editor: The Opera House entertainment never ceases to amaze me. Matt Nakoa last week has to be one of the best entertainers I have ever enjoyed! He played his heart out on piano and both...

From the Senate

Passing a budget that serves our communities

As your voices in Augusta, it’s the responsibility of legislators to pass policies that make life easier for you, and one big opportunity we have to do that is by passing a budget. I’m proud to share...

letter to the editor

Return the sign

Dear Editor: Through the years, I have had a road sign at the end of my driveway. Usually I use it for business but sometimes for other messages as well. For example, I have had “Good Luck Seahawks...

letter to the editor

Nice article

Dear Editor:Congratulations to the Register for publishing an article (7/15) about Rachael Townsend, who recently acquired her Master Plumber's license. She has worked for me the past 12 years, and I...

Ocean Point Column: Running and golf results, and more

Despite the weather it continues to be extremely busy here at the Point. I’m learning that many here are experiencing a bit of fatigue as a result of entertaining family and participating in...

letter to the editor

Project Graduation credits

Dear Editor: Project Graduation would like to thank family, friends, and the community for supporting the Boothbay Region High School class of 2021 in their fundraising efforts this past year. The...

Southport Column: Talking, eating, shopping and more

Is summer really here? I am sitting in my den at 11:30 a.m.wearing a fleece jacket and all the possible light ablaze. Rain is not yet falling again, but skies would urge us to take an umbrella when...

Southport Yacht Club

What a week! You might think that I would be reporting on the challenging week of weather but upon reflection, the rainy, foggy mess is now just a blip on the radar. Between the first annual Cornhole...

Juniper and McKown Points Column: Stories, Field Day and more

Mid-July and the plants are either drowning or being eaten by chipmunks. Geraniums don’t stand a chance with wet feet. Wish we could say the same about the chipmunks. Last week’s “Story Telling and...

Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

What an exciting week it was at the BHYC! Midshipmen from the Naval Academy Ocean Racing teams joined club youngsters from the Junior Program for some fun sailing and offered tours and sails on the...

Boothbay Region Lions Club

The Boothbay Region Lions Club met for a regular meeting on July 14. Lion Karen Nickerson, who is now 2nd Vice District Governor for District 41, performed the induction of new officers for this...

Bayville Buzz

No update this week on Billy B’s ping pong injury, but it does give me the opportunity to revisit an injury my brother Will sustained on the pickle ball court a few years ago. (By the way, don’t...

American Legion Post 36

First, I would like to thank RADM Howard for his important and informative talk following our Sunday breakfast on national security and the role of special operations. Those in attendance asked great...

Sprucewold Column: Blueberries, Firewise and more

Well, you either love rain or hate it. I guess it just depends on what you are doing. If you are boating or hiking, perhaps you are not fond of rain. The old saying still holds true: There is no such...

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

Partnerships with Purpose

What do a wooden 131-foot gaff-rigged topsail schooner, eight teenagers from all over the U.S., and the Boothbay Region YMCA have in common? A desire to create transformational experiences through a...

From the assistant editor

French fries: For or against

Wiscasset and some of our other towns have serious things on their plates this summer, from schools’ future to the immediate crisis Bill Pearson reports on this week, several area eateries’ shortage...

From the editor

How is your summer going?

We made it through the hottest June on record in Maine and now we're halfway through July. There is still plenty of time to enjoy the season many of us look forward to the rest of the year before...

Joe’s Journal

Boomers take note

The other day, I violated one of my rules, sort of. I clicked on one of those fake news sites that are just a collection of advertisements for stuff we don’t need. It was a kind of tutorial...

A Bird’s Tale

Midsummer Wanderers

It’s been most evidenced here in our neighborhood by the grackles. After the initial early spring arrival of those purple-headed, long-tailed blackbirds, we didn’t see many through June. But now it’s...

’Round Town

Memory

This time of year creates some memory challenges for me. Not that this time of year is required for easy confusion, it’s just that something in my brain gets stuck on an odd variety of items. Take...

Southport Yacht Club

Could we have a drum roll, please? The winner of the 2021 Round Southport Race is ... Southport Yacht Club! The race is jointly organized by BHYC and SYC and always provides a day of camaraderie,...

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