The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has been advised of a possible scam attempt occurring over this past weekend. On Sunday, March 18, at about 10:15 a.m., a Bristol resident…
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Obituary
Ardath E. (Farnham) Wood, 75, of Vassalboro, Maine died March 18, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family following a long illness.
She was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on Nov. 8, 1942…
The Edgecomb planning board is asking how a small River Road bait shack became a rental vacation cottage. On March 15, the board requested Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz investigate how the…
Obituary
On March 16, 2018, Mr. Ronald A. Pratt Sr., a lifelong resident of Cumberland, Rhode Island, died in Portland, Maine.
A loving husband to Janet L. (Simoneau) Pratt, a father and grandfather…
Palm Sunday
This Sunday, March 25, marks the beginning of Holy Week with a lively celebration of Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday. The last of a series of messages for Lent will be offered by…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
The Boothbay Harbor planning board held a public hearing March 14 on two amendments to ordinances proposed for the town meeting warrant.
The amendments read:
“To see if the voters…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee
On March 14, the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee heard from College Access Coordinator Hannah Johnson and her predecessor Kerrin Erhard on all the…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their last indoor meeting on Friday, March 23 with a Comb Honey Workshop featuring Neal Kober from Humble Abodes and Betterbee. The…
The community is cordially invited to a special Good Friday service at Boothbay Baptist Church on Friday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Entitled “The Living Last Supper,” it dramatizes events…
The Boothbay Region YMCA warmly invites the entire community to attend its Annual Celebration, “Changing Lives, Creating Futures,” on Tuesday, April 10. Tickets are available at the YMCA…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will hold a storewide half-price sale from Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24. Hours are Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and…
Obituary
Neil S. Grover, 59, of Boothbay, died peacefully the morning of March 14, 2018 at Lincoln Health Center in Damariscotta.
Neil was the son of the late Betty L’Hostis Sitton, and Dale Grover…
The Rotary Club of Brunswick is now accepting application for the 2018 edition of “Midcoast Maine’s Got Talent!” In its seventh year, this fun and well-attended local talent show will be held on…
The CLC YMCA’s Child Care is welcoming spring and the Easter season with a pancake breakfast and egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at 9 a.m. Infants and kids up to age 10 will have an opportunity to…
First National Bank recently presented Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences with $10,000 for the Bank’s sponsorship of the Keller BLOOM Program.
“First National Bank is honored to support…
Join us at The Lincoln Home for a fun talk, “Gismos and Whatchamacallits,” with John Bottero on Monday, March 26, from 3 to 4 p.m. Do you have something that you always wondered what it…
The 20th annual Leprechaun Leap at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport Island on March 15 saw the most participants ever plunging into the icy surf.
It was a chilly day by March in Maine…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Healthy Kids’ spaghetti dinner on March 21 has been rescheduled and relocated. It will now be held Tuesday, April 10, 5 t0 7 p.m., at the Waldoboro VFW on Mill…
Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends…
Local First Federal Savings Bank employees kept the memory of a former employee alive in February through a fundraiser focused on her love of animals. Anita Hodgdon worked for the Boothbay Harbor…
Boothbay Select Board Chairman Chuck Cunningham explained the circumstances March 14 why a fellow selectman didn’t participate in a recent executive session. The board held one March 8 with a…
Maine’s First Ship is pleased to announce its second annual lecture series on 17th century maritime and colonial history. Four presentations, beginning March 22, focus on shipbuilding, tides,…
At a time of political change, one thing is clear and consistent: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since 2016, when it was founded by the merger of four land and water…
Boothbay Harbor Selectmen
Boothbay Harbor selectmen on March 12 discussed dog control ordinances, town investments and an update on the planning board advisory workgroup.
Selectman and workgroup member Mike Tomko…
The memorial service for Beth G. Conant, scheduled for Sunday, March 18, at 1 p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor, has been postponed. A new date for the service…
Boothbay Region High School
At 10 a.m. Thursday, March 15 – a month and a day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – over 30 Boothbay Region High School students emerged from the…
Probe to include that of 4-year-old Wiscasset girl; Early May report anticipated
AUGUSTA — The Maine Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee (GOC) voted March…
A Boothbay Region High School team placed as a state runner-up March 6 at the 2018 VEX Robotics Championships at Biddeford High School.
A quartet of BRHS students — Hayden Brewer, Connor…
When mindfully engaged with technology like computers and smartphones, we have incredible access to information and one another. However, when not approached with discipline, they can snap up our…
Oxbow Brewing Company will hold its third annual egg hunt on Saturday, March 24 at the farmhouse brewery in Newcastle (274 Jones Woods Road). This year’s event will again raise funds for the Maine…
No fooling, on April 1, Edgecomb will have a new code enforcement officer and licensed plumbing inspector. Selectmen voted 2-0 on March 12 to hire Ken Vinal of Bremen.
Vinal replaces Stan…
Obituary
I died in the evening of December 26, 2017. I was in the Gregory Wing of St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I had the disease my husband and I feared most, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy…
Wiscasset in the American Revolution
Few people know Wiscasset was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a British naval commander and the Sons of Liberty during the American Revolution. Both sides claimed victory afterwards each…
Snow-plowing was a lot tougher back in the good old days. The proof is in the pictures Tammy Shaw Given has been posting on the Jack A. Shaw and Sons Facebook page. Given, the Woolwich’s…
First National Bank recently announced that it has made donations totaling $15,000 to 21 food banks in bank’s market area.
“First National Bank is grateful for the critical services that…
PARKING BAN: Boothbay Harbor - through 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, March 14
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Customers from around the Central Maine Power service area, including some in Lincoln County, were surprised and dismayed to discover their usage on their most recent bill appears to have doubled…
A Boothbay woman got a response from Central Maine Power Co. she’s been waiting nearly two months for. Sherri Brown is one of hundreds of CMP customers frustrated with an apparent spike in their…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD Board of Trustees
In a letter to the parents, guardians and communities of students at Boothbay Region elementary and high schools, Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 Interim Superintendent Bob Webster…
Join us Monday, March 19 from 3 to 4 p.m. to hear Patti Corscaden, licensed massage therapist, discuss the many benefits of therapeutic massage as we age. Patti will demonstrate how massage can…
An annual collaborative luncheon with Y members and the Community Center Walkers will be held Tuesday, March 20, the first day of spring, at noon in the Y Coastal Room.
The Y will offer a…
Obituary
Florence Lillian (Barlow) Haggett died peacefully on March 10, 2018 at the remarkable age of 105.
Born in East Boothbay, Maine on Nov. 13, 1912, she lived in Boothbay Harbor, Maine until…
Lincoln County Courts
The Lincoln County Clerk reported the following closed cases for February. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at Two Bridges Regional Jail.
Christopher Lennon Gilley, 33, of…
Indivisible Boothbay
Looking for answers about the projected changes to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare? On Tuesday, March 27 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., representatives from LincolnHealth, and Boothbay Region…
Obituary
Lorraine (Lemay) Reed, 87, of Boothbay Harbor, died peacefully on March 9, 2018 at her daughter’s home on Southport.
She was born in Lewiston on October 28, 1930, the youngest daughter of…
Starting April 4 online and May 2 in Boothbay Harbor, New Ventures Maine will offer My Next Career Move, a free month-long class to help you take charge of your career and create an action plan to…
Wiscasset Public Library
Jefferson author Kay Hardy Campbell will discuss changing conditions for women in Saudi Arabia at the Wiscasset Public Library March 28, at 5 p.m. The talk, “Saudi Women: Change and Challenge,”…
Obituary
Edward W. DeCosta Jr., 89, of Boothbay, died peacefully on March 7, 2018 at St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor, with his family by his side.
Ed was born on Jan. 5, 1929 in Boothbay Harbor…
Little did she know some 17 years ago when she said “yes,” that stay-at-home mom, Penny Thumith, having no background in retail management , would build the St. Andrews Thrift Store into the…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
As a result of the continued investigation into the March 9 shooting on Clark’s Cove Road in Walpole, Angela Lemire, 39, of Walpole was taken into custody and charged with Domestic Violence…
