The 26th annual Boothbay Charities Classic auction and golf tournament raised $50,000 for Special Olympics Maine. The tournament was held at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club on Saturday, Sept. 24…
News
Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) welcomes guest speaker, Patti Corscaden to its Wiscasset Lyme Support meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 6 to 8…
The holidays are just around the corner, the evenings are drawing in and all over Maine craftspeople and artists are preparing for the busiest shopping season of the year. As in…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
A Wiscasset woman has been charged with the importation and sale of heroin in the Wiscasset area. These charges are the result of an ongoing investigation by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office…
United Way of Mid Coast Maine, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, kicked off its fall campaign with a theme of “60 Years and Counting!” Attendees at the Kick-off…
An 11-year-old Boothbay girl passionate about animals is going to care for two mules on her parents’ Adams Pond Road property. Nora Conlin requested an animal breeding and care permit during the…
Come to the 26th annual Boothbay Charities Classic sports auction at the Boothbay Railway Village, Wiscasset Road, Boothbay on Friday, Sept. 23 and find some good…
Department of Marine Resources
An out-of-state visitor recently became ill with Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacteria living in the Damariscotta River and in other brackish water, which infects oysters and hard-shelled…
Graveside services for Frances A. Murray of Boothbay Harbor, who died Aug. 23, 2016, will be held Saturday, Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. at Gracelawn Memorial Park, 980 Turner Street, Auburn, Maine.
Town of Damariscotta
Biscay Road in Damariscotta will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. for pipe repair in the area between Hagar’s and Colby and Gale.
The road is the major artery…
Midcoast Conservancy will be awarded $127,478 to correct erosion and runoff issues which threaten to pollute the vulnerable water quality of Damariscotta Lake.…
The Boothbay Region YMCA, in collaboration with Hannaford, will be collecting food for the Boothbay Region Food Pantry during its next "Fill the Bus" event on Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 1 to 6 p.m. in…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett asked county commissioners to table the contract with the Addiction Resource Center for another couple of weeks while he looks into the costs and benefits of a…
The Memory Garden at St. Andrews Village will be the location for this year’s community-wide Remembrance Gathering on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10 a.m.
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Sarah Sherman McGrail’s got her start writing about the experiences of veterans by convincing her own father, a forward observer in the U.S. Army in North Africa and Italy during World War II, to…
A makeup session for mandatory Vibrio parahaemolyticus training will be held at the Maine Department of Marine Resources, 194 McKown Point Road, West Boothbay Harbor from 1-3 p.m., Friday, Sept.…
Southport selectmen awarded a paving contract and signed agreements with a local nonprofit corporation at their meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Hagar Enterprises, Inc. of Damariscotta was…
Obituary
Carol Painter Hussa, 93, of Queensbury, New York, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, died peacefully Sept. 20, 2016, after a long illness.
Carol was born September 4, 1923, in Haverford,…
Lincoln County Recovery Collaborative
A group of about 30 turned out at Damariscotta Town Hall on Monday, Sept. 19, to learn how they might volunteer to help people suffering from addiction.
The meeting was called by the new…
According to the municipal website, the Sept. 28 Boothbay selectmen’s meeting will held at 7 p.m. in the Boothbay Region YMCA gymnasium. The board meeting will be preceded with a public hearing on…
Bernard Patterson was a decorated Vietnam War veteran who got away with $177,000 in a 1971 bank robbery in his hometown of Mars Hill, and then escaped to Europe to…
Concerned about someone with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s? You're invited to join a conversation about dementia and Alzheimer's led by Mark Pechenik of the Maine Chapter of the Alzheimer's…
Harbor Fest organizer Lori Reynolds has announced the final fundraising numbers for various events held during the Sept. 2-11 festival.
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Obituary
Muriel “Mickey’’ Alice Yereance, 91, of Newcastle, formerly of Boothbay Harbor and Southport, died peacefully Sept. 19, 2016 at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, surrounded by her family…
Boothbay Harbor Police arrested two local men for the armed robbery of another man in a Boothbay Harbor hotel in the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 18. Police arrested Jeff Cusumano, 55, of Edgecomb…
West Harbor Pond
With help from the Boothbay Harbor Sewer District, local residents and Maine Department of Transportation got an inside look at the broken siphon that once carried salt water between West Harbor…
St. Andrew’s Design Showhouse and Glimpse of Glidden Street is only a week away. Interior designers and others are painting and arranging rooms in the church’s…
Summer workers who are ready to return the bicycles they used this summer to the Rotary Club may do so at Oak Street Provisions at 43 Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor. Deposits will be refunded for…
Town of Newcastle and Maine Department of Transportation
The Newcastle Board of Selectmen agreed to postpone a meeting on Sherman Marsh in order to have more time to get out notice of the meeting.
The meeting will now take place on Monday, Oct. 3…
The Boothbay Region High School class of 1966 held its 50th reunion Sept. 17 at Mr. C’s in Boothbay Harbor. We had a great turnout with classmates traveling from as far as Nebraska, Washington,…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
The Friends of the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library held their 2016 annual meeting, Monday, Sept. 12 in the Library Great Room, following the regular monthly board…
Obituary
Robert Noble “Bob” Frazer, 95, died peacefully at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough on Sept. 16, 2016.
Bob was…
Four citizens from the Boothbay peninsula have been the anchors of the Lincoln County Democratic party for many years.
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While the lobster stock in Maine remains healthy and continues to grow, managing the future of the $300 million industry requires more than traditional science. In February, the Department of…
The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor downtown areas will have an extra splash of color this holiday season. The Joint Economic Development Committee has unveiled plans for the first Boothbay Festival of…
On Friday, Sept. 23, the Boothbay Charities Classic is proud to host the 26th annual Lobster Bake and Live Sports Auction. This event will kick off the events of the weekend starting at 4 p.m.…
Elaine Jones received distinguished recognition by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment with a 2016 Visionary Award in June. The recipients of this annual award are selected for…
Stories about restaurants opening and closing in the small town of Boothbay Harbor always generate a lot of interest and curiosity. Lots of old ones have closed and new…
More than 30 members and guests participated in the Crazy Container Challenge at this month's Boothbay Region Garden Club meeting at St Columba's Church in Boothbay Harbor on Wednesday, Sept. 14…
The Boothbay selectmen will ask one more time for FairPoint Communications and Central Maine Power to remove old, broken unused utility poles before denying future requests for replacement permits…
Obituary
Carol E. (Barker) Nadeau, 76, died Sept. 18, 2016 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
She was born March 22, 1940 in Bucksport, Maine to the late Richard and Julia (Gerrish) Barker…
Obituary
Ernestine “Tina” M. Moison, 98, of Bath, formerly of Woolwich, died peacefully Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 at the Bodwell House in Brunswick with her…
Lincoln County Emergency Management
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency held an open house for aspiring ham radio operators on Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Communications Center in Wiscasset.
More than two dozen people…
On Saturday, Sept. 19, Navy World War II veteran Ken Bergquist received duplicates of medals he hadn’t seen in more than 50 years.
Bergquist, a native of Boothbay Harbor, signed up for the…
Obituary
Ethel Cecile Stover, 83, of Sand Hill Road, Wiscasset died Sept. 10, 2016. The daughter of Paul J. McCarthy and Helen Pappas Hume, she was born in Hartford, Connectitut moving to…
Rising Tide Community Market recently donated to two local nonprofit organizations through its Co-ops for Community Day program, in which .5 percent of Wednesday sales are allocated to a different…
Car Care is a free, 21-point inspection of cars being provided by Boothbay Baptist Church on Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 a.m. to noon. It is an outreach…
Portland Business and Consumer Court
Rebecca Abbott waited Sept. 16 while her small excavator was loaded onto the back of a flatbed truck to be removed from the land she and her husband Derek had owned for more than seven years. They…
The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum at 97 Cross Road in Alna has received a…
Obituary
Ingeborg Katharina Soule (nee Albrecht) died Sept. 15, 2016.
She was born in Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse, Germany on Oct. 27, 1927 to Heinrich and Paula Albrecht. She grew up amid the turmoil…
