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Bernards bring Carefree Boat Club to Boothbay Harbor

Making a launching happen

The crew of the Charles Winslow tugboat and Washburn & Doughty Shipyard workers spent most of the morning getting ready to launch the new Maine State Ferry, Capt. Richard G. Spear...
Cost questions dominate broadband meeting

Feelings ran high at Southport’s community broadband public hearing at town hall Saturday, April 10. Selectmen’s Chair Gerry Gamage introduced Southport Community Broadband Committee members Nancy...
Owner assessing damage to Wawenock Block

A week after part of the outer wall collapsed, a construction team has been assessing damage to the Wawenock Block, a fixture of Wiscasset’s Main Street for more than a century. No one was injured...
State ferry, Capt. Richard G. Spear, launched at W & D Shipyard

The Maine State Ferry Service's newest vessel, Capt. Richard G. Spear, slid down the ways at Washburn & Doughty Shipyard in East Boothbay and into the Damariscotta River Friday morning,...
Southport to vote on community broadband

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us all in many and varied ways. Not least has been the shift to “remote” – remote learning, remote working, remote family. And for all that remoteness, the world...
Mid-Coast Audubon hosts talk on horseshoe crabs

Mid-Coast Audubon and Camden Public Library will host a free online Zoom presentation on the ecology of horseshoe crabs in the Great Salt Bay on Thursday, April 15 at 6 p.m. To register for the event...
Despite pandemic, key Maine industries poised for continued growth, job creation

Three key sectors of Maine’s economy, agriculture and food production, aquaculture and biopharmaceuticals, are poised for growth and are well-positioned to tap global trends and transform the state’s...
LincolnHealth President Jim Donovan retires

LincolnHealth President and Chief Executive Officer James Donovan retired March 30. Donovan came to LincolnHealth, formerly Lincoln Medical Partners, in 2008 from over 20 years of healthcare...
an enthusiastic and passionate person who can’t say ‘no’ when it comes to plants

Hildy Ellis retires from Knox-Lincoln Soil, Water Conservation District

After 10 years of service as district coordinator promoting conservation and farming in the Midcoast area, Hildy Ellis has retired from the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (KLSWCD...
Ship Ahoy sale pending

The Ship Ahoy property at 112 Cape Newagen Road in Southport is pending sale and owner-to-be Swingbridge Partners is seeking an eight-lot subdivision. Code Enforcement Officer Henry Berne and...
Maine Department of Marine Resources

Despite market challenges, Maine harvesters earn ninth highest value on record

Augusta – Despite unprecedented market losses, Maine fishermen earned over a half billion dollars for their catch in 2020. Valued at $516,796,614, the ex-vessel value of Maine’s commercially...
51 Lincoln County businesses awarded economic recovery grant aid

MIDCOAST — A total of 51 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the second phase of the Maine Economic Recovery Grant Program. The grant program, backed by $200 million in Federal...
Local benefactor offers timber frame course tuition assistance

During a Midcoast Conservancy Timber Frame course at Hidden Valley Nature Center, more than post-and-beam frames are built: partnerships, friendships and new skill sets are regular features of the...