The next meeting of the Garden Club of Wiscasset is Thursday, March 5 at First Congregational Church in Fellowship Hall, 28 High St., Wiscasset. If Wiscasset schools are closed for snow, our…

If you are a regular reader of the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper, chances are you’re reading this online and not in the print edition of the newspapers. This isn’t surprising, more and…

We looked out our kitchen window this morning and saw six cedar waxwings. We hadn’t seen any around our neighborhood since last fall. These six were sitting in our crabapple tree, hungrily eyeing…

If you participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), congratulations! You have contributed to researchers’ understanding of bird distribution and abundance. If you live in Lincoln County,…

On Feb. 11 and 12, the Center for Lyme Action held its first ever DC Fly-in, with over 60 advocates from around the United States coming together to recognize not only the work of the advocates…

As you all know I’m not much of a baker but I made this pineapple upside down cake from the recipe provided by Lori Bailey. I did change some things because I had a different nut and I had…

For as long as we have lived here, we have collected pot buoys. They float onshore everywhere.

When I first lived in Maine at “Treasure Island” on Little…

Got live if you want it – no, I’m not referring to the Rolling Stones’ album. I’m talking about live theater. And we’ve got a particularly diverting, witty, supernatural show coming up in Bath.…

Here are a few random thoughts that popped into my head on a snowy day as I waited for my bride's special blueberry muffins to come out of the oven.

We lost two stalwart volunteer…

On the road to all-renewable power, Maine is moving like a car near the base of a long, snowy hill. It’s accelerating now, knowing it may lose momentum and traction in the ascent. One icy patch…

On Saturday, April 11, Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) will be hosting their sixth annual MLDSE conference at the Augusta Civic Center and, as always, admission is free. Free…

I really wanted to do something easy and fun for Valentine’s Day. Lori Bailey’s pineapple upside down cake will be next week. I made it and it was to die for. Great recipe, my friend.

With…

We are gaining daylight, I think, finally.

You’d think after all these years that I would be a little more accustomed to the lack of winter daylight, but I'…

I shared a boatload of memories with old friends Saturday at the wake for Hilary Heaton, a legendary East Boothbay restaurateur, and proud World War II Marine.

It was a celebration of the…

We had a sudden influx of potato chip birds over the weekend. By “potato chip birds” we mean American goldfinches. We gave them the affectionate nickname because, when they fly, they make a call…

This is an introduction to a bi-weekly column I’ll be writing for the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper. Some of you who are regular readers might recognize my name since I’ve been a frequent…

OK, first I want to say I was going to do a pineapple upside down cake … a recipe that Lori Bailey sent me. I’ve been down and out with influenza, most commonly called the flu. Wow, it has beat me…

I want to start off by thanking you for reading my column each week and thanking the newspapers for giving me this platform to reach so many readers with information about Lyme and tick-borne…

We have written a number of times in the past few years about the incredible foresight and persistence of people here in the U.S. and Canada who cared about birds and the environment a century ago…

Last week, we watched the nation’s leaders as they tried to solve the ultimate political puzzle.

Our TV sets pictured elected officeholders dancing around the question of impeachment of a…

Now honestly, who wouldn't want to have lunch with this lovely young lady? There were people lined up into the hall at the elementary school waiting to be greeted and served by…

There was an interesting concurrence involving chaplains recently when two historical events took place: the Senate impeachment trial and the national observance of Four Chaplains Day on Feb. 3.…

One of us (Jeff) had the opportunity to visit a special country this past week, a country where many of Maine’s breeding birds spend the winter. That country is Colombia, where National Audubon…

This is going to be one easy, delicious, gluten-free, and healthy dish. Key thing is to have a well-seasoned cast iron frying pan, an inexpensive cut of meat, fresh spinach and cheese (any kind of…

I got an email from Mark “Village Troubadour” Stover last week letting me know that there was a launching at Washburn & Doughty. Liz Richmond, a welder at W & D texted me too. They both…

The circus came to Boothbay this week.

No, there was no big top, huge elephants, snarling tigers, or daring high wire walkers.

Instead, on a bright Sunday afternoon, Boothbay…

The night sky: Who doesn’t enjoy looking up at the stars musing about the distance between them and us? Imagining what civilizations from pre-historic times forward thought when seeing what we…

Tree swallows are a sign of spring for many of us here in Maine. We eagerly await their return on the first extended run of days with strong, warm southerly winds. Sometimes that can bring…

This past weekend, I celebrated five years and nine months of being in full remission from late stage neurological Lyme disease complicated by four other tick-borne disease, Babesia, Bartonella,…

Wicked cold snap … not liking it much myself.

Co-ed Saturday morning basketball at the YMCA is done for another year. Watching the growth of all of the kiddos is so awesome to watch. I…

It appears that more winter-like weather has arrived here on the peninsula. So far, since just before Thanksgiving, we have had mixed signals from our well seasoned delivery…

Pigette stands alone,
Watching snow plows cover her,
Spring can’t come too soon.

With all that is going on in Washington and the bitter TV battle being…

I wrote the following article in 1989. Any updates are within bracketed sentences.

We've all lost or broken family heirlooms. When it happens, it seems a trust is broken and that…

Winter is upon us and with temperatures plummeting in many areas, keeping the heat on is critical — a fact that scammers try to take advantage of. Each winter, utility scams spike as con artists…

We hope you recall our 2019 pursuit of a Maine Mindfulness Big…

I’ve realized over many years of photographing that there can be a wide range of reaction to any given subject. One person’s meat can be another person’s poison, to paraphrase an…

I ran into Pat Farrin in East Boothbay the other day. He was riding a powerful yellow excavator doing its level best to buck him off and pitch him down a muddy hillside.

Pat and his son…

Hope everyone is keeping up with this crazy weather. Saturday it was over 50 degrees in January. I was very fortunate to have the time for a nice long walk. It was an absolutely gorgeous day ……

What is it about B&W photos and films that grabs us? I know it’s not just me who adores them. For me it’s because B&W images have a timeless element about them. B&W also adds super…

With new cases of tick-borne disease being reported, more stories of suffering and misdiagnosis are coming to the surface and the common denominator is this ~ ticks do not discriminate. They have…

Last fall the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) surpassed one million total members who have joined the organization since its founding in 1890. The DAR is a women’s…

The recent news reports about thefts from parked cars makes me wonder if a criminal gang that was active in other states a few years ago has started to operate in Maine.

Known as the “…

It is one of the “holy grails” of winter birding. Even if you’ve seen this bird before, it’s a species you hope for whenever you find yourself peering out to sea, eyes tearing up in the icy wind,…

“Hindsight is 20/20” is a saying coined from the mid-1900s, a phrase meaning the clarity that someone has about their past decisions and/or actions. It’s the act of looking back over something and…

I watch the weather. Not in the same way some of my fishing folk friends do as they track the temperatures, winds, wind directions and weather-related sea activities. They have a…

You might say there was a lot of news last week.

I am not talking about the assassination of the Iranian big shot/bad guy that threw the Middle East/Europe and much of the rest of the…

In our house things tend to happen spontaneously or not at all. I mean, it’s not like we don’t plan, but it’s just that what we plan never seems to happen in a “normal” way.

For example.…

It was a gorgeous post-Christmas winter day along the coast of Maine. The air was in the crisp but not terribly cold 20s. The sun was shining; the air and sea were calm. All was still as we gazed…