Clamshell Quilters will be meeting on Monday, March 11 at Faith Baptist Church, Mills Road, Newcastle. We will get together at 2 p.m. Help with a community service project, or work on a project of…

For years, patients and advocates have blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) for pushing and promoting outdated…

The 2019 Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is now behind us. We had great fun birding and send in our sightings to online. Some of our favorite memories of this year’s GBBC: the 5,000+ crows we…

Sometimes we would rather hide under the bed than face the onslaught of bad news that pours from our newspapers, television and the Internet.

Much of it comes from stories involving awful…

I’m so excited to say congratulations to our beloved Lady Seahawks. I’m hoping to be up to snuff by next Saturday so we can head to Bangor to watch them in person. Tip off time is 7:05 p.m.

As best I can tell, Alan Williams has never been far from an internal combustion engine. Exhaust fumes are part of his DNA. Every variety of vehicle imaginable has been tried out, driven, tuned or…

The next meeting of the Garden Club of Wiscasset will be on March 7 at the First Congregational Church, 28 High St. in Wiscasset. Our flower design practice is at 11 a.m. and the theme this month…

The term, Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), was initially introduced by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) as a research definition. However, it has been conflated with…

Mindfulness birding. That’s how we are describing the Maine Big Year we have decided to try to do in 2019. If you never saw the movie “The Big Year” then you may not know that the premise of a “…

Artists have been painting, drawing and sculpting the human form for centuries. Why?

Michelangelo said, “He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture…

Now I'm going to show off a little of my new found nautical knowledge.

The “car,” as I have come to learn from my times photographing with the gang on the Ernestina-Morrissey and…

Hope everyone is enjoying February vacation week. Thank you to all teachers and staff. If you’re lucky enough to be in a warmer climate, I hope you’re sucking up some well-deserved vitamin C. If…

Dear Governor,

I know you just moved into your new job, and have a lot on your plate, what with the Legislature and all that entails.

We all know it is a big job with lots of…

The monthly meeting of the Pemaquid Chapter of the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution was called to order at 11:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the Library of the Lincoln Home in Newcastle.…

We birders are always looking for an excuse to do more birding. This is true even in the cold midwinter, at least up here in Maine. So you might be delighted to know that the Great Backyard Bird…

It is no secret that declining school enrollments are forcing educators to embrace changes that would have been heresy in years past.

For example, the Maine Principals Association has…

I’m really excited to share this recipe with all of you. First I want to thank all the people who reached out to Richard and me with the passing of my wonderful mother-in-law Mary and my beautiful…

Sometimes its a little challenging to gather information about people. I mean, good, clear important stuff that can be shared safely. It’s easy to slip up and generally likely that someone will…

A while ago there was a very funny YouTube clip making the rounds. It showed a teenager trying to use a rotary dial phone but the young man had no clue how to use the equipment.

I was…

If you are struggling and feeling hopeless, please read this.

I just got off the phone with a 29-year-old woman who has two young children and…

I remember the night a carload of us went to the movies in East Hartford to see “The Last Waltz.” It was 1978. And we loved The Band. We still love The Band, I say “we” still although I…

First, I want to congratulate The Patriots. Super Bowl win #6; not a very exciting game but a slow boring game win is better than a pretty loss.

The bird didn’t know it was special, but hundreds of people who traveled to see it — and the millions more who heard about it in the news — sure did. It didn’t know that thousands of photos of it…

In elementary school classrooms, we used wooden chairs that were fastened to the floor. On the back metal frame of the seat, a simple flat wooden board created the desktop for the next seat behind…

“Just last week, I saw a patient with an adult deer tick embedded in their lower back” said one of the Midcoast Lyme literate medical providers. “We removed the tick and sent it off to Tickreport.…

Ahhh fairy tales … man they sure could scare the bejesus out of you! Especially the ones by those Grimm Brothers … And yet, as a kid I couldn’t stop reading them and I’ll bet many of you out there…

February is National Wild Bird Feeding Month, and chances are you celebrating—sort of, if you, like us, are among the 50 million Americans who maintain wild birder feeders. What a great way to…

I was hammer drilling a deeper hole for the sump pump in my wife’s mother’s house on West Street the other day, and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to make a living. I have put…

Last week, the biting wind and slippery ice forced our early morning walking group (OFEBB - no website, no twitter or Instagram — get over it) to play hooky for two days.

Keith Carson…

I’m writing about doing my part for our local Coast Guard Station. When the government had a partial shutdown and it affected our peninsula, I knew like many others, Paul Coulombe had given the…

The Garden Club of Wiscasset will have its monthly meeting on Thursday, Feb. 7 beginning at 11 a.m. at the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, 28 High St. Anyone interested in gardening,…

Hello to all the wonderful people. I hope everyone had a good week. My week was warm and enjoyable. Dana, Evie and I had an awesome adventure. I can check off my bucket list swimming with the pigs…

Last Saturday night, a couple hundred of your friends and neighbors gathered together for a hometown church supper.

It was advertised to begin at 5 p.m., and of course, at 4:30, folks…

We’ve always thought that the canvasback was one well-named duck. The male canvasback does indeed look as if it has a piece of new, white canvas draped across its back. The white back provides a…

Allan Walton did not start painting until he was almost five years old! He grew up in Dixfield Maine. He probably didn’t know then that art would become the focus of most things he did, and he has…

With freezing temperatures and frigid wind chills, thinking about ticks, tick-borne disease or even prevention isn’t something on most people’s minds. For me, it is all I ever think about because…

We rubbed elbows with Caitlin before she was born. In 1988, we attended a group Lamaze class at Miles hospital. Pregnant moms and nervous dads gathered to learn more about the birthing process. We…

The holidays are over, the snow is falling, and the north wind is whistling around the side of the garage. Winter is officially here.

On Friday, we were about to set up the card table for…

When the weather’s not too frigid, winter is a good time to get outdoors  …  or at least to your car! But, instead of being bound for one of your usual haunts – the grocery, laundromat, Rite Aid,…

If you’re like us, these long, cold winter nights may sometimes find you gazing at photos from warmer seasons and visits to warmer climes. Perhaps, like us, many of those photos are of flowers,…

In 1964 a coalition of concerned scientists established a new way of trying to assess the state of the world’s plants and animals. It was called the International Union for Conservation of Nature’…

The popular folk-rock hit from 1965 by The Byrds, “Turn Turn Turn,” reminds us that there is a time for every purpose under heaven.

A time to be born, a time to die
A…

GPS (Global Positioning System) is everywhere. The sky is full of objects looking down on us. It can tell us where we are when we don’t know. It can tell us our destination before we get there. It…

Hard to believe it’s 2019. I hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year. Mine was very quiet. I was in bed by 8 p.m.

Lots of people always jump on the bandwagon after the new year with…

As the latest edition of the Maine Legislature begins to find its way through the weeds, the legislators and lobbyists can hear the dreaded “T-Word” whispered in the hallways. Of course, the…

For many years now, Republicans in Augusta have worked hard on behalf of Maine citizens, and I am proud to report that our hard work has paid off.

We are entering the New Year in a great…

Over the holidays, I learned an important lesson about physical safety and the value of time.

It was at a crowded airport in the south, and I was trying to get on a flight to come home…

As we begin the year 2019, we have decided to do something that may become a tradition for us as it is for many writers and organizations: share the list of our own picks for the top 5 bird…

On any given day the Southport to Boothbay Harbor drive occurs. Almost always, at least one trip per day, sometimes many, seldom never.

It’s not a long journey, but it’s where all the…

As we tiptoe into 2019, the Boothbay region faces two major problems and neither involves the east side of the harbor.

Our immediate task is the question of what to do with our school…