You see why I don’t bet on … anything! Last week’s column is a case in point. I predicted right two out of four NFL games. Fifty percent, and if I bet, I probably would have come out even. So we…
Editorial
From the assistant editor
We cannot take credit for all the good things that have happened around Wiscasset in 2025, since announcing plans here to list five good things per month. Connecting the two would be presumptuous…
From the assistant editor
We cannot take credit for all the good things that have happened around Wiscasset in 2025, since announcing plans here to list five good things per month. Connecting the two would be presumptuous…
From the editor
You see why I don’t bet on … anything! Last week’s column is a case in point. I predicted right two out of four NFL games. Fifty percent, and if I bet, I probably would have come out even. So we…
From the assistant editor
In 2025, look here monthly for five good things that happened in or for Wiscasset or its neighbor towns. Had this idea come in '26, it would have likely been six good things, and still can be then…
From the editor
Between the expanded college football playoff, bowl games and NFL’s 18-week season, and now the divisional round of games this weekend, it has been a busy fall, and now winter, for TV football…
From the assistant editor
In 2025, look here monthly for five good things that happened in or for Wiscasset or its neighbor towns. Had this idea come in '26, it would have likely been six good things, and still can be then…
From the editor
Between the expanded college football playoff, bowl games and NFL’s 18-week season, and now the divisional round of games this weekend, it has been a busy fall, and now winter, for TV football…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset is a foody town, an art lover's town, and many more things, such as with the latest dealership looking likely for Route One, even more of a place to car shop, too. Recent months' and…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset is a foody town, an art lover's town, and many more things, such as with the latest dealership looking likely for Route One, even more of a place to car shop, too. Recent months' and…
From the editor
There was fair warning but the weather in southern Delaware on Monday was a shocker, nonetheless. Eight to 12 inches of snow fell on a state that doesn’t normally get that much snow in one fell…
From the editor
There was fair warning but the weather in southern Delaware on Monday was a shocker, nonetheless. Eight to 12 inches of snow fell on a state that doesn’t normally get that much snow in one fell…
From the assistant editor
Where are you? Who are you?
I know there is only one Tom Brady, like only one Tiger Woods or Big Papi, or Michelle Kwan, but there is always the next great one, to inspire their generation…
The morning news sometimes gives me ideas for this column. Early Monday, WGME Channel 13 had a nationally generated segment on how learning a new hobby (the spot featured arts and crafts) could…
From the assistant editor
Where are you? Who are you?
I know there is only one Tom Brady, like only one Tiger Woods or Big Papi, or Michelle Kwan, but there is always the next great one, to inspire their generation…
The morning news sometimes gives me ideas for this column. Early Monday, WGME Channel 13 had a nationally generated segment on how learning a new hobby (the spot featured arts and crafts) could…
From the editor
Wow, 2024 is almost over! Was it good for you? Did you experience happiness or stress? You probably experienced both.
The presidential election, perhaps a health issue, the weather – those…
From the assistant editor
May 2025 bring more of the fun, community-bonding experiences that come from friends having ideas and sowing them, like the pet candidate posters in Wiscasset during 2024's election season and, on…
From the assistant editor
May 2025 bring more of the fun, community-bonding experiences that come from friends having ideas and sowing them, like the pet candidate posters in Wiscasset during 2024's election season and, on…
From the editor
Wow, 2024 is almost over! Was it good for you? Did you experience happiness or stress? You probably experienced both.
The presidential election, perhaps a health issue, the weather – those…
From the editor
This column was originally published last December but I am revisiting it again here just before Christmas because I feel it has a good message.
Christmastime, as a kid, is an…
From the editor
This column was originally published last December but I am revisiting it again here just before Christmas because I feel it has a good message.
Christmastime, as a kid, is an…
From the editor
For those who do not know what the Hot Stove League, as it is called, is about, it is the discussion about the off-season trade and free agent signing possibilities, mostly through the press and…
From the assistant editor
Last week, Alna selectmen stopped their in-person and Zoom meeting about an hour and a half in, because the Internet went out. Monday, when Wiscasset's planning board chair could not get Zoom…
From the assistant editor
Last week, Alna selectmen stopped their in-person and Zoom meeting about an hour and a half in, because the Internet went out. Monday, when Wiscasset's planning board chair could not get Zoom…
From the editor
For those who do not know what the Hot Stove League, as it is called, is about, it is the discussion about the off-season trade and free agent signing possibilities, mostly through the press and…
From the editor
Larry Brown could not have picked more worthy honorees to blow whistles to start the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning.
Longtime area residents Dave Parkhurst, Mike Harrison and Clayton…
From the assistant editor
Every year in Maine's Prettiest Village, one of the warmest moments comes on a cold or somewhat cold evening: the tree lighting. For small town or any town nostalgia and holiday and community…
From the editor
Larry Brown could not have picked more worthy honorees to blow whistles to start the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning.
Longtime area residents Dave Parkhurst, Mike Harrison and Clayton…
From the assistant editor
Every year in Maine's Prettiest Village, one of the warmest moments comes on a cold or somewhat cold evening: the tree lighting. For small town or any town nostalgia and holiday and community…
From the editor
It has been about 50 years since I was first introduced to the Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund. Being part of a large family, my parents were not in a financial situation where they could help…
From the assistant editor
The only people who will like this are those who mostly revile winter instead of reveling it. I’m pretty sure this is an annual apology on my part to those among us who plow and/or play in or on…
From the assistant editor
The only people who will like this are those who mostly revile winter instead of reveling it. I’m pretty sure this is an annual apology on my part to those among us who plow and/or play in or on…
From the editor
It has been about 50 years since I was first introduced to the Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund. Being part of a large family, my parents were not in a financial situation where they could help…
From the assistant editor
So, in last week's school committee meeting, some pretty stunning things were said about last month's propane incident at Wiscasset Middle High School. And while no workplace or any place is a…
From the editor
As we head toward Thanksgiving when family and guests gather for a meal, it is inevitable that conversations happen while you wait for the turkey, duck, goose, ham, or whatever protein you are…
From the assistant editor
So, in last week's school committee meeting, some pretty stunning things were said about last month's propane incident at Wiscasset Middle High School. And while no workplace or any place is a…
From the editor
As we head toward Thanksgiving when family and guests gather for a meal, it is inevitable that conversations happen while you wait for the turkey, duck, goose, ham, or whatever protein you are…
From the editor
Public and private events celebrating the holiday season are beginning this week – see public listings in our calendar, ads and articles. There are Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas lights being…
In 2024, you might think when people learn of domestic violence they would, by now, be beyond asking why the victim doesn't leave or, if the victim was slain, why he or she didn't leave if their…
From the editor
Public and private events celebrating the holiday season are beginning this week – see public listings in our calendar, ads and articles. There are Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas lights being…
In 2024, you might think when people learn of domestic violence they would, by now, be beyond asking why the victim doesn't leave or, if the victim was slain, why he or she didn't leave if their…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset was already on a roll this fall, with Town Manager Dennis Simmons's getting a leadership award from his peers statewide and Wiscasset Elementary School's Becky Hallowell's being named…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset was already on a roll this fall, with Town Manager Dennis Simmons's getting a leadership award from his peers statewide and Wiscasset Elementary School's Becky Hallowell's being named…
From the assistant editor
What do you see, in an old tree?
Its mighty limbs outstretched to a fellow tree, making an archway at least as sturdy and beautiful as a person could make, or upstretched straight into the…
From the editor
Congratulations to my fellow employees for their awards won at the Maine Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest dinner in Bar Harbor on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Having been here at…
From the editor
Congratulations to my fellow employees for their awards won at the Maine Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest dinner in Bar Harbor on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Having been here at…
From the assistant editor
What do you see, in an old tree?
Its mighty limbs outstretched to a fellow tree, making an archway at least as sturdy and beautiful as a person could make, or upstretched straight into the…
