The Boothbay region’s giving community spirit came through once again on Monday as over $4,100 was raised for Robbie and Kristen Campbell at Community Lunch. The couple lost their home to a fire…
Editorial
From the assistant editor
That was one long and sometimes unusual presidential election season that ended a few months ago, from a change in the Democratic ticket to an assassination attempt on a former president seeking…
From the editor
The idea for Project Graduation began at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School 45 years ago and locally it has been around for over about four decades. The program was started to bring to light…
From the assistant editor
Coming into this week, it seemed we might any day be needing to ask area school superintendents their game plan, given recent news reports of the possible dismantling of the nation's education…
From the editor
Friday was like a nightmare from the past — the work-at-home COVID past. What was I thinking?!
I decided Friday morning that I wanted to work from home, basically, to just have…
From the assistant editor
As anticipated, there were well more than five good Wiscasset-area things for Wiscasset Newspaper to share in January, the kickoff to a planned year of monthly picks of five good things.
If…
From the editor
At 10:22 a.m. Monday, I did not feel the earthquake which occurred off York harbor while sitting in my chair on the second story at the office. Steve Edwards, who works in the basement, said he…
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
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
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 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…
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…
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 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 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 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
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 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…
From the editor
Another Monday holiday! It kind of slows up our operation when the newspaper goes to press on Tuesday afternoons. Reporters deserve a day off and I took half a day off. Also, there were still some…
From the editor
They are just about everywhere – political signs – and they are juxtaposed against the prettier fall foliage. There are signs for candidates for various offices, sometimes there are signs for or…
From the assistant editor
Our websites in the last week were showing our strides closer, much closer, to their normal caliber, as we also put out another print edition, all with the new system.
Just please do not…
From the editor
My co-workers greeted me Monday morning, asking about the highlights of my 11-day vacation, six days in Omaha, Nebraska, where my wife and I attended our nephew’s rehearsal dinner, wedding and…
From the assistant editor
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an email that misspelled WMHS (Wiscasset Middle High School) as WHMS. And I thought, that’s funny; because, with the HMS, it’s like a ship. It stands for His or Her…
From the assistant editor
Mid-last week, did your Morning Catch emails start to look wonky, showing a beta-like menu instead of the usual, user-friendly headlines and more?
And when you went to our websites, were…
From the editor
In late April, when the Major League Baseball season started, Boston Red Sox fans were hopeful for a playoff spot after two years of finishing last in the American League East. Our hopes remained…
From the editor
Fifty years ago was a pivotal year for me. It was the start of my senior year in high school and deciding how I wanted to get through life – what college to apply to, what to major in, where I…
From the assistant editor
How long does it take to inadvertently prove Wiscasset attracts? As in, it attracts people who don’t live and/or work here and therefore who are in town limits because they want to spend time here…
From the editor
We have a small but talented reporting staff but we can’t always get all the news, all the time, every waking hour of the day. Yes, we do follow Facebook posts where people post immediate news as…
From the assistant editor
As longtime readers and wiscassetnewspaper.com viewers can attest, we cover bigger, ongoing local government news stories pretty wall to wall, like with last year’s principal removal controversy…
From the editor
I don’t know if it is my age or whether it is an avalanche of things I want (or need) to get done, but I took a couple of hours on Sunday to write down a list of “things” to accomplish in the next…
From the assistant editor
You know those days where everything is just busy? Not terrible, just terribly busy. Monday was one for me. Fairly typical, as Monday is the day before we go to press. Plus I had…
From the editor
After witnessing a customer’s verbal abuse of an employee of a business over the weekend, it is shocking to think anyone would do that and require the employee to call in security (and the police…
From the assistant editor
The double s’s in Wiscasset could have stood for Set for Success earlier this month. Another year of…
From the editor
One of our favorite back-to-school commercials was Staples’ take on the Christmas song, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” In it, the Dad loads the shopping cart with glee as the faces of…
From the assistant editor
Several weeks ago, John Merry, Wiscasset schools’ longtime maintenance and transportation director, sent us the school bus schedule and we recently ran it in the print edition. Look for it online…
From the editor
Great news for area fishermen. A plan and construction contract for building Carter’s Wharf on Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay Harbor has been announced. It has been in the planning stage for a little…
