Congratulations to the fall sports athletes at BRHS and WMHS for showing up and giving your best, despite having short rosters. It is nice to see some of the Seahawks and Wolverines competing…
Editorial
From the editor
I do a lot of reading, both on the job and for pleasure. This summer, I read three fictional novels; fiction takes me to a different place, away from the “real” world we all deal with day to day.…
From the assistant editor
Fun in many forms is heading Wiscasset’s way this fall, and heading the way of anyone who chooses to put Maine’s prettiest village in their fall plans: The town, businesspeople and others who live…
From the assistant editor
Driving the other night, as close to nightfall as it gets before falling, an epic scenic view surprised me on the left. Fog covered Albee Farm on Route 218 next to Alna Cemetery and, above the fog…
From the editor
Three cheers for the Boothbay Railway Village offering its green to the Farmers Market for the final four Thursday markets of the season, Sept. 19 and 26, and Oct. 3 and 10. Work is being done on…
From the assistant editor
Way to go, Wiscasset student-athletes for joining Boothbay Region High School’s cross-country roster. As we’ve maintained here before, the two high schools working together can help both. For the…
From the editor
Last year at this time, my wife, Melodee, and I had to deal with a heartbreaking situation. On Sept. 1, 2018, we had to have our 6-year-old Labradoodle, Ruby, put down.
We are not looking…
From the assistant editor
The other day, three people were taking their pictures at the “Welcome to Wiscasset: The Prettiest Village in Maine” sign. Always great to see people just happy to be here, whether here is the…
From the editor
Did you read the Washington Post article about Maine's aging population which started with the headline, "'This will be catastrophic'?"
It is pretty scary. The numbers don't lie and let's…
From the assistant editor
Last week’s editorial touched on how the people of our region have responded to mass killings in our nation, and this week I’ll explain the choice to put a…
From the editor
Is life not worth living anymore? Why are people killing people and what good does it do if you kill someone, or many innocent people? You either get killed shortly afterwards, you chicken out and…
From the assistant editor
I was going to do my usual cheerleading. After all, it’s a beautiful time of year on our beautiful Midcoast. It still will be next week.
Let’s take a moment to talk about our nation’s…
From the editor
It was suggested that I continue my Cheers and Jeers column, which I resurrected last week, each week. It is a good suggestion, but I think it may get a bit stale after a while. I will bring it to…
From the assistant editor
About a week ago, a century-old dam, a decades-old diner and a meetinghouse still standing after nearly a quarter of a millennium, all kept hanging onto the Earth as always, through our planet’s…
From the editor
Fourteen months ago, I had a column entitled Cheers & Jeers. I explained that Cheers & Jeers was a feature I remembered from the days of reading TV Guide. The magazine picked out the good…
From the assistant editor
A dollar a day doesn’t go far, much less one a year. On a sale or lease, it’s a token to help document a deal.
I like the fine arts, all of them, some more than others. My associate’s…
From the editor
No, I'm not writing about Jackie Bradley Jr.'s latest highlight, or one of the most memorable putouts in baseball history, Willie Mays' over the shoulder grab while on the dead run.
But…
From the assistant editor
Some weeks, we are practically singing with good news online and on these pages; and this week, some of it is ours.
On our websites, Facebook and now on our front page of this week’s print…
From the editor
Family reunions are the best. At least in my family they are. I have a huge family. There were 55 of us – dads, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, significant others, girlfriends…
From the editor
Enjoy it while it's here.
Summer, the great equalizer to one's mood after months of cold, wet and cool weather — and a business's bottom line — has finally arrived and we're loving it.…
From the assistant editor
When I scrap an editorial for one good reason or another, one source of quick inspiration is to see what special day, week or month is upon us.
To wit:…
From the assistant editor
Five years ago this week, Wiscasset went independent on education. July 1, 2014 was the town's first day outside Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12.
How's it going?
OK and,…
From the editor
We hope everyone enjoyed the 57th edition of Windjammer Days last week. Personally, I didn't get to a lot of the activities due to work and doing things with our son, brother-in-law/wife's brother…
From the assistant editor
Keep a good thing going.
Wiscasset and Boothbay Region schools have tried a bunch of times in recent years to band together on sports teams, sometimes successfully. Cross-country, soccer…
Our assistant editor, Susan Johns, makes a good point in her editorial this week. Boothbay and Wiscasset high schools should continue trying to work together to salvage sports teams before they…
From the assistant editor
Friends of Wiscasset Village's Orange Barrel Festival idea sounds like a hoot, embracing the weirdness of what we've all been driving, walking, or biking through this spring, and celebrating the…
From the editor
For those who have never been here in the Boothbay or Wiscasset region, welcome! It is now summer and there's lots to do, including next week's 57th annual Windjammer Days Festival in Boothbay…
From the editor
Happy early Father's Day to you, Dad, and to all the men I know who are fathers. We, like mothers, are honored with a national holiday. According to the National Days Calendar, "In 1966, President…
From the assistant editor
Some of the nicest bouquets have a mix of flowers and, since this was a super busy week with graduation and a lot of other, mostly good news, I offer just a spring mix of mentions:
…
From the assistant editor
Did you help build the McCain?
Did a loved one or someone else you know? Were they among the thousands of Mainers (read: Americans) who built it for our Navy at Bath Iron Works?…
From the editor
After thousands of high school seniors receive their graduation diploma this spring, many will get ready for the next phase of their lives; it may be college, the military, travel or just showing…
From the editor
There were a lot of positive observances as I traveled around the region this past week. Here are some you might relate to:
Leaves on the trees, and grass and flowers growing so speedily…
From the assistant editor
It wasn't the infamous take-out coffee cup in "Game of Thrones," but a word that found its way into a video interview Friday was ironic: "Lost."
…
From the assistant editor
To look at, live near, or sail it, kayak, fish, or cool off in it, Midcoast Mainers are drawn to the water. For some, it's why they're here, or here this time of year.
May is National…
From the editor
My longtime friend Munro Dodge, who moved from Boothbay Harbor to Boothbay a couple of years ago, grew up in East Boothbay.
Some of you may not know it, but many of you know he is a true…
From the assistant editor
The Midcoast's recurring strings of dark, chilly and often rainy days this spring have made the sunny Saturdays of late all the more welcome. Timing can be everything, for sports, fundraisers and…
From the editor
I hope you have noticed that when I title my column, Three things, I am usually on a tight schedule or have not thought about writing on one topic. I hope you don’t mind.
The first of “…
From the assistant editor
Reading of the latest school shooting, Tuesday in Denver, involving student gunmen, and the child suicide statistics Gov. Janet Mills cited earlier this week in bringing back the Children's…
From the editor
I'm leaving the Patriots out because it's only May and some of us are still smiling from witnessing another Super Bowl victory three months ago.
But it has been a busy month for my TV…
From the assistant editor
Can you hear it?
This spring's growing chorus of area town officials talking comprehensive plans means at least three things: If the towns commit to the reviews, massive work awaits; that…
From the editor
Kindness appears out of the blue most times. You see it happening all around almost on a daily basis, especially if you look close enough.
Fortunately for me these past two weeks (and…
From the assistant editor
Can you picture your favorite local summer event without the volunteers? How about the rest of the year’s? I couldn’t think of any that would be what they are, if they would happen at all. And…
From the editor
I don't pretend to be a techie. I've learned on the run since our website expanded from a seed to a mighty oak but I am still on the first set of branches when it comes to knowing processes, terms…
From the assistant editor
Summer is coming.
That play on a buzz phrase from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” might give you the wrong idea. I’ve never watched the epic show. It looks well done, but I’ll take my soap operas…
From the assistant editor
You know who you are.
You love it here, but have the good sense to fly or drive south before the first icy wind foretells the season of the white sky, with its six months of snow and total…
From the editor
OK, Rick Charette, you're going to get what you love. Charette, Maine's longtime children's singer-songwriter, wrote the popular song, "I Love Mud." Well, maybe he doesn't love mud but we are…
From the assistant editor
One of the hardest parts to observe in a homicide trial can be the autopsy review. The medical examiner speaks in extensive detail and we include some of that detail in our coverage, because we…
From the editor
April 7-13 is National Library Week.
So, I must admit, I can't remember the last time I "used" our library's resources. Lord knows, I like to read, but I am not a voracious reader. Perhaps…
From the assistant editor
It has been good having Chris Cooper back moderating Alna's annual town meetings after a hiatus. I've only ever seen competent moderators there and elsewhere, but with resident Cooper, you could…
From the editor
Do you have earworm? Earworm, which I only recently discovered as a real word, is a term for songs that you can't get out of your head because of their catchy melody or repeated stanzas.
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