Have you seen the signs around our towns?

Bump.

There are more bumps, or frost heaves, than signs, but any warning beats none.

If you slow down, you can avoid your back…

I have had many regular summer visitors in the office over the years, bringing in news releases, columns, renewing their subscription, or just wanting to say hi after a long winter.

Last…

Lucille Machon had already lived through a world war, a war in Korea and witnessed the start of the Vietnam War before I was born. But like her, we were both born and raised in Boothbay Harbor,…

What will later generations say instead of "March comes in like a lion?"

March comes in like a lion, whatever that was.

March comes in like a predatory beast in an online game?…

There are many things I will (try) to remember about the most successful Lady Seahawk basketball season ever – the 2019 undefeated and state championship team.

Now, I am not an insider but…

Kudos to Central Maine Power on its quick work around the region Monday as some of us lost power in the windstorm. Thankfully, the outages in our towns were mostly spotty and, except for the…

What's the coldest you've ever been for, say, 20 minutes or more?

The temperatures in the teens and lower on Monday and Tuesday this week, coupled with the 30 mph and higher winds, were…

We all have them. Days when everything seems to go smoothly and then there are the days when you want to pull your hair out because of unexpected problems that come your way. Some say it is all in…

Remember the party line? My grandparents had one, on their rotary dial phone. Remember rotary dial? The party, or shared, line meant they and someone else had different rings to answer. I think…

Tuesday into Wednesday winter storms are not conducive to tiptop weekly newspaper production. We worked hard to get this issue finished by the end of the day on Tuesday so the staff wouldn’t have…

Good calls as usual, Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce, on this year's picks for your annual awards. I can't go downtown without running into Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission's Mary…

If this week's refreshingly mild temperatures over the Midcoast were not enough for spring dreamers to cling to, here are more reasons to hope:

Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil broke with…

Margaret Hamilton cried, "I'm melting," when Dorothy threw a pail of water on her in the "Wizard of Oz."

I almost cried "I'm shrinking" — actually, I kind of chuckled — after my height was…

Hit Wiscasset’s Winterfest this Friday night and Saturday day, Feb. 1 and 2, at Wiscasset Community Center for some indoor and a lot of outdoor fun. If we all have to endure winter's frigid side,…

Come Monday, 53 Super Bowls will have been played. The New England Patriots will have played in their third straight, fourth out of the past five, and 11th overall. It is no wonder there are…

As editor of these fine newspapers, getting the news out is my priority. I hardly have time to think about each and every story but sometimes a lot of thoughts enter my mind as they come in from…

Will the initiative for a community development specialist make it onto the Wiscasset ballot? Probably. A 2017 one to get back the planning department drew enough signatures and, without a planner…

Two weeks into the new year and my desk is still a mess. At the beginning of the year, I vowed to start scouring my work surroundings and begin tossing and organizing. Started … but added more in…

Jan. 10, like a bud of spring – we can dream, can’t we – came confirmation the next chapter for the Le Garage property may be near. How encouraging for the downtown, and the town, this spot that…

I am impressed – so far – with Governor Janet Mills. First of all, it feels good to type in a woman's name after the word "governor." It's about time. Secondly, her inauguration was a pleasure to…

Wiscasset voters have made some pivotal decisions in recent years, from leaving Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 to nodding the state's downtown project, ditching the planning department…

I got a flat the day after Christmas and pulled into the parking lot at Grover Auto on Route 1. Before I went in, I decided to pull the spare from the back. It was an SUV tire with a rim, and…

2019. What will it bring? My first wish is a kinder, gentler world. Love and kindness beat anger and killing every time. Here's hoping that we all get along better this year.

Speaking of…

As the Boothbay Register begins its 143rd year of existence, I am taking this opportunity to thank the staff and others.

Readers, thank you for continuing to buy this independent weekly —…

This wasn't the biggest deal of a year locally. That's just as well, considering so much on the national level was jaw-dropping. A CNN commentator the other night said the last two years have aged…

From the Gospel of Luke: “And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone…

When our family exchanged joke presents one Christmas Eve, my father, who was trim, got a Slimfast. He turned to my sister's husband, who was less trim, and said: "This must be for you."

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News of the latest high profile properties to change hands on the Boothbay peninsula, and the plans to invest in them, inspire the question, could Wiscasset be next?

It should be.

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Christmas has to be the weirdest holiday there is when it comes to gifts, songs, music, decorations, traditions, clothing, food and more. I think I first discovered this when my grandmother…

No, I don't have H1N1 – a type of influenza – if that's what you're thinking from the headline. I was missing from work Thursday through Sunday, but that was because I need to use up my vacation…

I often envy our news contributor Phil Di Vece covering events Woolwich holds indoors that Wiscasset or Wiscasset groups hold outdoors. The weather is often poor, like the frigid, windy morning…

We, along with other news agencies in Maine, received word this past week of the investigation into the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York. The State Attorney…

Wiscasset's curriculum coordinator Patricia Watts has the right outlook on the department's falling short of some of the state averages in student test results. She isn't blaming the town's 10-…

It's the countdown to Christmas ... Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday ... and whatever other special shopping days there are in the five-plus weeks ahead. It is a tense time of…

I’m fairly confident you and your wonderful Patriots teammates will get us to another Super Bowl. It’s what you do.

Are your best playing days behind you?  Not necessarily. With the tolls…

"I guess we don't have it too bad," is what I hear a lot while sitting down to watch the morning or evening TV news with my wife.

"No, I guess we don't," is my usual reply.

Mass…

With an alternative uncertain heading into last week's vote, Wiscasset Ambulance Service's survival of its latest test at the polls doesn't answer all the questions on WAS's future. But it at…

I remember the incredible panic when our toddler son went missing for a few seconds in a large department store. I first yelled his name then took off running toward the front door. My fear was…

From talking with fellow Lincoln County residents, I know I was not the only one relieved when we got past the anniversary of the windstorm without a repeat. So naturally, Saturday night brought a…

Vote Tuesday. And if you get one of those stickers saying you voted, wear it. You might remind others to vote and, just as importantly, you will be showing you cared enough to vote, you are not…

It's probably not surprising, but I live by lists. Perhaps you can relate.

Here are some of my lists: Phone list, assignment list, weekly reporter story and to-do lists, special supplement…

Congratulations to my co-workers for receiving their well-deserved awards in this year’s Maine Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. Having run the MPA contest for a couple of years as an…

As the countdowns to Halloween and the Nov. 6 election continue, the time is ripe to note some of the area people and entities helping us all stay engaged this fall.

Kudos to Huntoon Hill…

October is Photographer Appreciation Month and on this day, Tuesday, Oct. 16 -- National Boss's Day -- I would like to thank and reminisce a bit about the wonderful photographers whom I've worked…

Hold the eggs this Halloween. Not just the ones no one should be throwing around, but the ones usually on the ground, at Wiscasset's Raven Egg Hunt. There is none this year, I was sorry and…

I've often felt time is my enemy. There isn't enough of it.

But that's a cop out.

Time to see the forest and not just the trees. Everything, everyone is a system and runs best when…

This week's column is a mixture of the good, the bad and whatever else came to mind while writing on Tuesday night.

Cheers to the Edgecomb Fire Department for recruiting five junior…

The new Wiscasset group planning how to encourage shopping during and after the state's downtown project already has some good ideas going. The possible slogans are catchy and maybe something even…

On Tuesday we received the first report, via a phone call, of stolen political signs. As Election Day, Nov. 6, draws nearer, we'll probably hear about stolen or destroyed signs two or three more…

It's Tuesday morning and I'm not at work this week. However, we need to fill this space so I am offering a few ramblings before returning to some household and grandfatherly duties. I'll be back…