We are hoping you are keeping up with the Boothbay Region school referendum information online as well as in print. The amount of information supplied by the AOS 98 Superintendent’s Office is…
Editorial
From the assistant editor
Sarah Cherry would have turned 47 last May. Thirty-five years ago this summer, the 12-year-old Bowdoin girl was tortured and killed in her hometown. Late the next winter, a jury in Rockland…
From the editor
A few congratulatory messages are in order.
Congratulations to Chris Higgins for receiving the Al Jellison Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maine Water Environment Association (MEWEA).…
From the assistant editor
Kudos to the Wiscasset school system having students attend a selectboard meeting to observe local government. This makes it real for them, and is also nice for the selectmen and others to be able…
From the editor
Either my memory is getting bad or perhaps the region is getting to be, or continuing to be, a destination for tourists late into September.
While growing up here in the region, I do…
From the editor
I envy the workers who prepared for Saturday's storm as well as those who worked through the days restoring power to thousands of Mainers after high wind gusts and rain-soaked grounds brought…
From the editor
Now that we have the ESPN channels back after the dispute between them and Disney, my life is better for it. But the Red Sox games have filled in during the hiatus (my wife won’t miss a game –…
From the assistant editor
You know that Midcoast town where everybody always gets along – always? Where all the selectmen and all the residents who address them are on the same page?
And on only the rarest of…
From the editor
As the last quarter of 2023 rolled in this week, and a music icon passed on, I kind of enjoyed the Labor Day weekend the way Jimmy Buffett would have liked – little work, relaxing (but not by a…
From the assistant editor
Last week, it was the Wiscasset area’s turn for whale sightings, if someone was…
From the editor
Schools are opening next week and the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor committees overseeing their operation are still busy finalizing the warrant articles for the future of the high school and elementary…
From the assistant editor
Words always matter, wherever they are written, on a subway or old mill with spray paint, or into proposed town rules with, these days, a keyboard. Kudos to Wiscasset and Alna for what they are…
From the editor
While I was away last week on a working vacation – working on my house – I didn’t have much time to catch up with the local news. I was, as they say, “plumb worn out’ in the evenings. I haven’t…
From the assistant editor
Neat plan, Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce, getting trendy with what WACC hopes will be an annual “Battle of the Boards.” No, not corn hole, although corn might be in the mix for some entries.…
From the editor
With the news that the East Boothbay Post Office is closing its doors (at least for now), is it a sign that we may lose the other small post offices in the region? We have two smaller post offices…
From the assistant editor
In this space multiple times, I have praised Wiscasset’s and Boothbay Region schools’ efforts to keep this or that sport going, by making a team and a season by working together, pooling…
We hope you have noticed that we are now publishing press releases from Lincoln County Television (LCTV) located in Newcastle. They are going to become one of our advertising affiliates and have…
From the assistant editor
Getting New York Times’ daily Wordle in two lines, like I was surprised to do today, is not quite like a hole in one, more like a hole in one in miniature golf, or using all seven letters on your…
From the editor
Sometime in the next month or so, the newspaper staff will be taking a day or two (or maybe three) to “clean out, clean up” our office. We haven’t done this job for several years and it is amazing…
From the assistant editor
This week, the Midcoast summer is one third over. It has not been the best, due to the humidity and rain and, at press time Tuesday, the region was under an air quality alert from the smoke from…
From the editor
There was good news this week as Reade Brower, owner of the Portland Press Herald and other newspapers around Maine, announced that he is selling the PPH and several of his other newspapers to the…
From the assistant editor
Here is hoping, and predicting, Westport Island’s upcoming ordinance review committee gets done whatever is put on its plate; if it is like Wiscasset’s ORC, it will. But we wish Westport Island’s…
From the editor
Yes, I did keep up with the local news while I was on vacation in Nebraska last week via the internet/phone, but I didn’t log into the national news. My son also gets his news on his phone – we…
From the assistant editor
Anytime someone can put out a message that people should respect one another, whether in a group, a world, or a town in Maine, that is a good thing. So when we got just that last week from the…
From the editor
I was a kid once – about 50 or more years ago. I remember the summertime opportunities were much more scarce than they are today. We used to swim at West Harbor Pond and in the ocean off what is…
From the assistant editor
Driving in the rain this week, I pulled off to go check out what appeared to be a possible turtle flipped over onto its shell. Lots of turtle sightings lately, as they are still on the move. This…
From the editor
The second season of the year, summer, has arrived … at least on the calendar! The semi-constant rain we’ve received has been beneficial for gardens and wells, but not so much for sunbathing,…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset’s first selectmen’s meeting post-elections was hours away at press time and might have been going to yield news on Mason Station, as Phil Di Vece…
From the editor
I was looking through the Register’s 1993 congratulatory graduation pages (that’s 30 years ago, folks) and the page theme was “You’re on your way!” Back then, photographer John Edwards and I would…
From the assistant editor
Mental health awareness was not on the agenda, but Alna Third Selectman Coreysha Stone’s comments on the topic June 1 pointed out, mental health can become relevant to anyone, anytime. Find them…
From the editor
It has been two weeks since Rep. Holly Stover (D-Boothbay) submitted a letter to Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner Bruce Van Note about the importance of fixing Route 27 from…
From the assistant editor
Not good was realizing Monday’s Memorial Day service in Wiscasset was the first since longtime participant Clara Wentworth and community events regular and past selectman Katharine Martin-Savage…
From the editor
What, you may ask, is happening? News and lots of it!
Thursday, May 25 at 6 p.m. in the Boothbay Region High School gymnasium is the annual CSD budget meeting. Hopefully voters will turn…
From the assistant editor
We have been pleasingly swamped with letters to the editor supporting local candidates. Does this portend a strong turnout June 13? We shall see, but either way, it has been wonderful to see so…
From the editor
Tradition: the body of customs, thought, practices, etc., belonging to a particular country, people, family, or institution over a relatively long period – Collins English Dictionary
Using…
From the assistant editor
Good idea on taking a year off, Schoonerfest, for all the reasons stated in the announcement in this week’s print edition and online.
Schoonerfest has not blossomed into a Damariscotta…
From the assistant editor
If you want to photograph or just look at the Virginia without the cover it had on this winter in Wiscasset, by the time you read this you may still be able to, before it returns to Bath a…
From the assistant editor
Some of the speeches at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on TV last Saturday night tipped a hat to local news and reminded me of some of the reasons reporters do what they, we, do,…
From the editor
Thank you, Chuck Cunningham, for pointing out my error in last week’s column. I wrote that because Boothbay changed its annual town meeting to Monday, it produced a quandary regarding the…
From the assistant editor
Last week’s shootings in Lincoln County neighbor Sagadahoc County – in Bowdoin, a small town like ones around here, and shortly after that, more shootings on the interstate in Yarmouth before a…
From the editor
We’ve all been there. You need a certain item at the store only to realize that the store closed an hour or more ago. Either you wait until the store reopens or you find another store to find the…
From the assistant editor
We are excited to be able to start covering Westport Island selectmen’s meetings again, as often as possible and as timely on the reporting as possible. The town’s selectmen’s meetings are now…
From the editor
We have been busy of late, getting our special publications ready to publish before deadlines, interviewing and hiring a new reporter, contacting candidates for office for information on their…
From the assistant editor
You may have seen the vaccine commercial that says “shingles doesn’t care” about the active, healthy life you lead. Well, neither do ticks. As a Lyme disease survivor, I am fortunately here to say…
From the editor
The 2023 men’s and women’s NCAA basketball championships are done and now I can get back to my reading for pleasure at night. The past three weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement and despite…
From the editor
As we wait and hope for warmer temperatures in April and watch what snow we now get turn to slush or melt within hours of falling, thoughts of a fruitful summer come to mind. Boat owners are…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset had an exciting news week, with a new superintendent of schools picked who is a familiar face in the schools and town; and selectmen naming Wiscasset Community Center’s gym after the…
From the assistant editor
At press time, it was not yet known if Wiscasset selectmen will ask voters to fund an economic development director. Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ proposal to add the job would be a tall ask as…
From the editor
Boothbay Harbor Police Department, like other organizations and businesses, needs to find a few good men or women to work.
Over the past few weeks, the department has received two…
From the assistant editor
Thank you, outgoing (in June) Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Kathleen Pastore, for having been one of those administrators who makes our job easier by being accessible and forthcoming. That…
