Dear Readers,
Am I missing something?
Since the terrible railroad accident in Quebec,…
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Dear Readers,
Here is a question for the guys: When was the last time you took your best girl to the movies?
‘Fess up.…
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Dear Readers,
Happy birthday to us.
We all have heard Thomas Jefferson's words that were enshrined into history on July 4…
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Dear Readers,
Do you follow the national and international news? If not, let me bring you up to snuff, sort of.
There is a…
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Dear Readers,
Two years ago, David Stack and a group of Wiscasset business types were fed up with Wiscasset's reputation of being anti-everything.…
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Dear Readers,
Did you notice that the sun has arrived (along with the black flies)?
High school graduation week is winding…
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Dear Readers,
Have you watched the cable TV news shows lately? You know the ones that feature a smiling host yelling at a panel of “experts” who…
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Dear Readers,
Did you catch the show at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor last Thursday?
If not, you missed a good one…
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Dear Readers,
On Monday, May 13, Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett and his deputies arrested a Jefferson man following an…
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Dear Readers,
Have you heard of trickle down economics? Well, here at the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper, we are experiencing the annual “…
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Dear Readers,
The New England town meeting is a cherished American tradition. Some historians argue that the ideas prompting our nation to separate…
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Dear Readers,
Bill Cullina and his jolly crew at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens are busting their buttons with pride. They have every right to be…
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Dear Readers,
Our TV sets are filled with cop shows like NCIS or Law & Order, where clever computer wizards and…
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Dear Readers,
As I watched “the event” at Boothbay’s Opera House March 20, it became clear we still have a serious problem.
…
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Dear Readers,
This week, there were two remarkable events, one in Rome, the other in Boothbay Harbor. Neither will ever be remembered in the school…
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Dear Readers,
Did you notice what happened this weekend? Or rather, what did not happen?
The answer is…
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Dear Readers,
I don’t know about you, but I am getting a bit tired of Old Man Winter.
…
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Dear Readers,
Is it time to quit squabbling over money and start thinking about our kids?
…
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Well, it snowed again last weekend. What did you expect? We live in Maine and it is winter. Duh!
We also live in communities like…
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Dear Readers,
It is time for the high school basketball tournament. It is a time that each high school class…
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It is no surprise to anyone that the recent iVantage report prepared and paid for by the group opposing the pending closure of Boothbay’s St. Andrews Hospital,…
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Dear Readers,
On January 24 I got a visit from an old golfing pal. After going back and forth about which one…
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Dear Readers,
Tradition says editors are supposed to make a list of New Year’s resolutions. It is supposed to be a sort of a to-do list for the coming year. So here goes.
Let’s resolve…
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Dear Readers,
Once upon a time, a family lived in the west side of a little double house. On Christmas Eve, two little boys, ages five and seven, were finally put to bed around 10 p.m.
…
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Eileen King sat in her office last Friday and watched the TV coverage of the terrible events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. And she cried.
The next day, the Superintendent…
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Dear Readers,
Like a lot of other folks, I have a bunch of shopping to do for the Christmas holiday. Like a lot of others (I hope), I will do as much as I can in the little shops of Boothbay…
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It looks like our friends from the St. Andrews Task Force have gone into the pages of Maine folk medicine and sought some advice from two legendary upcountry medical authorities:…
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Dear Readers,
Elsewhere on this site, you will find folks who are thankful for all sorts of blessings. I am thankful, too.
I am thankful our boys and girls are coming home from the…
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Dear Readers,
When old Marines gather, they tell “war stories” … but they rarely are about war.
…
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Dear Readers,
By the time you read this, the election will be over. Most likely we will know who will be president for the next four years. We will know who will represent us in the U.S.…
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The news wires have been buzzing with breathless prose about the “FrankenStorm.”
It looks like the “epic” storm will slam into the U.S. not far from New York City. It is a big one. We do not…
Dear Readers,
Did you see the hopeful letter from Jim Donovan in last week’s Boothbay Register?
…
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Dear Readers,
This is a brag. I am going to share some news with you about the hardworking folks who bring you the news at the Boothbay Register and the Wiscasset Newspaper.
You see,…
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This Saturday is a special day for your friends at the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper. At a noon luncheon in Freeport, Mary Brewer, our retired managing editor, will be…
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Dear Readers,
Our summer friends are packing up the family car, emptying out the refrigerator and making one last trip to the dump. Except for a few more busloads of “leaf peepers,” our 2012…
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Dear Readers,
Jim Donovan sent me a message yesterday. I’ll bet he sent you one, too.
It was in a slick magazine called Today. It is the annual report of Lincoln County Healthcare. …
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Dear Readers,
Once upon a time a customer asked Tim Hodgdon to build him a super sailing yacht. “Oh yes,” added the customer, “I would like you to build a pipe organ in the master salon.”…
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Dear Reader,
Are you tired of bad news? Me too.
Friends of this space have endured my rantings for the last several weeks as I explained the utter stupidity of Lincoln County…
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Despite the claim by Lincoln County Healthcare boss Jim Donovan that the closing of the St. Andrews Emergency Room is a matter of “quality of care,” one of his top aides told a different tale last…
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Dear Readers,
I get it that you are mad at the decision to shutter the emergency room at St. Andrews Hospital.
I get it that you feel betrayed and tricked by the Lincoln County…
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Dear Readers,
Last weekend, Ruth Farrin stood on the side of the road not far from Hannaford’s market, holding a bright pink hand-lettered sign that said “Save St. Andrews.”
You might…
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Dear Readers,
Elected leaders in Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor and Southport pledged this week to fight the closure of St. Andrews Emergency Room. If you asked Freddie Luke for her opinion, she…
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Dear Readers,
It is no secret that the decision to close the St. Andrews emergency room has triggered a flood of ire from folks who…
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“This is one of the principal precepts of ethics taught in medical school and is a fundamental principle for emergency medical services. It reminds the physician and other healthcare providers…
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Dear Readers,
It was not the big news story this weekend. But it should have been.
This weekend, our TV…
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Dear Readers,
I got a note from an old newspaper friend this week praising our brand new websites.
He said he liked it because it kept a “sense of place.”
In many ways, this is…
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Dear Readers,
Thanks for stopping by our shiny new websites, www.boothbayregister.com and www.wiscassetnewspaper.com.
For the last few months, we have been working to get our online…
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Dear Readers,
Happy birthday to the U.S.A. Another year has passed and our grand experiment in self-government survives. Long may we live in peace and harmony.
Here in small town Maine…
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Dear Readers,
Did you notice it was tough to find a parking space in Boothbay Harbor last weekend?
As summer officially arrived, gas prices nudged down a bit and the 50th Annual…
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The Boothbay Region Land Trust dedicated another preserve last weekend. It is a wooded area on the backside of Ocean Point alongside the duck pond on Van Horn Road. The highlight of the event was…
