It is the third week in September and one week from the start of the calendar fall season (Sept. 22). Are you thinking about putting your air conditioning unit away for the year and replacing it…

Maine Department of Transportation’s reply, as predicted, explained well why the traffic lights I like so much at…

Congratulations to the organizers of the Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge and to the boat owners who hauled in 28 tuna in the first two days of the tournament (Sept. 4-8). The fish were pretty large…

What do you think of the fairly new traffic lights at Woolwich’s Nequasset Road-Route 1 intersection? As a motorist, I have been liking the much easier entry onto or across Route 1. And the lights…

My thoughts are with you, Cynthia Edwards.

Cynthia has known me ever since my parents hired her a few times to sit the growing Burnham clan on Gilead Street. She lived close by on Atlantic…

So Wiscasset is facing another season of one high school sport not having enough players for a regular, Mountain Valley Conference season. It is not the first time, but we all can help it be the…

Remember the 1970s song, “Short People,” by Randy Newman? According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and what I remember, many people took offense and even threatened him. He said he wrote it…

He said, she said, according to, she added, the press release stated, the town manager responded via email, in minutes posted at westportisland.us, in documents Wiscasset Newspaper received upon…

In the past 10 days, I have attended a couple of reunions. One was an annual get-together and I crashed my older brother Bruce’s 50th class reunion.

The annual reunion was again at Hadlock…

Besides reporting on projects underway, what area residents have won or otherwise accomplished and the latest tax or sewer rates, we regularly get to pass along tips or other information on public…

Every Tuesday morning, I see a sea of white on my laptop. Some of the white has disappeared with black writing, color photos and multi-colored ads. These are the 24 pages of the current issue…

If you have ever worked with me, you hopefully have found I am good at some things. But you will for certain have seen I am terrible at vacations.

Cheers & Jeers is a feature I remember from the days of reading TV Guide. TV Guide, for those born after the advent of cable TV and the internet, is a small, bi-weekly magazine which lists…

Who are the Mason Station vandals?

At press time, we did not know. But besides any clues in the image Wiscasset Police Department released following…

What’s a typo good for? Not much, but when it’s 90F, or an especially busy day, or both, the errant letter that changes a word or phrase can be good for a laugh, as long as you catch it before it…

A kindly man from Southport stopped into the office on Monday to see what we could do to get the word out that our shorelines are being inundated with trash, rolling in from the ocean.

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The summer of 1967 was when I got interested in baseball. Growing up in New England (Boothbay Harbor, Maine to be exact), my family would gather around the TV during the summer months and watch as…

Before delivering news for the past 35-plus years, I delivered food and drinks at Tugboat Inn, Fisherman’s Wharf, a very short stint at Gepetto’s, Lobsterman’s Wharf and Everybody’s over the…

We welcomed running our news contributor Phil Di Vece’s commentary this week on White’s Island and access to the island, since Di Vece, a longtime local and an author of books on Wiscasset, knows…

Tell us if you are experiencing otherwise, but as I’ve noted at least once since the state’s downtown project, the bottlenecks are looking nothing like they were. Even if I’m moving about at…

Can you believe it? A Windjammer Days Festival so beautiful that no events were rained out! What a glorious week it was for the 60th with sunshine, tolerable humidity, events galore and throngs of…

We are halfway through another year’s weekly editions, as the “Issue 26” on the front page denotes. I don’t take too much stock of annual milestones, as in this line of work and maybe yours, we…

In addition to putting items on our websites 365 days a year and gathering news for print 52 weeks a year, we also plan, execute and publish five special publications from January through late May…

Especially in the warmer months when more events happen, we cover them every week, each important for its cause, attendees’ enjoyment, or often both. One in Wiscasset Friday had a lot going for it…

Windjammer Days has been the Boothbay region’s summertime drawing card for 60 years. Despite its being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the now week-long festival honoring our boat-building…

Going through pictures the other day brought me back to a 1970s Christmas parade at Disney World, plus harness racetracks and horsemen, and bowling centers and awards banquets, each trip or other…

Boothbay Region High School Principal Tricia Campbell said it … and said it well … when she praised senior class advisor Allan Crocker during the graduation ceremony, and mentioned that the staff…

Ever wonder why, in our print edition, you are sometimes reading about what Wiscasset selectmen or maybe the school committee were set to take up Tuesday, two days before the date on the newspaper…

Congratulations to the Boothbay Region High School and Wiscasset Middle High School 2022 graduates. You’ve made it through 13 years of schooling, the last two having been perhaps the most…

For an opinion or observation this week, all I think of each one I consider mentioning is, what is the point of saying it here. The Uvalde, Texas school slayings as, according to…

Despite seeing and photographing many of the same faces in the region’s Memorial Day parades, and sometimes hearing the same or very similar messages delivered by clergy and others, I always come…

I was 7 when a hotel fire killed four people in Bath, the city I was growing up in. It was on the street where I lived and went to school and would graduate from high school. I remember little of…

I was going to write a little bit about my vacation in Kansas and Nebraska this past week but about 12 hours after my return to work, the biggest fire Boothbay Harbor has seen in many years broke…

With Lincoln County’s COVID count ticking back up and Maine in recent days second in the nation, Wiscasset, much more mask-free and at times less socially distant this spring, is making some smart…

Is it just me or have you seen more varieties of birds and more birds in general this month? Perhaps if I hung out at my in-laws’ house I would see even more as they have a virtual aviary set up…

With all the talk about building a new high school, I have been reminiscing about the old grammar school on School Street in Boothbay Harbor.

Our former sports reporter Keith Alley, whose…

Given the challenges towns and their public safety and other departments have faced this year, including finding staff and paying them enough to stay in that line of work and with that employer, …

All the talk Monday night on Zoom by the ordinance review committee, mulling where to propose marijuana commerce can go and how it could add to the tax base, got me thinking about what else would…

This past week was weather-perfect for outdoor projects – not too hot and not too cold, although the wind continues to blow.

One of the projects that happens this time of year is picking…

The interest Wiscasset residents and officials have shown over what to do, not do, or when, at and near Wiscasset’s White’s Island and its footbridges, is reassuring.

Memories and…

Things are getting busier around the region as evidenced by the amount of news in this week’s issue. We had to bump up the page count because of the news and advertising amounts. That’s a good…

The newspaper industry has changed over the past couple of decades. Instant access to news through the internet has changed the game, especially for those who have little time, or don’t want to…

Regarding the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District Building Exploratory Committee’s review of the four concepts for the CSD campus … if you are interested in what some of the plans…

Will this be a spring mild in weather and COVID counts, helping it be a good one for businesses and everyone else?

What will turnouts be for the remaining annual town meetings, in the…

In area towns last year and a little so far this year, residents’ talk to boards or committees or to one another at the meetings sometimes got loud, at times with interruptions that didn’t help.…

I was going to write about my week, day-by-day, from Wednesday through Tuesday, but I thought I would spare you the monotony and just tell you about an embarrassing moment. It was not on the scale…

Daylight saving time going permanent? The U.S. Senate agrees with the idea but according to news reports, the measure to have one time zone is having a hard time being passed in the House of…

If hope was ever needed everywhere, it is now. We find it in our towns this week.

A silent symbol of hope, the word in stain glass, was over the shoulder of St. Philip’s Church in…

This week’s news is full of people doing good things, both locally and abroad.

Big thanks to Southport’s Paul Zalucky for finding ways to protect his extended family and other people from…

If someone works at or for schools, they likely like children and want to give them their best start. They probably did not seek that line of work for its pay and, if they have stayed in it, they…