Letter writers came out in force this week. We have printed 18 of the 22 letters to the editor we received before the deadline of Monday at 3 p.m. We will print the remaining four letters next…
Editorial
From the editor
Two years ago, my wife, Melodee, and I had to deal with a heartbreaking situation. On Sept. 1, 2018, we had to have our beautiful and kind 6-year-old Labradoodle, Ruby, put down. The following is…
From the assistant editor
Texting back and forth with Wiscasset’s Terry Heller the other day about a Friends of Wiscasset Village Zoom meeting, some words on both ends of the conversation needed redoing due to auto fill,…
From the editor
It’s nearly time to go back to school and thankfully, area administrators and school staffs have taken time out of their summer vacation to work on plans to safely bring the students and teachers…
From the assistant editor
The area’s school sports plans Bill Pearson reports on this week make sense given the other school decisions at the state and local levels. If Wiscasset and Boothbay Region schools are seeing fit…
From the editor
● People spend too much time on Facebook. I might check it once a day but the dozens of political posts and the ranting and raving on each drives me to check out of it. How many times have you…
From the assistant editor
Whoever got the idea, the more syllables, the smarter someone is or sounds, probably is not a kindred spirit to me. You can say a lot in few words, a lot of information, sentiment, or anything. As…
From the editor
Every once in a while, I dip into the National Days Calendar website to get ideas for this column. Before taking this week off from work (returning Sunday, Aug. 9), I discovered that the first…
From the assistant editor
As that American flag flew over Route 1 Saturday in Wiscasset for Rich Kubler’s memorial service and area responders stood roadside awaiting the casket and escort’s return trip through, the…
From the assistant editor
Good job on the art of adjusting, Lucia Droby, for replacing this year’s Wiscasset Art Walks with the lower key Walk Around Wiscasset. It might boost businesses’ foot traffic like the years of…
From the editor
I will give you my set-up for walking but I am sure many can relate to why I am asking motorists to please slow down, do the speed limit, etc.
I live on Back Narrows Road in Boothbay. As I…
From the editor
Major League Baseball returned to the airwaves – live! – this week. It was something I was looking forward to watching besides the fourth or fifth round of sitcoms, Red Sox or Celtics rewind shows…
From the assistant editor
On Mondays, we are rounding the turn for the print week’s Tuesday homestretch and finish. We may have most of what we need, much of which you may have already read on our websites. But a happy…
From the assistant editor
If you think it’s hot wearing a mask around town in July, you are right. But instead of your trip though the grocery store with a brief refuge in the frozen section, maybe lingering with the door…
From the editor
I decided this week to take the first week in August as a vacation week. Like everyone, I have been inundated with daily pandemic news since March and I feel it’s time to take a break. I am going…
From the assistant editor
What’s wrong with running for school committee? Yes, your time put in may outweigh, at times vastly, the stipend. And, like other town panels, a school committee is an easy mark for political…
From the editor
Heading down Shore Road and seeing the white-haired man using a cane to get to the picnic table covered with a red and white checkered tablecloth, while other family members were bringing out food…
From the assistant editor
As the summer of strange and still scary on some fronts continues, our towns are getting down to serious business doing their same old business in new ways and places, indoors and out, and…
From the editor
Did June feel like one long day to you? It did to me. I guess when you don’t do anything exciting, the days turn into weeks and then the month is up, just like that. Other than covering the local…
From the editor
A Boothbay Harbor business owner contacted me a couple of weeks ago. She said business was down and perhaps one of the reasons why – besides the COVID-19 pandemic – was that people didn’t know her…
From the assistant editor
The swimming hole Atlantic Salmon Federation and Alna officials said Head Tide Dam would not lose is still there, and getting a lot of use these hot days. This is the first summer swimmers have…
From the assistant editor
An especially strong gust blew across Wiscasset’s graduation early in Friday night’s ceremony, knocking off one of the floral displays. And a strong one near the end of Morse High School’s at…
From the editor
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers I know and don’t know. Sunday, June 21 will be quite a melancholy day for me despite my being a father. My siblings – six of them, including my older sister…
From the assistant editor
Has anyone noticed a lack of traffic tie-ups on Wiscasset’s Route 1 post-Memorial Day? Usually by now, some of the time, cars are backed up to Ames or even the Woolwich line, not counting…
From the editor
In these troubling times, we all look for words of comfort, ideas to help us make it through the day.
Over the years, I have collected various articles, photos, staff and personal notes,…
From the assistant editor
First, the bad news: 2020 isn’t even half over. Like an especially bad Maine winter and it’s only December, it just feels endless.
Many of us are doing all we can, except those who look…
From the editor
Dear BRHS and WMHS 2020 graduates,
Here’s hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest curve ball you will face in your lives. The pandemic is a hard-breaking curve that made all of…
From the assistant editor
Raise your hand if you know a senior. Not the seniors so many of us in this region are, or are getting to be. I’m talking about the other seniors: Those just becoming adults and nearly half a…
From the editor
I am amazed and thankful that teachers (and students) adapted to online instruction so quickly and so well because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They – both teachers and students – are a wonderful lot…
From the assistant editor
Will the coronavirus spring make for the summer of strange? It already has, felling everything from St. Philip’s strawberry festival to Pumpkinfest; and more importantly are the lasting impacts…
From the editor
That is our job as journalists – getting the facts. We do our best to find the best sources and get that information to our readers, day after day, week after week, year after year. We aren’t…
From the assistant editor
Nothing but what the seniors’ older siblings and cousins got for a Wiscasset graduation will look or feel exactly right. That big day and then the moving on with their diplomas and lives are the…
From the editor
It felt good to get outside and take some photos of people doing things this week. Besides battling the weather – seems like it has rained every other day this spring – and the slew of…
From the editor
No Memorial Day Parade, no Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races, and no Windjammer Days. Three of the Boothbay region’s major events scheduled before the July 4 holiday have been canceled due to the…
From the assistant editor
One of the friendly faces around Wiscasset Municipal Airport gave me a call the other day. I have interviewed pilot Lisa Reece and her husband and fellow pilot Steve Williams, or both, many times…
From the assistant editor
Be disappointed it hasn’t been a normal spring for getting around to your favorite places to eat, shop and recreate, from Wiscasset Community Center and Boothbay Region YMCA, to the made-over…
From the editor
Not much room in my printed page corner this week, so here goes.
♦ Did you read or hear about the return of Prickles, the barefaced merino sheep who went unshorn for seven years after…
From the assistant editor
Until recently, “Zoom,” for me, was a PBS children’s show when I was a kid. I remember a good egg salad recipe from it (it’s the yellow mustard!) or was that on “Big Blue Marble?” and, on “Zoom”…
From the editor
One of my Mom’s favorite words of advice was “Good things come to those who help themselves.” I adhere to that advice, and I also want to add to it: “Good things come to those who help others.”…
From the assistant editor
Check it out.
You are not seeing double. We have both papers’ names atop page 1 this week. And our editorial and sports and education pages are combined, too. The editorial page, where the…
From the editor
I decided to not write solely about the coronavirus pandemic after four weeks of doing so in this column (too depressing) so I am using my old stand-by of writing about “Three things,” which I…
From the editor
More than one person has contacted me over the past couple of weeks about the proposed (but nixed) delay of the summer water start and about columns which suggest that summer residents and…
From the assistant editor
First the fun part: An email the other day from First Congregational Church of Wiscasset linked to a video of Charlie the Church Mouse speaking to the camera, telling viewers how to make their own…
From the assistant editor
All things coronavirus rightly have our river of news online and in print flowing big and fast like the real Maine rivers in spring when the snow melts. That has us busy feeding the river,…
From the editor
The COVID-19 pandemic has virtually shut down the world. Our day-to-day routines of going to work or school, taking a vacation, or attending funerals for our loved ones have been altered to the…
From the assistant editor
Reporting online and much of it in print, all things COVID-19 – what is closed, partly closed, canceled and postponed, and how our town governments, townspeople, schools, parents, businesses and…
From the editor
We are all dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and if you have internet access, you have surely found dozens of ways to handle social distancing, the correct way to wash your hands, isolation,…
From the assistant editor
When freedom’s enemy has been terrorism, domestic or foreign, the Midcoast and the rest of America have shown support by coming together and turning out. We’ve shown we can still go to the movies…
From the editor
My apologies to Rachel Carson. I'm not stealing her famous book title. I am using it as a metaphor of what we're all going through right now concerning the coronavirus outbreak.
Don't you…
From the assistant editor
First, kudos to Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terri Wood and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle for their letters in recent days addressing…
