Selection Sunday is March 15. For the non-basketball fans out there, that’s when they pick the field of teams for the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, which feature dozens of games…
Editorial
From the editor
I.J. Pinkham and Toby LeConte – two icons of the Boothbay region school system – announced last week that they will be leaving their respective positions.
Having worked with them over the…
From the assistant editor
With the new lights downtown about to finish going live, some predictions have been re-emerging, that the new setup, years in the making, will not help and may worsen Wiscasset’s summer backups on…
From the editor
I had my to-do list ready, got a few things done, then “bam,” our internet provider went down around 8:30 on Monday morning – a replay of what happened in December.
We received email OK,…
From the assistant editor
Have any electing to do in your town, in contested races or otherwise? And how about that springtime staple, the annual town meeting? Those will be cropping up with or, in some cases, before the…
From the editor
Basketball tournament time is great. You get to catch up with friends and neighbors as the towns clear out to gather at the Augusta Civic Center to cheer on the high school teams during school…
From the assistant editor
Enough cheers this week to fill a box of Cheerios, or an editorial on a cold winter’s morning. Here we go!
Thank you, Warren Cossette and Wiscasset Middle High School for honoring…
From the editor
It has been another great season of Seahawk boys and girls basketball — 30 wins and only six losses combined. Our season rival, Winthrop, has had just as fine a season and it may come down to a…
From the assistant editor
Phil Di Vece is a familiar and well-regarded name around town and around these pages and web pages, for sports and Woolwich and other news and features, some that tap his talent for taking us back…
From the editor
We have a new (former) printer, Lincoln County Publishing Company, in case you didn’t read the printed article or the featured story online.
Not much will change in the immediate future as…
From the assistant editor
A newsletter Wiscasset Newspaper and Boothbay Register got via email Jan. 30 from Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry said Feb. 8-17 is Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week.…
From the editor
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, author of “Fight Club” and “Lullaby”
Writing and talking about death is…
From the assistant editor
Amid the national and international turmoil of late, look no further than our towns to bring us back to center on all that is America’s best side, its helping one.
After dark last Thursday…
From the editor
Cheers to the area public works crews for their fine job of clearing the snow and ice off the roads after the several nuisance storms we've had so far this month. Again, as a reminder, motorists,…
From the assistant editor
A lot of words come to mind for winter. For me, “celebrate” is not one. But every year, Wiscasset celebrates Winterfest and makes the coldest, darkest time of year fun, for a couple of days. And…
From the editor
For many, many months, I have thought a lot about our area schools. Perhaps it started when Wiscasset shuttered its primary school on Gardiner Road and moved those classes to the elementary school…
From the assistant editor
Three of our stories this week highlight positive moves in the Wiscasset small business scene: a former seafood market off the market and about to enter the restaurant business; a longtime…
From the editor
As editor, I get story ideas, updates, press releases, letters to the editor, photos, etc. through various methods – email, my personal Facebook page, texts, through the mail slot in the office…
From the assistant editor
We don’t do our job for the thanks. We stay in this line of work because it suits our skills, it matters to us, or, ideally, both. That makes the best product, like in any business. But in recent…
From the editor
One of my go-to headlines … three things. We are crunched for time this week to get the paper to the printer by 5 p.m. on Monday because of New Year’s Day. I took a couple of vacation days after…
From the assistant editor
The annual deep dive into Wiscasset Newspaper’s online files for this week’s year in review revealed a theme fit for a New Year’s message: People worked together around our towns in new and…
From the editor
The newspaper depends on area columnists and news contributors to help fill the pages with words and photos that make it a true community grab each week.
The columnists keep their “people…
From the assistant editor
This week’s forecast for a green Midcoast Christmas has many shades of good.
Green Christmases have gotten a bad name because they don’t look or feel like Christmas. But green means…
From the editor
We have been inundated with the sights and sounds since before Halloween, now it's only a few more days until we celebrate Christmas.
Now, I don't mean to be a grump, but I always have…
From the assistant editor
Unless you were taking full advantage of last weekend’s mild second half, including that glorious Sunday morning as all December days should look and feel, you might have noticed…
From the editor
Cheers to everyone involved in spreading cheer before the holidays in the Boothbay and Wiscasset regions. The events over the past weekend brought out residents and visitors to the towns to…
From the assistant editor
You know the one, the 1984 Wham! song that’s had one remake after another, none as good, but still such a catchy tune and lyrics. Area radio stations are filling up with holiday music and I am…
From the editor
Oh, the weather outside is frightful … You know me, Mr. Winter Hater!
As I type away, we’re having our first big snowstorm of the season. Every year, I try to not get discouraged…
From the assistant editor
We all get busy this time of year, whether it’s busy having fun here and there, or, if you work for the paper, running around covering the fun, which can also be fun. Sprinkle with early press…
From the assistant editor
Nothing ruins a good photo like bad lighting.
I’m not saying Wiscasset and its neighbors or all of Lincoln County are full of bad indoor lighting for picture-taking. Some of our best…
From the editor
This week I read the following on the Environmental Protection Agency's website which makes me want to change my habits: "Americans, on average, spend approximately 90 percent of their time…
From the assistant editor
The new traffic lights will take getting used to, like the ones at Routes 1 and 27 have. But those are old hat now and the ones near the bridge eventually will be, too.
Patience with the…
From the editor
A staycation, a stay-at-home vacation — it's that time again for me.
The third or fourth week of November is a good time for me to take a break from work. It is between local high school…
From the editor
About 38 years ago, before my non-fiction writing career, I tried my hand at writing short stories and poetry to perhaps sell to a publication. I gave up the idea after the regular weekly…
From the assistant editor
Snow wasn’t all that fell on the Midcoast in the past week. But just as with the snow, freezing rain and whatever else was coming down, the $25 million that fell from the federal sky for the…
From the editor
The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club, Southport Central School, Boothbay Region Garden Club, Southport Memorial Library, American Legion Post 54 in Wiscasset and the town of Woolwich are honoring our…
From the assistant editor
Starting Saturday, do three great things for you, businesses, your holiday spirit, your family, and the men and women who have kept us all free: Shop Wiscasset’s Early Bird Saturday, fit in some…
From the editor
The voter turnout on Tuesday, Nov. 5 will be light – much lighter than next November, a presidential election year.
However, ballots will be handed out at our local town offices from 8 a.m…
From the assistant editor
Happy Halloween, and let’s open a bag that’s all treats – kudos on several good calls Wiscasset has made of late, including its decisions after last week’s incident at…
From the editor
I wish to offer my sympathy to Martha, Gerard and Erika Landry on the death of their beloved, David. Martha and I go back to kindergarten days and she and my wife shared pregnancy terms together…
From the assistant editor
Why doesn’t she just leave?
Or, if the domestic violence victim being talked about is a man, you might hear, or ask, the same question: Why doesn’t he just leave?
With all the…
From the assistant editor
Kudos to the volunteers of Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum for their work in recent years to rebuild locomotive No. 9, replace the bridge at Trout Brook and build more track…
From the editor
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
According to a definition on the Psychology Today website, "domestic violence can be physical or psychological ... It may include behaviors…
From the editor
With our dog having her pick of fallen acorns to wallow around in her mouth since early September, I began thinking that I had not seen a gray squirrel around our house in quite a while. I think…
From the assistant editor
Hello, Tom,
Candy corn aside, Halloween is still three weeks off. So please, don’t be scaring us, like in Sunday’s game. I know it wasn’t all you. Someone has to catch the ball.
…
From the assistant editor
To some of the last of the regular traffic backups Wiscasset may see until next year, we can say we’ve seen years with more extreme backups, and years that ran lighter. We’ll be interested to…
From the editor
You are right (again), Susan Quinby.
Sometimes (most of the time!) I struggle when writing this column (please don’t consider it as an editorial). I usually end up writing it a few hours…
From the editor
It was a year that has forever stuck in my mind. It was the year I became a teenager. Was I supposed to become a young man or was I supposed to still be able to "goof off?" Was I supposed to be…
From the assistant editor
We have to type pretty fast to tell you all we want to about everyone’s towns every week in print and every day online. That means typos and, through re-reads and some reading aloud, I try to…
From the editor
Congratulations to the fall sports athletes at BRHS and WMHS for showing up and giving your best, despite having short rosters. It is nice to see some of the Seahawks and Wolverines competing…
