With technology part of daily life, parents and teachers often must try to keep kids’ attention on the real world instead of the digital one. Some ways were…
Education
Maine Art Gallery
Students and parents poured into The Maine Art Gallery (MAG) on the afternoon of April 17 for the opening of the annual Wiscasset Student Art Show. Over 100 works in all…
Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten registration continues for the 2025/2026 school year. We will be having our open house for new students on Thursday, May 22, 5:30-6 p.m. At this event, families…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum
Saturday, May 10
Festival events begin at the Harbor Theater's screening of "The Train" (https://youtu.be/guShTdbHjL8) - Free admission courtesy of BRVM. RSVP to the theater to attend at…
"OOOOOK-lahoma! Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet, When the wind comes right behind the rain..."…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its honor roll for the third quarter of the 2024-25 school year:
Sixth grade: Highest, Jude Hendershot. High, Hunnter Bailey, Jackson Bluteau,…
Wiscasset school committee
Planning continues on several fronts at Wiscasset Elementary School to further serve the youngest students, including those the school committee recently agreed to serve with special education.…
Midcoast Senior College invites you to explore our Summer Wisdom 2025 through a series of five presentations.
The June 3 presentation by Don Carrigan will be held at the Unitarian…
Press release
Beginning in September 2025, pre-K students with disabilities will receive the services they need right at Wiscasset Elementary School. Currently, students with identified needs, such as speech or…
Lincoln Theater
Y Arts is at it again!
Come support our incredibly talented youth actors in “Guys and Dolls Jr.”! …
Sheepscot Chorus invites you to their annual spring concerts on April 12 and 13, both at 3 p.m. On the program will be Bob Chilcott's "A Little Jazz Mass," and "Folk Songs…
Feed Our Scholars (FOS) is excited to announce a fun event to raise funds for its mission of providing bags of weekend food for participating Wiscasset Elementary School students. On Friday, May 2…
Generation Z (born between 1995 and mid 2010s) is more depressed, more anxious and more suicidal than past generations, according to a lecture Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library and other…
Garden Club of Wiscasset recently worked with fourth grade students at Wiscasset Elementary School to plant the first seeds for the school’s new square foot garden.
The students, guided by…
The next Ocean on Tap event will take place on Thursday, April 24 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery, 25 Granary Way in Boothbay Harbor. Dr. Laura Sofen of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean…
Join Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library and the Boothbay Sea and Science Center for a special afternoon of Tidepool Exploration! This Spring Break event is free and open to all area families…
We are excited to announce the Maine State Aquarium opens on Wednesday, June 11! Our hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. We are closed on federal holidays. You can find our…
On Monday, April 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. naturalist Sarah Gladu, director of Education and Community Science for Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, will guide Coastal…
Leaping Lizards! Wiscasset will “stick up its chin and grin" and sing "'Tomorrow! Tomorrow!’” when Wiscasset Middle High School performs Annie JR., it was announced by Drew Cohen, president of…
This spring, Lincoln Academy and Hearty Roots have teamed up during Lincoln’s Flexible Learning Block (FLB) to get students into the woods for an “Outdoor Adventure Club.” Katherine Kirchoff,…
The date of April 18, 1775, is recorded in the annals of American history as the night of Paul Revere’s midnight ride — warning all in the colony of the approach of British Army troops to…
For a second consecutive week, a split vote of Wiscasset's school committee March 25 moved the would be 2025-26 school budget nearer the first of two town votes. Pending selectmen's warrant-…
Friday night, March 28 will be game night, to support Wiscasset Middle High School's tech club. See the attached announcement shared by WMHS Boosters.
Edgecomb Eddy School is excited to announce our second Career Fair for elementary students, designed to provide them with engaging, hands-on experiences that introduce them to various professions…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a Pre-K–8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an Open House on Sunday, April 6, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. All members of the Midcoast community are…
Come one, come all to Ames Supply on Bath Road in Wiscasset on Saturday, March 29 from 7:30 to 1:30, to snap up home baked cakes, cookies, pies and such. In the process, support the missions of…
This summer Monhegan Museum of Art & History will present an exhibition that reexamines the history of Monhegan Island, Maine. “The Monhegan Wildlands: Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of…
Coastal Senior College
Coastal Senior College (CSC), serving Midcoast Maine from Wiscasset to Camden, has opened registration for its 13 spring courses set to begin the week of April 8.
Two of CSC’s Zoom-…
The Wiscasset Elementary School Fourth and Fifth Grade Chorus recently performed two special outreach concerts for local seniors. The first was at Wiscasset Senior Center on March 7, then for the…
Coastal Senior College, serving Lincoln and Knox counties, is accepting registrations for its spring term courses. Among the offerings will be “Dickens’s Magic Tricks,” taught by John and…
Elementary through high school teachers from across Maine are invited to participate in “Climate Change Education: A Watershed…
Y Arts
Fourteen of our youngest community performers joined forces on Saturday, March 15 to perform "A Day with Dinosaurs." The short musical was written by their director, Emily Mirabile, to fit the…
The Maine Press Association is proud to announce it has awarded six scholarships to high school and college students totaling $10,000 to help those students…
Yes, maple goodness is flowing and with it comes the arrival of Maine Maple Sunday Weekend March 22 and 23. A time to visit local producers and, in many cases, learn about the processes involved…
Wiscasset and Boothbay area speakers agreed Monday night, their communities should be thinking over what's next as student numbers have declined and residents still feel a connection to the local…
The Eastern Region of the Scholastic Writing Competition has named two middle school students from the Center for Teaching and Learning as recipients of its 2025…
Press release
January was a month of growth, learning, and teamwork for the 4-H Byre Clan, a vibrant youth farming club based in Bristol. Under the leadership of Club Leader Jeffrey Patterson and the support of…
The following local students were named to the dean's List for the fall 2024 semester at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
Julia Truesdell, a freshman English major from…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Elementary School Assistant Principal Danielle Harris told the school committee March 12, she is 100% for Wiscasset taking part in Cohort 2, the second wave of Maine Department of…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Midcoast Conservancy is delighted to offer a one-day workshop with Maine print artist Jordan Kendall Parks on Saturday, April 19, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hidden Valley Nature Center at…
As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, state officials face growing uncertainty around the future of school funding in Maine.…
Midcoast Senior College brings classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning. The following new courses begin the week of Monday, April 7. Courses are four to six weeks long and are…
J. Edward Knight Insurance is pleased to announce a $600 donation to Wiscasset Partners In Education (PIE), a local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Wiscasset school community…
On Saturday, March 29, come one, come all to Ames Supply, Bath Road, Wiscasset.
From 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., purchase scrumptious baked goods. All proceeds go toward providing…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
Under the direction of Griff Braley, "Sonnets to Orpheus," a Heartwood / Lincoln Academy (LA) collaboration, is a reflective, meditative theater experience,…
The February physical education unit of Dresden Elementary School featured lessons in pickleball. Pickleball is becoming the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and other parts of the world. If you…
