Boothbay Region Land Trust is excited to offer two sessions of an all new, half-day summer camp for children ages 6-12 in partnership with the Boothbay Region YMCA. Environmental Educator Tracey…
Education
The fresh and lively art works by students in Lincoln County schools that opened on May 4 will be on view at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset on Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19 from noon…
On Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., an AARP Driver Safety Class will be hosted by the Hodgdon Green, 6 Hodgdon St, Damariscotta.
This class was developed by the AARP in 1979 as a…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School budget that goes to voters in June was passed at a special town meeting in Wiscasset Middle High School’s gymnasium Tuesday.
Twenty-six voters turned out. Most…
Wiscasset Middle High School students shared their knowledge of D-Day Friday afternoon with six veterans, all members of the Bradford-Sortwell-Wright Post 54 of the American Legion.
D-Day…
Sheepscot Valley Children’s House welcomes you to join our annual May Festival and Open House on Saturday, May 18, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine.
This special event gives prospective…
Join Central Lincoln County Adult Education for a four-day guided tour of “La Belle Province” Friday, July 12 through Monday July 15. Tour leader Irene Marchenay is fluent in French and has led…
Jonathan Batchelder of Edgecomb, a junior premed/predent major, was among approximately 540 Bob Jones University (Greenville, South Carolina) students named to the spring 2019 president's list.…
UPDATE: Thursday evening, Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Stacy White emailed the Wiscasset Newspaper a response to its questions after her resignation at the end of the school year appeared…
The Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb is honored to announce that, after a lengthy international search, Katy Inman will become Head of School, beginning July 1. This marks an exciting…
Midcoast Conservancy is offering a Conservation Stewardship course on Saturday, May 25 and Saturday, June 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 pm. Learning to be an effective conservation steward requires…
In late March, freshmen from Wiscasset Middle High School seeded 17 varieties of heirloom tomatoes. A month later, a different group of science students transplanted these plants into larger pots…
Learn to identify Maine’s hawks and owls and their habitats through the spectacular photographs shared by Maine Audubon representative John Weinrich. We welcome to the public to join us at The…
An eighth-grade student at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning has been recognized at the national level by the Scholastic Writing Awards. Sawyer Linehan of Westport Island won a…
Spice up your celebration of spring with the Lighthouse Adventure, an excursion by land and sea exploring the history and mystery of lighthouses in the Boothbay Harbor area on an exclusive…
Pauline Dion, Boothbay Sea and Science Center’s (BSSC) president, is pleased to announce that Nathaniel “Nathan” Graves will be returning to the Center this summer as a Sea and Science Instructor…
The Boothbay Region Sailing Club (BRSC) held its first invitational regatta of the spring high school season on Saturday, April 27th. Saturday’s regatta was the first of the Pen Bay Sailing…
Five local elementary schools harvested their seaweed crop April 25 as part of a Boothbay Sea and Science Center research project. In September, the Center provided Edgecomb Eddy, Boothbay Region…
Students in Becky Hallowell’s fourth grade class at Wiscasset Elementary School enjoyed their final session of knitting club recently. The students started gathering with their teacher after…
Advanced molecular techniques have revealed the diversity of a little-understood group of ocean microbes called protists, according to a new publication in Scientific Reports. The project…
The Lincoln Home
Jean Vose is an experienced master gardener, certified horticulturist and backyard beekeeper living in Nobleboro where she has created gardens to attract pollinators as well as the other…
The Bath Elementary PTA and Bath Iron Works have partnered with the Maine Maritime Museum, Chewonki, Patten Free Library, University of Maine, Now You’re Cooking, Maine State Aquarium, Shelter…
Wiscasset Elementary School student Evelyn Herrick has won a bronze award for her entry in the 2019 Healthy Whale, Healthy Ocean Challenge sponsored by Boston-based Bow Seat Ocean Awareness…
On Saturday, April 20, the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum will be celebrating Easter on the narrow gauge with Easter Eggspress trains every 35 minutes from 10:50 a.m. until 3:…
Carolyn Potter and Madison Westrich, eighth graders at Wiscasset Middle High School, joined 100 girls from across Maine at the State House March 29 for a dynamic and immersive day…
Matt Chapman of Wiscasset Middle High School is among the 2019 recipients of Maine Principals Association’s Principal’s Award. WMHS Principal Charles Lomonte made the announcement at Tuesday night…
The Wiscasset School Committee approved a $9.38 million 2019-20 budget submitted by School Superintendent Terry Wood Tuesday night. The budget will be presented to the select board on April 23.…
Allison M. Wehrle of Wiscasset, a member of Colby College's Class of 2020, was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa this spring. Membership in the society is one of the highest academic honors…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 demonstration school in Edgecomb, has hosted a group of teacher-interns for the past week from all over the country and the world. For 28 years,…
Coastal Senior College instructor Michael Werner’s upcoming course "What's up with the Artificial Intelligence Explosion?" begins April 25. Space is still available.
Werner states, “You…
River Arts Gallery
River Arts and the Lincoln Academy are pleased to announce the tenth annual Lincoln Academy Student Art Exhibition, which takes place April 11-26 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 11…
Healthy Kids Cabin Fever Reliever was held Saturday at the CLC YMCA in Damariscotta. Attendees, sporting their favorite flannels, were treated to wonderful music by Lincoln Academy jazz students,…
“Rembrandt” is the Exhibition on Screen (EOS) film, directed by Kat Mansoor, for April at Harbor Theater. The 90-minute film screens on Friday, April 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10. Members: $8.…
One of the featured themes in the 2019 TrendZone at New England’s largest hospitality trade show, the Maine Restaurant and Lodging Expo, was global breakfast foods. Cherie Scott, creator of “…
Wiscasset Public Library’s Children’s Room has received a wonderful gift of 100 children’s books. The books were donated by the Brownstone Book Fund, a private foundation based in New York City,…
The public is invited to the second annual Family STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Night at Wiscasset Middle High School, from 5 p.m.…
Wiscasset Middle High School math teacher Marija Randall likes her team’s chances at the upcoming Maine State Math Meet. The odds are, they’ll have a pretty good showing and will do even better…
On Friday, March 29, the Wiscasset Middle High School class of 2019 hosted a “Night of Fun” for grades 6-12 at the high school.
As graduation approaches, the senior class has been…
South Portland, Maine - Girl Scouts of Maine (GSME) announces that it will host Discover Girl Scout events for potential members and volunteers at locations…
Maine Arts Commission
The Maine Arts Commission is seeking nominations for the second annual Maine Arts Awards, honoring citizens, organizations, communities, and businesses for their significant impact on arts and…
Maine’s largest flower show returns to Portland’s Thompson’s Point for its third consecutive year. The 2019 Maine Flower Show, owned and produced by the nonprofit Maine Landscape and…
The Wiscasset School Department is in “good shape” financially but school officials need to resolve a dispute with the select board over $1.1 million, auditor Ron Smith of RHR Smith & Company…
Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood set out to keep the local share of Wiscasset's 2019-2020 school budget under $6 million. She just made it, as it stands now: Voters would be asked to raise $5,…
“Creating with Collage” instructor Deborah Stevenson calls working with cut paper and glue “incredibly fun!” Coastal Senior College is delighted that this well-known Belfast Senior College teacher…
Come visit Juniper Hill School for Placed-Based Education at 180 Golden Ridge Road, Alna, at an open house Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to noon. The event features tours of indoor and outdoor…
On Wednesday, April 10, the Frances Perkins Center welcomes the public to attend a premiere showing of the recently completed documentary, “Highlights of the Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins.”…
SVRSU
If the early numbers stick, Alna and Westport Island would see single-digit percent hikes in their fiscal year 2020 school tabs. Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools…
On Wednesday, March 13, 15 Wiscasset Middle High School poems were shared at the first ever WMHS Poetry Recital. Students shared their own creations as the audience took an emotional roller…
