On May 3, Center for Teaching and Learning volunteer Ross Branch wanted to make sure the Edgecomb Planning Board knew exactly who he was. So the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard craftsman displayed the…
Education
Come out and help raise money for our graduating Senior Scholarship Fund. On May 5 from 9 a.m to 2 p.m., Wiscasset Ford will have several vehicles for people to test-drive on a short course at the…
Building on and renaming the year-old Sheepscot Regional Educational Program would spare Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 from losing about $39,000 in state aid and later, about twice as…
Wiscasset Middle High School held its annual prom dress giveaway in the school library Tuesday.
Any girl who has attends her high school prom knows the dress she wears is of utmost…
Join Hildy Ellis,Coordinator at Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, as she leads participants on a walk along the margins of the bog at…
Midcoast Senior College will move to 29 Burbank Ave., Suite 1, Brunswick, Maine this June. The announcement was made by James Wilkes, president, Midcoast Senior College Board of Directors.…
Professional dog trainer Jean Conte is once again offering Central Lincoln County YMCA dog obedience classes. Held each Tuesday, the program runs from May 8-29.
Beginner class is 5-6 p.m…
Wiscasset Schools
The Wiscasset School Committee on Monday approved a contract with Maine School Management Association to aid the committee's search for a new superintendent. Heather Wilmot's resignation takes…
The Maine Art Gallery Wiscasset will again provide a venue for promising artists from seven local schools with an exhibit running May 5-20. The gallery will be open weekends from noon to 4 p…
Wiscasset schools’ districtwide athletic director-assistant principal Mandy Lewis confirmed Tuesday, she is leaving at the end of the school year to become an assistant principal at Brunswick…
Open to all high school string players in and outside of Maine
The DaPonte String Quartet is accepting applications to its annual three-day Quartet Workshop for High School String Players at Camp Kieve’s Wavus campus in Jefferson Sept. 21-23.
Twenty…
A Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 budget presentation in Alna was moved from Tuesday, April 24 to Thursday April 26, Third Selectman Doug Baston said. The meeting at the fire station…
Diversity Day is a day when many guest speakers come to Wiscasset Middle High School to educate students and staff about a variety of topics while promoting diversity within society. Students get…
On Friday, May 11, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the Feed Our Scholars Backpack Initiative will hold a fundraising paint party in St. Philip’s church hall, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset. For the very reasonable…
Wiscasset schools
A new program at Wiscasset Middle High School this fall will help students from across the area build skills to see them through their school careers and through life.
According to…
The annual Wiscasset High School Alumni Banquet will be Saturday June 2 at the Wiscasset Middle High School Gymnasium. Social time will start at 5 p.m. followed by dinner and the program at 6.…
Healthy Lincoln County has partnered with four local schools to conduct PhotoVoice with students from grades 6-12. PhotoVoice is participatory-action research strategy by which students capture…
The Wednesday, May 2 deadline for the Maine Arts Commission’s dance education grants for PK-12 schools and teaching artists is quickly approaching. Applications must be filed by 5 p.m. in the…
Alna’s school choice question survived its first reading with the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 board April 12, Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle confirmed.
In a phone…
Wiscasset Elementary School students earned Copy Cat Day on Wednesday, April 11 for being safe, responsible and respectful. Staff and students had fun wearing matching outfits for the day!
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12’s board on April 12 takes its first read of the change Alna wants to make to school choice.
To get the proposal to a required district-wide vote,…
River Arts is inviting the public to a free artist demonstration, Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m. by Linda Packard. Packard will be demonstrating how she builds her abstracted landscapes, working from…
Wiscasset Elementary School invites the public to its art show and concert on Thursday, April 12.
The art show opens at 5 p.m. First and second grade musicians will perform at 5:30,…
If you are interested in any of the Coast Guard Auxiliary boating classes offered through Boothbay Region Adult Ed, call 633-4748 or…
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot’s and Special Education Director Carrie Kern’s resignations are on the School Committee’s Tuesday, April 10 agenda, released Friday. Both…
Chairman Jack Brennan paraphrased an ancient Greek philosopher-mathematician on April 2 in summarizing how the Edgecomb Budget Committee formulated a $4,190,266 combined FY 19 municipal and school…
Maine Coastal Observing Alliance (MCOA) is looking for help from student artists to design a logo.
MCOA is a coalition of coastal water quality monitoring groups, made up of citizen…
Town of Edgecomb
In March, Edgecomb Eddy School’s enrollment reached 88 students, the most in its 16-year history at its current location. School officials estimate enrollment will reach 93 students next fall. The…
Wiscasset Middle High School
In a Wiscasset Middle High School science classroom Friday, Ralph Keyes's students donned dust masks to mix soil and washed their hands to keep healthy the tomato seeds they were preparing to…
School Committee Chairman Tom Abello told approximately 20 Edgecomb residents March 28, the proposed 2018-19 budget shows a 6.7 percent increase. The committee is recommending a $2,869,172 budget…
A new music day camp for kids is scheduled for July 16-20 at Lincoln Academy, giving experienced and beginning string players a summer boost. Veteran music teachers Kaity Newell…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA and the Boothbay Region YMCA are offering teen leadership opportunities this summer for youth ages 13-15.
Camp K Leader in Training (LIT) and…
One in four Americans over the age of 65 fall each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Falls threaten older adults’ safety and independence. To help community…
On Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center will host an AARP Driver Safety Class. AARP instructor Joyce Polyniak will teach the course at Spectrum…
Wiscasset Middle High School hosted its first ever STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) night on Thursday, March 15. The event was open to all community…
Wiscasset School Committee
Due to back-to-back snowstorms, the Wiscasset School Committee is only beginning its preliminary budget meetings. Tuesday night, the committee reviewed proposed budgets for administration,…
Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice (MSAHHH) will be offering a free hospice training course for all those interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. The training will held on April…
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 2-5
Would you enjoy boating more if you knew more about boats and navigation? That’s the purpose of boating courses offered by U. S. Coast Guard Flotilla Boothbay Harbor. They are designed to help you…
In his family’s Wilton canning plant during World War II, Vance Wells worked alongside friends and neighbors canning vegetables to ship to soldiers overseas. Friday, in the Wiscasset Elementary…
Heidi Souza, daughter of Michael and Louanne Pinkham of Wiscasset, has been awarded her bachelor of arts in English from the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Heidi is a 2013…
Boothbay Region High School
At 10 a.m. Thursday, March 15 – a month and a day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – over 30 Boothbay Region High School students emerged from the…
Wiscasset Elementary School is now registering kindergarten students for the 2018-2019 school year. Please call 882-7767 for more information.
A kindergarten parent information night will…
Drama Festival One Act Competition
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances ...,” muses Shakespearean character Jaques in “As You Like It.” And he was right.
…
MSAD #40 and the Morris Farm are jointly offering a field course on old barns to begin on March 20 in Waldoboro. The course will be taught by Les Fossel.
This is a course for people who…
Spots are already filling in Heartwood’s 16th session of summer camp for students entering grades 3-12, scheduled to run July 2-12. Heartwood’s theater camps teach performance skills and promote…
How do you identify a tree if it has no leaves? The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites the public to the first event in the Stewardship Series to learn how to identify trees in winter on…
Midcoast Conservancy
Join Midcoast Conservancy April 28 and 29 for a one-and-a-half day course on chainsaw safety designed for beginners at Hidden…
Family STEM Night at Wiscasset Middle High School has been postponed until Thursday, March 15, 5 to 6:30 p.m., due to the storm forecast on Thursday, March 8, according to Kim Andersson of WMHS.…
Some Alna residents wondered if tax hikes will force them out, others questioned the quality of some public schools, and the phrase PFA for people from away became people from Alna Monday night,…
