An auditors’ report by Berry Talbot Royer praised Lincoln County Finance Director Michelle Cearbaugh for organizing the county’s financial situation. Among other things, the county has yet to dip…
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After a public hearing Tuesday, Wiscasset selectmen voted to increase sewer rates by 30 percent, not the 56 percent hike that would have zeroed out the shortfall in the wastewater treatment budget…
The Woolwich Select Board unanimously accepted a $149,615 ambulance bid Monday night from Autotronics. The Bangor-based company specializes in selling emergency vehicles and was the lowest of six…
Articles allowing the retail sale, cultivation and testing of marijuana lost at the Edgecomb town meeting on Saturday, May 18. Most of the warrant was approved, totaling $4.1 million for local…
Obituary
Lorraine Emerson Hodgdon passed peacefully, with loving family by her side, May 18, 2019 following a short illness. Her and her husband, Stanley J. Hodgdon of Trevett, just celebrated their 65th…
Sam and Kayda Selby of Wiscasset come every spring to Morris Farm’s annual plant sale. As usual Saturday, they got the heirloom tomatoes.
Pittston’s Jeff and Brenda Blodgett had never been…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
In July, Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset will lose one of its longtime boarding counties, Waldo County, and with it, a nearly million-dollar contract.
However, Col. James Bailey,…
On Thursday, May 15, Edgecomb’s planning board reviewed Cindy Landry’s plan for additional parking and seating at her Cook’s Landing business.
Landry explained the bar and grille has…
All are welcome to attend American Legion Post 54's Memorial Day observance Monday, May 27, at the veterans wall at the municipal building at the corner of routes 1 and 27 in Wiscasset. The…
Obituary
Sandra E. "Sandie" Kaiser, of Beaufort, South Carolina and Maine, passed away May 18, 2019 after a series of strokes. Her beloved husband of nearly 30 years was by her side.
Born Nov. 12,…
In a persistent drizzle, the main mast for the sloop Providence was stepped on Friday, May 17, at the recreational pier in Wiscasset. The huge crane also installed the boom, yardarm and…
On Saturday, May 25, The Friends of Colonial Pemaquid will kick-off the 2019 summer season of events at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic site in New Harbor. The festivities will commence at 2 p.m…
When Michael Liscomb and his family went to camp in 2017, no one was asking his wife or his children what happened to him.
The other spouses and children were in military families, so they…
Wiscasset schools
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood was making plans Friday to meet Wiscasset Elementary School’s administrative needs through the end of the school year. Principal Stacy White’s…
The Lincoln County Historical Association invites you to join in the organization’s 65th annual observance of Memorial Day. The gathering begins at 11 a.m., Monday. May 27 at the flag pole on the…
Becky Doughty, assistant show director, has announced the following dates for the 2019 craft shows on the Boothbay Common:
Memorial Day Show – May 25, 26
Windjammer Days Show – June…
Lincoln County Courts
Michael Holbrook, 47, of Boothbay took an Alford plea to address several charges stemming from a night of violence and mayhem on April 14 and 15, 2017.
Holbrook took the plea, similar to a…
Heading “up to camp” and putting everything back in order after a long winter, like getting your boat ready for a new season, can feel like a chore. Things that worked in the fall may not be in…
Lincoln County Courts
A Lincoln County grand jury indicted Matthew Plummer, 36, of Wiscasset May 15, charging him in connection with an eight-hour police standoff Dec. 14-15, 2018 at his apartment on Heritage Lane.…
Darling Marine Center
Dr. Damian Brady has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. He is a faculty member in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences and based at the Daring Marine Center in…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
A month into her job as Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce’s marketing and membership coordinator, Newcastle’s Rebecca Telega was smiling and getting to meet people at Wiscasset Area Chamber…
This year’s Edgecomb Eddy School Yard Sale will be held Saturday, May 25 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Those interested in having a table, the cost is $10 and the proceeds go to benefit the 6th…
The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) is pleased to announce that the American Legion and Easterseals Maine will be points of contact for distribution of Veterans’ Emergency Financial…
LincolnHealth Ambulatory Surgery Nurse Ericka Fairfield was recently chosen to receive the prestigious DAISY Award for providing exceptional care. The award was presented May 7 by Bonnie and Mark…
Chief Robert Hasch of the Boothbay Harbor Police Department has released the following information about the standoff which occurred today (May 15) at 31 Oak St.:
“On 5-15-2019 at…
Celebrate spring all weekend with our Community Partner weekend May 18 and 19!
If you are a resident of Wiscasset, Westport Island or Alna, enjoy free admission to the Community Center both…
UPDATE: A standoff at 31 Oak St. came to a head around 1:15 p.m. as Boothbay Harbor officers and Lincoln County deputies safely apprehended Konstantinos Rigas, 31,…
First National Bank recently donated $2,500 to sponsor the 2019 Damariscotta Oyster Celebration.
The second annual Damariscotta Oyster Celebration kicks off on June 13 with chefs from North…
Healthy Lincoln County and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office are working together to provide local restaurants, bars, and stores with Responsible Beverage Seller/Server training…
The mast-stepping for the sloop Providence, undergoing renovations at the Wiscasset recreational pier since fall, will wait a little longer due to an unseasonable spring rain. The raising…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen decided May 8 to ask $130,000 for the former town office and its two acres. The property, next to the new, modular town office on Route 218, will be for sale by owner.
The…
Energy, Technology and Utilities Committee
A public hearing for LD 1646, “An Act To Restore Local Ownership and Control of Maine's Power Delivery Systems” drew hundreds to the Energy, Technology and Utilities Committee hearing room Tuesday…
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 articles…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Commissioners approved the towns’ tax commitments May 7. The total county budget to be raised by taxation is $10,203,674. That is lower than the general expenditures, because some…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Chewonki Foundation on Monday presented its initial plans to the Wiscasset Planning Board for a girls’ summer camp. If approved, it will have seven camper cabins, two staff cabins, a bathroom, and…
Obituary
Craig Tibbetts, 61, of Raiford, Florida died May 4, 2019 at Haven Hospice in Orange Park, Florida.
He was born Sept. 19, 1957 in Boothbay Harbor, the son of Albion B. and Fern Thayer…
Obituary
Robert “Bob” Frederick Foster, 84, of West Southport, passed away on April 1, 2019.
Born Sept. 25, 1934, Bob was the son of William Sproul Foster and Francis Elizabeth Feltis of Walpole.…
Construction will start on Dollar General's Route 1, Wiscasset store by the end of June, and the store will "certainly" open by Christmas, Chris Nadeau of Concord, New Hampshire-based engineering…
The barn at Morris Farm is once again filling up with a huge selection of heirloom tomatoes, hardy Maine-grown perennials, vegetable and flower seedlings, and herbs for the farm’s annual plant…
Do you wonder about the so-called 'standard' gauge and whether it is really always the right choice when building a railway?
Come to a presentation at the Alna Center Station on Saturday,…
Obituary
Charles J. DiPerri Jr., 77, of Wiscasset, Maine, died May 4, 2019 at home surrounded by family after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Charlie was born February 23, 1942, son of Dr.…
Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority
The Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority decided May 8 to create a committee to look into options for Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) for opioid addiction at the jail.
According to Col. …
Sagadahoc Superior Court
Danielle Ward, 35, of Hope, was sentenced to six years in prison May 6 after changing her plea to guilty in March in connection with a January 2017 crash that claimed the lives of a Woolwich…
Obituary
Donald Frederick Lewis, 72, of Aurora, Colorado passed peacefully at Aurora Medical Center South on May 11, 2019 after a brief illness.
Donald was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on March 30…
The Boothbay Farmers’ Market starts its season on Boothbay Town Common on Thursday, May 23. They will set up on the Common from 9 a.m. to noon every Thursday through October 10, except that the…
A very enthusiastic group of approximately 30 Westport Island residents used near perfect weather to make the May 4 clean-up day a great success.
Several truckloads of trash and recyclables…
The Boothbay Register office will be closed on Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day. Please note: the deadline for submissions — including all press releases, ads and columns — for the…
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,…
Two big pieces of sailing history, schooners Ernestina-Morrissey and Bowdoin, sit a couple hundred feet apart at Bristol Marine in Boothbay Harbor keeping some of the East Coast’…
As spring comes to coastal Maine, it brings with it the return of alewives to Nequasset Lake in Woolwich and the start of the annual Nequasset Alewife Count. Volunteers are needed from May through…
