With the 2021-22 academic year right around the corner, Maine school districts are searching for healthy ways for their students to return to school. One opportunity schools have…
Outdoors
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
From 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust naturalist Sarah Gladu will lead a hike along the trails of Crooked Farm Preserve in Bristol.
Crooked Farm Preserve…
Oak Point Farm’s diverse natural features provide many great benefits to the Boothbay region, including offering the ideal setting for BRLT’s growing educational outreach. One of Boothbay Region…
If you give a free barbecue, they will come, and many did, gathering Saturday afternoon on the lawn of the Woolwich town office to eat, talk and enjoy live music provided by the Montsweagers.…
Midcoast Conservancy is offering an advanced chainsaw course on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. This one day course is designed for folks who…
UPDATE: Heller said that as of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, the When and If was on the Sheepscot River and expected to arrive in Wiscasset Harbor at 10 a.m.
Downtown was the choice for Bruce and…
From 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 13, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust naturalist Sarah Gladu will lead a hike along the trails of Crooked Farm Preserve in Bristol.
Crooked Farm Preserve…
Insects are not only amazingly diverse, but many of them also have very interesting behaviors. Ants tend aphids like tiny farmers. Monarch butterflies sip nectar to fuel them on an epic migration…
Midcoast Conservancy and Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway have partnered to offer a special adventure in Alna: A train ride to a guided hike on Trout Brook Preserve lets participants…
Man has searched for answers since the beginning of time to perplexing questions. An early tool was the labyrinth, a outdoor place…
Manhattan’s Kathryn Fedus figured wearing her hair down when taking her mother Kathleen Quirion’s Newfoundland-poodle (Noodle) Brooke through the dog parade unintentionally clinched the prize for…
For those looking to grow their mountain biking skills, Midcoast Conservancy is offering a three-part Mountain Bike skills course. Each class will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. and the cost is $10,…
First National Bank’s Lincoln County branches will be collecting camping/backpacking gear for Teens to Trails July through Aug/ 27.…
That circle of people you may have seen on Federal Street some noons, near Wiscasset’s Ancient Cemetery, is a family, as far as they are concerned. All Federal Street residents have been meeting…
At Pownalborough Courthouse Sunday, July 11, Dresden had its annual Summerfest for the first time since 2019.
“We are doing some new things,” said celebration coordinator Robin Grant. New…
From 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust naturalist Sarah Gladu will lead a hike along the forested trails of Tracy Shore Preserve in South Bristol.
Located…
If you like a parade with your Fourth of July, Wiscasset is having one. The popular parade is back after a year off with the pandemic. The fireworks are back, too, along with other local…
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is once again offering its popular Camp in a Box™ package for sale this summer. New this year, there are two versions to choose from.
Filled with tools,…
A Maine Forest Service grant is helping the 766-acre Charles and Constance Schmid Land Preserve in…
The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Disabled Veterans’ Controlled Moose Hunt lottery.
Seven Mainers were selected for the…
Midcoast Conservancy will host a full moon paddle at its Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson on Wednesday, June 23, from 8-10 p.m. Participants can enjoy the silvery glow of the “…
Last summer Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) completed several major improvement projects at its flagship preserve--Oak Point Farm. Among these was the expansion of the disability parking area…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) has decided to bring back its innovative Summer Camp Club for a second season. In a year when many in-person summer camps are still on hiatus, the self-…
Anyone interested in local forestry is invited to attend a Forest Walk on Saturday, June 12, from noon to 2 p.m. at Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC). Walk hosts include…
The stately old Segerstrom house has been removed from the Preserve at Squam Creek in Westport Island in preparation for reassembly at a new site. (Thank you, John Wallace!) It is now time to…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is pleased to welcome Professor Aram Calhoun from the University of Maine for an online lecture on Thursday, May 20 at 6 p.m. Join us to learn about vernal pools,…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites families with children aged 5-12 to join Penny Jessop for a morning of birding at Bonyun Preserve May 15. Together we will investigate our feathered…
A popular walking trail in Dresden has been temporarily closed due to problems with unleashed dogs. Trail developer Dave Probert said the loop trail near Pownalborough Court House has consistently…
As part of Midcoast Conservancy’s Nature Workshop series, a hike focused on animal tracking and a talk on ticks will be held in May.
The tracking event is on Saturday, May 1, from 10 a.m.…
Spring has arrived on the Boothbay peninsula and our local vernal pools are a flurry of activity. These seasonal bodies of water are a desirable place for some species of frogs, salamanders and…
Alna’s Maria Jenness always wonders when she finds a shoe on the side of the road: Where is the other one?
The trash she would see on her running route inspired Jenness, who works for…
April 8 was Sara Leone’s birthday. The Wiscasset High School teenager, and daughter of Teens to Trails founders Bob and Carol Leone, had a big love for the outdoors. Together with her parents and…
Discover fascinating facts about the spiders in your backyard! The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) welcomes Dana Wilde, author of A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine, to speak about Maine’s…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites the public on Saturday, April 24 at 1 p.m. to join Springtime Splendor for Amphibians: Vernal Pools of Lilly Pond. The…
Now that Maine frogs are starting to emerge and sing their spring songs, it is a good time of year to find and observe them. From 5 to 6 p.m. on Friday, April 9, Coastal Rivers Education Director…
Midcoast Conservancy will offer two spring walks with bird experts Howie Nielsen and Jonathan Alderfer, who will share their bird identification skills. The first walk will be on May 12 from 7 to…
The WW&F Railway at 97 Cross Road, Alna will be running Springtime Eggspress Trains with SeaLyon Farm April 3 and 10. Much like the Easter Eggspress Trains the railway has run in years past,…
Planning is in the final stages for a federally funded $3 million runway project at Wiscasset Municipal Airport. The project will go out to bid by early April. David Nadeau, senior associate of…
Join Hildy Ellis, recently-retired coordinator at Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, as she leads participants on a walk along the margins of the bog at Midcoast Conservancy’s…
Been seeing lots of unusual finches this winter? Mid-Coast Audubon and Camden Public Library will host a free online Zoom presentation about our northern finch winter visitors on Thursday, March…
The Wiscasset municipal building grounds were showing signs of warmer weather Tuesday. From the mid-morning above freezing temperature on the electronic board to the receding snow along the…
Anyone interested in local forestry is invited to attend a Forest Walk on Saturday, Feb. 27, from noon to 2 p.m. at Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC). Walk hosts include…
On and near Wiscasset’s waterfront Saturday, Feb. 13, the midday sun was brilliant and footprints in the snow showed people are getting out in the cold, including to some summertime spots.
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Start the year by learning ways to focus on the present moment, reduce stress, and observe nature in a new way! The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites the public to an introduction to…
More than 200 high school and college students from around the world have signed up for the Feb. 20-21 Camden Conference, “The Geopolitics of the Arctic: A Region in Peril,” taking advantage of…
Hikers are invited to enjoy the unique sounds of the woods in winter on a full moon hike at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson on Friday, Feb. 26, from 6-8 p.m. Nature will light the trail…
Where It’s At
The snow white path leading into the forested area we know as Cross River Preserve lay before me. With my pamphlet for Boothbay Region Land Trust’s Self-Guided Winter Tree Identification Walk in…
Farmingdale’s Janet Greeley was in Wiscasset recently with her mother and thought it looked like a good place to take a walk. So Sunday, Feb. 7 she returned with husband Greg and the couple’s…
While the Maine woods are famous grounds for leaf peepers throughout the fall, many hikers who trek out in winter may be oblivious to the variety of trees surrounding them. The species that so…
