Sports

The 13th annual Karl’s Kids Ski Day fundraiser will be held on Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7 at Sugarloaf. Since its inception, Karl’s Kids has helped more than 1,600 children in Lincoln…

The Wolverine girls closed out their basketball season by winning one of their two games Saturday in a junior varsity tournament Richmond High School hosted. Wiscasset Middle High School won 29-17…

Come enjoy the beauty of winter in Maine at Merrymeeting Fields Preserve while on Nordic skis or snowshoes. On Saturday, Feb. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., participants are welcome to join skiers and…

Here are the results for Wiscasset Parks and Recreation’s eighth week of adult basketball at Wiscasset Community Center, with the scoring breakdown for the top three of each team.

The Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour, hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, returns to Damariscotta at 7 p.m. on March 2 at the Lincoln Theater with a curated selection of the festival…

“You might just have to take two, if they’re stuck together,” Dave Sawyer told Recreation Programmer Chelsea Taylor as she had one pancake in the tongs and a hanger-on at Saturday’s breakfast at…

The Wolverines outscored visiting Lisbon 16-11 in the final period but fell short losing 47-35. Saturday’s basketball game at Stover Auditorium was the Mountain Valley Conference season finale for…

Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association

The Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association will hold its annual Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby on Wiley Pond from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15, at the club property at 447 Dover Road,…

Midcoast Conservancy will offer a full moon hike (or snowshoe, if there is snow on the ground) at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson on Friday, Feb. 7, from 6-8 p.m. Hikers can enjoy a crisp…

The Wolverine boys closed out their Mountain Valley Conference basketball season with a 97-26 loss to Telstar High School at Bethel Wednesday night, Jan. 29.

The hot-shooting Rebels held…

By the light of a full moon, the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) welcomes the public to explore Thorne Head Preserve in Bath for owls on Friday, Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m. Led by Maine Master…

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is once again partnering with Great Salt Bay Community School’s PTO to host the sixth annual Winter Fest, a free, family-friendly outdoor celebration of winter.…

Madison led from the opening tip-off winning 73-18 over Wiscasset Middle High School Monday night at Stover Auditorium in Mountain Valley Conference basketball action.

The game began with…

Jan. 19 results of Adult Basketball at Wiscasset Community Center, with the scoring breakdown for the top three of each team:

Red's Eats: 81 points; Shane Hutchings 27, Tiger…

The Wolverines got off to a fast start, but the visiting Telstar Rebels left a 47-28 winner Friday in Mountain Valley Conference girls’ basketball action at Stover Auditorium.

It was…

WMHS basketball

Josh Jones launched and swished a final three for the Wolverines on Senior Night, the game recognizing members of the class of 2020, but Telstar High School won 79-44 at Stover Auditorium Friday…

On a sunny midday Jan. 23, Wiscasset Newspaper took a winter’s look around Wiscasset Municipal Airport.

Through April, office hours are by appointment, Airport Manager Rick Tetrev said in…

Every Saturday is a snow day ay Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center this winter. For the rest of January and through Feb. 22, from noon to 4 p.m., Midcoast Conservancy’s gear…

Where It’s At

The night sky: Who doesn’t enjoy looking up at the stars musing about the distance between them and us? Imagining what civilizations from pre-historic times forward thought when seeing what we…

A walking and cross-country skiing trail, an idea when Alna was getting its new town office, became real this month. It cost the town nothing, First Selectman Melissa Spinney said.

“It’s…

Hall-Dale High School relied on its outside shooting game netting 10 three-point baskets and winning, 58-15, over host Wiscasset Middle High School Monday afternoon in Stover Auditorium.

K…

Special Olympics Maine celebrates the 50th anniversary of its state Winter Games Jan. 26-28.

In 1970, Special Olympics Maine held the world’s very first Special Olympics Winter Games. It…

Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Director Duane Goud said he isn’t very good at cornhole. But if needed to make even teams for Winterfest’s new tournament Saturday, Feb. 1, he’ll play.

“I’ve…

Mountain Valley High School scored 27 of its 98 points from behind the 3-point arc while holding host Wiscasset Middle High School to 27 points in Stover Auditorium Saturday.

It was the…

Midcoast Board of Approved Soccer Officials presented its  2019 Willy Walter Sportsmanship Award to Wiscasset Middle High School’s Wolverine girls’ varsity soccer team Saturday. Fifty officials…

In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Wiscasset Middle High School is offering free admission to Monday afternoon’s Mountain Valley Conference basketball game. WMHS normally charges…

Billy Pinkham scored 19 points and Noah Haggett had 11 for the Wiscasset Middle High School Wolverines, who lost to visiting Oak Hill Tuesday night, Jan. 14 in Mountain Valley Conference…

Boothbay Middle went on a 10-0 run in the closing minutes of the first half winning 69-52 over host Wiscasset in Busline League basketball action Tuesday night, Jan. 14, the final one of the…

The Wolverines stayed close Tuesday night, Jan. 14 to Oak Hill through the first half. but the Raiders prevailed 63-31 at Stover Auditorium. The Raiders led their Mountain Valley Conference…

Results for Jan. 5, week four of adult basketball at Wiscasset Community Center, including the scoring breakdown for the top three of each team.

Maxwell's Market: 69 points; Ethan…

Wiscasset Middle High School put on a successful five-team junior varsity basketball tournament Saturday. Jan. 11. The 16-minute games were well played, exciting to watch and drew many…

The Wolverines went toe-to-toe on the basketball court with the Seahawks at Boothbay Region High School Friday night but came up short 48-34.

Kateleen Trask had a big night for Wiscasset…

Damariscotta

Since Coastal Rivers relocated its headquarters to Round Top Farm in Damariscotta last April, the farmhouse at Salt Bay Farm on Belvedere Road has become a dedicated nature center and a hub for…

The Boothbay girls basketball team defeated county rival Wiscasset, 48-34, at Porter Memorial Gymnasium Jan. 10 for Boothbay’s  win of the season.

Senior guard Chloe Arsenault was the only…

BRHS girls basketball

Allan Crocker, athletic director at Boothbay Region High School, has announced that tonight’s (Jan. 10) girls basketball contest will be a varsity only contest beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Anyone looking for ways to enjoy the snowy winter need venture no further than Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson for a multitude of options. Cross-country skiing,…

La Verna Preserve in Bristol boasts a variety of forest habitats as well as interesting geology and stunning views of Muscongus Bay. Coastal Rivers Education Director Sarah Gladu will be leading a…

Wiscasset Middle survived a third quarter surge by the visiting Bristol Devils for a 62-40 Busline League basketball win Wednesday evening, Jan. 8.

Balance scoring tipped the scales in…

Where It’s At
Katharine Cobey

Let’s face it: Not all of us are into winter sports. There. I said it. And, I (not surprisingly) am one of those. Tried skiing – once – couldn’t make a “pie” or ski as well as the toddlers on the…

Two Wiscasset sites have been announced for a junior varsity basketball jamboree Jan. 11.
 
Wiscasset, Boothbay, Buckfield, Hall-Dale, Monmouth and Temple…

Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company has generously donated a parcel of land on Westport Island to the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) for a wildlife preserve. The 17-acre parcel, near the corner…

Wiscasset Middle High School’s Noah Haggett scored in every period, netting eight points in the fourth period but host Hall-Dale won 95-31 Saturday night in Farmingdale.

“We moved the ball…

Wiscasset Middle High School outscored visiting Carrabec 13-11 in the third period but it wasn’t enough as the Cobras finished a 61-21 winner in Mountain Valley Conference basketball action…

Now that the snow is sticking around the Midcoast, snowmen are appearing. We spotted a Frosty look-alike, top hat included, in Wiscasset, and an Alna family shared a photo of a freshly built Olaf…

Wiscasset Middle dropped a pair of Busline League basketball games to visiting Hope Thursday afternoon, Jan. 2.

The visitors scored the first 12 points of the girls’ game and won big, 66-8…

Merrymeeting Winter Series

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) fourth presentation of their 23nd annual Winter Speaker Series; entitled “Let There Be Dark”-Preserving our Night Skies, features Rob Burgess, NASA Solar…

Wiscasset Parks and Recreation

Here are the results for Dec. 29, our third week of Adult Basketball at Wiscasset Community Center:

First National Bank: 79 points; Bryan James 54, Spencer La Count nine and Derek…

Wiscasset Parks and Recreation

Here are the results for Dec. 22, our second week of Adult Basketball at Wiscasset Community Center:

Wiscasset Ford: 97 points; Julian Aponte 38, Matt Hinkley and Conlon Ranta 18,…

A once vegetated spot upriver of Alna’s Head Tide Dam is now a hazardous, “sheer drop,” resident Chris Cooper told selectmen Dec. 23. Big rocks or some other barrier will go there, Atlantic Salmon…

Six different Wolverines scored at Lisbon but the host Greyhounds were too much, winning 54-24 in Mountain Valley Conference girls basketball Friday night.

Brianna Orr led all Wiscasset…