Alna planning board chairman Jim Amaral said the panel will deliberate tonight on Jeff Spinney’s ramp and earthwork…
On the Water
Paddlesports: canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding, is the fastest growing segment of watercraft recreation. Unfortunately, it’s also disproportionately the most dangerous segment…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen decided Wednesday, Nov. 18 to take as much time as law allows before setting a town vote on…
Alna planning board
In his latest try at a boat ramp Alna will approve at 126 Golden Ridge Road, Jeff Spinney told the planning board Nov. 10, he has ordered a 15-foot wide, modular, portable, military-grade aluminum…
An Alna man said he plans a court appeal after a Friday night decision by the town’s appeals board. Jeff Spinney has sought to do ramp work along the Sheepscot River off Golden Ridge Road.
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Midcoast Conservancy’s Senior Watershed Restoration Manager Shri Verrill said it rained when it wasn’t supposed to Monday, and she noted one other surprise as a Topsham firm addressed…
In Boothbay Harbor Sunday, Sept. 6, Trump supporters decorated their boats with banners and flags and paraded through the outer and inner harbor.
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Midcoast Conservancy will host a full moon paddle at its Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 7-9 p.m. Participants can enjoy the silvery glow of the “full corn…
Boothbay Region YMCA
The Boothbay Region YMCA 27th annual Rowgatta on Barters Island Aug. 8 got blue skies and light winds. Twenty-six single kayaks, five double kayaks and two paddle boards made the nine-mile trip…
Saturday, July 25 was seamless, air-warm, water- flat, destination - perfect. It was a pretty cruise from any port. Several boats chose to cruise through the Thread…
Saturday, July 25 was seamless, air-warm, water- flat, destination - perfect. It was a pretty cruise from any port. Several boats chose to cruise through the Thread…
AUGUSTA –Earlier this week, in response to the fatal shark attack near Bailey Island, water activity restrictions took effect at Maine's coastal State Parks with beaches. Today, July 31, the…
Jeff Spinney was considering all options after Alna’s planning board again rejected his Sheepscot River ramp replacement request Monday night. Two new votes went the same way as the June 29 one:…
ROCKLAND — Usually the “fit out” season to get boats ready for sailing goes from March through late May with a Memorial Day start to the season for the Maine Windjammer Association, the largest…
ROCKLAND — Usually the “fit out” season to get boats ready for sailing goes from March through late May with a Memorial Day start to the season for the Maine Windjammer Association, the largest…
Saturday’s fog, showers and clouds broke, making a sunny, breezy midday for one family’s first time at Alna’s Head Tide Dam. The Fairleys were visiting from Massachusetts.
Some members rode…
Alna planning board’s Jim Amaral and Jeff Spinney’s lawyer Kristin Collins agreed July 7: They wished the board would stop having ties. The two disagreed on whether or not to let Spinney present a…
At 12 and a half feet long and built of plywood with a pair of designs Herb Smith found in WoodenBoat, the latest Appledore will be launched privately in Boothbay Harbor, probably this…
As he said he might, Jeff Spinney decided to ask Alna’s planning board to reconsider its June 29 rejection of his proposed ramp project at the Sheepscot River. Spinney, the board’s chair, said he…
Alna planning board
Alna planning board’s 2-2 vote on Zoom Monday night sank Jeff Spinney’s request to revamp his ramp on the Sheepscot River. Tom Albee and Acting Chair Taylor McGraw decided the ramp was a legally…
Alna planning board members said June 23, they want to protect the Sheepscot River and that voters did also when they passed the town’s shoreland zoning in 1993. Part of what members are still…
A retrospective
This month was to feature the 58th year of the (Boothbay Harbor) Windjammer Days Festival. And this year marks the seventh year Friends of Windjammer Days has been directing its course. This year…
A retrospective
This month was to feature the 58th year of the (Boothbay Harbor) Windjammer Days Festival. And this year marks the seventh year Friends of Windjammer Days has been directing its course. This year…
Whichever way Alna’s planning board decides on Jeff Spinney’s proposed dock project, Alna’s lawyer expects a court challenge. After the final two hours of public comment June 18, Amanda Meader…
Alna selectmen are asking voters at the polls July 14 for another $50,000 for legal costs. “I hope that’s enough,” Second Selectman Doug Baston said via Zoom June 10 as the board set the…
Memorial Day has come and gone without one of Bill Campbell’s Balmy Days Cruises vessels: Balmy Days, Novelty, Bay Lady, or Miss Boothbay, on the water; without the graceful…
Alna’s attorney Amanda Meader has seen nothing in her municipal law career like the tension, meetings, letters, information requests and more around Jeff Spinney’s request for a dock project on…
The far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 virus and the measures being taken to reduce its spread are applicable in many areas you may not have thought about. While state and local…
Wiscasset Yacht Club is offering 12-hour private sailing instructions for adults June 8 through September. Classes will be held weekdays from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Holbrook’s Pond is back to looking like it’s supposed to and not like an overgrown mud puddle. This wasn’t the case last summer after a small dam gave way threatening the Wiscasset landmark at the…
Holbrook’s Pond is back to looking like it’s supposed to and not like an overgrown mud puddle. This wasn’t the case last summer after a small dam gave way threatening the Wiscasset landmark at the…
“It is with a heavy heart and the utmost regard for health and safety that we have made the difficult decision to cancel Windjammer Days 2020. This pandemic has brought to light all that we at…
In summer, Nicholas and Mika Repenning and son Enishi, 8, swim and play at Alna’s Head Tide Dam. Saturday, in the wind and afternoon sun, the Whitefield couple was above the Sheepscot River…
Want to improve your sailing skills? Then “Sailing Skills and Seamanship” is a course for you. It is designed for both experienced and novice sailboat operators. Topics include types of sailboats…
The Boothbay Region YMCA is teaming up with Sailing Ships Maine to send 24 high school aged students sailing for a week of sail training. Sailing for a week on a traditional wooden Maine schooner…
In anticipation of a summer season of boating ahead, the Wawenock Sail and Power Squadrons® will teach a one-day recreational boating safety course at the Boothbay Region YMCA on…
In anticipation of a summer season of boating ahead, the Wawenock Sail and Power Squadrons® will teach a one-day recreational boating safety course at the Boothbay Region YMCA on…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA and Boothbay Region YMCA are proud to announce the release of their joint 2020 YMCA Summer Camp Guide. It should be an exciting summer for the kids and teens…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA and Boothbay Region YMCA are proud to announce the release of their joint 2020 YMCA Summer Camp Guide. It should be an exciting summer for the kids and teens…
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…
At Alna’s Head Tide Dam Dec. 21, a fence no longer blocked access to the new platform overlooking the Sheepscot River. Wiscasset Newspaper took early morning photos the day of the winter solstice…
Paddling from Kings Mills in Whitefield to Alna’s Head Tide Dam Sunday, Woolwich’s Catherine Kimball got out of a kayak and the Sheepscot River just before the dam. Fellow Penobscot Paddle and…
Here come the railings and bench for Head Tide Dam’s new overlook in Alna. And with their installation, underway through the week of Dec. 9, will come public access to the overlook, Atlantic…
Greg Shute figures he has canoed at Alna’s Head Tide Dam 100 times. It can get a little hazardous there, he said. But looking at it in the rain Thursday, Oct. 31, with all the changes weeks or…
Weather permitting, Chris Cooper expects to get all the plants in the ground at Alna’s Head Tide Dam by Thursday, Oct. 31. The dedication of the site Atlantic Salmon Federation and partners made…
Wiscasset Yacht Club held its 67th annual meeting on Saturday, Oct. 19. Members gathered for an hour of camaraderie, including a delicious buffet of potluck dishes.
Then the business…
Alna selectmen
Next spring’s Alna town meeting may have some Pinkham Pond questions, selectmen said Oct. 16. Both ideas involve parking and the state’s proposal could include a path to take canoes and kayaks to…
In Wiscasset harbor Saturday morning, the Wiscasset Newspaper found Terry Ashton, 44, of Wiscasset and Boothbay doing what he’s been doing since he was 11: Going fishing for lobster.
He…
Boothbay Harbor is one of few ports the Nao Santa María has graced since its voyage in the Great Lakes. When the replica ship landed at Pier 1 the afternoon of Sept. 24, dozens of locals…
Folk singer Gordon Bok is hosting the 10th annual Working on the Water event. This is a gathering of mariners who come together for an afternoon of sharing personal experiences and inspirations of…
