What do you do with about a hundred bricks from Wiscasset’s old sidewalks? Friends of Wiscasset Village isn’t sure yet, but members floated some ideas at Sarah’s Cafe Friday morning and had…
Work
Grover Auto & Tire owner Danny Grover’s late father Buster won the Sportsman Championship in Wiscasset Speedway’s first season in 1969. His wife, Danny’s mother Elaine, was the first woman at…
For six years, Wiscasset resident Kara Pellowe studied the chocolate clam fishery and the coupling of socio-ecological systems in Loreto, Mexico. This summer, she earned a doctorate in ecology and…
Damariscotta Bank & Trust was recently named as one of the 2019 Best Places to Work in Maine. This statewide survey and awards program was created in 2006 to identify, recognize, and award the…
The important nutrient phosphate may be less abundant in the global ocean than previously thought, according to a…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The shop’s co-manager Rosie Bensen explained that normally…
With some ledge and the abutment gone from Alna’s Head Tide Dam, project manager Maranda Nemeth said Friday, she can already picture how the water and fish will likely travel the channel the work…
Ismael Martinez, 12, of Westport Island had a favorite order at Miss Wiscasset Diner, the country-fried breakfast. Then a week after his last visit there, he was on vacation in South Carolina when…
A globally important ocean algae is mysteriously scarce in one of the most productive regions of the Atlantic Ocean, according to a…
Press release
Mung Bean is easily Maine’s oldest exclusively American-made craft store as it celebrates 45 years!
Sue Billings and Steve Madden, the sister and brother team, opened their craft shop in…
A $20 million grant announced today from the National Science Foundation will fund a five-year initiative by Maine science institutes to revolutionize the understanding and management of coastal…
Morris Farm in Wiscasset will host the Knox-Lincoln County Extension Association annual meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at 156 Gardiner Road.
Morris Farm board president and University…
Numbers mean business, and ours are 28.1 million strong. Since launch in 2012, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper websites have racked up 28.1 million pageviews. In the last 12 months…
If you thought you saw Amtrak coming down the rails Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, you weren’t seeing things, except maybe the future.
And the views from aboard were great, according to a…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce announces a Business After Hours and ribbon cutting at the Sheepscot River Shore House, located at 61 Water Street, Wiscasset, Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 7 p…
Dresden selectmen
Plowing contractor Ben Goodall told Dresden selectmen Aug. 6, the town should expect better personnel and equipment on the roads next winter.
“Your vehicles need to be whole. One couldn’t…
The decision to close Miss Wiscasset Diner less than two weeks ago came down to not having enough help,…
Not until December, PUC says
The Maine Public Utilities Commission said Aug. 6 that it expects to rule on the controversial metering and billing case in December 2019, and shortly thereafter take action on CMP’s proposed rate…
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered animals on the planet, with only around 400 individuals remaining. In the Gulf of Maine, climate change is rapidly reorganizing the…
Part of Alna’s concrete, century-old Head Tide Dam became history last week, and on Monday continued being pulled off the Sheepscot River. And the dam, the site and the fish and people who…
Press release
New to Newcastle Realty, agent Jon Stormont brings 30 years of experience in sales and marketing. Jon was the U.S. Procurement Director for Molnlycke Health Care, a company headquartered in…
The last time Southport summer resident Ginny Colburn saw son Ed Colburn get a ribbon was in his school years, in soccer. Then at 15 Water St., Wiscasset July 25, he used Wiscasset Area Chamber of…
CHANS Home Health & Hospice is offering a free training course for individuals interested in becoming a Hospice Volunteer. The Volunteer Training Program will begin on Sept. 5 and run for 10…
Sales of single-family existing homes in Maine eased 7.18 percent comparing June 2019 to June 2018, according to Maine Listings. Values, however, increased 5.09 percent over that same time period…
Press release
The Northeast Lumber Manufacturers Association (NeLMA) announced in July that it has given Hammond Lumber Company four awards for outstanding safety performance during 2018 at Hammond’s sawmill…
Lobstermen gathered on the Stonington Commercial Fish Pier to draw greater attention to the issues facing the survival of their industry and the livelihoods of coastal Maine communities.
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Summer 2019
“Humidity and me are not friends.”
A sweat bead ran down Wiscasset Transfer Station Superintendent Ron Lear’s right temple Saturday morning as the station opened for a day the…
Seafood and pepper jelly were among the offerings at the Boothbay Farmers Market on Thursday, July 18.
Tom and Tracy Penneman of Pemaquid Lobster and Seafood of New Harbor have been market…
Maine lobstermen have found an ally in their battle against new federal regulations designed to protect the endangered Atlantic right whale. Maine Gov. Janet Mills called a National Oceanic and…
Rick Wahle will present “The American Lobster – Poster Child of a Changing Marine Ecosystem” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 19 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center.
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Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate regions, according to…
Wiscasset
Despite some predictions of gloomy sales and business failures if the Maine Department of Transportation project took away Main Street parking, most businesses were doing a brisk business Monday…
In May, scientists recorded the highest atmospheric carbon levels in human history. In response to this type of sustained disruption to global climate, scientists around the world are working to…
Prospective students interested in marine science are encouraged to meet faculty and undergraduates and tour the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole at one of two open house…
The Damariscotta Office of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty is pleased to be hosting a wonderful display of the works of well known Maine artist Kevin Mizner for the months of July…
The ConnectME Authority’s board has voted to fund Alna’s and Tidewater Telecom’s joint grant request for $92,500 to aid broadband access and internet speed. ConnectME’s website carried a…
Press release
Wiscasset resident Sherri Dunbar, a Realtor® at Tim Dunham Realty, was named the 2019 REALTOR of the year by the Lincoln County Council of the Mountains to Shore Board of Realtors on June 19.…
“Maine Creatures Great & Small” lecture series is a collaboration between Kennebec Estuary Land Trust and Midcoast Conservancy. The four-part series looks at four organisms important to our…
Did you know that the monarch butterfly population has dropped 97% since the turn of the century? Did you know that the U.S. government is considering whether they're an endangered species?
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The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct the course, “About Boating Safely,” an introduction to boating, on the following dates --- July 8,…
David Hagan inspires confidence. A great listener, full of enthusiasm, his honest style of communication is both direct and thorough. Many years in customer service handling claims, sales,…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open all day on Thursday, July 4.
The shop’s co-manager Rosie Bensen explains that normally the shop is closed on the…
For the last two years, Elise Hartill has studied the coral communities of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The work culminated this spring when she was awarded a master’s degree…
Heather Leslie and Carl Wilson will discuss “Building Coastal Community Resilience in Maine” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 28 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center.
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Damariscotta
Healthy Lincoln County has repurposed some of their front lawn on Main Street in Damariscotta for two raised garden beds.
“With so much of our work focused on nutrition and food security,…
The man who promised the ‘Deflategate’ judge coffee for life owns Boothbay’s Dunkin franchise. Mike Connor of Lewiston owns four Dunkin franchises in Maine and hopes his newest one will open as…
Wiscasset Airport Advisory Committee
Pilots will soon see reminders around Wiscasset Municipal Airport and online, requesting they avoid flying over Chewonki Campground.
The airport advisory committee on June 19 nodded a…
There was a well-attended farewell for the sloop Providence, which sailed under milky blue skies June 19 toward its new home of Alexandria, Virginia.
A 1976 replica vessel of a…
The 18” x 24” black and white photographs lining the top of the wall entreat you to step back in time … back to the days when four and five-masted schooners were regular visitors to the Boothbay…
