While enrolling or re-enrolling in the Health Insurance Marketplace may seem a bit daunting, Lincoln County residents don’t have to do it alone.

MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital’s Access to Care team is available to assist community members with their marketplace applications and answer questions about CoverME.gov, the health insurance marketplace website for Mainers. Open enrollment began on Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 15, 2025. 

Why don't they leave? This is a question you may have asked when hearing or reading about someone in your community or family who is in an abusive relationship. In this article, the lives of some women who did eventually find their way out will give readers an inkling into why they don’t just leave.

Along with honoring veterans through words, wreath-layings, a gun salute and "Taps," American Legion Post 54's Veterans Day ceremony in Wiscasset was also a chance to share how to help protect veterans from suicide.

A poster about waist-high to Legion member Ed Polewarczyk, and a 3 5/8-inch tall pamphlet fellow member Stephanie Davis was handing out, both spoke to the issue. "This is really to say, 'Ask a veteran in your circle, how are they doing,'" Davis told Wiscasset Newspaper at Monday morning's service at the veterans' wall at the town office.

Heartwood Regional Theater Company, in collaboration with Lincoln Academy, announces student auditions for the Broadway musical "Hadestown" nominated for 14 Tony Awards and winner of eight. This challenging sung-through musical tells the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, in a unique and compelling style, featuring 14 characters.

The Bremen Library will again be hosting its popular wreath sale fundraiser. The “official sale days” will be Saturday, Nov. 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon. In addition to the official sale days, customers may come to the Bremen Town House beginning Nov. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2:30 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays. All sales will be held at the Bremen Town House on Route 32 next to the Fire House.

Midcoast Senior College is celebrating 25 years of bringing seniors in Midcoast Maine opportunities for educational courses, lectures, and excursions. The following free lecture series in January and February 2025 includes a range of topics and speakers.

When Fred Wilson planted spruce trees on his farm in western Massachusetts, he likely did not picture what would become of them. Decades later, a particularly robust specimen was crafted into the main mast for a 38-foot sailboat handmade by his great grandson whose journey has made him an internet celebrity.

Spark your holiday spirit with a visit to Historic New England’s 1807 Nickels-Sortwell House, at 121 Main St. in Wiscasset. The Christmas tours are Friday, December 6, Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Local newspapers are vital to the civic health of America’s small towns –– but local papers are a vanishing breed, leaving “news deserts” in many parts of Maine and the country. Does this matter? Research has found that when a local newspaper disappears, what follows is a decline in civic engagement of citizens and increases in local government waste, corruption, and political polarization.

The Edgecomb Community Church will be holding its annual Thanksgiving Pie Sale on Tuesday, Nov. 26, from 9 a.m. to noon at both the church at 15 Cross Point Road in Edgecomb, and at Ames True Value on Route 1, Wiscasset. Pies of various sizes and varieties will be available at a price range of $7 to $20. Apple, blueberry, pumpkin, rhubarb, pecan, mincemeat - is just a sampling of what will be for sale.

Erik Hobson and musicians will perform in a free public concert at the Boothbay Baptist Church, 999 Wiscasset Road/Route 27, Boothbay Harbor, on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.

Hobson is part of a band started at the church about one year ago as a ministry to teach a few kids how to play instruments and engage them in the Worship Team.

“It’s been pretty fantastic. We set a couple of goals and one of them was to put together enough music to perform a worship concert for the community and we are finally ready to present our efforts!”

For nearly two decades the historic Opera House in Boothbay Harbor has played host to what has now become a holiday tradition, The Gingerbread Spectacular, held each December. In preparation for the annual event, a free class in designing great gingerbread structures is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 20.

Attention writers, storytellers, and tall tale spinners! We invite you to join us at the Merry Barn for a special finale of The Sounding Board on Thursday, Nov. 14 with author Cynthia Reeves from 5:30-8 p.m.

Gain amazing feedback for your creative work. Submit 750 words to read aloud by Nov. 11, to merrybarnwritersretreat@gmail.com.

The Adam Ezra Group returns to The Waldo on Friday, Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. This underground Americana songwriter and his bandmates seem to have popped out of nowhere, establishing a connection with their fans unlike any other, and are suddenly selling out theaters throughout the Northeast.

The Ancient Cemetery had some visitors from Wiscasset Elementary School recently.

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the fourth-grade students walked to the Ancient Cemetery to research the stories left on gravestones. They used mulit-digit subtraction skills to determine the ages of people buried in the cemetery. Students paid close attention to the different carvings on gravestones and were struck by the number of infants in the cemetery.

"The Wild Robot" - (PG; 1 hour, 42 minutes) - Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling novels for children, written by local author, Peter Brown. The epic journey of a robot–ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. Final showtime Thursday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m.