Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track and field team competed in the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Lisbon April 18. Rose Campbell was the team’s top performer with a first place in discus, and a…
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James J. Bruce of Alna, Maine and Largo, Florida, passed away peacefully at Wright’s Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Seminole, Florida, on April 14, 2023 at the age of 79. He was born in…
Interest rates and lower-than-normal inventory led to a single-family existing home sales decline of 16.78 percent in March. According to Maine Listings, 858 homes changed hands last month,…
February brought an end to emergency supplemental benefits created in 2020 for food, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments…
Recognizing and answering the challenge of Lincoln County’s housing needs was the subject of the annual meeting of the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission (LCRPC). The Tuesday night, April…
Central Maine Power informed the newspaper this afternoon that it needs to transfer power lines from an old utility pole to a newly installed pole on Union Street near Brady’s restaurant tomorrow…
Spring is in the air, and that means garden time! Organic perennials from Rebel Hill Farm can help create inviting habitat for the natural community on homeowners’ land. Gardeners can come by…
First National Bank has made recent donations totaling $25,000 to organizations fighting food insecurity including 30 food pantries in the bank’s market area. “First National Bank is grateful for…
Suspect held at Wiscasset jail; State Police continue investigation of multiple shootings in Bowdoin and Yarmouth
Update, 3:30 p.m., April 19: In a 3:30 p.m. news release from the Maine Dept. of Public Safety, the identities of the murder victims and those injured by gunshot on I-295 were provided,…
One contest has shaped up in Wiscasset’s town elections. Town Clerk Linda Perry said the following candidates returned nomination papers for the June 13 elections. The papers were due back at the…
The Department of Marine Resources’ Maine Coastal Program (MCP) and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Municipal Planning Assistance Program (MPAP) are each seeking…
A graveside service will be held for Ronald Herbert Clifford, who passed away on Jan. 17, 2023, at Evergreen Cemetery in Boothbay on Saturday, April 29 at 1 p.m., with Pastor Al Roberts…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 199 calls for service for the period of April 11 to April 18. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 2,991 calls for service.
Summonses…
Obituary
Our dearest bandana loving, sunglass sporting Cameron George Jones passed away on April 12, 2023, from complications of Guillain-Barre syndrome. He had no intention of leaving this earth so soon.…
Westport Island selectmen
Maine Department of Transportation was set to return Tuesday, April 18 to the Westport Island-Woolwich bridge that…
Obituary
Katharine Kimball (Grant) Martin-Savage, 80, of Wiscasset, passed away peacefully on April 10, 2023.
She was born on July 6, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. Katharine…
Do you have any unused, unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs lying around the house or taking up room in your medicine cabinet? If so, this Saturday is your…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Lobster Festival announced April 17 that it is expanding its Sea Goddess…
Two members of the Lincoln County Search and Rescue team hope their current mission is not their last. Capt. Don Gleason of Dresden and Lt. Dan MacWalters of Damariscotta told…
Obituary
Larry Edward Pinkham, 83, of Boothbay died April 8, 2023 at the Hawthorne House in Freeport.
He was born at home in Boothbay Harbor Nov. 17, 1938, son of Gerald Edward Pinkham and Hazel…
Edgecomb has two new selectmen. During an April 15 special election, Frances Mague and Lyndyn Norgang won respective races with 46 residents casting referendum ballots. Residents also approved one…
Marcia Richardson, who has dedicated her energies to St. Philip’s Church in Wiscasset, is retiring after 25 years as its Deacon. Richardson, wife, mother of five, and retired substance abuse…
Obituary
Gregory Lester Knapp, age 74, of Boothbay Harbor passed away surrounded by the love of his family and friends on April 13, 2023. Greg battled diligently against acute myeloblastic leukemia for the…
Death notice
Cameron Jones of Boothbay passed away on April 12, 2023.
A full obituary will be published when available. Hall’s of Boothbay has care of the arrangements.
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Salt ’n Spar
“Being bissextile, or Leap-Year, and the Thirty-sixth of Independence of America. Fitted to the Town of BOSTON, but will ſerve for any of the adjourning states. Containing, beſides…
Ahoy Windjammer Days (WJD) fans! The 61st event, to be held June 25 - July 1, is but two months away and those Friends of Windjammer Days have been wicked busy!
FWJD board member Pete…
Alna’s new general assistance administrator is the man who has done the work as, until recently, a selectman. In January, after deciding not to run to stay on the board, Charles Culbertson told…
Incredible gardens in four Lincoln County villages will be open to visitors over two days this summer. “The Gardens of Lincoln County,” hosted by Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA),…
The April 26 meeting of the Lincoln County Republican Committee will be held at the Jefferson Fire House, 204 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson. All registered Republicans in Lincoln County are invited to…
Wiscasset school committee
Asked if she has ever been around Wiscasset before she applied for Wiscasset Elementary School’s principal job, Amy Bayha said in an email interview April 13, her first visit was the night after…
LincolnHealth volunteer Sandy Flint loves watching a patient’s eyes light up when he asks: “Would you like to have a visit with Simon the therapy dog today?”
Simon is one of several four-…
Frederick “Fritz” Freudenberger joined the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper staff this week as a full-time reporter, according to editor Kevin Burnham.
Freudenberger’s coverage area…
Obituary
Viola Elaine (Abbott) Hoch, 79, of Waldoboro, passed away peacefully at her home with her family by her side on April 7, 2023.
Viola was born on May 14, 1943, to Merritt Abbott and Helmi…
Obituary
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and dear friend to many, Mary Ann Cottrell, passed away in Dover, New Hampshire on April 7, 2023.
Mary Ann was born Aug. 13, 1931, in…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens aspires for all people to have the opportunity to engage meaningfully with the natural world. Their Gardens for All program is an effort to make the…
A dozen would be single-room apartments now have St. Philip’s Church’s vestry’s approval. So does another use of space at the Hodge Street church by the same Portland-based organization, Amistad,…
Lynn Norgang and Craig Urwin are running for the two-year unexpired selectmen’s term in Edgecomb on April 15. Voting will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. in…
A proposed pharmacy for a Water Street, Wiscasset medical practice and possibly other customers comes after years of Wiscasset residents saying the town needs a pharmacy. At Monday night’s…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 196 calls for service for the period of April 4 to April 11. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 2792 calls for service.
Arrests
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School panels for both Boothbay Region and Wiscasset Monday night each approved Boothbay Region seventh and eighth grades’ use of space at Wiscasset Middle High School to finish the school year.…
With no new debate, Wiscasset selectmen Monday night, April 10 at the town office, and over Zoom and YouTube, approved the June town meeting warrant. The board began Monday’s meeting with a moment…
Obituary
Judith Ann Stevens left us after a tough battle with liver/spleen cancer April 4, 2023 at her home in Panama City, Florida with her loving family by her side.
She was born to William E.…
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Lhea Alexandra Sellick was born in Portland, Maine on a snowy Easter Sunday, to Susan and Shawn Sellick. She died on Palm Sunday in Edgecomb, at the home she shared with her partner of…
Obituary
The Reverend Christopher Ralph Sherrill died Monday, April 10, 2023 at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, as the result of a brain injury caused by a fall. He was 88.
Known to all as…
DAMARISCOTTA — Game Warden K9 Koda and Game Warden Jake Voter located a missing Damariscotta girl, 11, who didn’t want to go to school April 10, and was reportedly hiding…
Obituary
Kenneth L. Hanson, 89, of Savannah, Georgia, formerly of Boothbay, passed away peacefully on April 7, 2023, with his loving family at his side.
He was the husband of Nancy Hanson. Born on…
Obituary
Beverly Townsend Rawson-Dibble, 99, of Satellite Beach, Florida passed away peacefully on Feb. 9, 2023.
She was born on Jan. 20, 1924 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the daughter of George…
The skies were clear but a chilly wind was blowing Saturday morning, April 8 at Wiscasset Parks and Recreation’s annual Easter egg hunt held for its 24th year at…
A potential change in Wiscasset Water District’s charter may allow for expansion into Edgecomb. Selectmen Mike Smith and Ted Hugger gave “two thumbs up” April 4 in responding to a water district…
