Wiscasset Middle High School’s high school student council did the annual Turkey Thyme fundraiser in November and collected donations from teachers and students to help families in need at WMHS.…
News
Earlier this month, Harbor Theater installed a new Christie RGBe laser projector to replace its outdated and increasingly unreliable…
Ordinance review committee
Wiscasset continues work toward possible marijuana rules and the town’s next comprehensive plan. Selectmen’s Chair Sarah Whitfield told the ordinance review committee Nov. 22, surveys would go out…
Press release
Alna’s Ed Pentaleri, former selectman, is running for the vacant spot on the board. The election is Dec. 14.
“I’m committed to Alna and all of its residents,” said Pentaleri, who lives in…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
Richard Vernon Brewer Sr., 81, of Newcastle, died Nov. 24, 2021 at the Sussman House in Rockport after a brief illness.
He was born in Boothbay Harbor on Dec. 24, 1939 a son of Vernon…
Wiscasset planning board
The site plan application for 51 Water St. and 2 and 4 Railroad Ave., was approved by the Wiscasset Planning Board at Monday night’s Zoom meeting. Applicants Craig and Laurie Winslow received a…
Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett may have found a way around long delays on deliveries of ordered equipment. On Nov. 16, he proposed ordering equipment, such as cruisers, earlier in the year…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Community Catalyst for Good
You may be hearing a lot about “GivingTuesday,” which is a global day of generosity and takes place next Tuesday, Nov.b30. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
While reviewing municipal appointment vacancies, Edgecomb selectmen were reminded Nov. 15 that several filled seats still needed those people to take their oaths of office. Selectmen reported both…
Gaecklin Road is looking – and functioning – a lot better this week. The Boothbay Public Works crew regraded the road and installed new culverts, ditches, and check dams over the summer and…
Obituary
Madelyn L. Bailey, 78, of Bailey Lane died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at Winship Green in Bath.
She was born in Bath on Jan. 1, 1943, a daughter of Herbert S. and Hazel A. (Harnish)…
Obituary
Mrs. Sylvia (Alexander) Martin, a resident of Camden, Maine, formerly from Alna, Maine and Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on the morning of Nov. 19, 2021 at the age of…
The second annual Lighted Fire Truck Parade will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27 in Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor.
The decorated fire engines will stage at the Boothbay Fire Station…
Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said Westport Island special town meeting goers Nov. 13 voted unanimously to pass the proposed broadband expansion agreement…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
Wayne A. Robinson, 83, formerly of Edgecomb, Maine, recently of Calera, Alabama, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on the evening of Nov. 14, 2021 at Shelby Baptist Medical Center.…
Explaining the issues their petition targeted, Katy Papagiannis and Tom Aldrich told Alna public hearing-goers at the fire station Nov. 15, having the first selectman do more than the…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services is partnering with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Veterans Benefits Administration at Togus to put on a Virtual Veterans Experience…
LincolnHealth reported 74 new COVID-19 cases from 610 tests for the week of Nov. 8. The data makes for the highest positivity rate over a single week, 12.1%, and the second most cases since the…
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, our newspaper will be printed in the morning on Tuesday, Nov. 23.
The deadline for the Nov. 25 issue will be Friday, Nov. 19 at…
Obituary
Mitchell J. Billis, nationally known artist, 84, died unexpectedly from a brief illness on Sept. 20, 2021.
He was an only child to Alice (Wiley) and Mitch Billis in Frankfort in upstate…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday that, effective immediately, all Maine adults age 18 and older are eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, regardless of underlying medical…
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary is excited to announce the release of a new collaborative cookbook, “Our Community Table.” Proceeds of the cookbook sales will…
What has a new inside, a new, taller building next to it, and jobs temporary and permanent? The former Wiscasset Primary School within the next two years, according to one of the people working to…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
On Monday, Nov. 15 at about 4:05 p.m., a Maine State trooper was on patrol on Route 1 northbound in Brunswick when the driver of a 2004 Range Rover allegedly passed him at speeds…
In a few minutes Monday evening, Woolwich voters at a special town meeting accepted up to $335,963 in federal funds through the American Rescue Plan Act.
As stated in the warrant, the use…
Saturday, Nov. 20 is going to be a busy day in the Boothbay region with the Early Bird Sale and more. Please be sure to put the Boothbay Region Garden Club’s Winter Market on the Boothbay Common…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
From now through Sunday, Dec. 19, Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Sundays. Usual Sunday hours have been 10 to 2…
A new initiative is calling on youth, fishermen, aquaculture farmers, new industry members, seasoned industry leaders, educators, mentors, workforce experts, training program leaders, and anyone…
Alna’s December decision day nears with absentee voting, new questions about one ballot question, and details on how one resident missed making the ballot for selectman.
At the fire…
Daughters of Pemaquid Chapter, MSODAR are teaming up with American Legion Post #36 in Boothbay to help coordinate the fundraising for both WAA and to fund the purchase of a trailer…
On Nov. 9, 1821, Joshua B. Cushing lit the oil lamps of Burnt Island Light for the first time. Two hundred years later to the day, a…
Obituary
Anne Lingham Schubert, 95, passed away peacefully Nov. 13, 2021 at Cove’s Edge Nursing Home in Damariscotta, Maine. The daughter of Marjorie Proctor and Robert Marston Lingham, Anne was born on…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension has numerous resources to help prepare a safe and healthy Thanksgiving meal.
If turkey is on the menu, UMaine Extension…
The Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper won 13 total awards in the 2020-2021 Maine Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, including three main awards: first place in General…
SVRSU
As Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board talked COVID issues Nov. 10, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle called for a break to ask a man to leave. The parent, Windsor’s Kenneth Dostie…
Downtown Wiscasset was in a festive mood Saturday crowded with Early Bird shoppers looking for bargains and over 30 volunteers decorating Main Street for the holidays. The morning got off to a…
An increasing number of high school students are looking to make a big splash in their future by attending Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. The past four years have seen a 76% rise in…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
United Way of Mid Coast Maine’s 2021 fall campaign reached its $1,725,000 goal, Campaign Co-Chairs Bob and Barb McCue announced Wednesday, Nov. 10.
“The…
Woolwich native Roger Brawn presided over what he hopes will be a new Veterans Day tradition, the ceremonial laying of a wreath at the town’s historic war memorial at Laurel Hill Cemetery.…
Over 50 people, including several local veterans, attended a brief but meaningful Veterans Day ceremony outside Southport Memorial Library at Newagen Nov. 11 under a sunny sky but with a cool…
