On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 22, Wiscasset Elementary School’s (WES) cafeteria was abuzz with action as volunteers and WES staff worked diligently to lay out and divide school supplies by grade and…
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David Pierce passed away Aug. 22, 2021.
Dave was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts on June 18, 1927. He spent his life working and living on or around the water. He learned to sail at an…
Oak Point Farm’s diverse natural features provide many great benefits to the Boothbay region, including offering the ideal setting for BRLT’s growing educational outreach. One of Boothbay Region…
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Today, Aug. 24, 2021, two days before our 71st anniversary, I lost my beloved Tootie.
Gloria Stella Yeakel Meixell, of Westport Island, Maine, was born…
Retired Navy Seal Ed Thelander of Bristol announced his candidacy for Congressional District 1 at the Bath Maritime Museum in a room crowded with over 200 enthusiastic Republicans. The date, Aug.…
As Lulu the Lunch Wagon made her last run for the summer on Aug. 26, staff at Healthy Lincoln County and many area volunteers had provided more than 30,000 free meals to children in Knox and…
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Priscilla “Pat” Rice Eaton Wallace, 99, of Newington, Connecticut and Southport, Maine passed away peacefully at her home on August 25, 2021
Pat was born in Melrose, Massachusetts on July…
Along Main Street, Wiscasset Thursday night, dancers’ feet were leaving the ground and coming back down, and a towering bird was walking around without touching the ground.
Dance Maineia…
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…
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When I was ten, I told someone that if they looked up “Grandma” in the dictionary they would find a picture of Greta Bokros. I meant it. She was the consummate grandmother. She loved us so much.…
In a leap toward a greener future, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is now powered by more than 90 percent…
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…
At 1:04 a.m. Aug. 15, Boothbay Harbor police responded to a vehicle off the road and into the ocean on Western Avenue. Officers Jennifer Gosselin and John Braley found the driver out of the…
LincolnHealth reported 21 COVID-19 cases out of 456 tests for the week of Aug. 16. The numbers are down from 39 cases and 514 tests during the previous week and the percent-positive is down from 7…
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
Sydney Whittier Klenk passed away on Aug. 20, 2021 due to complications from a glioblastoma brain tumor at Gosnell Hospice House, with her family by her side. She was born on Jan. 25, 1931 to…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday that 80 percent of all eligible people in Maine have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, achieving another milestone for the state…
Edgecomb Community Church, UCC will be hosting two guest ministers for the next two weeks. Sunday, Aug. 29, will feature the Reverend Patricia Rowe-Jones of Bowdoin, Maine. Rev. Rowe-Jones…
Carole McCarthy, volunteer manager of St. Andrews Thrift Store in Boothbay Harbor since 2018, said she is proud of its new premises. The store moved a few doors down in the Meadow Mall to the old…
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…
Town of Edgecomb
A proposed state policy may require vaccinations for all Emergency Medical Services personnel. Edgecomb Assistant Fire Chief Roland Abbott told Edgecomb selectmen he and Chief Roy Potter tried…
Wiscasset School Committee Tuesday night narrowly passed a reopening plan to have all students at school full time, with them and the staff masked when they are inside and not eating. The plan…
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Gary I. Laweryson died Aug. 14, 2021 at his home in Waldoboro.
Gary was born Dec. 14, 1950 in Fort Lee, Virginia to Ivan and Patricia (Carey) Laweryson. He grew up in Moscow and Bingham,…
The Lincoln County Fire Chiefs Association held its annual banquet and lobster Bake, hosted by the South Bristol Fire Department, on Wednesday, Aug. 18.
Departments, individuals, and…
After a year hiatus, Morris Farm is excited to once again invite members and the community to the Morris Farm annual meeting. On Saturday, Aug. 28, festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a social…
The Missing Children Alert Program is having a fingerprint photo I.D. program free of charge at the Boothbay Harbor House of Pizza on Friday, Aug. 27, 1-2:30 p.m.The parent keeps the card with all…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in July:
Alna: Sniffen, Peter to Suchoff, Jessica O'Rourke, Gardner, Kaitlyn and O'…
On Westport Island we’ll be celebrating Labor Day again this year at the Town Hall, from 1 to 3 p.m., on Monday, Sept 6. As much as possible we’ll be outside, and following the current CDC…
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…
The annual Jones Family Sand Volleyball Tournament in Wiscasset Aug. 21 raised $1,024 for Dean Snell Cancer Foundation, Julie Jones said. The event included concessions, homemade pies and a race…
The Windgate Charitable Foundation has awarded Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts with a $3 million endowment to support the organization’s programs and operations. Watershed serves artists…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen have decided, if someone, vaccinated or not, and not legally exempt from face coverings, enters a building the town owns, for now they must wear one. If they don’t, the person in…
Burnt Island’s bicentennial celebration honored former keepers and their families; recognized the donors, volunteers over the last two decades, the Keepers of Burnt Island Light - a nonprofit…
AUGUSTA (Aug 23, 2021)—Home buyers are still out in force across Maine’s 16 counties. According to Maine Listings, home sales decreased 4.86 percent and prices rose 23.58 percent comparing July…
Obituary
Barbara Schubert Coggiola, formerly of Wiscasset and Damariscotta, Maine passed away Aug. 17, 2021 in Spring Hill, Florida from complications due to COVID-19. She was 75.
She was born…
Edgecomb selectmen will soon be considering the merits of a proposed solar power ordinance. The planning board voted 5-0 Aug. 19 to submit a proposed ordinance to…
If you give a free barbecue, they will come, and many did, gathering Saturday afternoon on the lawn of the Woolwich town office to eat, talk and enjoy live music provided by the Montsweagers.…
Showing Schoonerfest goers around the 1939 When and If Saturday, the crew said the schooner would leave Wiscasset about 8 a.m. Sunday, earlier than planned, due to Tropical Storm Henri.…
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…
Social media is an all-too-popular avenue for spreading scams among “friends.” Criminals hijack someone’s social media account and share a “great offer” to everyone on the target’s…
BOSTON — The Coast Guard urges all mariners to prepare for Tropical Storm Henri before its predicted Sunday landfall.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts Henri to…
Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s Aug. 17 letter to families is posted at wiscassetschools.org:
I hope this letter finds you enjoying the last days of summer. I would like to start by…
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…
LincolnHealth reported a spike of 39 positive COVID-19 cases for the week of Aug. 9. The data represents the most cases in a single week for LincolnHealth since before Dec. 2020, the most tests…
Schoonerfest
The when moved from 9 to 10 Thursday morning, but there were no if’s about General George Patton’s schooner When and If’s arrival, and later the Sycamore’s, with the Alna man who…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, said Aug. 19 that Sen. King tested positive for COVID-19 this morning in Maine. Senator King took the test as a precaution after…
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…
UPDATE: Heller said that as of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, the When and If was on the Sheepscot River and expected to arrive in Wiscasset Harbor at 10 a.m.
Downtown was the choice for Bruce and…
Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset has inmates from other counties and the inmate count has reached 159. Sheriff Todd Brackett told Lincoln County Commissioners Aug. 17, he expects the jail to…
