On Monday, June 21, Hon. Chris Johnson started as Deputy Secretary of State for Information Services, Chief Information Officer for the Maine Department of Secretary of State.
Johnson, a…
News
On June 20, Vlad D. Palli, 23, of Richmond was arrested and charged with operating under the influence, operating…
Three of four arrests made by Boothbay Harbor Police Department between May 17 and June 16 were for operating under the influence.
On May 21,…
The 2021 Charles Begin Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races were held Saturday, June 19 after skies cleared. Here, professional photographer Michael Leonard captures the action from West Boothbay…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Healthy Lincoln County has named Kelsey Robinson as its new executive director, effective July 1, 2021. Robinson succeeds Kate…
The Edgecomb Community Church will be holding a fundraising event in the form of a sub sandwich sale Friday, July 9. Church members will be taking orders for this summer event,…
Where in Wiscasset will Sea Bags set up to sell its well-known bags made of sails? Selectmen and Town Manager Dennis Simmons were not sure June 15, when the board approved Sea Bags’ latest…
Two requests have Wiscasset officials looking to town rules and records and, in one case, the morals of the matter.
June 15, Maine Art Gallery proposed Wiscasset provide a 20-year lease…
The Edgecomb School Committee welcomed Dr. Christina Boursaw as Edgecomb Eddy School principal earlier this month. She replaces Ira Michaud who served four years. Boursaw begins her two-year…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Maine’s First Ship and the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust are pleased to welcome Mike Dekker, author and historian, to take lecture attendees on a journey to understand the historic, economic,…
Longtime resident and second selectman Gerald “Jerry” Bodmer was honored at Saturday’s Westport Island town meeting. The town report was dedicated to Bodmer and First Selectman George Richardson…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Green…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is reminding retail stores, restaurants, and shoppers that the statewide ban on single-use plastic carry-out bags will go into effect…
Lincoln County commissioners want a legal opinion before deciding on a request made by the local district attorney. On June 1, Prosecutorial District VI District Attorney Natasha Irving asked…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
“That was awesome. It’s amazing what thrills you can feel at 72. Almost 73,” Cheryl “Shep” Rust said exiting Wiscasset Speedway’s pace car that took her and other Wiscasset Area Chamber of…
Boothbay summer residents John and Leslie Malone donated an historic $25 million to Maine Medical Center’s NEXT 150 Campaign June 15. The donation brings the campaign to $135 million, within…
Wiscasset Police Department reported the following for June 1-15:
Summonses…
It’s a new beginning for Edgecomb education. On June 7, Heather Sinclair became the new Edgecomb School Committee chairman. Newly elected member Arthur Garey became vice chairman. The board is…
Carrie Kinne, executive director of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) for the past 13 years, departed the Bath-based land conservation organization at the end of May. She will begin a new…
Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine said the department’s budget passed more easily June 8 than it has since he has been chief, even with an additional officer in it due to a rise in calls and…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
There’s going be a whole lot of wake on the water this Saturday, June 19 when lobster boats up and down the coast arrive, revved up and ready to race, in the 2021 Charles Begin Memorial Lobster…
This year, all nine United Ways of Maine are joining for a United Week of Action from June 21 through June 25. This will be a week of volunteer service opportunities where volunteers will…
With the long anticipated U.S. Route 1 and Route 27 Maine Department of Transportation projects beginning earlier this month, Selectman Ted Hugger had an obvious question prepared for Project…
PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) announced the largest single philanthropic gift in the hospital’s 150-year history Tuesday, a $25 million donation by John and Leslie Malone towards…
Did you know that when the Browntail moth first spread across the North East, at the turn of the 20th Century, there was a tremendous…
...which is actually in Wiscasset, not Bath
WISCASSET—Ironically, Wiscasset’s first brewery is named after the nearby town 10 minutes away, but there’s a story for that. On Route 1, opposite from the Shaw’s Supermarket, Bath Ale Works, co-…
LincolnHealth is returning to the Waldoboro Thursday, June 17 to deliver final doses to those who attended the May 27 clinic and to offer first doses to anyone age 12 and up.
The clinic is…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Also has charges out of Lincoln County for possession of child pornography
BELFAST — A Newcastle man was indicted on sexual assault charges by a Waldo County Grand Jury May 19, following an investigation by Maine State Police Detective Hugh…
Obituary
Joan B. Britton, 94, of Southport, Maine, died peacefully at home on June 12, 2021. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on Dec. 12, 1926, Joan was the daughter of John and Catherine Barbara and was a…
Obituary
James C Lewis, 76, of Little River, South Carolina, died June 10, 2021, at Grand Strand Hospital in South Carolina.
He was born in Boothbay Harbor on April…
Central Maine Power was back for the Wiscasset planning board’s latest look Monday night at the company’s site plan application for a transmission line project. Lincoln County Regional Planning…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional three COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 848.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
On Wednesday, June 23 at 6 p.m. Lincoln County Food Council will host an online event, “Food Bank Farms and Gleaning in Lincoln County,” an education session about food bank farms and gleaning…
Principal Ira Michaud quoted French poet Edmond Jabes in describing the five 2021 Edgecomb Eddy School sixth grade graduates. Jabes once said “The question creates and answer kills.” Michaud said…
“Well, that’s the food pantry for you!”
Woolwich’s Ellsworth Stone was answering Wiscasset Newspaper’s question, what did he think of the big, handwritten sign on newsprint paper, reading…
For those who want to be involved with a community-focused organization but don’t know where to start, or those who are looking for meaningful volunteer conservation work, Coastal Rivers is…
A Maine Forest Service grant is helping the 766-acre Charles and Constance Schmid Land Preserve in…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Healthy Lincoln County
Beginning the week of June 21, multiple local organizations are coming together to provide local children and teens with free, healthy meals throughout the summer through the USDA-funded Summer…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with…
Dresden town meeting
All articles on the Dresden town warrant passed on Saturday morning, June 12 at the town meeting. Richard Ross served as moderator and Leah Bickford deputy moderator. Approximately 40 residents…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s Class of 2021 graduated June 10 at Wiscasset Speedway.
