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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 COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 838.   

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine…

The Tall Ships Festival in Boothbay Harbor June 25-27 is happening through a partnership between Friends of Windjammer Days and Tall Ships of America.

It had been scheduled for 2020 by…

With businesses in the Boothbay region and beyond looking to hire, an in-person hiring fair is being organized locally for noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 15 at Sherman Field, Boothbay Region High…

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…

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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional 10 COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 837.   

Seven of the deaths occurred between May 2 and May…

The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Disabled Veterans’ Controlled Moose Hunt lottery.

Seven Mainers were selected for the…

Obituary
Robert G. Skillin, 86, of Scarborough, reached the end of his life on May 21, 2021.  He was the husband of Janet M. (Boomhour) Skillin.
 
He was born June 24, 1934, in…

Pemaquid Chapter’s monthly in-person meeting is at noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 8 at American Legion Hall, Industrial Park Drive, Boothbay. Bring a snack or bag lunch.

Pemaquid Chapter…

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Susan J. McKown, 80 years old of Thomaston, passed away surrounded by family in her home, May 25, 2021. She was the wife of George McKown of Thomaston…

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 two COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 827.   

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

Wiscasset voters take up a proposed $6,116,034 municipal budget Tuesday, June 8. The sum is $249,575 higher than the 2020-21 budget, Town Manager Dennis Simmons said in a May 28 email response to…

Prosecutorial District VI District Attorney Natasha Irving asked Lincoln County Commissioners Tuesday to reverse a legal secretary job description that changed this spring. Irving told…

Obituary

Donna L. Mellecker, 74, of Lewiston died May 28, 2021, at St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Nov. 14, 1946, a daughter of James and…

Maine native and University of Maine alumna Christina Cash has been named assistant director for outreach and communication at the Lobster Institute at UMaine, effective May 17. 

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Gail Dodge Marzluff passed away on May 28, 2021 in Hillsborough, North Carolina at age 75. 

Gail Charlotte Dodge was born in East Boothbay, Maine on Sept. 8,…

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Linda Jones passed away peacefully on May 30, 2021 at her home in Boothbay Harbor at the age of 83. Linda spent summers on Capitol Island from childhood until she and her deceased husband Bob…

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Priscilla Knowlton Tavenner, 84, of Boothbay, passed away peacefully in her home on the morning of May 29, 2021 surrounded by her loving husband Thomas and family.

Priscilla was born on…

The word “boat” can apply generically to watercraft from less than 12 feet in length to more than 1200 feet in length and displacements from a under a hundred pounds to a hundred thousand tons or…

Westport Island selectmen

It was unknown by how much, since voters still have the town budget to decide piece by piece June 19 and the school budget June 8, but as proposed, Westport Island’s property tax rate should drop…

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…

Air Force veteran Sophia Inman was the keynote speaker at Woolwich’s Memorial Day service at North Woolwich Methodist Church Monday evening. The annual ecumenical service included Day’s Ferry…

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Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is requesting help locating a missing girl. Brittney Wilson, 16, of Somerville was last seen on the evening of May…

Obituary

Mary Evelyn Friant was reunited with her best friend and husband, Howard L. Friant, on May 23, 2021, one week shy of her 92nd birthday.

Mary Evelyn was born on May 29,1929 in Newark,…

A small group of bystanders withstood soggy conditions to attend Memorial Day services at Pownalorough Courthouse in Dresden May 31.

"This is the 67th year that we have held ceremonies…

Wesley Winters feels guilty sometimes for not getting into the Army. “I went in for the draft (in 1961), went in for a physical over in Portland and they didn’t take me because I had asthma.…

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 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 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 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…

Obituary

Susan Partridge (nee Figgins) Evans died May 24, 2021 at Brooksby Village in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Sue was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1943 to the late Weston Figgins and the late…

Obituary

Shirley Ann Liddle-Davison passed away peacefully on May 22, 2021.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1943, on a Friday in New York City. She was born to Russell and Bessie Liddle.

She…

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…

Woolwich voters took 90 minutes Wednesday night to approve a $2.2 million budget at their annual town meeting. The gathering at Woolwich Central School marked the return of the annual meeting from…

Westport Island selectmen have added a town meeting question Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said would update computer programs, add storage and provide software backup and, for all computers…

As we near Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer recreational boating season, the Maine Marine Patrol provides the…

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Susan R. Hawks, 80, of West Island Way, Edgecomb died May 23, 2021 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

She was born in Syracuse, New York on July 25, 1940, a daughter of James F and Alice…

ConnectME Authority on Wednesday approved Westport Island’s $225,542 request to expand broadband.

“Oh, fantastic,” town broadband and cable committee member Jeff Tarbox said when Wiscasset…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 825.   

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine…

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…

The Friends of Windjammer Days met recently to hear committee reports.

Mark Gimbel talked about the partnership with Tall Ships of America and the Tall Ships Festival being held June 25-27…

Art Mayers of Newcastle, a news contributor with the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper, and formerly with the Lincoln County News, has been recording video oral histories of Lincoln County…

First Congregational Church of Wiscasset’s Summerfest will be returning to the Wiscasset common July 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  The Summerfest Committee is planning to hold the summer celebration…

Dresden selectmen Gerald Lilly and John Rzasa voted Tuesday night, May 25 to reactivate the committee that studied withdrawing from Regional School Unit 2. Selectman Alan Moeller was absent.…

The U.S. Coast Guard is America’s other multi-mission maritime military service with a list of mandated mission areas not shared by the U.S. Navy. One of the Coast Guard’s highest profile missions…

Seventy-two voters approved the $4,917,732 combined municipal and school budgets during a May 21 referendum vote. The budget is a $95,315 increase or 1.98%. The Fiscal Year 22 school budget is $3,…

For six years, Twin Villages Food Bank Farm (TVFF) has been growing fresh produce to donate to food pantries and youth programs across Lincoln County. From the beginning, Great Salt Bay Community…

Schoonerfest, set to debut this summer, has landed a visit by the When and If. And the 1939, 63-foot vessel, which then-Col. George S. Patton had F.F. Pendleton of Wiscasset build,…

First National Bank recently announced a $1,000 contribution to the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association towards their initiatives of supporting fishermen, the working waterfront and supplying…