Soon, Joe and Lisa McSwain will say goodbye to the high life.
The company they’ve run together for 25 years — Mid-Maine Restoration, founded in 1983 — will keep going, passed on to their…
News
“I soaked them in big bins on a sunny hot day and stirred them every so often.”
Faye Snyder knows her recipes – for textiles, that is.
The collections chairman for Lincoln County…
Official Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC)
Weigh Off Results
YOUTH GIANT PUMPKIN
1st -Catherine Lopresti-Buxton, ME -529 lbs…
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) convened a panel of women from across New England for an extraordinarily timely discussion of “The Power of Women in Politics in 2018: Voting,…
Four years ago, Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter was wrestling with a problem. He looked at the average age of his all-volunteer team and knew he needed to get younger people involved, “to replace…
According to a press release Oct. 3 from Wiscasset Police Department, a loaded pistol was found Sept. 29 on West Alna Road in Wiscasset. The department is seeking information. Please call 822-8203…
The ninth annual Tobacco-Free Hospital Gold Star Standards of Excellence Awards Celebration, hosted by the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence’s Breathe Easy initiative, was held on Sept.…
“Settlement of the Midcoast, Conflicting Land Claims” is the topic of a talk and discussion at the Oct. 23 meeting of the Westport Island History Committee and Friends of Westport…
The Boothbay Railway Village is excited to announce that its illustrated talks and hands-on arts classes will now be housed under one program. Primer: Lessons with Experts & Masters launches…
To help meet the demand for nurses in Lincoln County, the Central Maine Community College/LincolnHealth Nursing School has expanded.
“There is a shortage of nurses in Maine and throughout…
Lincoln County Commissioners
On Oct. 2, Lincoln County Administrator Carrie Kipfer informed commissioners of changes to Maine Public Employee Retirement System rules that would require Lincoln County, or other Participating…
Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson announced Tuesday night, the Department of Public Works was finishing paving the parking lot, and would be working on an Americans with Disabilities-…
The Woolwich select board will meet with the planning board at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15 at the town office to discuss codes and ordinances including the possible regulation of recreational retail…
Ada Rowe Cook, 96, died on Sept. 22, 2018 at Seal Rock Healthcare in Saco.
She was born Nov. 30, 1921 in Boothbay Harbor to J. Bryan and Margaret Sawyer Rowe.…
The Boothbay Railway Village, along with the Boothbay Information Center, will once again showcase the artistic talents and creative spirit of Maine at the 51st annual Fall Foliage Festival Oct. 6…
Family violence, IT crimes and lifesaving drugs are not part of most workplaces, but for Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett, they are a daily part of the job.
At his office overlooking…
Dan and Sherry Moody told Dresden selectmen Monday, they can no longer maintain the town’s largest cemetery. “We would like to turn over ownership to the town so that it be cared for properly,”…
An informal overview of Lincoln County’s departments and their expected needs for the next fiscal year was held Sept. 27 at the Communications Center in Wiscasset. Budget workshops start in…
Obituary
George Dix Whitten, 94, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, died Sept. 29, 2018 after a brief…
Obituary
Ellen Hunter Scott of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Boothbay Harbor, Maine died peacefully at home early morning Sept. 23, 2018 from the consequences of brain cancer and multiple sclerosis. Despite…
Obituary
Patrick W. Perry, 59, of Lowell Town Road, Wiscasset passed away unexpectedly Sept. 25, 2018 at his home.
He was born in Boothbay Harbor on Nov. 11, 1958.…
The deadline for editorial and advertising submissions for the Oct. 11 edition of the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper is Friday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m.
The Boothbay Register office…
The sweet, tangy flavor of fresh-pressed apple cider is always an autumn treat and the 1761 Pownalborough Courthouse in Dresden was a perfect setting for Sunday’s cider-pressing sponsored by the…
Coastal Senior College (CSC) is proud to announce that the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Chief Justice Leigh I. Saufley, will deliver an address to CSC members and members of…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is joining the Bowdoin College Museum of Art for a collaboration celebrating the artistic talents of two New England botanists, watercolorist Kate Furbish and…
The twelfth annual Pumpkinfest kicked off Saturday with the arrival and weigh-off of amateur-grown pumpkins at Pinkham’s Plantation in Damariscotta. Many young growers were among the first timers…
David Jolin and Susan Barrentine didn't know about the final installment of this year's Wiscasset Art Walk Sept.27. The Spokane, Washington siblings and other family members were southbound to…
When a business has been around for 67 years and word comes it’s changing hands, a natural response might be to wonder: Will the name change? Will it provide the same service?
Dusty and Amy…
The grabber is the color scheme of her signs, Carole Jordan said. Brown and pink, the placards for Boothbay Canine Daycare & Boarding are hard to miss…
Wiscasset Parks and Recreation
The Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Department will once again be hosting its annual ScarecrowFest on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wiscasset Town Office parking lot and front…
If Alna's 1870s Village School at Puddle Dock at the corner of Dock and Head Tide roads was not a historic building, it would have been gutted, dry-walled and gotten a hardwood floor,…
Maine Department of Transportation announces the following activity in Wiscasset through Oct. 5. All work with the exception of removal of debris at the site of the Haggett building and some of…
A six-week Survivors of Suicide Support Group is starting on Friday, Oct. 12 in Newcastle. To preregister and for more information, please call Lisa Beth Hammer at 978-853-1950.
The support…
Edgecomb Historical Society board member Dave Boucher spoke with Edgecomb selectmen Monday at their meeting on Monday about a possible future EHS home.
EHS has identified a town-owned…
Claude Clayton Parmenter, 78, of Southport, Maine passed away on Sept. 24, 2018 at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine surrounded by his loving family after a brief illness.
Claude…
Barbara Sue Bush died peacefully at the age of 95, Sept. 23, 2018 at Indian River Estates in Vero Beach, Florida. Barbara was born in Washington, D.C., the only child of Maxwell Blick and Florence…
A kind and compassionate flame was extinguished unexpectedly early Sunday evening, Sept. 23, 2018. Nancie Bokesch was born Nancie Jane Duff on Nov. 26, 1946 in Alliance, Ohio, the only child of…
On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12 and 13, the Friends of Wiscasset Library will hold a “clear the shelves” sale at the Used Book Room at Wiscasset Public Library, offering Used Book Room books and…
The wooden sloop Providence docked in Wiscasset Harbor Tuesday for repairs expected to take until late spring. The Providence will require, among other things, new masts and…
James W. Hunt, 82, died Sept. 22, 2018, at his home on Southport, Maine, surrounded by his loving family to whom he was entirely devoted. He was born June 4, 1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts to…
Mary Etta Peaslee, 76, of Boothbay, died September 21, 2018 at Maine Medical Center. She was lovingly surrounded by close family.
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Midcoast Conservancy
The New England Forests and Rivers Fund, a conservation program of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, has awarded Midcoast Conservancy a $73,700 grant to assist with construction at Head…
The Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission voted Sept. 20, no certificate of appropriateness was needed for a tool shed on skids at 55 Federal St. The panel voted to give David Pope his…
Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine and the also new Wiscasset Middle High School principal, Chuck Lomonte, worked together to interview candidates to re-staff the police department, including…
The so far unnamed downtown Wiscasset group focused on promoting the downtown during and after the Maine Department of Transportation’s construction project met at Sarah’s Cafe Sept. 21 to…
Clare Coey Newbury, born Oct. 1, 1946 in West Palm Beach Florida, died unexpectedly Sept. 18, 2018. As a child, she spent winters in Florida, and long joyful summers on Squirrel Island where she…
The Edgecomb planning board on Sept. 20 reviewed Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts' request to change the use of property at 103 Cochran Road from residential to commercial. The center is a…
When Cornelia Kitfield, highly allergic to bees, would get stung, her doctor would send the rocks flying as he drove up the dirt road to the family’s home in the country in Durham, New Hampshire…
With the REAL ID extension for Mainers set to expire Oct. 10, Lincoln County Registry of Probate has had a significant increase in U.S. passport applications.
The demand has been increasing…
The Pemaquid Oyster Festival has always been known as a rollicking celebration of the working waterfront, with traditions of music, boat rides, an oyster shucking championship, and thousands of…
