An Alna woman has been charged with felony domestic violence assault after she allegedly struck a four-year-old child with a toy train.
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Maine has received funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather critical data on violent deaths in Maine using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)…
Banjo and accordion artist Jeff Grosser will bring a band of some of the state’s best jazz musicians to St. Andrews Village on Nov. 2 for a concert…
The Lincoln County Animal Shelter is changing its hours of operation effective Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Formerly closed on Sundays, the Lincoln County Animal Shelter…
Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler will be in the Boothbay region on Saturday, Oct. 25 to visit two businesses, according to his…
The National Garden Club President Linda Nelson will attend The Garden Club Federation of Maine Fall Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on Oct. 30.
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Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset will seek a two-year delay on new high school graduation rules. If the Maine Department of Education grants the request, this year’s seventh grade, the class of 2020, will be the first…
Obituary
Edwin F. Hussa Jr., 91, of Queensbury, New York, beloved husband, father and grandfather, died peacefully on Oct. 20, 2014.
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On Monday, Oct. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m., the FARMS Community Kitchen and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a hands-on, 3-hour food preservation workshop entitled “Preserving the…
Special Olympics Maine is reaching out to people who knit or crochet to help with their 2015 Scarf Project. The goal of this project is to outfit all 500 Special Olympic Maine athletes who attend…
Alna Selectmen
The many cracks on Alna’s Cross Road should be history before winter. The road that connects the town’s main arteries, Route 218 and West Alna Road, near their midpoints and is home to the popular…
The Edgecomb selectmen want to know why a Gleason Point resident hasn’t fulfilled the terms of a consent agreement.
The town won a $25,000 court judgment against Timothy Stephenson in…
When the Animal House first opened its doors in 2005, Aubrey and Dan Martin ran the business from the house they were living in.
Now,…
Maine House District 87 Race
If Jeffery Hanley of Pittston wins the Maine House of Representatives’ District 87 seat, the first thing he will do is nothing.
Anything else would be rash, the Gardiner-raised Republican…
Maine House District 87 Race
State Rep. Tim Marks, D-Pittston, said he learned a lot in his first term in the Maine House of Representatives.
The retired Maine state police trooper enjoyed the work, including his…
Wiscasset School Committee
A decision will need to wait on whether seventh and eighth grades will move from Wiscasset Middle School to Wiscasset High School next year. School committee members expressed varying levels of…
No one was hurt when a car and a Regional School Unit 12 school bus collided at the bottom of Alna’s Head Tide Hill on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
One student was on the bus at the…
This Saturday, youth deer hunters across the state get their own day to hunt deer.
Hunters…
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners received news at its Oct. 21 meeting that the county’s new compensation plan is moving forward on schedule. The plan is…
Weather Report
Rain and wind were making an unpleasant Thursday, but the slow-moving storm producing them was failing to cause flooding in Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties.
That’s because the rain has been…
Western Maine Cross-Country Regionals
Due to the amount of rain Maine has received this week, officials at the Twin Brook Recreational Facility in Cumberland where the Western Maine cross-country regional meets for Classes C, A and B…
New Hope for Women is pleased to invite the community to an open house on Oct. 30 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the organization’s new location in Wiscasset.
Located at 41 Water Street, the Wiscasset…
As a part of St. Patrick’s Church’s bicentennial celebration in 2008, the Craft Group decided to decorate and sell Christmas wreaths.
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Obituary
Carlene Wright, 84, of Dragonfly Way, Woolwich died peacefully on Oct. 21, 2014 with her loved ones by her side, including her best friend, Hazel Adams, at Winship…
Each October, cooperatives all across the country celebrate the role, accomplishments and contributions of our nation'…
Damariscotta River Association
Hawk Henries belongs to the Nipmuc, a northeastern Algonquin tribe. In his travels within and beyond the United States, he enjoys engaging people who come to hear…
An Edgecomb couple claim noise from a nearby dog kennel is a nuisance.
Mike and Kate Kastelein told the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen on Oct. 20 that barking dogs from The Coastal Dog disrupts…
On Monday, Oct. 27, Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools (FARMS) and Rising Tide Community Market are planning their second joint annual event celebrating Food Day, open to…
The Dresden Board of Selectmen tackled a growing traffic hazard on the corner of Route 27 and Route 197 in Dresden, with the draft of a local ordinance to…
Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter was working at the scene of a two-vehicle crash at routes 1 and 27 on Tuesday night, when he heard tires screech. He looked to see a car that had stopped two feet…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Wiscasset voters will decide the town’s next budget by secret ballot in June 2015, one year after an open town meeting that some residents didn’t want.
The turnout of fewer than 200 voters…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset voters on Dec. 9 will give the school committee a green or red light on closing Wiscasset Primary School next year. Selectmen set the referendum date at their Oct. 21 meeting.
“I’m…
Have a spooky day in the Boothbay region by spending your afternoon with Underhound Railroad at Two Salty Dogs Pet Outfitters, at the corner of Boothbay House Hill…
Edgecomb Planning Board
The Edgecomb Planning Board approved two proposals on Oct. 16. The board unanimously approved Ronna Lugosh’s proposal to build a driveway for the back lot of her 4.66 acre property on U.S. Route 1…
Obituary
Florence M. Connors, died peacefully at her Wiscasset home on Oct. 18, 2014 with her loving granddaughter Anne by her side.
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Morris Farm
“You look old enough that you would know how to dance,” Bristol’s Hale Sparrow told Sheila deBettencourt at Morris Farm’s barn dance in Wiscasset Friday night.
“Or, I’m so old I’ve forgotten…
A Wiscasset man has been charged with harassment after he was alleged to have sent a nude photo of himself to a Boothbay Harbor teen.
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Between John Orne and his wife Cathy, he said he’s the fortunate one.
The Edgecomb couple, married nearly 15 years, were in a…
Wiscasset Fall Sports
On a night that saw Wiscasset High School’s seniors honored for their athletic prowess, there were plenty of thrills, great plays and scares.
Playing at home Friday, Oct. 17, both the boys…
Lincoln County Triad
Nancy Wilson lived in a yurt for 12 years, played the cello, performed with Hearts Ever Young and was a talented writer, Conrad “Doc” Schilke said at the 14th annual Lincoln County Triad Senior…
Wiscasset Selectmen
An issue of interest to local nonprofits and those they serve could be resolved Oct. 21, as selectmen consider a bottle redemption policy. The topic arose from questions Selectman Bill Barnes…
Election 2014
The Boothbay peninsula’s next representative to the Maine House of Representatives will be substantially younger than his/her predecessor, will have been born in Connecticut, but lived mostly in…
A 13-year-old Lincoln County youth left for San Francisco on Oct. 16 to claim an award for his work to save the chambered nautilus, a type of marine mollusk.
Ridgely Kelly of Bremen, along…
Boothbay Railway Village
On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25 from 5:30-8 p.m. the Boothbay Railway Village will once again be cloaked in mystical moonlight and creepy candlelight for the…
American Cancer Society
Three hundred and fifty people walked Damariscotta’s streets Sunday in a sea of largely pink outerwear, pompoms and, in the case of Lincoln Academy industrial arts teacher Shawn St. Cyr, shorts…
The combined websites for the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper were judged top in the state for small weekly newspapers at the Maine Press Association’s 2014 Better Newspaper Contest on…
Dick Mayer was in charge of the traffic coming into and out of Damariscotta for the Oct. 10-14…
Susanna Norwood-Burns has joined the New Hope for Woman staff as a community advocate in Waldoboro.
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