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Mike Hopkins takes home second consecutive Coastal 200 Victory
Memorial Day weekend is home to one of the biggest Late Model racing events in New England: The Coastal 200. This year, Wiscasset Speedway decided to up the ante and make the race bigger and better than ever before, hosting an action-packed 3-day weekend which would include an infield kickoff party featuring the Motor Booty Affair, charitable car show and cornhole tournament benefiting the Special Olympics and the $15,000 to win Coastal 200 to round out the 3-day affair.
Ahoy sailors! 50th running of the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Shipyard Cup and Classics Challenge
Great racing begins soon with the 50th annual BHYC Regatta and Shipyard Cup Classics Challenge to be held July 20 and 21. Yachts of all sizes with colorful spinnakers will be racing off Boothbay Harbor on both days. This year, special guest, around the world Global Solo Racer, Ronnie Simpson...
Wiscasset officer’s kindness
The Boothbay Region High School boys tennis team would like to thank Wiscasset police officer Nathan Willhoite. Officer Willhoite assisted us one recent evening when we were returning from a match at Carrabec High School. Our bus ran out of gas several miles before the Wiscasset town office on Route 27. Officer Willlhoite went to his own residence to retrieve a five-gallon can of gas, which he brought back and emptied into our fuel tank.
Girls’ track & field finishes second at MVC championships
The Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track & field team finished second out of 14 teams May 23 in the Mountain Valley Conference Championship meet at Lisbon High School. The team scored 89 points which trailed only Maranacook’s 105. Winthrop finished third with 81 and Madison placed fourth with 77. Olivia...
Generous donations for BRES scoreboards
On behalf of the youth basketball programs here in the Boothbay region, I believe I can speak for both the Wildcat and Seahawk fans in extending a sincere thank you to First National Bank and Conley’s Garden Center and Landscaping for their generous contributions towards the acquisition of new scoreboards, which will be located in the Boothbay Region Elementary School gym. This collaboration between both organizations was done to support the young athletes in our community.
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