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Weather At Your School: Boothbay Harbor
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine — Meteorologists Ted McInerney & Victoria Wisniewski visited with the 2nd graders at Boothbay Region Elementary School. This content is imported from Facebook. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
LOVE OUR LOCALS WITH BOOGIE2SHOOZ SUNDAY AT 727 OCEAN SUNSET AT SMUGGLER’S COVE INN 2-5pm
727 Ocean Sunset Bar invites you to join in the fun this Sunday from 2-5pm with local favorites, Boogie2Shooz! . Every Sunday, 727 Ocean Sunset Bar honors local residents of the Region with great entertainment, handcrafted cocktails, spectacular sunsets and discounts for being a “local”. For more information call 207-633-2800. www.smugglerscoveinn.com.
Energy park would help climate, tax base
RePower Wiscasset is a citizen group proposing that an Energy Park be developed on Wiscasset-owned property located off Old Ferry Road. Such a Park would substantially increase Wiscasset’s tax base while utilizing extremely valuable existing electrical infrastructure. The Energy Park would house clean electricity generators and associated businesses that could profit from the availability of clean electricity. This development would generate tax income and new employment opportunities, as well as allowing Wiscasset to play a meaningful role in the energy transition that Maine and the nation are currently pursuing.
Fetch ME a Home: Kitten season is here at Midcoast Humane
BRUNSWICK, Maine — It's kitten season at Midcoast Humane!. Jess Townsend is the executive director for the shelter, which has locations at Brunswick and Edgecomb. Between those two locations and foster care, Townsend said they can have up to 300 cats in their care. She brought in two 4-week-old...
In Brunswick, Maine, honoring a Civil War hero's legacy
BRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College - Maine's oldest -- was chartered in 1794 when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. One of its most famous alumni is today Brunswick's most beloved former resident, the late Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He orchestrated an unlikely victory at Little Round Top, during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Southport Bridge now open for marine traffic
MaineDOT and its contracting partners have been able to make emergency repairs to Southport Bridge to allow it to open to marine traffic, MaineDOT announced Friday, May 24. The bridge is operating correctly and should be able to accommodate the passage of all marine traffic through the holiday weekend. The moveable bridge opens on a schedule: every 30 minutes between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Malinowski solo show: May 30 - June 19
River Arts is pleased to announce Mark Malinowski’s solo show “Maine Moments” opening in the River Room Thursday, May 30 through Wednesday, June 19. The show features Malinowski’s latest works celebrating Maine’s special places and the beauty, light, color and the wonder of living here. An opening reception with wine and a charcuterie board will take place on Saturday, June 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Schooner Bowdoin returns to Boothbay Harbor
The Bowdoin, the official sailing vessel of Maine, will return to Boothbay Harbor May 25. The crew will set sail May 29 for the Arctic, mirroring the ship’s historic voyages that left from the same Maine waters. The schooner Bowdoin was built in 1921 by Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard in...
Tapestry Singers presents Songs of Maine
Tapestry Singers will perform concerts on Saturday, June 15 and Sunday, June 16 at 4 p.m. at the Damariscotta Baptist Church as a belated celebration of the Maine Bicentennial. The group had planned the concert for June 2020 and then the pandemic shut everything down. The concert will feature Castlebay, a local duo who specializes in collecting and performing the music of Maine. The program includes folk songs of the woods and the waterfront, Algonquin and Penobscot water songs, and arrangements of Shaker tunes. One hymn is by so-called "Yankee Tunesmith." Supply Belcher, who created sacred vocal music for local choirs. Also on the program are arrangements of French Canadian and Scottish folks songs. Three of the pieces on the program are based on the works of some of Maine’s most prolific poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Philip Booth).
Record turnout at annual Miles for Mills race supports veteran families
BRUNSWICK (WGME) - It was a record setting year for the annual Miles for Mills 5k and 10k in Brunswick on Sunday, with more than one thousand five hundred participants. The goal of this race is to raise money for the Travis Mills Foundation which helps soldiers and their families who paid the ultimate sacrifice to fight for our freedoms.
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.
Worming still a good way to earn a living, says local harvester
Kacey Mullins of Wiscasset waxes enthusiastic about his profession of harvesting bloodworms for sale to be used for bait by fishermen around the world. “It beats working under fluorescent lights,” he said in a recent interview. “I have had other jobs, normal 9 to 5, it just wasn’t for me.”
Southport Column: Mitchell & Co., Climate Action Team and more
Although I mentioned Memorial Day in last week’s column in connection with more banners being hung, I completely forgot to mention the parade. If this column comes to your eyes in time, a reminder that, as usual, a Memorial Day parade will begin at the Southport Memorial Library in Newagen at 8:30 a.m. and at the town center in front of the Southport General Store at 9:30 a.m. Flags are waving in the breeze on the.
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