Wiscasset merchants will open early on Saturday, Nov. 9 for the Early Bird Sale. But it is the early birds who come to shop who will get the worm – or at least a substantial discount – by…
Commerce
The Bath Antique Sale, a monthly antiques marketplace in Midcoast Maine, will open its 2019-20 season on Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Bath Middle School at 6 Old Brunswick Road in Bath, Maine. This…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Early Bird Saturday, Nov. 2, with a half-price sale all day on everything in the shop.
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The decision to move Coastal Shipping from Boothbay Harbor to Edgecomb was not made lightly by owners Mike and Jennifer Elkins.
“Coastal Shipping has been in the harbor for more than 20…
The Genesis Fund announced this week that Bill Floyd will step down from his position as executive director at the end of December, after leading the organization for 12 years. Bill has overseen a…
Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel held its 22nd annual meeting Tuesday. While Congress and the Department of Energy have tried to ease the financial burden on Wiscasset and other places with…
Northbound traffic was at times slow near Wiscasset’s common on Saturday ahead of Damariscotta Pumpkinfest’s parade. But at least along the way motorists could glimpse another form of fall fun:…
BOOTHBAY HARBOR - The Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association (MGFPA) is proud to announce Coastal Maine Popcorn Co. of Boothbay Harbor as the 2019 Food Producer of the Year.
Julie…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission is now home to the National Digital Equity Center's southern Maine hub. In July, we welcomed Marita…
Press release
Maine roots run deep with Susan Peterson and when her corporate position afforded her the ability to work virtually from anywhere in the country, beautiful mid-coast Maine was a simple choice…
Press release
H.T. Winters Flooring in Edgecomb welcomes three new employees to its staff for the Midcoast region. Sales reps, Aaron Cole and Lura Johnston, have a combined 58 years of flooring knowledge to…
If all goes as hoped, Edgecomb will have a new, 100-seat restaurant. Steve Stinson and wife Luanne asked the Edgecomb planning board Sept. 19 about the possibility of a restaurant on Route 1…
Wiscasset Planning Board
The Wiscasset Planning Board conducted a pre-application site plan review Sept. 23 for FIN, LLC, a wedding venue planned for 28 Flood Ave. Heather Poirier and Scott Varney are the prospective…
Oyster lovers from far and wide are gearing up for the 19th annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival on Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Schooner Landing in Damariscotta from noon to dusk. The event is a…
Press release
John Biondolillo, president and co-owner of William Raveis Real Estate, is pleased to announce the addition of Jen and Jeff Dowdy as sales sssociates in the company's Boothbay Harbor office. …
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
The “U.S. Submarine Service veteran” hat Willis Clifford wore to Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours Sept. 19 prompted a question from Garden Club of Wiscasset’s Linda…
Lisa Burnham is excited to present her new Boothbay business Begin Again to contractors and homeowners of the Boothbay peninsula and Midcoast Maine.
Begin Again at 798 Wiscasset Road in…
This week, the Broadband Planning Committee for seven towns in Lincoln County met to begin Phase 2 of their broadband planning project. About 20 people from Somerville, Wiscasset, Edgecomb,…
There will soon be a new place to buy decorated cakes, baked goods and pastries. Farm 23 is preparing to debut Sept. 21. Laura and Josh Puchalski own it. The couple moved to Boothbay Harbor in…
What do you do with about a hundred bricks from Wiscasset’s old sidewalks? Friends of Wiscasset Village isn’t sure yet, but members floated some ideas at Sarah’s Cafe Friday morning and had…
Grover Auto & Tire owner Danny Grover’s late father Buster won the Sportsman Championship in Wiscasset Speedway’s first season in 1969. His wife, Danny’s mother Elaine, was the first woman at…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The shop’s co-manager Rosie Bensen explained that normally…
Ismael Martinez, 12, of Westport Island had a favorite order at Miss Wiscasset Diner, the country-fried breakfast. Then a week after his last visit there, he was on vacation in South Carolina when…
Numbers mean business, and ours are 28.1 million strong. Since launch in 2012, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper websites have racked up 28.1 million pageviews. In the last 12 months…
If you thought you saw Amtrak coming down the rails Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, you weren’t seeing things, except maybe the future.
And the views from aboard were great, according to a…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce announces a Business After Hours and ribbon cutting at the Sheepscot River Shore House, located at 61 Water Street, Wiscasset, Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 7 p…
Dresden selectmen
Plowing contractor Ben Goodall told Dresden selectmen Aug. 6, the town should expect better personnel and equipment on the roads next winter.
“Your vehicles need to be whole. One couldn’t…
The decision to close Miss Wiscasset Diner less than two weeks ago came down to not having enough help,…
Not until December, PUC says
The Maine Public Utilities Commission said Aug. 6 that it expects to rule on the controversial metering and billing case in December 2019, and shortly thereafter take action on CMP’s proposed rate…
Press release
New to Newcastle Realty, agent Jon Stormont brings 30 years of experience in sales and marketing. Jon was the U.S. Procurement Director for Molnlycke Health Care, a company headquartered in…
The last time Southport summer resident Ginny Colburn saw son Ed Colburn get a ribbon was in his school years, in soccer. Then at 15 Water St., Wiscasset July 25, he used Wiscasset Area Chamber of…
Sales of single-family existing homes in Maine eased 7.18 percent comparing June 2019 to June 2018, according to Maine Listings. Values, however, increased 5.09 percent over that same time period…
Summer 2019
“Humidity and me are not friends.”
A sweat bead ran down Wiscasset Transfer Station Superintendent Ron Lear’s right temple Saturday morning as the station opened for a day the…
Seafood and pepper jelly were among the offerings at the Boothbay Farmers Market on Thursday, July 18.
Tom and Tracy Penneman of Pemaquid Lobster and Seafood of New Harbor have been market…
Wiscasset
Despite some predictions of gloomy sales and business failures if the Maine Department of Transportation project took away Main Street parking, most businesses were doing a brisk business Monday…
The Damariscotta Office of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty is pleased to be hosting a wonderful display of the works of well known Maine artist Kevin Mizner for the months of July…
The ConnectME Authority’s board has voted to fund Alna’s and Tidewater Telecom’s joint grant request for $92,500 to aid broadband access and internet speed. ConnectME’s website carried a…
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Wiscasset resident Sherri Dunbar, a Realtor® at Tim Dunham Realty, was named the 2019 REALTOR of the year by the Lincoln County Council of the Mountains to Shore Board of Realtors on June 19.…
David Hagan inspires confidence. A great listener, full of enthusiasm, his honest style of communication is both direct and thorough. Many years in customer service handling claims, sales,…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will be open all day on Thursday, July 4.
The shop’s co-manager Rosie Bensen explains that normally the shop is closed on the…
The man who promised the ‘Deflategate’ judge coffee for life owns Boothbay’s Dunkin franchise. Mike Connor of Lewiston owns four Dunkin franchises in Maine and hopes his newest one will open as…
Wiscasset Airport Advisory Committee
Pilots will soon see reminders around Wiscasset Municipal Airport and online, requesting they avoid flying over Chewonki Campground.
The airport advisory committee on June 19 nodded a flyer…
The 18” x 24” black and white photographs lining the top of the wall entreat you to step back in time … back to the days when four and five-masted schooners were regular visitors to the Boothbay…
In plenty of time for the year 2020, photographer Robert Mitchell 20th “Around Boothbay Harbor” calendar in 20 years is now available. As he points out, that’s 240 “cherished views.” It’s uncanny…
Alna moved two steps closer June 12 to a possible project with Tidewater Telecom to aid broadband access and internet speed: The two applied on deadline for a ConnectME Authority grant; and voters…
A person doesn’t have to be stuck in traffic to notice that on the grass in front of the headquarters of Midcoast Conservancy on Route 1 in Edgecomb, there is a wide array of custom made outdoor…
“Amazing!” was how an organizer described local response to Wiscasset’s inaugural farmers market June 6. The outdoor market held Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. will continue at the waterfront through…
Sea Bags store manager Laura Grant is proud to present her company’s line of items featuring material straight off the boat – literally.
“As of this date…
