Boothbay Harbor is a popular destination for boaters. Between the hundreds of local fishing boats that make the harbor their home port, and the pleasure boats that…
Commerce
A small sign on Main Street in Newcastle has been catching peoples' eyes over the past couple weeks. It reads “Authentic Mexican Food – Now Open.” Because the bright orange/red taco stand isn't…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and Governor's Account Executive Jaimie Logan will take part in a small business forum on June 21 in…
Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty is currently hosting the work of acclaimed artist Kevin Beers at their Damariscotta Office located at 170 Main Street.
Beers lives in…
Wiscasset’s Cory Rines has won $500,000 with a ticket he bought at Lil Mart, the Maine Lottery announced on Facebook and in a press release. The Route 1 store got a $5,000 bonus for selling the…
Tracy Penniman and her friend and helper, Bonnie Nielsen, were at the Boothbay Farmers Market on June 9, weathering the unseasonably cold wind, and the blasts coming…
There's a red barn just off Route 1 in Newcastle that will soon be welcoming visitors to come in and see how liquor is made. On July 1…
The next time you exit the back door of Reny's in Damariscotta, you may notice some dreamy aromas wafting around you. There are some first-rate artisan breads being…
Wild mushrooms can be scary if you don't know which ones to pick.
Craig Andrews opened the doors to his new restaurant, Andrews’ Harborside, on Memorial Day weekend in 1986. After 30 years of putting his heart and soul, and sweat and…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission is partnering with state, federal and regional business and economic development agencies to present a Small Business Forum on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.…
If you’re looking for a low-calorie snack this summer, don’t go to the Beryl’s Pastries stand at the Boothbay Farmers’ market.
But if…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce cut the ribbon on its new information center, during a rainy morning on the Main Street Pier on May 27. Members built the building, the first one the chamber has…
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Until June 7 (2 p.m. EST), an amazing diversity of decorative and collectible items, all with modest opening bids, will be on offer in Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Spring 2016 Online Timed…
Showcase Antiques Gallery on Main Street in Wiscasset recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.
…The Wiscasset couple looking to build a family entertainment complex on Route 27 is looking for investors. Vincent Thibeault said he and wife Sally Thibeault have verbal commitments from two…
Wiscasset just keeps getting better. Red's Eats has long made the town a destination for a good lobster roll, and there are other eating establishments and shops in the small downtown area to keep…
Wiscasset selectmen got an earful Tuesday night from downtown business owners on the Maine Department of Transportation’s plans for Main Street. The three-hour meeting’s busy agenda also saw the…
Walking into the Sheepscot General Store is a little like walking into, well, let's just say it's not…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Kevin Steele Jr. left the Wiscasset municipal building Monday night with the OK he was seeking to pile and sell firewood, and praise from a planning board member for what Steele has made of the…
In cooperation with Brittany Morgan Bardo of Alna, Newcastle Square Realty Associates is pleased to introduce the availability of expert home staging services to…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
Wiscasset business owners told the state April 28, they are excited at the latest ideas for the downtown, and just the fact the state is still trying to get a project there.
The feedback…
The Wiscasset Waterfront Committee on April 28 welcomed new member David Gagnon. He has lived in Wiscasset all his life, and has spent much of it serving his town.
Gagnon has been a member…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will be breaking ground on a new Marine Algal Research and Innovation Accelerator (MARIA) on its campus in East Boothbay later this spring. The program’s goal…
After being closed for around 15 years, the Carriage House Restaurant in East Boothbay will open its doors again, with a new owner and fresh ideas.
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Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission
Certain parcels that Wiscasset owns near Mason Station are moving into Phase II of brownfield assessment. The assessment, also called a Phase II investigation, will…
Sign of Spring
The Moose Crossing Garden Center, at 3033 Atlantic Highway (Route 1), Waldoboro opened its doors for the 43nd season Friday, April 15.
Founder Jerry Lupien began operations with a single…
Tony C. McKim, president and CEO of First National Bank and its parent company, The First Bancorp, recently cited several staff…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Depending on how his first acre of hops goes, Christopher Juntera hopes to expand to more of his father Cecilio Juntera’s acreage in Wiscasset and get Maine brewers using more Maine-grown hops.…
It's been a good year for Tony Bickford. His restaurant, Little Village Bistro, in Wiscasset, opened on…
Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce
The Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the final of their four education programs being presented this spring. “…
The Midcoast Hospitality Group, LLC. will host The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center on Tuesday, April 26 at the Coastal Maine…
With the Maine craft beer craze in full frenzy and showing no signs of slowing down, Southport resident Mike Barker has launched a hop-growing operation in Alna in hopes of providing local brewers…
After moving out of their shop in Damariscotta in November, Cara and Michael Gaffney have relocated. They took over the new retail space on the street level of 8 Wharf Street, Boothbay Harbor in…
Wiscasset Waterfront Committee
If everything happens that the Wiscasset Waterfront Committee agreed to send on to selectmen March 31, this summer will bring ice cream to the recreational pier, hot dogs on the Main Street Pier…
Wiscasset Planning Board
First National Bank has the Wiscasset Planning Board’s go-ahead for a new route out of the bank’s Gardiner Road lot. The current entrance-exit will become an entrance only, and all traffic will…
Greenlight Maine, the television series designed to promote the entrepreneurs of Maine, is now accepting submissions for its second season. The series, which airs…
Spring in Maine means a lot of good things: longer, warmer days, robins, budding trees and maple syrup.
On March 26, there were some blue balloons and a sign at the corner of Eddy and Cross…
Newcastle Local Planning Committee
Newcastle’s Local Planning Committee has finalized its plans for a mid-spring extravaganza that will encourage residents to come out and participate in the development of the town’s comprehensive…
Coastal Women's Connection would like to invite local women entrepreneurs to a free networking social April 7 from 5 to 7 p.m., in the conference room at The First…
Barton Seaver, chef and author of “Superfood Sea Greens,” an advocate for the sustainable harvest of our ocean’s bounty who has dedicated his career to restoring a…
When LincolnHealth hospital patients reported it was too noisy to sleep at night, it was a medical problem because too little sleep means slower recoveries.
…
Join ReVision Energy and members of the Morris Farm community for an upcoming solar celebration of new and changing solar options in…
Wiscasset Municipal Airport
Peregrine Turbine Technologies Chief Executive Officer and majority owner David Stapp said March 16, it would have taken a crow bar to pry him out of Wiscasset Municipal Airport, if the business…
Wiscasset Planning Board
The First, N.A. on Gardiner Road in Wiscasset hopes to move its exit northward and improve traffic flow through its lot, by late spring or early summer, an engineer said Monday night.
The…
A Wiscasset group wants to know if the town would invest time and possibly money to help explore getting a grocery store downtown.
Merchants and others who have mulled the store idea for…
A story ran in the August 4, 1972 issue of the Portland Press Herald with the headline: “A Future for Seaweed?”
The answer is yes.…
