Isn’t it wonderful to have the sun streaming in late in the day while birds are still singing well into the early evening hours? That by itself is a sure sign of spring. Each of us have our own unique markers of the sometimes slow disappearance of winter into the season of light, warmth, and rebirth. Here’s a random few of ours from the past week or so.

One of our favorites is the faint, high-pitched twittering we heard from the car when we rolled down the windows on a cold evening soon after the sun had set. We stepped out to listen more closely, and we heard it: the loud, nasal, buzzy

The first good thing about February was it was no longer January. And the first good thing about March was February was over. Winter's latter half has been unpleasantly windy and often miserably wet, although, thankfully, not too full of snow. It also has been budget season for the schools and towns, which, for us, sometimes means just keeping up with the workshops and proposals and, for me, it also meant bypassing the February installment of 2026's six good things in or around Wiscasset. Here's a February-March combo, but I'm sticking with six because I don't have time for 12.

In fact, I'm

It was like a nightmare! I cried out “What the …” when I watched the basketball get blocked by UConn, and then when the Husky freshman Braylon Mullins nailed the 35-foot 3-pointer, I am sure I blurted out some expletive.

When Silas Demary Jr. stepped to the free throw line with UConn trailing by three points, and 10 seconds left, I had a lot of confidence that the Duke Blue Devils were still going to win. Demary missed the first free throw – and even if he intentionally wanted to miss the second free throw so the Huskies might rebound and possibly chuck up a 3-point shot – the clock and Duke

Were you one of the several hundred Lincoln County folks who stood on the Sheepscot River bridge on Saturday morning? Did you join other national anti-Trump White House protesters who tried to voice opposition to its policies and actions, especially Mr. Trump’s Iran war and the bully-boy tactics by ICE agents?

It was not the first time Wiscasset has bitterly opposed the actions of a president, but unless you are a history buff, like the one and only Phil Di Vece, you probably didn’t know that. More on that later.

Saturday was a county-wide protest organized by the local chapter of the No Kings

Moore’s Rock is right behind the house where we used to live at the top of Sherman Street in the Harbor. At the suggestion of Bernard Coady, my barber for what little hair I had, we bought his mother’s house. Verna Coady had shared her house for years with seasonal women workers, a boarding house of sorts. Nettie Mitchell, our next door neighbor on Sherman Street, rented rooms to seasonal young men workers. It was a lovely neighborhood for our family. Uncle Harry and Aunt Alice Gray lived across the street. We bordered Moore’s Rock. The location was one of the highest points in the area, once

The AARP Fraud Watch Network™ Helpline (877-908-3360) has seen a spike in “recall scams.”​ In these schemes, perpetrators send a message claiming that a product you purchased has been recalled because of a safety issue.

The message looks official and urgent, often appearing to come from a trusted retailer like Amazon, Costco, or Walmart. It may include language such as, “To ensure your safety and process your full refund without delay, please sign in to your account through the official website and review your order below.” The link provided, however, is fake and designed to steal your

The Y Arts Community Players cast of 66 played to sold out shows at the Opera House last weekend, and with good reason! First off, it's Y Arts, it'll be brilliant; and second, the production was "Alice In Wonderland," an adaption, sure, but all of the unforgettable characters we love were there. The book, lyrics and music were written and composed by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman.

Bravo to all who played the main characters of the tale: Sophia Mansfield as Alice, Alan Baldwin as a laid-back Jimmy Buffet-Big Gulp sipping version of the Caterpillar; Craig Urwin as the always late White

With the Maine Law Court’s decision issued on Feb. 10, 2026, bringing the Boothbay Boothbay Harbor CSD school referendum lawsuit to a close, I believe it is important to explain why we filed the case—and to clarify some misunderstandings about what actually occurred. 

In November 2023, voters in Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor were asked to approve two major school construction questions tied to the proposed $89 million school project. Both questions were defeated.  The results were clear. Question 1, to renovate the elementary-middle school building, was rejected by a vote of 1,266 to 1,162

Dear Editor:

This letter is written in response to a newspaper article about a special Boothbay Selectmen's meeting Tuesday, March 24 at 5 p.m. in the Boothbay town hall. The meeting was a hearing regarding Jody Lewis' fitness to remain on the BRRDD board. The newspaper article was posted online Thursday, March 26 at 6 a.m. The article contained misleading and confusing information and was removed Friday morning by request.

For those of you who happened to have read the online article, at no point did I "divulge" any information regarding the ongoing FBI investigation involving the BRRDD.

I

Dear Editor:

It’s an outrage! Why should a married wage earner with two children who earns 120K pay over 11K in federal taxes plus Social Security, but a rich elite, with the same income derived from dividends and capital gains unfairly pays nothing?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The tax code is riddled with loopholes and giveaways that allows the wealthy to accumulate and pass on vast fortunes while paying lower effective tax rates than many working families.

Wealth and profit in the classical economic model are built upon mutually beneficial transactions generating employment, further

Dear Editor:

I have some questions about the East Side Waterfront Park.

My goal in writing would be to have someone respond to this letter with information that would help donors and all community members understand where we are and where we are going.

Why is there no park after seven years?

If development has been unsuccessful for this long, wouldn't a change of leadership be in order?

There was a quote from one of the developers that essentially said the park should not be deeded as a park, which would leave it open to commercial development. Wasn't the land purchased with donated money

Dear Editor:

Xerxes had his Salamis; Alcibiades, his Sicily; Antony, his Actium; Cornwallis, his Yorktown; Napoleon, his Waterloo; and Hitler, his Stalingrad. Is Trump is about to have his Hormuz?

Having insulted our former allies in NATO, he is now issuing threat-laden orders that they bail us out of the mess he has created in the Persian Gulf. The Geman Defense Minister said it best, in responding to Trump’s imperious demands for aid: "What does Donald Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to do in the Strait of Hormuz that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot do? This is not

Dear Editor:

Annual budget season is upon us.

There are serious concerns regarding the Edgecomb Eddy School proposed FY 26/27 budget.

Facts:

1. The number of Edgecomb resident students has been in steady decline since 2010.

2. Except for a small payment of $23,465, Edgecomb essentially paid off the school mortgage in the 2020-21 school year.

3. In June of 2021 the Edgecomb school system accelerated loan payoff of the two new buses, whose expected useful life is 10 years and 125,000 miles.

4. Given no major new capital expenses and a decreasing resident student population, growth in school

Dear Editor:

Do you read and study real history?

Do you think on your own or do you believe what you are told by the media, politicians or robots, AI? Only God has the whole truth.

People have been corrupt or sinners since the beginning of time. Our politicians on both sides have sought money or power and have lied and used their political offices for their own gain. There should be term limits on everyone and if the people who are in political offices are not serving the people they were elected to serve they should be fired just as a person who dosen’t do the job they were hired to do gets

Dear Editor:

I’m writing to share a bit about my husband, Mike Bartles, and why I think he’ll be a terrific addition to the Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee.

Mike has always wanted to get more involved with our town. When we had our first son, Teddy, and enrolled him at the Y’s Harbor Montessori School, we realized just how important daycare – and the school – is to our sense of community here. That rang even more true when Teddy started kindergarten at BRES. That was almost two years ago, and in that time, Mike has said countless times that he hoped to join the school board someday. As

Dear Editor:

The March 16 Boothbay Register included a letter from Joe and Jill Doyle that contains claims that require correction.

Developers

Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation (BBHWP) is not a developer. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2018. Our mission has remained unchanged since our founding, to promote public access to the water and to protect working waterfront. We published our initial park design in four full-page ads in 2019—before the Doyles purchased their adjoining property. The final payment on the Cap'n Fish property was made on Dec. 1, 2019. Plans have changed only

Another morning of actual freezing temperatures, but with sunshine, blue sky, wind and wisps of occasional clouds being moved by them. While tending the feeders this morning I looked in awe as the nuthatches, both red and white breasted, defied gravity scaling the trees, being upside down and descending head first. Work continues on trying to communicate with the murder of crows that come in the mornings, one always sounds the alarm as I open the door, but they no longer fly, but wait to see if a stale cracker or two will be left by the lady in night dress and boots attempting to speak crow

Woo hoo! Give Mom the best Mother’s Day present ever – free house cleaning! We are selling tickets for a raffle to win up to $200 in services from Details Cleaning! They are fully insured and focused on delivering reliable, consistent, high-quality work. Unless otherwise requested, the raffle winner will receive general housekeeping services, including dusting, vacuuming, cleaning kitchen surfaces including the microwave (inside and out) and of course bedrooms and bathrooms. Stop by the Community Center and buy your chance to win: $10 each or 3 for $25. Drawing will be held at 1 p.m. on May 5

Spring is on its way. It was a chilly morning, but Weather Underground says it will be in the mid-forties today, and the fifties tomorrow. A heat wave in Maine, the shorts and flip flops will surely be coming out. But, the surest sign of spring is that the Big, Gray Rotary Club Barn is opening this Saturday, April 4 for its sixth season. We’ve been restocking, redecorating, and re-cleaning. You'll find lots of treasures to help you welcome spring in Maine. A big thank you to everyone who has been working so hard to make this happen, especially our team leaders Laurie, Cathy and Barbara who