This group of Early Bird shoppers, on Nov. 22, arrived fully embracing holiday spirit and ready to shop! STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register

Early Bird 2025: What a day!

Saturday, Nov. 22, Boothbay Harbor's Early Bird Sale & Pajama Party drew spirited shoppers to the region. The ever popular Buoy Tree was the backdrop for families and friends to take photos. And Janson's Clothing Store provided another photo opportunity…

Greenleaf Inn team steering their way to a win. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register

2025 Bed Races

Rolling into first place: The Greenleaf Inn

This year's Early Bird Sale & Pajama Party on Nov. 22 included the return of the event's Bed Races, to the delight of spectators and competitors! The Greenleaf Inn team, also representing the Admiral's Quarters, took first place! There were four other…

Successful BRHS field hockey team holds awards night

A celebration of one of the best seasons a Boothbay Region High School field hockey team has ever had – the second best in 50 years, according to BRHS records – was held during the 2025 awards night Thursday, Nov. 20 in the BRHS auditorium. Coach Jax Hepburn and…

Many people have their Thanksgiving meal rituals. Do birds? Alewives in the Penobscot River have created what appears to be a feeding frenzy among the gulls. Perhaps it's really just their own way of giving thanks! (Photo courtesy of David Small)

Bird Thanksgivings?

Here in the U.S., many people will gather this week around the ritual of a meal intended to celebrate community and the ideals of sharing and supporting. We call this celebratory ritual Thanksgiving, of course, but similar traditions are known across the world…

Frida Kirchhauser of Stuttgart, Germany talks school spirit and the American high school experience. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

A German in Boothbay

Whether it's decorating for Homecoming, watching your team score on the football field or getting ready for prom with friends, these are experiences most high schoolers don’t think twice about. For foreign exchange student Frida Kirchhauser, it feels like she’s…

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While the trees might look drab the winterberry is a pop of color all over the island and is blended by the long-…

BRHS boys basketball

Seahawks varsity team Turkey Trot victors

Turkey Trot winners: The BRHS Varsity Seahawks. Courtesy of Jennifer Davis Marin

Varsity basketball teams Boothbay's Seahawks, Wiscasset's Wolverines and Buckfield'…

Double your impact through BHML’s matching gift campaign

Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library calls for all hands on deck for our…

BRWD reports high quality of local waters

BRWD trustees discuss PFAS testing in local watersheds during Nov. 25 meeting. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

Boothbay Region Water District (BRWD) General Manager Weston Alley reported Nov. 25, Bigelow Laboratory is working on a…

Don’t miss the Garden Club Holiday Festival!

Theme decorated holiday trees and more await at the BRGC's annual holiday event, this weekend, at St. Columba's. Courtesy of David Applegate

Join us for one of the highlights of the Boothbay Harbor holiday season and get a head…

MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital’s Coulombe Center & Lincoln Theater

'Screenagers' documentary shown at Lincoln Theater

Rushton passes out Yellow Tulip Hope bags during the Nov. 10 showing of “Screenagers: The Next Chapter” at the Lincoln Theater. Courtesy of Piper Wilber

MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital’s Coulombe Center for Health Improvement partnered…

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Good ideas, acted on

Either thing we mention here might also make it into next edition's planned list of five good things that happened in…

Cemetery district talks garage, sign repairs

President Bernard "Skip" MacPhee, and trustees Clarence Campbell and Sara Fahnley (not pictured) overview needed repair work at regional cemeteries. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

Boothbay Region Cemetery District's Nov. 25 meeting was short of a quorum, so no official…

Boothbay Harbor Selectboard approves computer, building buys

The Boothbay Harbor Selectboard Nov. 24 approved several…

Make it ‘A Handmade Christmas’ at Marketfest

Ornaments by Joelle Webber: Make ornaments like these with paper artist Joelle Webber during Marketfest. Kid friendly workshop. Joelle Webber photo

With the help of local creative makers, Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest shoppers can add that…

Bone and Ivory

Music is wonderful.

No matter where you go in the world, music is part of the…

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Give thanks for ...

Thanksgiving.

It is a national holiday. A day we take off work to do what? To sit around a table with family and…

BRHS students get 'ADEPTT' at addressing climate change

Members of the recently formed ADEPTT club at BRHS talk the role of youth in addressing the region's changing climate. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

Conversations about Earth’s changing climate have become a mainstay in coastal regions, and students at Boothbay…

Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

Giving, Gathering, and Gratitude

All of the volunteers at the Community Meal. Courtesy of Allyson Goodwin

Many Thanksgiving feasts start with preparing the potatoes. We peel them early and place them in…

Boothbay Planning Board conditionally approves lone applicant

The Boothbay Planning Board conditionally approved a request Nov. 19 to…

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 235…

Planning board sets public hearing for Glidden Point proposal

The Edgecomb Planning Board Nov. 20 scheduled a public hearing on…

Monday Community Lunch at Brady's

Nov. 24 lunch hosted by Hallinan Construction

Brady's Monday Community Lunch. Jennie Mitchell photo

Another almost full house landed at Brady's for Richard Hallinan's beef stew, homemade…

This week at the Lincoln Theater

June Squibb stars in "Eleanor the Great" opening Nov. 28 at the Lincoln Theater. Courtesy of the venue

"Eleanor the Great" - (PG-13; 1 hour, 38 minutes) - After losing her best friend of 70…

Letter to the editor

Keep public voting on the school budget

Dear Editor:

At the Nov. 13 joint meeting of the Boothbay–Boothbay Harbor Community…

Coastal Senior College winter term registration opens soon

Inner structure of a Nautilus shell, illustrating Arnold Aho's class, Form in Nature and Design. Photo provided by CSC.

Coastal Senior College, serving Midcoast Maine from Wiscasset to…

Center For Teaching and Learning

CTL poets Recognized by Inkblot Writing Contest

CTL fifth graders Lila Milden and Gannon Inman were honored by the Inkblot Writing Contest.

Two young poets from the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb were…

Letter to the Editor

The Russian - Ukraine peace deal

Dear Editor:

It could have a promise from Putin to never invade again.
It could have a promise…

Tides

Sunday, 11/30
6:25 AM	High	9.61`
12:27 PM	Low	0.67`
6:50 PM	High	9.32`

Monday, 12/01
12:46 AM	Low	0.39`
7:18 AM	High	10.25`
1:27 PM	Low	-0.01`
7:51 PM	High	9.56`

Marine Forecast
Data courtesy of NOAA

Tides

Sunday, 11/30
6:03 AM	High	9.05`
12:15 PM	Low	0.63`
6:28 PM	High	8.78`

Monday, 12/01
12:34 AM	Low	0.36`
6:56 AM	High	9.65`
1:15 PM	Low	-0.01`
7:29 PM	High	9.00`

Marine Forecast
Data courtesy of NOAA

Rockland Tides

Sunday, 11/30
5:59 AM	High	9.95`
12:16 PM	Low	0.86`
6:22 PM	High	9.78`

Monday, 12/01
12:37 AM	Low	0.43`
6:53 AM	High	10.60`
1:15 PM	Low	0.15`
7:24 PM	High	10.01`

Marine Forecast
Data courtesy of NOAA

Belfast Tides

Sunday, 11/30
5:56 AM	High	10.36`
12:09 PM	Low	0.79`
6:22 PM	High	10.13`

Monday, 12/01
12:29 AM	Low	0.43`
6:51 AM	High	11.02`
1:08 PM	Low	0.05`
7:22 PM	High	10.41`

Marine Forecast
Data courtesy of NOAA

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