A concert starring MacArthur “Genius” Award-recipient flutist Claire Chase will highlight the final week of this year’s 29th annual Salt Bay Chamberfest, an acclaimed chamber music festival…
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Tapestry Singers invites new singers and previous members of the choir to join the group for the fall semester.
The first rehearsal is coming soon on Monday, Sept. 11 in preparation for…
“Barbie” - (PG13; 1 hour, 54 minutes) - One week only! Wear pink to any show and take a selfie in our Barbie picture frame! Living the perfect life in the perfect world, Barbie (…
River Arts in Damariscotta invites artists to submit work for a juried show of all abstract art. The gallery is pleased to announce the juror will be award winning, abstract artist Kayla Mohammadi…
The Waldo welcomes Capital City Improv for a night of fun and laughter on Saturday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. Using audience suggestions and interviews, Capital City Improv…
A new show opens Aug. 21 at the Damariscotta River Grill featuring seasoned artists Sandra Leinonen Dunn, Susan Tilton Pecora and Kimberly Skillin Traina. Three distinct styles and mediums…
Join Ablaze Worship at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 12 for an evening of worship music, testimony, scripture, and fellowship. The evening will be hosted at the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, 3…
Skidompha Public Library
Mathew O'Donnell began painting as a boy in Van Buren, Maine. Encouraged by his father, who also painted, and inspired by his rural surroundings, Mat…
Traditional music that causes a wonderful stir and fills to overflowing every venue – that is Cécilia! Widely recognized as three of Canada's finest musicians, it is a pleasure to see how much…
There really could not be a better fundraising idea for a historical society than that of the upcoming event for Boothbay Region Historical Society. On Sunday, Aug. 20 at Harbor Theater, world…
First National Bank is proud to announce the winners of its fifteenth annual Customer Photo Calendar Contest. Fifteen color photographs have been chosen from over 250 entries, and each winning…
Pat Colwell and the Soul Sensations are bringing their 100% old-school soul revue to The Waldo in Waldoboro this Saturday, Aug. 12, at 7:30 p.m. A loving tribute to the female giants of soul music…
Kerr+Jones Gallery
Kerr+Jones Fine Art and Craft in East Boothbay continues to showcase noted contemporary Maine artists with a reception for artist Scout Dunbar on Thursday, Aug. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Dunbar…
Two hundred attendees gathered on a stormy Friday night at the Boothbay Playhouse for Boothbay Region Land Trust’s quadrennial Art Auction, which netted over $100,000 to benefit land conservation…
“GODDESS” - 2023 Salt Bay Chamberfest Festival Concert Series - . On Friday, Aug. 11, join them for their second festival concert, featuring the Brentano String Quartet. And on…
The Monhegan Memorial Library is pleased to welcome Morgan Talty in our fifth annual Distinguished Writers Series on Monhegan Island. Winner of several prizes including the National Book…
For the first time in its recent 20 year history the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor had back to back sell out shows Aug. 3 with Bela Fleck and Aug. 4 with Garrison Keillor. Cathy…
“Oppenheimer” - (R; 3 hours) - Held over by popular demand! An epic biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the 2005 biography American…
Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper
I have been a news contributor since summer 2021 when I got the opportunity to complete my college journalism internship right at the Boothbay Register! Last summer, I graduated summa…
Free registrations continue to arrive for the Olde Bristol Days Williams-Fossett 10th Anniversary Vintage Car Show, to be held at the Bristol Consolidated School in Bristol on Saturday, Aug. 12,…
Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee of Castlebay will talk about their research on early music of coastal Maine and “illustrate” the music with their voices and instruments. The presentation will be held…
Lincoln Arts Festival is delighted to present the Lincoln Festival Chorus, for its 43rd season, in two performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Coronation Mass.” Artistic Director Linda…
What happens when you take one part “Spamalot,” one part “Book of Mormon,” and add a rhyming couplet (or two) with a large splash of thrilling dance routines? You get the hilarious…
Maine Art Gallery
Visitors to the current exhibition at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset will find an exuberant celebration of Mainers at work that is not to be missed. “…
River Arts presents the annual exhibition devoted to “Earth, Water, Sky.” Juror David Little selected the artworks in this robust exhibition that draw inspiration from the many landscapes of Maine…
The Waldo Theatre
The Waldo Theatre Education Program is proud to present the Maine premiere of “Penelope and the Gods of Olympus” written by Teralyn Reiter. The performance will be on Friday, Aug. 4 at 3 p.m. on…
The 51st annual North Nobleboro Day will be held on Saturday, Aug. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Community Hall, 554 Upper East Pond Road. Along with a delicious chicken…
Lincoln County Television is proud to present a one-hour special with legendary Maine broadcaster Don Carrigan on Saturday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m., on Spectrum/Tidewater 7 and…
Puppetry is an ancient form of theater which has been around since the 5th century. It takes on many forms, but they all use inanimate objects to tell a story. Whether it is Kermit…
Salt Bay Chamberfest
Salt Bay Chamberfest (SBC), an annual chamber music festival centered in Damariscotta, is set to open its 29th season next week. This year’s festival, entitled “GODDESS,” celebrates five centuries…
You can’t see hunger. You can help feed the hungry.
With higher costs all around, more local families, children, and the elderly are in peril – 1 in 7 Mainers do not have enough food on…
An artist’s inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere – photographs, events, experiences, dreams, imagination and talent. Six stone sculptors recently spent 10 days, July 21- 30, at Boothbay…
Mathias Fine Art
Michael Culver is the featured artist of the show and he will present a book signing and talk on Thursday, Aug. 10 from 3 to 4 p.m.
His new book, “Sparring in the Dark: The Art and Life Of…
Lincoln Theater is pleased to present the final conversation in this summer’s Talking Aquaculture in Maine series. Presented in partnership with the Island Institute…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
To be there – or not to be there? The answer: “yes!” Heartwood Theater’s production of “Hamlet” - the greatest play ever written, is a must-see, with a gorgeous set and modern…
Auditions! For Lincoln County Communiy Theater’s 2023-24 season on Monday, Aug. 7 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Skidompha Library’s Porter Hall. The 2023-24 season will…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s newly-installed Members’ Show seems to define creative diversity coupled with the saying “great minds think alike.” As such, our featured artists are the sum total…
BOOTHBAY REGION ART FOUNDATION - 1 Townsend Ave. - 633-2793
Lots of new art!! Three shows! The August Members Show downstairs and upstairs: In the Harbor View Room -…
Glidden Point Oyster Farm in Edgecomb held its first Farmer Friday featuring Ferda Farms of the New Meadows River in Brunswick on Friday, July 28. “Farmer Friday was introduced as a way to…
Gleason Fine Art
Southport artist Ed Parker's new show, "All in the Same Boat," at Gleason Fine Art opens Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. 29, with a reception for Ed on First Friday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m.
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The Southport Memorial Library will host a Book and Bake Sale on Thursday, Aug. 3. Baked goods will be on sale in the morning from 9 until noon and books will be for sale from 9 to 4 p.m.
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Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper
I began writing for the Boothbay Register in the Fall 2022 as a freelance news contributor. I had just graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in sustainable…
Storytime, a summer event series hosted by Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, performed a reading and special musical performance of “Frog and Toad” on the lawn Saturday,…
Join us for our first ever Family Read & Watch on the Library lawn on Friday, Aug. 4 starting at 6:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing the Newberry Award Winning book “Holes” by Louis…
The OBD Williams-Fossett Vintage Car Show is back for 2023 as part of the annual Olde Bristol Days celebration. Community interest and participation has grown exponentially leading up to this…
Internationally known American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 11 Glidden St., Newcastle for a solo concert on Thursday, Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at…
“ I’m just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it’s because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth,…
“Asteroid City” - (PG13; 1 hour 45 minutes) - The new film from Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The French Dispatch”), starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson,…
The Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) is poised to host the largest airshow in the state this summer with their Wings & Wheels Spectacular on Aug. 5 and 6. On both Saturday and Sunday,…
On one of the warmest days in August 2015, John Orne, a train engineer at Boothbay Railway Village Museum, invited his wife Cathy to join him in the cab of one of the steam-powered locomotives. He…
