The high school basketball season has ended for Wiscasset Middle High School. The boys’ and girls’ teams were both winless in 18 games and once more won’t be seeing any playing time in the…

What is significant about our schools? What are the top 10 desired outcomes that would define success in our schools? What are the top 10 obstacles within our schools that prevent desired outcomes…

Jailed journalists around the globe. How can it be? First Amendment aggressions in the United States. How can it be? When words and voices are held hostage, humanity suffers.

Devious…

If you’re like most of us, you overindulged a bit too much in 2019. No, not on calories (well, maybe those too!), but on “noise.” That’s the name for the dizzying onslaught of information from…

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Oh boy, I thought. I wonder what this can be. A Christmas box from my sister. I’ll just give it a shake and guess at…

Back in early spring, when we were still coming out of the stark weather we’re now entering again, two things came into my life that didn’t seem, at a glance, to amount to a confluence:
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It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, when the Allied Forces and Central Powers laid down their arms to formalize the end of the First World War.

One…

In a recent Southport column of the Register, in a very nice mention of our father’s funeral, a certain amount of curiosity regarding the presence of a beer can on a Methodist altar was raised and…

This is the fifth of several feature articles we are publishing which were written by Boothbay Region High School’s AP Language students. According to BRHS AP Language teacher Mark Gorey, the…

This is the fourth of several feature articles we are publishing which were written by Boothbay Region High School’s AP Language students. According to BRHS AP Language teacher Mark Gorey, the…

This is the third of several feature articles we are publishing which were written by Boothbay Region High School’s AP Language students. According to BRHS AP Language teacher Mark Gorey, the…

Avast me hearties and ye shall hear
A tale of buried treasure
T’will make you a-feared …

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This is the second of several feature articles we are publishing which were written by Boothbay Region High School’s AP Language students. According to BRHS AP Language teacher Mark Gorey, the…

I would like to start my speech today by thanking the teachers, the administrators, the staff, and the supporters of Boothbay Region High School. I want to thank you on behalf of the senior class…

Hello Faith, hello families, hello friends, hello faculty, and hello to the class of 2019.

My name is Olivia Paolillo and during my time at BRHS, I have cultivated many useful skills. Many…

Hello Everyone and welcome to Boothbay Region High School’s Class of 2019 graduation ceremony. My name is Faith Blethen and on behalf of this senior class I would like to say thank you to everyone…

The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce our most recent effort to promote and bolster local businesses and the communities we serve. This valuable new resource is a…

North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. Humans live, work, and play on the seven continents. Humans sail the seas. Humans fly the skies. And humans read online…

I believe the current Charter which governs the Boothbay/Boothbay Harbor CSD (Consolidated School District) schools is outmoded, and needs to be repealed and replaced. The Charter is actually a “…

Every day at work I see people who are challenged by their lack of health insurance. Whether at Lincoln County Dental, where I am the executive director, or at the Addiction Outreach Program,…

The Munk Debates, Canada’s preeminent forum for leading thinkers to…

We hear it everywhere in Maine: businesses have a hard time finding the workers they need. If communities are to thrive economically, they need to be able to attract new businesses—and help…

The Boothbay Register will be running a series of columns, under the heading Eye on Education, during the current school year focusing on education issues in the region. Here, Bruce MacDonald…

Recently, I spent well over an hour on the technical support line of a software application company seeking help in solving the problems caused by a software glitch, a problem of their making, not…

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage all members of the planning board to refocus on the recommendations put forth by the planning board’s “Advisory Work Group” regarding the…

Hello everyone, I would like to extend a final thank you for joining us at our commencement ceremony. Today I was given the task to give a farewell address; well, I’ve never been great at good-…

My father always told me to remember the place where I came from. I, like many of us here today, am from the Boothbay Region, my first and only home. And while not all of us have been here since…

Hello and welcome to the commencement ceremony of the class of 2018. Graduation is a time of celebration, of remembrance, of ending one chapter and starting another. It is a time to rejoice in…

Peter, Paul and Mary. Ronnie, Sally and Dickie. Similar rhythm, liked the beat, easy to dance to (“American Bandstand,” 1965)! Similar, but different. In some ways though, there is a similarity in…

Here in the state of Maine, the belief of government by the people is exemplified by the ability of its citizens to partake in the use of the initiative and referendum…

Maine’s extremely large and growing tick population is to blame for human contracted tick-borne diseases such as the Lyme epidemic. This was the result…

It is rare that we feel compelled to respond directly to editorials and letters in the paper, but we believe that some of Editor Emerita Mary Brewer’s comments in her Jan. 4 editorial, “…

Alright Seahawks fans - it’s time to vote for the November Athlete of the Month!

As I anticipated, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” is an emotional, inspirational and memorable film – and it’s playing at The Harbor Theatre.

The film closely follows Diane Ackerman’s book of the…

On December 5, 2016, we found our son, Aaron Pearce, dead in his bed with no apparent cause. As the family worked through the shock and heartache of…

Another great basketball season in the books!  I’d like to take a moment to thank some folks who made it all possible.

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It’s the weekend of the annual Boothbay Classic, so there’ll be a whole lotta dribblin’ (and scoring!) goin’ on when 7th and 8th grade boys and girls teams from across the state compete March 3-5…

In the days leading up to the planning board decision on the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) expansion, misinformation about the status of Knickerbocker Lake…

The holiday season of Christmas has a history of many meanings. Celebrations in the home have morphed from the family gathering on Christmas Eve, the tree not yet displayed, and dinner so special…

We share the Knickerbocker Lake Association’s concerns over water quality in…

The Knickerbocker Lake Association of Boothbay — a group of property owners on Knickerbocker Lake — is officially requesting the Boothbay Planning Board deny the…

The Boothbay community has been blitzed with expensive ads, oversized street signs, postcards, and free lunches from PGC5 (a private limited liability company owned by Paul…

“There’s something going on inside the government that’s really wrong and I can’t ignore it. I just want to get this data to the world.” - Edward Snowden quote from the…

In the past forty years there has been a significant change in the way many people view domestic and sexual violence. It is far from perfect but also far from the culture and beliefs that existed…

How do you understand what drives human beings to hate so grievously that some resort to senseless violence? I ask myself what it takes for these individuals to become so frustrated with their…

“The best things happen by chance,” says blue tang Dory. The best things can also be planned (for those of us without short-term memory loss) and going to see “Finding Dory,” at The Harbor Theatre…

The art of brewing beer and storytelling has been around for centuries and it is no wonder why we, as a country, have always found the heart of any idea, cause, or…

Hello, I am here to cap off this ceremony. Over my four years of high school, I've been exposed to many works of great literature, learned so much about history,…

Good afternoon everyone, on behalf of the class of 2016, I would like to thank all faculty, alumni, friends, family and other dignified guests for attending this year's BRHS graduation ceremony.…