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The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge of the NFL season will continue through the…

BRHS:

The boys basketball games at Boothbay Region High School scheduled for tonight, January 3, have been rescheduled to Tuesday, Jan. 7, 5:30 and 7 p.m.

The Seahawk…

Phippsburg
popham maine winter

Winter in Maine can be a dark time. If the short cold days aren’t enough to drive one inside, then the bitter biting wind and driving snow might be.

For that reason, the Maine State Parks…

Penguin Plunge
Plunge

This year's Penguin Plunge event on January 1 drew some very good numbers. Between 30 and 35 people went into the water, according to Meagan…

Coastal Midcoast - minus 37 F wind chill

GRAY — Word of a late-week storm has been swirling around for days, but it wasn't until 3:20 p.m. on New Year's Day that the National Weather Service pulled the Midcoast into the mix. It had been…

Seahawks Basketball

The girls’ junior varsity and varsity basketball games at Boothbay Region High School scheduled for today, Jan. 2, have been rescheduled for Saturday, Jan. 4, at 5:30 and 7 p.m., respectively.

Bath

The Sage Round Dance club will hold free workshops during an open house on January 6 and 13 from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. each night. The workshops will be held at the Dike-Newall School, 3 Wright Drive…

Seahawks Basketball
Point Guard College

On December 27 and 28, the Lady Seahawks basketball program hosted Coach Graham Maxwell of Point Guard College (PGC). PGC runs basketball camps and courses all…

Seahawks Basketball

Not that they aren't familiar with the Augusta Civic Center floor, the Seahawks boys basketball team got a chance to reacquaint themselves with their home away from home and played well in the…

Mix of rain, heavy snow headed to Maine Sunday night into Monday morning

GRAY — The arrival of Sunday's storm later this afternoon is consistent statewide, but the snow-rain mix line travels as far up the coast as Knox County, with points north likely to see all snow…

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge of the NFL season enters its final week of…

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands will sponsor free, guided hikes in five state parks on New Year’s Day as part of America's State Parks…

NWS: Winter storm watch through 7 a.m. Monday

GRAY — The National Weather Service Friday has issued a winter storm watch for Sunday, as a coastal storm could bring 6 to 10 inches of snow.

A fast moving low pressure system is expected to…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region Seahawks boys varsity basketball team is in second place in the Western Maine Class C Heal point standings at the holiday break. Dirigo, which edged Boothbay at home by two…

A Brewer meeting originally scheduled for December 9 by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to seek stakeholder input on a plan to reduce the harvest of elvers by 25 to 40 percent from the…

Seahawks Basketball
Hepburn, John

The Boothbay Region High School Seahawks are headed into the holiday break at 4-1 after a pair of wins over Spruce Mountain and Telstar. The victory over Spruce Mountain was one for the ages as it…

musher sled dogs Heidi Sutter Alaska

Growing up in Wiscasset, Heidi Sutter always wanted to live somewhere with a lot of open land and not many people.

From photographs she saw of Alaska, it looked…

Robert Mitchell: ‘Round Town

One of the most annoying things about snow for me, is that we have to work so hard removing something that eventually goes away on its own.

There…

Morley

The Lady Seahawks varsity picked up a win on Saturday at Telstar, 45-30, after losing to a tough Spruce Mountain team at home, 59-31, on Wednesday, Dec. 18. The team goes…

The Boothbay Region High School boys’ junior varsity and varsity basketball games against Mt. Abram have been rescheduled again. The games were to be played today, December 23, but the weather has…

Local Events

It’s the last full week of 2013, and Christmas is nestled smack dab in the middle, on Wednesday. How will you be celebrating?

Coming up this week we have many choices for entertainment and…

quinzhees

The Damariscotta River Association (DRA) has announced that Vacation Days Nature Camps will be offered Monday, Dec. 30 and Tuesday, Dec. 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. These programs will…

Hidden Valley Nature Center

Winter is off to a great start at Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson. The snow came just in time for last Sunday’s full moon hike and “Owl Prowl.”

Fourteen visitors joined Lynne…

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge of the NFL season enters its final two…

Seahawks Basketball
Winners

You almost had to be there to believe what took place at Porter Memorial Gymnasium on Thursday night, December 19. Not your typical high school basketball game, but maybe one of the all-time…

Chewonki, surfing

Chewonki’s announced December 18 that it would be partnering with Grain Surfboards of York to launch a…

Seahawks Basketball
Morley

Emily Keene scored 15 points to lead the Spruce Mountain Phoenix to an easy win, 59-31, over the Boothbay Region Lady Seahawks basketball team Wednesday night at Porter Memorial Gymnasium.

Grinsson, Boris (1907- 1999), two- panel billboard for MGM Film,

Click your heels three times and say, “There's no place like Oz, there's no place like Oz, there's no place like Oz.”

Now, walk in the front door of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland,…

The streets of Boothbay Harbor were abuzz with the hum of heavy machinery on December 16, as public works crews and local dirt contractors leveled the heaping snow drifts that swept through town…

The SAGE Square Dancing group will hold an open house and workshops on January 7 and 14 at the Dike-Newall School, 3 Wright Drive, Bath. The free events will be held…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School junior varsity and varsity girls basketball games tonight, Dec. 18, are still going to be played, according to BRHS Athletic Administrator Allan Crocker. The Lady…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School Seahawks opened the basketball season on Thursday, Dec. 11 by falling to the Dirigo Cougars, 48-46, on a last second hoop by Riley Robinson before bouncing back…

Seahawk Swim Team

The Boothbay Region High School Seahawks swim team had its first away meet against the Cony High Rams on Friday, Dec. 13. Out of 22 events, the Seahawks took first place in three events, second…

Seahawks Basketball

The Seahawk boys varsity and junior varsity basketball games at Mt. Abram tonight (December 17) have been rescheduled due to the impending snowstorm. The games have been rescheduled for Monday,…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School boys' varsity basketball team will compete in the 19th annual Capital City Hoop Classic at the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday, Dec. 28.

BRHS is scheduled to…

Seahawks Wrestling

The Boothbay Region High School wrestling team lost a close match to Lincoln Academy and were defeated by Medomak Valley High School at Lincoln Academy on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

BRHS initially…

Seahawks Basketball

The Lady Seahawks bounced back from two straight losses by easily defeating the Mt. Abram Roadrunners, 52-21, in Western Maine Class C basketball action in Salem Monday night.

Boothbay…

Wings Over Wiscasset
Dennis St. Pierre Wings Over Wiscasset Wiscasset Municipal Airport

Plans call for “Wings Over Wiscasset” to be back in a big way in 2014, running two days instead of one. (…

Seahawks Basketball
Hepburn

Junior co-captain John Hepburn scored 29 points in three quarters and led the Boothbay Region High School boys’ varsity basketball team to a 75-41 victory over the visiting Monmouth Academy…

Nordic Skiing
Photo of Sophia Thayer

While other high school sports teams head indoors for the winter, the Nordic ski team will brave the worst winter has to offer. In fact, a big dose of cold weather and snow is exactly what this…

Furry Friends

The holidays are a time for treasured family gathering. For pet parents, this includes those members with four legs and fur.

While you might be thrilled with the idea of decking the halls…

A 17-point fourth quarter by the visiting Monmouth Mustangs gave the Lady Seahawks team its second loss of the season Friday night, 43-39. The Mustangs held Boothbay to just eight points in the…

Noridic Skiiing

With snow in the forecast, it’s time to dig out the cross country skis and keep your fingers crossed.

Boothbay Region High School’s Nordic ski team will be tuning up their skis after school…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School wrestling team lost a close match to Lincoln Academy and were defeated by Medomak Valley High School at Lincoln Academy on December 11.

BRHS initially tied…

Boothbay Region Land Trust

A plain manila envelope marked with the Boothbay Region Land Trust seal sat before the Boothbay selectmen on December 11. Enclosed was a…

Seahawks Basketball

Due to a snowstorm predicted for Saturday night, Dec. 14, the Boothbay Region High School boys’ junior varsity and varsity basketball games against Monmouth Academy at BRHS will…

Seahawks Basketball

The Lady Seahawks basketball team (1-1) will face the Monmouth Mustangs (2-1) at home Friday night, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.. The team will look to get back on the winning track after a last-second loss…

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge continues deeper into the second half of…

Damariscotta River Association

For the past three years, late November and early December have marked the time for the reappearance of the Damariscotta River Association (DRA)…

Seahawks Basketball
Dirigo, Boothbay

Twice in one night?

The Dirigo Cougars chose the perfect option for the final play of the game as Riley Robinson rolled in a game winner with less than a second to go to lift the visitors to…