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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…

Seahawks Basketball

One night after suffering a very tough opening game defeat, the Seahawks again jumped out to an early lead but this time held on with a 52-39 win at Lisbon on Thursday night.

John Hepburn…

BRHS Basketball
Crocker

Senior guard Lindsy Crutchfield scored on a five-foot jumper off the glass with two seconds to play to give the visiting Dirigo Cougars a 36-34 win over the Lady Seahawks in Western Maine Class C…

The Maine Games is now seeking applications for their 2014…

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School Lady Seahawks scored 31 second-half points and went on to defeat the Lisbon Greyhounds, 51-41, in Lisbon Tuesday night. It was the opening game of the season for…

BRHS Basketball

The Lady Seahawks basketball team scored 31 second-half points and went on to defeat the Lisbon Greyhounds in Lisbon, 51-41, Tuesday night. It was Boothbay’s first game of the season.

Seahawks Wrestling

Wrestling is back at Boothbay Region High School after several years of not having enough team members, and on December 7 at Dirigo High School, the Seahawks won two out of four matches.

Seahawks Basketball

The Boothbay Region High School boys and girls basketball games against Dirigo have been rescheduled since yesterday. There will be three games at BRHS on Wednesday, Dec. 11. The junior varsity…

Harbor Lights 2013

Half the fun of the Harbor Lights is the last minute scrambling to get bulbs, wires, zip ties and electricity flowing before showtime. It’s what keeps lobsterman Rusty Brewer coming back every…

Boothbay Region Elementary School

Due to today’s weather, the Boothbay Region Elementary School seventh and eighth grade basketball games scheduled at home and in Wiscasset have been canceled. Also, all after school activities…

Lady Seahawks Basketball

UPDATE: Boothbay Region High School has announced that all afterschool activities have been canceled for today.

The Lady Seahawks varsity and junior varsity home basketball games scheduled…

Meditations: too few rodents or too many?

We've all admired the National Geographic photos of the serene white owls perched like solitary buddhas on the Arctic tundra. For some birders and photographers…

Seahawks Swim Team

The Boothbay Region High School swim team hosted its first meet on December 6 against the St. Dominic Saints and the Lincoln Academy Eagles. Seahawks took first place in three events, second place…

Wiscasset Speedway
Vanessa Jordan gives out cupcakes

The job Wiscasset Speedway's owners have done reopening the track has put them in the running for an award.

Stephen Perry, owner and host of the television show “…

Weather Alert
Snow

Although December is off to an auspicious and brown start, things will soon be getting white.

Unfortunately for snow-lovers, they will…

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

Furry Friends
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District

The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District Board of Trustees is still recoiling from the public lashing it received from the Boothbay selectmen after the community tennis courts…

Wildcats basketball
Ames

If you haven’t seen an exciting elementary school basketball game in a while, you might want to catch the eighth grade boys and girls in action at Boothbay Region Elementary School next week (…

Seahawks Basketball
Alley

Third-year coach Tanner Grover says, in order for his 2013-2014 Lady Seahawks varsity basketball team to have success on the court, “we must play together and establish our own pace.”

Grover…

Seahawks Basketball
Seahawks

The defending Western Maine champs in basketball are getting ready for another run as the 2013-2014 regular season opens…

Boothbay Region Land Trust

We hope that by now you are well aware of Boothbay Region Land Trust’s (BRLT) Stewardship Campaign: an effort to raise sustaining dollars for the land trust’s hiking trails,…

Halloween Contest

Nick Scott of Boothbay has won the Boothbay Register's first-ever Halloween costume contest, which ended earlier this month.

Scott,…

Wiscasset Selectmen
October 2012 photo of crowd at Wiscasset Speedway

Wiscasset Speedway's owners have asked for free rein with days and hours in 2014, for a host of possible new uses including a circus, monster truck shows, motor…

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge continues deeper into the second half of the NFL season. Each week, staff…

Community Ice Rink
Photo of Boothbay ice rink construction

Last weekend’s blast of frigid air brought encouragement to winter sports’ enthusiasts anxious to don skates and skis. 

At the Boothbay Fire Station, there was another encouraging sign…

Video: Early Bird 2013
bed races boothbay maine early bird

Although there weren't as many competitors, the drama was not lacking in the 2013 edition of the Early Bird Bed Races.

Because only…

Local Business

Remember Star Trek? Onboard the Starship Enterprise they had this nifty thing called a replicator. Just push a button and zap, Captain Kirk had chicken wings.

That kind of futuristic…

Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Junior Program Foundation announces the election of Andrew Marvin of Boothbay Harbor as its president replacing the retiring Rob Wheeler whose term limit has expired…

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

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

Thousands of lights, dozens of trees, wreaths and greenery galore and music and merriment fill the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor throughout the month of…

Video: Boothbay Region High School

This year, Boothbay Region High School finally has a swim team.

There are 13 athletes currently on the team, including freshmen Elizabeth Bradstreet-Doughty, Molly Thibault and Chelsie…

Hidden Valley Nature Center

This season Hidden Valley Nature Center hosted its first-ever Mountain Biking Club for kids ages 8 to 12.  For six Sunday afternoons the bikers met to explore the nature…

Video: Thanksgiving

The holiday season can be a fun and exciting time, especially in the mind of a second grader. The Boothbay Register visited Boothbay Region Elementary School and learned exactly how kids celebrate…

Boothbay Region YMCA

The Boothbay YMCA Dolphins swim team competed at the Casco Bay YMCA on November 16. The meet consisted of five teams, two sessions, six hours of…

Boothbay Region Land Trust
Avatar the dog

Dogs are very important to us here at the land trust. And there is nothing better than hitting a land trust trail and letting your best furry friend run through the forest and swim in the river as…

Damariscotta

The Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce is excited that Santa has accepted our invitation to visit Damariscotta on Saturday, Nov. 30. Santa is taking…

Boothbay Region High School
photo of Josiah Purin

Call him Josiah. He has decided to do what young men of his age in New England coastal towns routinely did hundreds of years ago: He will abandon land, cell phone, iPad, family…

Maine Wildlife
Albino snake found

Damariscotta River Association (DRA) staff members were thrilled when Natalie Bisset, a student visiting with her class from Jefferson Village Elementary school, found an albino snake.

“This…

This winter Hidden Valley Nature Center will be once again be filled with outdoor and cross-country ski enthusiasts as they explore and enjoy 30 miles of trails, criss-crossing 1,000 acres of…

Ben “The Incredible Bulk” Bulkeley (back row, third from left), catcher for the Cornish Wildcats Little League team.

The first-ever online Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper Staff Pro Football Challenge continues into the second half of the NFL season. Each week…

Seahawks Athletics
Friends and football teammates. Thomas Cornell, left, gives his friend and football teammate Jason Maddocks a hug after Maddocks gave his most valuable player plaque to Cornell at the BRHS fall sports awards. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register

Friendship often transcends personal glory. Such was the case Tuesday night, November 12 at the Boothbay Region High School 2013 fall sports awards.

BRHS…

Every season offers new discoveries at the DRA where children can explore the outdoors during upcoming Vacation Days programs. Courtesy of the DRA

The Damariscotta River Association (DRA) has announced that Vacation Days Nature Camps will be offered Monday, Nov. 25, Monday, Dec. 30 and Tuesday, Dec. 31 from 9…

Get to Know...
Jenny and David Lee have lived in the peculiar cottage in East Boothbay for nearly 20 years. Their home’s odd features still attract many daily visitors. RYAN LEIGHTON/Boothbay Register

David Lee is not a hobbit.

He once built a cottage shaped like a mushroom, but he assures people, it's very practical.

For nearly 20 years Lee and his wife Jenny have lived in a 4,800…

Seahawks Basketball
There will be a brief meeting for all girls basketball players and parents in the Boothbay Region High School cafeteria on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 5 p.m.

At least 29 businesses provided candy and other goodies for over 350 children in Boothbay Harbor during CLICK’s 14th annual Halloween Parade. Along with the adults, the parade again totaled…

Seahawks Cross Country
Sophia Thayer is the fastest BRHS female cross country runner in history and has set the bar for future Seahawk runners to beat and match, according to Coach Nick Scott. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register

In her seven years of cross country racing, Boothbay Region High School senior Sophia Thayer has been as dependable as the fabled tortoise and as speedy as the hare.

"If there was one thing…

Boothbay Region Elementary School

There will be a Boothbay Region Elementary School PTO–Wildcat Parent Group meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the BRES library to discuss the future of…

Boothbay Railway Village
The immense model railroad display at the Boothbay Railway Village is so large it has its own building. So far this year, volunteers have added several new buildings, additional landscape and finished the wiring for several signs and buildings that now light up. Pictured is one of the newer structures on an unfinished scenery area. It is a  1950's era power plant with a lighted and detailed interior.

At the Boothbay Railway Village, it’s fitting that November is the month to celebrate model railroading, because despite most of the museum having…