A strong second quarter gave Camden Hills a 13-point halftime lead and the visiting Windjammers went on to defeat the Boothbay Region Seahawks, 65-55, Tuesday night at Porter Memorial Gymnasium,…
Sports
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Charles Lagerbom speaking on “Maine Whaling: To the Arctic and Beyond.” This event takes place on Thursday…
Next fall, scholar and athlete Glory Blethen will trade her Boothbay Region’s blue and gold for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s blue and orange. Blethen will attend the New London, Connecticut…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is partnering with the Maine Primitive Skills School and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to offer a new monthly outdoor educational series for…
Allan Crocker, Boothbay Region High School athletic director, has announced that tonight’s basketball games at BRHS (girls) and at Winthrop (boys) have been postponed and have been rescheduled…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, spectators will not be allowed at games this winter. Several Mountain Valley Conference schools will be live streaming their basketball games this winter. Click on…
Anyone interested in local forestry is invited to attend a Forest Walk on Saturday, Feb. 27, from noon to 2 p.m. at Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC).
Walk hosts…
This January’s winter tale at Oak Point Farm is truly one to stir the imagination of every child, no matter how old.
In Kate Messner’s story, “Over and Under the Snow,” winter is explored…
AUGUSTA - The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's (DACF) Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) has compiled its year-end Maine State Park visitation statistics. As expected,…
Girls roster
#2 Veda Harriman, grade 10; #3 Meghan Leeman, grade 10; #4 Hannah Roberts, Grade 10; #5 Emilie Crocker, grade 11; #10 Glory Blethen, co-captain, grade 12; #11 Jordan…
This will mark the 11th year FRANK-FM has presented high school basketball games in the Midcoast area and all the games will not only be available over the air, but the audio will also be…
Boothbay Region High School’s 2021 basketball season will start Thursday, Jan. 14, with the girls varsity hosting Winthrop at 6 p.m. and the varsity boys traveling to Winthrop for a 6 p.m. game.…
It’s a voyage Della Hahn has wanted to take for eight years. As a third grader, Hahn saw her brother, Myron, spend a semester at sea aboard the Harvey Gamage. In October, Della Hahn…
Ski, bike and snowshoe rentals are available at Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley this winter! Outdoor enthusiasts are encouraged to try out Nordic Skiing, Fat Tire Biking, or Snowshoeing at…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District School Committee
The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District school committee overturned a rule instating goggles during play for the basketball teams Dec. 17. The vote was 3-2 with chair Stephanie…
New Boothbay Harbor resident Sue Decker must have thought she had woken up in a winter wonderland after seven inches of snow fell the night of Dec. 17. Decker had not seen much snow in the past…
Pier 1 in Boothbay Harbor is now illuminated with the town’s first large-scale Christmas buoy tree. The 20-foot wooden structure weighs in at 3,000 pounds and is outfitted with 800 lobster-pot…
Chris Hamblett of Boothbay, along with Naomi Reichsmann, were named North Yarmouth Academy’s Fall Athletes of the Year. Hamblett, a senior cross-country standout and the team’s most valuable…
A local basketball milestone was recently brought to light 46 years after it happened.
Laurel “Laurie” Reed, Boothbay Region High School class of 1974, was an outstanding basketball player…
Boothbay is anxious to begin Clifford Park renovations, but it looks like the project will not begin until at least early summer. The town was recently notified it qualified for a federal $250,000…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
The Boothbay Harbor planning board Dec. 9 approved Boothbay Harbor Maritime Foundation's plans to renovate Carter's Wharf. BRMF President Deanne Tibbetts and Gartley and Dorsky Engineering and…
The Boothbay Region YMCA swim team received word Wednesday, Dec. 9, it can begin practicing as a team beginning Monday, Dec. 14. Club teams like the Y swim team have…
Anyone interested in local forestry is invited to attend a Forest Walk on Saturday, Dec. 12, from noon-2 p.m. Walk hosts include Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) Forester Barrie Brusila, HVNC Co…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Principals’ Association announced Friday team-based practices and team-based scrimmaging for moderate and high-risk interscholastic winter sports, which were originally slated…
Middle school basketball starts Dec. 14 for Boothbay Region Elementary School with boys and girls players dribbling, passing and shooting, but they won’t compete in the Busline League. School…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District
The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District committee approved winter sports Dec. 1.The committee approved guidelines and the first three of four levels Maine Principals Association set…
Paddlesports: canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding, is the fastest growing segment of watercraft recreation. Unfortunately, it’s also disproportionately the most dangerous segment…
Press release
Midcoast Baseball concluded a successful season of fall and summer baseball. Friday night baseball in Boothbay under the lights was a big success while all state COVID-19 protocols…
Cathy Johnson of Alna has earned Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)’s lifetime achievement award. NRCM celebrated its 2020 Conservation Leadership Awards online Oct. 22.
“This year’…
Midcoast Conservancy will begin its youth ski lease program with a fit session on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its Edgecomb office on Route 1. A second fitting session will be…
AUGUSTA — The School Sports Guidance: Return to Competition for Competitive Activities in Maine for winter sports has been updated and approved by the Maine Principals’ Association’s …
Where It’s At
I didn’t want to leave.
I wanted to keep driving around through the dazzling light show at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens this time of year. Gardens Aglow has been taking the breath away…
Midcoast Conservancy will be offering its winter youth cross-country ski clinic starting Saturday, Jan. 9 through Saturday, Feb. 13, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Hidden Valley Nature Center in…
With the numbers of active cases of COVID-19 on the rise, Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) has made the decision to offer its annual Thanksgiving 5K event virtually. Instead of the physically-…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation set out plans for a new building, pier and series of floats Nov.12 in the most complete application planning board members said they have seen in a long time.…
The Boothbay Region Boosters Club is selling raffle tickets to win 200 gallons of heating oil generously donated by Colby & Gale, Inc. and delivered within Lincoln County.
The club has…
Midcoast Conservancy is pleased to announce that Patricia Nease, the Railsback Intern/Maine Conservation Corps Environmental Steward, has been hired on as watershed coordinator on its water team.…
Boothbay region schools held a Special Olympics skills contest Nov. 4 in place of the annual Central Maine Soccer Contest canceled earlier this year. The 19 Special Olympians took to the Boothbay…
Hunting season is in full swing across Maine. Over the past two weeks, Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) has been fielding a high volume of questions regarding hunting policy on its preserves. The…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Principals’ Association, the governing body for high school athletics in the state, announced Monday afternoon the cancelation of this year’s high school cross country state…
Face coverings during practice and competition
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has updated its guidance for community…
BRHS field hockey
The tumultuous eight-game season for the Boothbay Region High School field hockey team ended Thursday, Nov. 5 with a 4-1 loss to the visiting Morse High Shipbuilders.
Due to the pandemic,…
For Dan Hallinan, the 2020-21 high school basketball season was going to be a special one. It was going to be his first as a high school varsity coach, but on Oct. 28, Maine Principals Association…
‘A meaningful sculpture has power, presence and humanity, and generates its own unique narrative’
ROCKPORT — Carving wooden life size sculptures of sports figures has been a passion for Rockport artist Jon Moro, who recently departed from sports figures to crafting a life size sculpture of two…
Today’s scheduled field hockey game at Perkins Field, Boothbay Region High School between the BRHS Seahawks and the Morse Shipbuilders has been postponed due to poor field conditions, according to…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Principals’ Association has announced the winter sports season will be delayed, according to a memorandum emailed to schools Tuesday afternoon and viewed by PenBayPilot.com. …
Seahawk field hockey
The Boothbay Region Seahawks got two goals from co-captain Cortney Meader and a goal from co-captain Kylie Brown and went on to defeat the visiting Lincoln Academy Eagles, 5-2, at Perkins Field…
In a year like no other, the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) remains committed to protecting important landscapes to benefit wildlife, today’s communities, and future generations. Over the past…
Boothbay Region High School cross-country
The Boothbay Region High School cross country teams will go to states this year after a short season. The Seahawks saw only three meets starting with Winthrop High School’s Oct. 1 meet with…
Seahawks cross-country
The Boothbay Region Seahawks girls cross county team qualified for states for the first time in five years Oct. 21 at a meet in Maranacook.
The girls finished second behind Monmouth…
