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BRHS girls basketball

The Boothbay Region High School girls basketball team improved to 3-0 with a 55-46 win at Monmouth Monday night, Dec. 17.

Seahawks senior Faith Blethen led all scorers with 28 points (…

The Boothbay boys basketball team continued its winning ways with a thrilling 66-63 victory over Monmouth Friday night at Porter Memorial Gymnasium. With 18.8 seconds remaining, sophomore guard…

BRHS girls basketball

The Boothbay Region High School girls basketball games at Monmouth Academy scheduled for tonight, Dec. 17, are still going to be played, according to Boothbay Region High School coach Brian…

Frogs and Pollywogs is a monthly program for preschoolers and their caregivers offered by Damariscotta River Association (DRA) throughout the school year. The hands-on nature program gives…

When there’s no school, what could be better than roaming the outdoors, learning about wildlife from a naturalist, playing games, building snow creatures and going dogsledding? Damariscotta River…

The Boothbay boys basketball team won its third straight game with a thrilling 66-63 victory over Monmouth Friday night at Potter Memorial Gymnasium. With 18.8 seconds remaining, sophomore guard…

The Boothbay girls basketball team won its second straight game Thursday with a 69-21 victory over Mount Abram at Porter Memorial Gymnasium. Boothbay senior Faith Blethen led all scorers with 27…

Boothbay Region High School Athletic Director Allan Crocker has announced that there will only be the varsity contest tonight, Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. due to Mt. Abram dropping its junior…

BRHS boys basketball

The Boothbay Region High School boys varsity basketball team improved to 2-0 with a 71-38 win over the Mt. Abram Roadrunners in Salem Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Boothbay was led in scoring by…

Hidden Valley Nature Center

All are invited to join Midcoast Conservancy’s AmeriCorps Outdoor Adventure Members Emma, Jess, and Miranda on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for some outdoor fun at Hidden Valley Nature…

Medomak Valley Land Trust and Midcoast Conservancy are excited to announce that they will be merging on Jan. 1, 2019. This follows unanimous support from both organizations that was confirmed at…

BRHS girls basketball

The Blethen sisters, Faith and Glory, combines to score 50 of Boothbay’s 60 points in the Seahawks’ 60-25 win at Lisbon Tuesday night, Dec. 11.

Sophomore Glory Blethen scored 27 points and…

The Boothbay Region High School boys varsity basketball team opened the 2018-2019 season in grand style Monday night, Dec. 10 with an 80-52 win over the visiting Lisbon Greyhounds. The visiting…

BRHS boys basketball

Senior co-captain Steve Reny scored 15 of his game-high 25 points in the third quarter as the Boothbay Region Seahawks boys varsity opened the 2018-2019 basketball season with a convincing 80-52…

Boothbay Region High School boys basketball

Last year’s Boothbay Region Seahawks boys basketball team provided plenty of excitement at tournament time. The sixth-seeded Seahawks upset the third-seeded Waynflete Flyers and narrowly lost to…

Longtime Wheaton College women's basketball coach Melissa Hodgdon became the winningest women's…

Midcoast Conservancy

The second, and final, Youth Ski Lease fitting day is Tuesday, Dec. 12 from 4-7:30 p.m. at the CLC YMCA on Main Street in Damariscotta.

In an effort to get kids and families outside having…

The public is invited to The Lincoln Home on Monday, Dec. 10, from 3-4 p.m. to hear Tom and Lee Szelog's unique and inspiring talk on an extraordinary journey on the wild side.

Through…

A 24-year-old culinary specialist at the local U.S. Coast Guard base won her first MMA fight last month. Chelsea Tucker, in her fourth bout, defeated BJ Garceau of Young’s MMA (Bangor) in a…

The road to the girls Class C State basketball championship has gone through Boothbay Harbor for three straight years. And the 2018-19 Lady Seahawks are looking for another deep run and possibly a…

A new brand of football may be in store for Boothbay Region and other Maine high schools with fewer than 350 students. In November, the Maine Principals Association’s football committee…

Frank 106.9 FM, WBQX, will broadcast local high school basketball for a ninth straight year beginning Friday, Dec. 7 when the Lincoln Academy Eagles travel to Rockport to play the Camden Hills…

A predatory songbird that feeds on small birds, mammals, and insects, the Northern Shrike is known for its unusual habit of impaling its prey on thorns or barbed wire to save for later.

BRHS indoor track

Declining enrollment and a shift of interest are likely the culprits for an end to the Nordic skiing program at Boothbay Region High School. However, it should not come as a surprise, said Coach…

Monday, Dec. 3: At Camden, girls first, 3:45 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 10: Home vs. Oceanside, girls…

In order to help get kids and families outside having fun in the snow, Midcoast Conservancy is partnering with the Outdoor Sports Institute to provide affordable cross country ski equipment to…

Jamie Jones of Bath will take over as the varsity coach of the Wolverine boys’ basketball team. Neal Goldberg, a Wiscasset Middle High School math-science teacher, is assisting and will coach the…

Tom Philbrick of Boothbay takes over as coach of the Wolverine girls’ basketball program this season. Tryouts for the varsity squad were held Monday night at Wiscasset Middle High School.

It’s a day Faith Blethen began dreaming about as an 11-year-old dribbling a basketball at the local YMCA. Her dream was playing Division I basketball at a great university, and on Nov. 16, Blethen…

Boys basketball

Saturday, Nov. 24: Preseason at…

Getting out for a little exercise can be a fine way to kick off the Thanksgiving holiday, especially when it benefits a good cause. For a few years now on Thanksgiving Day, a group of area…

Midcoast Conservancy will offer a full moon hike (or snowshoe, if there is snow on the ground) at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson on Tuesday, Nov. 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Hikers can…

Midcoast Conservancy
Last call for tickets to attend Midcoast Conservancy’s engaging and informative evening of environmentally-themed films at the Crosby Center, 96 Church St. in Belfast on Sunday, Nov. 11 from 3-5 p.m…

All are invited to join Midcoast Conservancy’s AmeriCorps Outdoor Adventure members Emma, Jess, and Miranda on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for some outdoor fun at Hidden Valley Nature…

This year’s Boothbay Region High School sailing team isn’t your typical crew. There are several reasons why the young sailors don’t resemble a typical high school team.  First, sailing isn’t a…

Junior defender Samantha Carter, Boothbay Harbor, of the Becker College field hockey team has been voted the 2018 New England College Conference (NECC) Player of the Year in a vote by conference…

The Seahawks boys cross country team took fifth at the Class C State Championship on Oct. 27. Despite the cold, wet weather which typically slows a runner down, three Seahawks beat their lifetime…

The Boothbay Seahawks football season ended Friday with a 36-8 loss to Maranacook in the Class E quarterfinal round. This was the Black Bears' second win over Boothbay in as many weeks. Maranacook…

Boothbay Region High School Athletic Director Allan Crocker has announced that due to the weather forecast on  Saturday, the cross-country state championship times have been changed. Boys will now…

A 1960 Colby-Sawyer multi-sport athlete joined four others in entering the college’s sports Hall of Fame this month. Patty Canby Colhoun played varsity basketball, lacrosse and field hockey during…

Boothbay hosted the Pen Bay #3 regatta Oct. 22. Unlike the previous two Pen Bay regattas held in light and medium winds, this event tested sailors’ athleticism as the second cold front of the…

The Great Pumpkin Hunt at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Oct. 20.

What a gorgeous day it was for the 3rd annual Great Pumpkin Hunt at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Oct. 20! Event coordinator Erika Huber said just over 2,000 people attended the third annual…

Boothbay sailors won the Greely High School Ranger Rally Regatta in Portland Oct. 20. Fourteen teams from Maine and Vermont faced winds gusting to 22 knots in the year’s final varsity regatta at…

BRHS cross-country

The Seahawk boys cross-country team will be going to the Class C State Championships for the 11th straight season. Both teams traveled to Cumberland on Oct. 20 to face off against Southern Maine’s…

BRHS football

The Maranacook Black Bears defeated the Boothbay Region Seahawks, 26-7, in Class E football action in Readfield Friday night, Oct. 19.

The win improved Maranacook’s record to 5-3 while…

BRHS field hockey

The top-seeded Winthrop Ramblers defeated the eighth-seeded Boothbay Region Seahawks, 5-1, in the quarterfinal round of the Class C South field hockey playoffs played at Lewiston High School on…

While I didn’t come upon a blue hookah smoking caterpillar on any of the mushrooms at Knickercane Park last week, I did discover a wide variety of mushrooms. It seems this year there’s an…

Seahawks soccer

Seahawk girls soccer played a hard fought final match against Winthrop High School Oct. 12 only to come up short in the end, 3-1.

“It's the first game in a while that we really put…

BRHS cross-country

The Seahawks cross country teams outran their competition at the Mount Valley Conference Championship on Oct. 13. The boys team took first place edging out Lisbon High School by four points making…

Four Boothbay Region High School football players and three cross-country seniors were honored for their past participation in Seahawk athletics prior to the Oct. 12 homecoming game.

For…