The Seahawks moved to 2-0 on the young season on Monday night with an 83-27 victory over the visiting Wiscasset Wolverines.
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Sports
Hood, New England's leading dairy processor, will once again award eighteen $5,000 Hood Sportsmanship Scholarships in 2015 to high school seniors who demonstrate integrity and sportsmanship on and…
Seahawks Basketball
Faced with some very serious early foul trouble, the Seahawks got some huge contributions off of the bench on opening night in a very important 72-66 victory over…
A Bird’s Tale
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the mayhem of Black Friday (if you buy into such schemes) has “cashiered” in the official gift-giving season, why not change it up a bit by thinking of “…
The Friends of Windjammer Days group has completed the 2015 Windjammer Days schedule with all but the entertainment lineup ready to go. Next year's dates are June 21-27.
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BRHS Girls Basketball
Having five players at 5'10" or taller, some talented young players, as well as the league's leading scorer returning for her senior season, Coach Tanner Grover is confident his Lady Boothbay…
Patricia Moroz is an artist. She makes sculptures that delight people. Photos are taken of them, and people gush over them. Then they eat them.
Moroz is in the…
Boothbay Region High School Basketball
With expectations high, the 2014-2015 edition of the Boothbay Region Seahawks boys basketball team is set to get the regular season underway on Friday, Dec. 5 when they host the Dirigo Cougars.…
BRHS Nordic Ski Team
Although many in the region were less than delighted about last week’s snowstorm, skiers, including those on the Boothbay Region High School Nordic teams, hope the early season storm is a…
Recent cold temperatures turn our thoughts to winter and winter fun. Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson is dedicated to making it possible for everybody to enjoy winter. For the past…
The holiday season is wonderful but it is also stressful. After Thanksgiving, and before Christmas, is the perfect time to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the holidays and recharge.…
The Boothbay Region High School wrestling team’s return to competition last year was a success. After nearly a decade’s absence, the team produced an individual champion and two fourth place…
At a few minutes before 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 17, Bunny Blanchard was busy pointing out the different steps to a new dance as half a dozen women behind her mimicked…
Boothbay Region Health & Wellness Foundation
Thanksgiving week normally marks the beginning of the ski season, but most of us don’t start thinking about it until there is a heavy coating of snow on the ground. For those of us who are winter…
It was cold at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, Nov. 22. It was 26 degrees Fahrenheit in Boothbay Harbor to be exact.
But that didn’t keep a lot of early risers, or “early birds,” from venturing…
Ernestina-Morrissey
A Massachusetts landmark is coming to Maine.
Make that a Massachusetts sea legend.
The schooner …
Have you seen people doing zumba and thought it looked like fun, but were worried you might not be able to keep up?
The answer is “Zumba Gold,” a lower-impact version of zumba with less…
Decorating the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library lawn for the holiday season is a yearly tradition that occasionally involves frayed wires, but never frayed tempers.
Sixteen volunteers and…
When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fishery Service put…
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson is committed to providing great education and recreation opportunities year round. This time of year, when nothing’s…
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27 at 9 a.m. marks the date and time of the Boothbay Region YMCA’s third annual Turkey Trot to…
Noah Barnes: ‘When we get done, she’s going to be smoking hot!’
THOMASTON — By mid-summer 2015, Noah and Jane Barnes hope to have the historic schooner Nathaniel Bowditch back in the water, plying Maine's Penobscot Bay with guests aboard once again.…
A Bird’s Tale
We bought some fancy mixed bird seen recently that included lots of nuts, which were avidly sought after by both the squirrels and the blue jays. One…
Seahawk Field Hockey
Taylor Walby, a Boothbay Region High School senior, has been selected to the 2014 Maine Field Hockey Association All State Team.
Team member selections are voted on by varsity field hockey…
Eighth Grade Basketball
Wednesday, Nov. 19: At Camden (G), 3:45 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 21: At Medomak (G), 3:45 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 24: Home vs.…
It was a memorable fall sports season for Boothbay Region’s five teams.
The boys’ cross country won the Western Maine Class C championship and won the Sportsmanship Award. The girls’ team…
An early November snow has Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) thinking about winter already. Firewood is being stacked at all the huts, building projects are being…
Six Boothbay Region High School fall athletes earned first team all Mountain Valley Conference and boys cross country coach Nick Scott was named coach of the year. Those athletes receiving first…
A Bird’s Tale
Just yesterday we heard the whiney “shree” sounds of pine siskins in our neighborhood and were delighted to find a flock of about 40 descending into the bare branches of a maple a block away. This…
Eric Lorrain had always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail. In 1991, he was close to doing it when he was in a car accident that blew out his knee.
In the ensuing years, the East Boothbay…
Seahawk Football
The Dirigo Cougars scored on four of their first five possessions and cruised to a 34-12 football victory, ending the Seahawks season in a Western Class D quarterfinal on Friday, October 31 in…
BRHS Cross County
The Boothbay Region High School boys cross country team ended a tremendous racing season on a low note for them, placing third at the state championship meet at Belfast on Saturday, Nov. 2.
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Winter 2014
While the United States turned back the clocks an hour Sunday, Midcoast Maine set them back to winter.
That is, of course, if they had power.
At its peak, the Nov. 2 snowstorm caused…
In order to help get kids and families outside having fun each winter, Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson partners with the Maine Healthy Hometowns Program to lease affordable,…
Migrating birds are of one of the wonders of fall in Maine. These days little birds of all types gather in hordes in the garden and small bushes everywhere as they make their way south.
This…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Hunting season has arrived, and many nature lovers and explorers may be wondering where to seek refuge and safety.
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson is designated by the state…
Best Fall Photo Contest
Autumn is a time for photographers, professional and amateur, to break out their cameras and capture the glories of leaves changing, the fun fall festivals and activities, and of course, the…
After 27 years of trying for a moose permit, it finally happened for 85-year-old James "Jimmy" Townsend of Boothbay
Along with his nephew Bill Townsend of Florida, Bob Young of New Hampshire…
Newcastle Selectmen
A barge that had become a fixture of Newcastle's waterfront is on its way out of town.
But not before kicking up a little controversy…
Boothbay Region High School Football
The undermanned Seahawks football team, due to injuries, closed out the regular season with a 41-14 loss at Old Orchard Beach on Friday, Oct. 24.
The host Seagulls got a pair of touchdown…
Sea Vu Farms in Boothbay claimed one world championship and four top 10 finishes this month at the Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show.
Hali Goodwin of Boothbay won a…
On Oct. 9, the Boothbay Region Elementary School Middle School Cross Country teams traveled to Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast for a preview of what was in…
When Barb and Dan Aube made a trip to Maine from their home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut to visit Dan's parents in September 2012, they bought a copy of Points East Magazine. In it was an ad that…
Boothbay Region Cross-Country
At the Western Regional Class C Championship race on Saturday, Oct. 25, the Boothbay Region High School boys cross country team’s depth earned them a hard fought victory over top-ranked…
Western Maine Cross-Country Regionals
Due to the amount of rain Maine has received this week, officials at the Twin Brook Recreational Facility in Cumberland where the Western Maine cross-country regional meets for Classes C, A and B…
Boothbay Community Schools
Track and field is the largest Boothbay Region High School athletic program, in terms of student participation, and growing in popularity each year.
However, because there are no track…
Seahawks Football
The Boothbay Region High School Seahawk football team’s struggles on the gridiron continued on Friday, Oct. 17 as the football team dropped to 2-4 with a 31-8 loss at Winthrop/Monmouth.
The…
