What started as one Boothbay Harbor resident’s idea to protect people in slippery conditions has grown into a community effort. This winter, local fishermen and businesses are helping provide seniors across the Pemaquid Peninsula with free buckets of sand.
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Boothbay Harbor Opera House to host Maine native for final concert of the year
Maine native and national touring artist Ellis Paul arrives in Boothbay Harbor to close out the 2024 Opera House season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28. The Opera House describes Paul as a “guitar-carrying reporter who covers the human condition and details the hopes, loves, losses of those he observes, turning their stories into luminous […]
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How to spot the menagerie of birds even in the dead of a Maine winter
As birdsongs quiet, some resilient species stay to outlast the cold. Midcoast Maine Audubon specialists shed light on who stays, who flees, and who should be migrating but aren’t due to the warming climate.
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Boothbay Harbor church hangs the cold out to dry
The minister of the First United Methodist Church of Boothbay Harbor and her husband are on a mission to provide free winter gear, replenished weekly, bringing warmth to the Midcoast.
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Boothbay Harbor annual Gingerbread Spectacular a sweet success
From Dec. 13-15, the Boothbay Harbor Opera House displayed gingerbread houses and castles against the backdrop of its decorated stage. Here are the creations that captured locals’ hearts (and awards).
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Gingerbread Spectacular opens Friday at Boothbay Harbor Opera House
Boothbay Harbor’s holiday traditions abound, including the annual Gingerbread Spectacular coming to the historic Opera House Dec. 13-15. For the past 18 years, mid-December has seen the exhibition of creative gingerbread houses and castles built by novices and seasoned chefs. All are displayed against the backdrop of the decorated Opera House stage, which also serves […]
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Maine poet laureate leads school workshop, judges poetry contest during Midcoast visit
Julia Bouwsma visited the Center for Teaching and Learning on Dec. 3 to connect with students and judge an evening poetry competition as part of her Write ME Epistolary Poetry Project.
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Motown and country holiday concerts shake up the Opera House
Come for Santa Claus, stay for the music. Santa will be coming to town during Boothbay Harbor’s Holiday Lights Weekend, but in the evenings after Santa has returned to the North Pole, two equally merry guys and their bands will be playing at the historic Opera House in celebration of the season. Pat Colwell and […]
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Sheepscot Chorus to perform ‘The First Nowell’ holiday concert
Sheepscot Chorus will hold its annual holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church. Professional tenor soloist David Myers-Wakeman and a chamber orchestra will join the chorus. “The First Nowell” is a collection of carols written to accompany a Nativity play, and in addition to the title carol, it […]
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A dive to declutter Boothbay Harbor
OceansWide, a group dedicated to removing marine litter, invited The Times Record on one of its last dives of the season. What surfaced? Critters, sea squirts and a lone golf ball — plus a spark of inspiration for the Gulf of Maine.