Aaron Boetsch News Today

This past week the Bayshore Baptist congregation put on a Thanksgiving dinner for the community, inviting one and all to come, and delivering meals to those who couldn’t get out. That got me thinking of the story in The Year of Jubilo,...

Forty-three years ago, I began writing about Lincolnville every week for the Camden Herald. The editor at the time, Nancy Griffin, had interviewed me for a story about Lincolnville’s non-existent kindergarten, and our push to have one...

The bonfire blazed as bright as ever last Saturday afternoon: Dusk fell, a hundred or more townspeople gathered, while the ferry came and went. It’s a magical night, or as close to magical as a little Maine town gets, on the first Saturday of...

We’re coming up on Thanksgiving this week, and gratitude is in the air. Making muffins the other morning I put a stick of butter in the little copper pan Lynne gave me one Christmas long ago, the one I always use to melt butter. Lynne is the sister-...

Frozen fun: Lawn mowers cut it up on Norton Pond in Lincolnville As one spectator said, ‘No wonder my friends in New York City call me a redneck. But, I guarantee, if they were here, they would love this.’ By Ken WaltzVillageSoup  LINCOLNVILLE — What is a Mainer to do when it is 15 degrees out with a windchill near zero after being stuck inside with cabin fever from an already too long winter and an emotionally draining, life-altering, nearly-year-long pandemic? Fire up the lawn mowe...