John Splaine News Today

Winds now begin to relax in the north bay, not as windy as yesterday that means wildfire smoke from both the august and north complexes in northern called california. Still going make its way our direction but not near as much of it is yesterday still some pockets of pretty bad air both in the east bay and in upper elevations on the peninsula and still under red flag warning for most of the east bay as well as north bay all the way through 08 00pm tonight as low humidity, warm conditions and sti...

Dear Editor: I will state that the following was posted on a public Facebook page quite a few years ago. Only the dates have been adjusted. 117 years ago, in 1907 ... our great-grandparents were first able to purchase a rifle identified as the semi-...

An old-fashioned “Turkey Shoot” has been a tradition in Maine and throughout the Northeast for ages. The Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association has been hosting Turkey Shoots for decades, a tradition in its own right. Historically, the club has...

Barbara Byrne passed away in Beverly, This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories.

After a three-year hiatus, the Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association will again hold its annual Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby on Wiley Pond from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the club property at 447 Dover Road in Boothbay. Wiley Pond has...

Dear Editor: In his Jan. 19 letter, John Splaine asked us, ”Remember the Alamo?” Everyone does, but each person’s memory is inflected by their own ideology. For generations, American school children were taught to regard the abandoned Spanish...

In 1990, a young legislator from Dover, Gary Gilmore, introduced House Bill 1267, "relative to assault weapons."