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Boothbay Harbor will soon be getting a new public works truck to help with snow plowing this year. The selectboard approved a $73,000 purchase order for the truck, which will come outfitted for the work. “This is the best deal we can get,” said...

To the editor: Let me congratulate Neill Esquibel-Kennedy and her colleagues in KU’s GTA union for undermining KU’s $2.5 billion fundraising campaign, whil

Boothbay Harbor selectmen discussed preparations Oct. 23 to revise several town ordinances. The board plans to meet with the planning board later this year for a workshop on the changes. Oct. 18, the planning board held a workshop to discuss several...

Depending on the type of business and venue, summer/early fall business was either great, or not as good as other seasons, according to a random sampling of hotels, restaurants and retail shops in the Boothbay area. It all depended on the weather –...

Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce (BBHCC) held its annual dinner meeting and awards ceremony Oct. 12 at Boothbay Railway Village Museum to a crowd of over 100. A brief membership meeting in the Village church was held prior to the cocktail...

MANKATO — A rise in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations elsewhere hasn’t yet come to south-central Minnesota, according to new data.

Boothbay Harbor selectmen voted Sept. 11 to revoke the victualer’s license of Wharf Street Restaurant and Bar. The decision came after being informed the establishment does not have all of the licenses the state requires. According to a signed...

Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic sta...

OF NOTE The University of Minnesota announced that Melisa López Franzen will serve as executive director of Government and Community Relations. López Franzen is a former Minnesota state senator and Senate minority leader, an adjunct professor at the U of M’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and co-founder of NewPublica, a multicultural communications consulting firm. […]

Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic sta...