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Thanksgiving 1973 was a great memory. My 30 teammates and I were extra thankful that day as we had just completed a championship football season – being crowned co-champions in Class D. It was the first Boothbay Region High School football...
A week or so ago I saw where Daniel Ellsberg had died. Ellsberg gained fame for leaking the so-called Pentagon Papers to the press in the 1970s during the Vietnam War. Ellsberg died on June 16 at his California home. He was 92. He had remained a...
The Opera House has always been a big community center, if for no other reason than it’s one of Boothbay Harbor’s largest buildings, located smack dab in the middle of town on one of our main thoroughfares. The builders knew what they were doing –...
PHIL DI VECE, News Contributor Tue, 03/02/2021 - 7:00am The masthead of The Wiscasset Newspaper as it appeared in 1979. My first look at the Wiscasset Newspaper came in the autumn of 1978. I was living in Fort Collins, Colorado finishing my senior year at Colorado State University where I majored in journalism. I was looking for a job as a newspaper reporter and some friends convinced me to come to Maine. They mailed me a package with copies of: the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Times Record, Coastal Journal and The Wiscasset Newspaper. Just a few months later, I started ...