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Family STEM Night and Spaghetti Supper in Wiscasset

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Note: This event has been postponed until Thursday, March 15. Wiscasset Middle High School will be celebrating technology education at its Family STEM Night and Community Supper Thursday, March 8 from 5-6:30 p.m.

Westport Island Column

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Dear friends and neighbors,

I don’t know about you, but for me this last episode of snow and rain with the ensuing mud is getting a bit old. I did manage to do some nice skiing at a groomed area last weekend. However, trying to hike a 2000’ mountain with a south facing exposure turned out to be challenging due to steep, ice covered trails.

Registration Open for Camp Mummichog Summer Day Camp

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Damariscotta River Association’s Camp Mummichog summer day camp offers hands-on natural science education for children ages five through nineteen in a fun, supportive environment.

Dodgeball Tournament to Be Held March 10

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Supporters of the Merritt Brackett Lobster Boat Races are excited to announce that dodgeball is returning to Bristol on Saturday, March 10 at the Bristol Consolidated School.

Matilda Lee Harper

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Sarah and Gregory Harper, of Phippsburg, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Matilda Lee Harper.

LA Grad Wins Georgia Poetry Prize

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The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Rosa Lane as winner of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in 2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry.

Skidompha Skoop

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It was a dark and stormy night…

This opening line has been a literary “facepalm” since it first appeared in a overwrought Victorian novel by Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. It has become synonymous with the Victorian melodramatic style, and the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, begun in 1982 as an homage to this most famous of opening lines, requires contestants “to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.”

Midcoast Conservancy Winter Full Moon Hike

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Enjoy the unique sounds of the woods in winter on a full moon hike at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. Let nature light the trail as hikers take in the howls of distant coyotes, hooting owls, and the rustle of creatures in the underbrush.

Chelsea Loren Phillips

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Chelsea Loren Phillips, 27, of Bremen, passed away on Feb. 15 surrounded by her family at Maine Medical Center in Portland. She was born on Feb. 20, 1990 in Bar Harbor.

Daniel Louis Sicotte Jan. 9, 1947 - Feb. 23, 2018

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Daniel Louis Sicotte, 71, of Damariscotta, also known as Danny to his friends and family, passed away on Feb. 23 with his family by his side after a year-long battle with cancer. He was born Jan. 9, 1947, a son of Margaret (Williams) Glover and his father Louis Sicotte.


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