PHIPPSBURG – Lawrence D. Pye passed away at his home in Phippsburg on July 21, 2025. Larry was a lifelong resident …
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Fund honors former U.S. Navy critical care nurse
Phippsburg CARES establishes the Heidi’s Hope Fund to honor her generous spirit and help cover food, heat, medicine or other unexpected expenses for those in need.
Bath-area voters approve school budget
The proposed school budget for Regional School District 1 easily passed in all four communities.
Mainers have been through 250 years of extraordinary times
Five months after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in September 1775, 1,100 men left what is now Pittston, Maine, in 200 battoes, a flat-bottomed boat, carrying well over 100 tons of supplies, and went up the Kennebec River. They portaged these puppies 13 miles over the height of land — climbing 1,200 feet in […]
Lady Oyster wins culinary experience award from World Food Travel Association
After just a year in business, Maine’s first ‘oyster sommelier’ has received the Best Rural Culinary Heritage Experience Award.
Reflecting on our work to protect and preserve Maine’s environment
As Senate chair of the Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee (also known as ENR), I’ve spent much of my first five months in office discussing the most pressing environmental issues facing our state. I’ve heard from so many Mainers coming to testify about the challenges of coastal erosion, water pollution, waste, plastics, PFAS, extreme […]
Phippsburg Land Trust to host guided walk to McKay Farm
Phippsburg Land Trust will host a guided walk to McKay Farm with Barry Logan, professor of biology at Bowdoin College, from 9-11:30 a.m. Sunday, June 1. Logan, along with land trust board members Michelle Holdridge and Dan Dowd, will lead this two-and-a-half-hour walk starting at the Cooley Center Pond parking lot (on Parker Head Road […]
Phippsburg got its name from a Maine knight who ended the Salem Witch Trials
One of the great legends in New England history rose from modest beginnings on Maine’s Midcoast. He became the first man knighted in the North American Colonies, the first royal governor of Massachusetts and he ended the most notorious mass hysteria in American history. William Green Phips was born at Nequasset in present-day Woolwich on […]
Obituary: Margaret Darling
PHIPPSBURG – Margaret Darling, 90, of Bath, passed away on Sept. 26, 2024. A Celebration of Life will be held on …
Here’s 16 easy hikes in every county in Maine
We’ve finally traded snow boots for hiking boots, so it’s time to discover great hikes in every corner of Maine.