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For the fifth consecutive year, authors turn out for Books and Blooms on Saturday, July 11 in Boothbay Released 6/25/09 For the fifth consecutive year, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is proud to co-sponsor the largest collective book sale and author signing in the state on Saturday, July 11 at the Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay.

Thousands of Maine workers and businesses depend on tourists to earn a living. But with the poor economy, will the tourists still be here? In Boothbay and Boothbay harbor, where they're holding the annual Maine Windjammer Days, many business owners say they see some rays of hope for a decent tourist season.

Maine's only botanical garden is about to get a little bigger. The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay opens its newest garden to the public on Friday.

Dahlov Ipcar, author and illustrator of 'My Wonderful Christmas Tree' and 'The Cat ant Night,' and illustrator of 'The Little Fisherman,' written by legendary children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, will sign copies of the recently released commemorative editions of those books at the Books and Bloom Maine Book Fair July 11 at the Boothbay ...

DAMARISCOTTA : Boothbay Baby Rentals, LLC, is under new ownership. We currently own and operate Maine Cloth Diaper Company.

The Maine Real Estate & Development Association is pleased to announce that Keith P. Luke has been elected to its Board of Directors.

A typical shore home in Kennebunkport, Maine. There's more to Maine than just lobsters and lighthouses - as any experienced Maine-iac will attest.

CAMDEN : A flurry of store openings and relocations is occurring in downtown Camden.

Matchmaking can be stressful work. Will the two parties find each other attractive? How will financial expectations compare? Will the extended family get along? No one understands these stresses better than Jane Ham, director of the Maine Recruitment Center.

WARREN : Sybil Wenworth received the Maine Music Educators Association's District III Music Educator of the Year award on May 5 at The Gallery in Boothbay.

The Maine Crafts Association, in collaboration with USM's Atrium Art Gallery in Lewiston, announces a call for entries for "The Inspired Hand IV," a statewide juried biennial exhibition of work in all media by MCA members.

ROCKLAND : In preparation for the annual Memorial Day Concert, Down East Singers has chosen six soloists from within its membership to be featured in Schubert's Mass in G, the primary piece for this year's program.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding a missing 54-year-old man from Boothbay.

When English explorers first ventured into the Gulf of Maine in the early seventeenth century, they found marine resources the likes of which they'd never seen.

In late May 1622, the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation were starving, and no surprise.

Each year, the opening reception of the Maine Photography Show draws a standing-room-only crowd.

Features The Colony Islesboro might just be Maine's most exclusive island. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is open for debate.

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BOOTHBAY HARBOR : The annual statewide juried Maine Photography Show will open April 18 and run through May 3 at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery, One Townsend Ave.

Third time was indeed the charm for the First Parish Church weather vane. A crane's two-member crew managed to put the gilded rooster onto the top of the 20 High Road church's steeple shortly after 6:30 yesterday morning, according to parish member Jean Garnett, who retrieved the bird from inside the church.