John A. Martins, LincolnHealth Tue, 01/19/2021 - 2:00pm
Individuals age 70 and up who have an appointment will be the first to be vaccinated at MaineHealth’s Community Vaccination Clinic in Boothbay on Monday, Jan. 25. The appointments will take place at the Marylouise Tandy Cowan Fieldhouse at the Boothbay Region YMCA. The Y has graciously provided the space for the clinic, which will be open on weekdays for several months.
“We’re excited to begin vaccinating people over age 70,” said James Donovan, president of LincolnHealth. “There are many variables that will determine the clinic’s success, and one of them is the patience required of the public. We greatly appreciate this patience.”
BILL PEARSON Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:45am
Lincoln County public safety personnel received the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan. 1 and 2. Maine Center for Disease Control has designated Waldoboro Emergency Medical Service and Boothbay Region Ambulance Service as vaccination providers. Waldoboro EMS inoculated 52 and Boothbay Region inoculated 44. BRAS Executive Director Scott Lash reported a follow-up shot will occur later this month. Maine CDC advises a second shot be administered 28-32 days after the first.
Special training BRAS and Waldoboro EMS personnel received included identifying potential negative reactions. Lash described it as “quite an intensive process.”
Maine CDC has designated public safety personnel as the first to receive vaccinations. Public safety personnel from around Lincoln County will schedule appointments with Waldoboro and Boothbay Region. “They call us and we schedule a time for them to come here,” Lash said.
BILL PEARSON Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:45am
Lincoln County public safety personnel received the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan. 1 and 2. Maine Center for Disease Control has designated Waldoboro Emergency Medical Service and Boothbay Region Ambulance Service as vaccination providers. Waldoboro EMS inoculated 52 and Boothbay Region inoculated 44. BRAS Executive Director Scott Lash reported a follow-up shot will occur later this month. Maine CDC advises a second shot be administered 28-32 days after the first.
Special training BRAS and Waldoboro EMS personnel received included identifying potential negative reactions. Lash described it as “quite an intensive process.”
Maine CDC has designated public safety personnel as the first to receive vaccinations. Public safety personnel from around Lincoln County will schedule appointments with Waldoboro and Boothbay Region. “They call us and we schedule a time for them to come here,” Lash said.
LISA KRISTOFF Thu, 12/24/2020 - 8:00am
For 35 years, Boothbay Region Food Pantry has been helping residents in need, and the number served has grown each decade. The service includes distributing holiday meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
This year’s Christmas baskets were distributed at the pantry Dec. 18 and a few more on Dec. 21. Co-President Fleet Davies reported 120 families received baskets this year, each one put together based on the number of people in the household. The baskets included three side dish recipes: candied yams, split pea soup and creamed spinach, and their major ingredients.
Each family chose either ham and pineapple or chicken, with potatoes, corn, peas, carrots, raisins, brown ’n serve dinner rolls, brownie mix, trail mix, macaroni and cheese, as Davies said, “’cause everyone likes mac ’n cheese”; cans of fruit; spinach, French fried onion rings, boxed milk, applesauce, apples, onions, brown sugar and marshmallows.
LISA KRISTOFF
Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services Sarah Sherman. Courtesy photo
Sarah Sherman is well-known for her commitment to preserving the experiences of veterans. She wrote “Southport: The War Years, An Island Remembers” in 1996, “Heroes Among Us: A History of Boothbay Region s Veterans During the Second World War” in 1999 and “Looking Back: A History of Boothbay Region’s Veterans during the Korean and Vietnam Wars,” Volumes I and II, in 2016.
Sherman was hired in 2018 as director of strategic partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and, for the last two years, she has worked with Kennebec County Sheriff and Marine Corps veteran Ken Mason and Programs Director Jess Quinn and later Programs Director Valerie Grant to facilitate a weekly, one-hour writing group for veterans incarcerated at Kennebec County Jail. Sherman also credited her affiliations with the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services, and ac