News & Updates
Buttons, buttons, what’s going
on with these buttons?
on with these buttons?
welcome
To OUR
newest WBA member
To OUR
newest WBA member
Discover the arts in the Waldoboro area by visiting local artists’ studios and art galleries. Diverse offerings include painting, drawing,
photography, mewelry, pottery, fiber and an amazing array of arts and crafts.
z
About our organization
The Waldoboro Business Association
is a network of more than 80 local and area businesses that join together to help promote our companies, products and services. This results in strengthening
and supporting our local community
and our local economy. Current member businesses are located in Waldoboro, Damariscotta, Friendship, Rockport, Thomaston, Union, and Warren. We welcome new members both from Waldoboro and from the surrounding midcoast Maine area towns to join
us as we continue to grow!
is a network of more than 80 local and area businesses that join together to help promote our companies, products and services. This results in strengthening
and supporting our local community
and our local economy. Current member businesses are located in Waldoboro, Damariscotta, Friendship, Rockport, Thomaston, Union, and Warren. We welcome new members both from Waldoboro and from the surrounding midcoast Maine area towns to join
us as we continue to grow!
Waldoboro Day Committee selects Sally Pennington
of Maine Antiques Digest as the Grand Marshall for
the June 15th Waldoboro Day Parade.
of Maine Antiques Digest as the Grand Marshall for
the June 15th Waldoboro Day Parade.
This year’s theme of “Old Time Values and Traditions” will be well represented by Sally Pennington, a woman with great work ethics, a business entrepreneur and a mother of five
children. Sally and her husband Sam, who died in 2008, have made many significant
contributions to our community over the last 40 years.
Sally Pennington is over 80 years old and still goes to work every day at the Maine Antique Digest. She and her late husband Sam started the business after he retired in 1973 and they settled in Waldoboro. She was born in Texas and never went north of the Mason/Dixon Line until she married Sam and he brought her to Maine in 1958. She was a sixth grade school teacher in Fort Worth, Texas and Sam was a navigator in the Air Force. She was 26 and he was 29 when they got married and began a family career in the Air Force, moving every few years to wherever the next assignment was located. They lived in Texas, Louisiana, Maine, Newfoundland, Labrador and California. Sally also taught school in 1958-59 in Shreveport, La. at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children and in 1972-73 in Labrador. At that time, her children were just beginning to appreciate the great role model that she has become.
Sally Pennington is over 80 years old and still goes to work every day at the Maine Antique Digest. She and her late husband Sam started the business after he retired in 1973 and they settled in Waldoboro. She was born in Texas and never went north of the Mason/Dixon Line until she married Sam and he brought her to Maine in 1958. She was a sixth grade school teacher in Fort Worth, Texas and Sam was a navigator in the Air Force. She was 26 and he was 29 when they got married and began a family career in the Air Force, moving every few years to wherever the next assignment was located. They lived in Texas, Louisiana, Maine, Newfoundland, Labrador and California. Sally also taught school in 1958-59 in Shreveport, La. at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children and in 1972-73 in Labrador. At that time, her children were just beginning to appreciate the great role model that she has become.
During Sam and Sally's visit to Waldoboro in 1958 they bought the house on
Friendship Street that is now the Blue Skye Farm B&B. When they settled down in that house in 1973, they continued to raise their 5
children and began publishing the Maine Antique Digest from one of the back
rooms. As the business grew they moved it to the building now housing the Movie
& Pizza Shoppe, and then they included the second floor of what is now the
Taction facility. Running back and forth across the street between offices
proved to be inefficient, so the new building at 911 Main Street with the
design by architect Bill Sepe was built in 1985.
Sam's love of interviewing people and writing articles, along with owning a
complete set of type-setting equipment and the lack of a Waldoboro newspaper,
led them to create the "Waldoboro Weekly" in July 1978. Sally was the
ever-reliable editor for the two years of that paper's existence. Some of you
may remember that publication or the weekly program on LCTV hosted by Sam and
Art Mayers. Some
of those videos were actually filmed at the current location of the Maine Antique Digest.
Sally has volunteered for the Waldoboro Public Library, served on the Board of Directors for the Medomak Valley Land Trust and tutored teenagers preparing to get their GED. She is a great role model for combining a career and raising a family. Her daughter Kate mentioned that her parents made time to get to all their children’s school activities despite their busy professional lives. Sally’s business, the Maine Antique Digest has been a longtime employer in our town and is an avid supporter of many of our community organizations. We salute Sally Pennington as our Grand Marshal.
of those videos were actually filmed at the current location of the Maine Antique Digest.
Sally has volunteered for the Waldoboro Public Library, served on the Board of Directors for the Medomak Valley Land Trust and tutored teenagers preparing to get their GED. She is a great role model for combining a career and raising a family. Her daughter Kate mentioned that her parents made time to get to all their children’s school activities despite their busy professional lives. Sally’s business, the Maine Antique Digest has been a longtime employer in our town and is an avid supporter of many of our community organizations. We salute Sally Pennington as our Grand Marshal.
If you would like to volunteer to help out with the kid’s games, traffic control, table & chair set-up or clean-up during Waldoboro Day, please sign the form in the town
office or contact Caren Clark at 832-0633 or cbcon3@roadrunner.com.
Keep Up-to-Date with our
WBA Monthly E-Newsletter
Reminder to our members to send your information about special events / sales,
news about your business so it can be included in our monthly e-newsletter.
Please don’t forget to let us know if your email address changes! We don’t want you to miss a single issue of our monthly newsletter.
Also send us the email addresses of any additional people within your
organization that should be receiving our newsletter and notices. info@waldoborobusiness.org
WBA Meeting Notes
Are Available Online. Have you missed a meeting and want to know what is going
on?
100 Things to do in Waldoboro
Looking for something to do? Download a list of "100 Things to do in Waldoboro" here.
Looking for something to do? Download a list of "100 Things to do in Waldoboro" here.
WBA Map & Guide Available
Businesses that are low on their supply of map & guides can pick more up at the Village Bakery during regular business hours.
Response to the Map & Guide has been extremely positive. They are available to visitors year round at
centers on the Maine Turnpike and at the Village Bakery & Cafe.
and Spears Farm Stand during the summer
©2013 Waldoboro Business Associaton
WBA 9th Anniversary celebration!
The Waldoboro Business Association members gathered on January 30th
at AllPLAY Family Entertainment Center on Friendship Road to enjoy
an evening of food, bowling, pool
and networking with friends and fellow business owners.
at AllPLAY Family Entertainment Center on Friendship Road to enjoy
an evening of food, bowling, pool
and networking with friends and fellow business owners.
