The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce has announced that Sally Bullard, in honor of all of her service to the Chamber and to the community, will be this year's Grand Marshal of the Windjammer Days Street Parade. The parade will take place on Wednesday, June 26, at 5 p.m. This year the new parade theme categories include:  Most Nostalgic, Most Outrageous and Most Nautical. 

This past Monday was Melanoma Monday — an awareness campaign developed by the American Academy of Dermatology — so I decided to update a post I wrote last year about protecting your skin from the sun. I also checked in with Mike Cushman, who was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2010. At the end of the post, you’ll find a list of upcoming free skin cancer screenings in Southern Maine. Read more.