Drive your antique car to the Alewife Fish Ladder Restoration Festival in Damariscotta Mills on Sunday May 25 (rain date Monday May 26). In conjunction with this very popular festival, Mid-Maine Sports Car Club will host the fifth annual Antique Car Show that day from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. There is no charge to […]
The tent structure is up, Colby & Gale is providing the heat, and the cement and stone masons are hard at work building the walls and weirs in the lower third of the ladder. Please check the “Restoration Efforts” page for photos. We are going to be very tight with funding so please spread the […]
Join us on Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the return of the alewives. The sixth annual Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration Festival will be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 25, 26, and 27. “We are holding the festival to celebrate the return of the alewives and the restoration work completed to date,” said Deb […]
$10,000 Raffle to benefit the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder will be kicked off at the Fish Ladder Festival “What could you do with $10,000?” asked Deb Wilson, one of the raffle organizers. “What a great way to help the restoration and potentially win a lot of money.” Only 300 tickets will be sold in a […]
Greetings to all our supporters and followers! We are getting ready to start working on the upper half of the lower ladder. An access bridge has been built across the ladder to help our stone masons gain equipment access to start working.
Join us from 11 am to 3 pm to celebrate the downstream migration of juvenile alewives and the completion of two-thirds of the fish ladder. Our hard work on the fish ladder is really paying off–this year more than 1/2 million alewives ascended the fish ladder to spawn. That’s a new all-time high!!! Neighborhood cooks […]
Antique Car Show at the Alewife Fish Ladder Restoration Festival Bring your antique car to The Alewife Fish Ladder Restoration Festival in Damariscotta Mills on Sunday May 27. From 10:30 am to 2:30 pm Mid-Maine Sports Car Club will be hosting the third annual Antique Car Show in conjunction with the Festival. There is no […]