Mark and Chrissy Pierson don’t want to spend retirement watching television. They are very active and want to keep it that way, the couple said in an interview June 25 at the harvest house at…
Commerce
Wiscasset Art Walk, Alive on the Common
Wiscasset’s Eric Major had never played guitar in front of an audience before Thursday night, June 29. Vince Pepe, also of Wiscasset, had been painting about 12 years, but never before outdoors.…
Regulars at Hunter’s Breakfast in Wiscasset are thinking about where they will try for breakfast and lunch, now that the Route 27 business is closing for good. The last day is July 7.
Owner…
A summer stay at Wiscasset Municipal Airport for Texas Flying Legends is “on hold,” Airport Advisory Committee member Steve Williams said June 21. Williams made the announcement at the panel’s…
A Wiscasset woman is a step closer to opening a day care in her home. Amber Underwood of 90 Alna Road told the Planning Board Monday night, she wants to serve six to 10 children in the…
The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is circulating a petition for an open, special town meeting to reinstate the 2017-18 planning budget residents rejected June 13, member Sherri Dunbar said.…
The state gave a Wiscasset panel an on-site look Friday, June 23, at plans for the downtown. The morning walk was a departure from the Public Advisory Committee’s usual setting for talks with the…
The $80,951 grant the ConnectME Authority approved for a broadband project in parts of Alna may be canceled in whole or in part next month because, it turns out, it may not be needed, ConnectME…
On Saturday, July 15, Saturday, August 5, and Saturday, September 9, 2017 the Frances Perkins Center will host guided tours of the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic…
Newcastle Realty and The Lincoln Home are deeply rooted in the heart of this community; both are committed to supporting the needs of the people who…
The Cod Cove Inn has announced that it has received the …
In a split vote Tuesday night, Wiscasset selectmen decided to tell the state they no longer support the downtown project. They plan to send Maine Department of Transportation a letter reversing…
If you were traveling along Route 1 in Newcastle between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. on June 14, you may have noticed a lot of cars parked along the road in front of…
Wiscasset’s latest vote on the downtown project has not changed Maine Department of Transportation’s plans, according to MDOT’s project manager.
“MaineDOT will be staying the course with…
Rosemary Campbell of Newcastle, a highly regarded 27-year insurance veteran, retired recently from a loyal career with Cheney Insurance of Damariscotta. She joined…
Little Village Bistro and a Federal Street couple got the nods they sought June 8 from the Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission. The Gardiner Road restaurant plans two additions.
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After receiving many requests to provide dryer vent service over the years, former Maine Coast Stove & Chimney owner Robert Conlin has…
Peregrine Turbine Technologies owner David Stapp confirmed Friday, he is considering leasing land at Wiscasset Municipal Airport for work he had been wanting to do at a Point East building.
…The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in March:
Alna: Preston, Michael and Preston, Amy to Fat Pig LLC; Genes, Dawn W Tr,…
The works of Maine artist John Moon of Falmouth, the new featured artist at Atlantic Motorcar, will be exhibited June through September. And, the “Antique Auto Art Show” of Tenants Harbor artist…
Red’s Eats, the iconic roadside take-out stand at 41 Water Street in Wiscasset, has earned one more in its long list of accolades. Known far and wide for its famously huge, fresh Maine lobster…
In the Clover, a women's specialty boutique in Wiscasset, has new owners.
Kasey McNamara and her husband Jay took over the store and all its merchandise in…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen talked contracts May 24, awarding one and moving closer on others. As a result, the town has a new contractor to cut grass; possibly the same plowing contractor for another three…
Big Al’s Super Values in Wiscasset is the subject of a six-page piece in the June issue of Down East Magazine, Al Cohen, owner of the Route One store, told fellow Ordinance Review Committee…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Progress on the Clark’s Point Subdivision continues in Wiscasset with Monday’s approval of another update to the plan. The Planning Board unanimously supported changing it for the second time in…
Joe Ford, MBA, EA, has assumed responsibility for guiding the finances of three local companies that make up The Cheney Financial Group.
“We are extremely pleased to have added Joe to our…
The Wiscasset Planning Board decided Monday, the town needs to seek Mason Station LLC’s consent if it wants a new lot at the Point East Subdivision. The town wants to create it from tax-acquired…
“What a community. You’re the best,” Cheryl “Shep” Rust called down to about three dozen well-wishers on the Wiscasset waterfront Sunday afternoon. Rust, in an open window at Le Garage, was taking…
Single-family home values in the state of Maine remain in a healthy terrain. According to Maine Listings, the median sales price (MSP) reached $191,000 in March—a 4.66 percent price increase over…
There's a manufacturing plant in Boothbay that has been something of a secret for the last year or two. The Boothbay Register ran a story about it a year ago January,…
Until Wiscasset produces a legal opinion on who owns a road, the planning board is seeing no way to alter Point East lots so the town can sell tax-acquired property to Peregrine Turbine…
“If I had to describe baking in a single word? Happiness.”
That’s what April Morrison says about her occupation. Creating elegant confections makes her happy. So does dressing up in…
Long-time residents of Damariscotta may remember Dean Jacobs working at the Waltz Pharmacy Soda Fountain when he was a young boy, or behind the counter as a…
Wiscasset downtown project
The nonprofit that calls Haggett Garage in Wiscasset home wants to talk with Maine Department of Transportation in hopes of finding alternatives to making the Water Street building a parking lot.…
Reel to Reel Music had a “soft opening” on Saturday, April 8 in the former Radio Shack store in the Elm Street Plaza in Damariscotta. Co-owners Zacharia Rankin and Olivia DeLisle are responding to…
Portland Media Group, LLC, the producers of “Greenlight Maine,” is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for season 3 of the series. The show airs…
Newcastle Realty at 87 Main Street in Damariscotta has worked with a leading web design firm to create a new website at …
This summer, there will be a new sweets shop in Boothbay Harbor. Wicked Whoopies, the world-renowned whoopie pie…
Maine Restaurant Association announced March 29, Cheryl Lee Rust has won its Bill Zoidis Lifetime Achievement Award. Rust owns Wiscasset’s popular Le Garage restaurant and recently announced it…
Maine’s real estate continues to increase in value, despite a decline in sales last month. Maine Listings reported an impressive 12.50 percent jump in…
Robinson's Wharf in Southport has been spruced up a bit over the past few months.
The restaurant, closed since Jan. 1, is open again, and you'll notice a nice difference when you enter the…
“I’m embarrassed by the amount of coverage, I’m just mortified,” said Cheryl Rust, owner of Le Garage, after she announced that after 40 years, she would be closing the restaurant at 15 Water…
For the fourth year, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in cooperation with Maine Resource and…
Eben Blaney came by working with wood, and his hands, naturally. At least it might appear that way if you weren't aware that he resisted going that route for most of his…
On March 13, there was a post on Facebook: “Hey everyone! Saturday (the 18th) we'll be set up at 441 main St in Damariscotta hanging out with Girl Scout Troop 144 again…
Carmen Reed, a native of Wiscasset, has joined the sales staff of Newcastle Realty.
Previously a director of a Midcoast area Chamber of Commerce, she has always loved being involved in…
The Wiscasset McDonald's and Wiscasset Middle High School worked together to…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission, Small Business Administration
More than 50 people attended a workshop the Maine Small Business Administration and the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission hosted March 9, on how social media can help businesses with…
Stuart Smith of Edgecomb is a busy man.
A former selectman, his last term ended in 2015. Now he spends a lot of his time at home with son Alex, 18, a senior at Boothbay Region High School…
What does it take to plan, start and run a successful small business? Bill Card, economic development specialist for the U.S. Small Business Administration, and David Hill, Maine Small Business…
