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Education
Wiscasset Elementary School
Wiscasset Elementary School fourth-grade students recently enjoyed their first monthly field trip to Hidden Valley Nature Center. They worked with naturalist Cami Wilbert to learn more about the…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset is progressing in its pursuit of a $100,000 grant to create three jobs at home-building co-op Zero Energy Homes. The state has approved the town’s letter of intent to seek the grant and…
University of Maine Cooperative…
Public comment — it isn’t just for meetings anymore.
It’s for workshops, too, Wiscasset’s school committee and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson said Sept. 15.
They…
Wiscasset Partners in Education secretary and past school committee candidate Danielle Clarke has made the committee. In a 3-1 vote Sept. 15, the committee named Clarke to fill the seat Jonathan…
Finding Our Voices
Movie theaters in Rockland, Portland, and Waterville are partnering with the statewide nonprofit Finding Our Voices to roll out October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the screening…
Bay Chamber Music School
Bay Chamber Music School, at 5 Mountain St. in Camden, is enrolling for the fall 2026 semester. The Music School welcomes students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to study…
WHERE IT'S AT
The creative team of author and poet Susan Schadler and artists Lynne and John M.T. Seitzer recently released “Growing Wild: Four seasons of New England and Native Plants and Their Creatures.”…
The budget offer Wiscasset's school committee nodded Sept. 10 cuts $105,046 in costs from the one that failed at the polls Sept. 1. And it takes $600,000 from the undesignated fund balance instead…
Wiscasset school committee
From the state's cell phone ban to making sure students are where assigned, Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Chris Hennessey told the school committee Sept. 8, students are not pushing back…
Railway Village Museum
The Railway Village Museum is proud to announce the launch of the organization’s new Marketing Intern Program – a hands-on learning opportunity…
Spruce Point Inn
This September, Spruce Point Inn, at 88 Grandview Drive in Boothbay Harbor, will celebrate the connection between artists and the Maine coast with Art Week, Sept. 14–20, bringing…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum - Driving History Forward campaign
For the third consecutive year, the Railway Village Museum hosted Cocktails & Chrome, a one-of-a-kind community-wide celebration in support…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum
The Railway Village Museum is proud to share opportunities for the community to get involved on the museum campus. Would you like to learn…
Wiscasset school committee
Hours after Wiscasset School Department's second try at a 2026-27 school budget lost at the polls Sept. 1, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson was up early and went online to check out…
The 18-year-old charged with aggravated assault against a then-fellow Wiscasset Middle High School student last May has agreed to anger management and mental health counseling in a two-year deal…
Update: Wiscasset Town Clerk Rebecca Brewer on Wednesday provided the now official results of the Sept. 1 vote. She said 956 ballots were cast (the questions were on two separate ballots); the…
Coastal Senior College
“Seeing Ourselves: New Research on…
Staying on Wiscasset's school committee would be "untenable," Jonathan Barnes said in resigning Aug. 26.
"(This) decision ... has come only after considerable reflection and after…
Wiscasset school committee
Separate faculty meetings Aug. 26 for the middle and high schools were part of the start of giving Wiscasset Middle High School's sixth, seventh and eighth grades an identity separate from the…
Press release
When parents and caregivers begin to drop off their students at Wiscasset Elementary next week, many might notice some improvements to the school grounds. In addition to upgrades to the…
Wiscasset selectmen
“We are not locked into (using) this,” Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons said Aug. 18 about the $10 million sewer plant move bond up for a town vote Sept. 1. A…
This fall, Coastal Senior College (…
Wiscasset School Department has announced its school bus routes for the new school year.
Please see the attached pdf the school department provided.
Historic New England
Want to hear fascinating stories, see exquisite 18th century furnishings and objects that will make you smile? Come to Historic New England’s 1762 Bowman House in Dresden for this special extended…
Mobius, Inc. is looking toward the future with the planned sale of its longtime building at 319 Main St. in Damariscotta, while continuing the full range of programs and supports it currently…
Wiscasset school committee/finance committee
A year ago last month, Wiscasset School Department's business manager, Cathy Coffey, said with Wiscasset's valuation hiking at a higher rate than the state average, the town stands to get less…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset School Committee member Christopher Hart lightly chucked his cell phone away in the Aug. 11 committee meeting. He did it without a word and while maintaining his focus on the speaker,…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) presented the fourth and final Café Sci lecture of the 2026 season Aug. 12, to an audience made up of the public, fellow researchers and supporters of…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Chris Hennessey told the school committee Aug. 11, the custodial staff has done an extraordinary job, the student handbook will be broken out into two that…
Looking like a page had been ripped from National Geographic, a menagerie of exotic animals touched down at Boothbay Harbor Town Hall Aug. 7 for a presentation from "Mr. Drew and His Animals Too…
Maine Art Gallery
“Letting Loose with Tissue and Glue: Diving into Translucent Collage” is the next and last class offered this summer by the Maine Art Gallery on Tuesday, Aug. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the…
Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) has gone far and wide to find experiences that will add spice to your life while you support their important work of keeping our local…
This fall, Coastal Senior…
Wiscasset school committee
What's the best version of budget drafts for Wiscasset's school committee to study? Districtwide totals for items, versus broken down? Both? Which first, and what else?
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The Lincoln Arts Festival (LAF) Art Show has been held since 1995, and almost always at a shipyard. For many years now, Hodgdon Yacht Services, at 100 Ebenecook Road, Southport has generously…
This fall, Coastal Senior College (…
A vivid memory of Passamaquoddy basket designer/maker Debora Nicholas’ youth was the sound of male family members pounding ash logs of 8-12 feet with a mallets or the back of an axe to split the…
Ocean on Tap is an informal, ocean-centric speaker series organized by researchers from Bigelow Laboratory. Our goal is to bring people of the community together over the…
Self-guided journeys ... led by an art lover’s imagination. Paintings ... sculpture ...…
