First grade at Wiscasset Elementary School has been learning all about owls in science. We have learned about their habitat, life cycle and diet. The highlight of the week was dissecting owl…
Education
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"The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood" by Mary Lynn Dobson will be performed in the Wiscasset Middle High School gymnasium on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 14…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Aspiring architects, baking engineers, creative spirits–all are invited to attend the Gingerbread House Building class at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 3…
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Heather McArdle and her husband Scott have been together for over 17 years. They have three kids: Caleb, who just started his freshman year at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Jace, a seventh…
It’s been a normal Thursday. You plan to leave the house in about an hour for Wiscasset Middle High School, to pick up your seventh grader.
A Wiscasset student…
Historic New England
Join us at Historic New England’s Bowman House on Sunday, Nov. 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. to celebrate the installation of Stopping Stones, commemorating Cicero and Cornelius, two enslaved Black men who…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Middle High School was closer Oct. 13 to getting its next nurse, after Sommer Maybee's arrest on an OUI charge last month and her subsequent resignation.
Two candidates were set…
University of Maine Cooperative…
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Wiscasset Elementary School students are enjoying a new, healthy addition to their school day, thanks to a grant secured by Food Service Director Lorie Johnson. Johnson applied for and was awarded…
Wiscasset selectmen
Richmond's the outlier, Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson told selectmen and her other fellow residents Oct. 6. She was addressing recent months' public comments comparing…
Sommer Maybee’s resignation as Wiscasset Middle High School’s school nurse has appeared on the agenda for the Tuesday, Oct. 13 school committee meeting. As Wiscasset Newspaper has reported,…
Will Black was educated in the Wiscasset schools, graduating in 2009, and years after sitting in Becky Hallowell’s classroom as a student, he returned to share his knowledge and experience with…
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We are proud to congratulate senior Landin Shirey, who was recently sworn into the Maine Army National Guard. Landin's decision to serve his state and country reflects the dedication, maturity,…
Members of Partners in Education (PIE) from Wiscasset Elementary School worked with all grade levels to create scarecrows for last Friday night's Fall Festival at WES.
As with the first two tries at a 2026-27 Wiscasset school budget, the latest offer withstood all attempts Sept. 29…
Harbor Theater
Harbor Theater is excited to introduce "Something to Chew On," a new monthly documentary and dinner series combining thought-provoking films, good food, and opportunities to experience something…
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…
