From Wiscasset Town Clerk Rebecca Brewer, unofficial results as of Tuesday night, Sept. 1 were that the bond toward moving the sewer plant passed 263-214 and the second try at a school budget lost…
News
The deadline for editorial and advertising submissions for the Sept. 10 edition is Friday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. The Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper staff will be observing Labor Day Monday,…
Friends of Wiscasset Public Library
Bands for Books is the major annual fundraising activity for The Friends of the Wiscasset Public Library. This year we will celebrate our 12th anniversary and are planning another special evening…
Wiscasset selectmen
Is it time to tweak Wiscasset's ordinance review committee or end it? Selectmen Sept. 1 were set to consider sending one of those options to a November town vote. Town staff…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
Wiscasset’s 8th annual Scarecrow Fest is Saturday, Oct. 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wiscasset Community Center. A partnership between Wiscasset Parks and Recreation and the Wiscasset Area Chamber…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset resident after Wiscasset resident Aug. 25 described rent hikes in the hundreds of percent at mobile home parks. Some said they had no other option for a home and would have to leave and…
The public is invited to experience one of Maine’s iconic coastal landmarks during Maine Open Lighthouse Day at Burnt Island Light on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hosted with…
Death notice
George C. Gilpatrick, born Nov. 3, 1937, died Aug. 13, 2026 at Maine General Hospital in Portland after a sudden illness.
He was buried in the Veterans Administration Cemetery ini Augusta…
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…
Obituary
David James Chartier, 58, of Woolwich passed away Aug. 23, 2026.
David was born in Woodbury, New Jersey Oct. 24, 1967, to John Edward Sr. and Patricia Ann. He moved to Maine in 1985…
UPDATE: MLA welcomes Canada’s decision to remove seafood from retaliatory tariffs
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The Kennebec and Knox-Lincoln Soil…
Press release
Many people communicate by text…
Hearty Roots Hootenanny in Edgecomb
A little bit of Nashville is coming to the Maine coast this September when rising country artist Cam Shelton headlines Hearty Roots’ Hootenanny: Ho-Down Southern Social at Glidden Point Oyster…
Boothbay Railway Village Museum
The countdown is on to Saturday, Aug. 29 for Cocktails & Chrome, the Railway Village Museum’s 3rd annual event in support of the Museum’s “Driving History Forward” capital campaign for the…
First National Bank is proud to…
The Damariscotta Historical Society will once again hold its annual silent auction event to raise funds to preserve ancient burial…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset resident Anne Leslie told…
Obituary
Paul Blais, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 12, 2026, after a month's long illness.
Born on May 22, 1945, in the town of…
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…
Death notice
The family of Anne Porter Butler sadly announces her passing Aug. 23, 2026. An obituary will be forthcoming, with details of a celebration of life at St Columba’s Episcopal Church.
It isn't going to happen, but a data center eyed by a man with a Boothbay tie stood to bring to Wiscasset millions of dollars in taxes and about 1,700-2,300 temporary construction…
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…
Local partners will come together…
Lincoln County deputies Aug. 21 continued to assist and support the NTSB and FAA with their investigation into the cause of a single engine airplane crash in Bristol.…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
At 1 p.m. today, the Lincoln County 911 center received calls of a small plane crash near Fort William Henry in Bristol. Units from Bristol Fire and Rescue, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and…
UPDATE: The sheriff's office has posted the following on Facebook:
"(The) situation has been resolved safely with one subject taken into custody after extended negotiations. The road is…
