The non-binding question on exploring a regional high school got its second nod Aug. 4. Wiscasset selectmen last month decided to put the question on the Nov. 3 ballot. And last week, they approved the municipal officers' order to make that happen.

The question reads: "Should Wiscasset explore the possibility of a single regional high school serving students from multiple area towns?"

By Maine law, the town clerk needed the order at least 60 days before Election Day.

The order passed 5-0, with no new comment from the board or public. Selectman Sarah Whitfield has said those who'd helped Boothbay Region Schools and Wiscasset pursue a state grant for a consolidated grades nine through 16 school sense the towns still want to explore an option. The grant try ended when a win looked unlikely. Whitfield has described the November question as a survey. 

Also Aug. 4,  Economic Development Director Aaron Chrostowsky announced a 3 p.m. Aug. 25 workshop at Scout Hall, on the local strategic energy planning being aided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project. Selectmen's Chair Alissa Eason told residents, "Your voice and your opinions and your thoughts and your questions will help shape this project."

Selectmen nodded business licenses for Kindred Kneads Massage, 80 Main St.; Restore & Thrive Massage Therapy, 239 Birch Point Road; and Zachari Dalton, 16 Shady Lane. Dalton’s license request describes the business as “retail of my own commercially dug clams.”