After Wiscasset considers giving its school budget the final OK on June 9, there will still be a loose end to tie up. Selectmen on June 2 called a special town meeting for June 16 to approve spending $10,000 on adult education.

Interim Superintendent of Schools Lyford Beverage said May 28 that he left it off the warrant for a May 27 town meeting.

At that meeting, voters passed the $8,400,000 million budget piece by piece. The money for adult education is in the total budget that passed to go on to a vote at the polls June 9, Beverage said. But, the item did not get an individual vote, so another town meeting was needed.

The only cost for the June 16 vote would be for a moderator, Town Clerk Christine Wolfe said on May 28. The normal cost for that is $200, she said.

Ramp plans on track

Plans to replace a ramp at the Ferry Road Landing Pier will go forward. Wiscasset selectmen on June 2 agreed to pull $5,000 from the waterfront committee’s maintenance account to help meet a $14,000 bid by Kevin Verney of Damariscotta.

The rest of the money for the new aluminum ramp was already budgeted, town officials said.

The existing ramp is old, wooden and starting to rot, Wiscasset Harbormaster Dan Bradford said. It is also not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act; the new ramp will be, he said.

Goodbye for now

Resident Dan Sortwell told outgoing Selectmen’s Chairman Pam Dunning that she had brought professionalism, organization and common sense to the board’s meetings. “And the town is better off for your service,” Sortwell said.

Dunning thanked Sortwell and said that, while she was relieved to be wrapping up her service, she will miss it very much. And she may be back, she said. Neither Dunning nor fellow selectman Tim Merry sought reelection.

Vice Chairman Ben Rines Jr. presented Dunning and Merry each with a photograph of the full board.

The board set a 6 p.m., Wednesday June 10, organizational meeting for the new board, one day after voters pick the two new members.

Also Tuesday, the board accepted with regret Bradford’s resignation as harbormaster. “We are very sorry to see you go,” Dunning told him. In his resignation emailed to Anderson on May 27, Bradford states that he has other endeavors competing for his time and attention.

“It has been a pleasure working with you, your predecessors, the waterfront committee and the selectboard. I’ve enjoyed tremendous support and respect from all the town staff, and the boaters, fishermen and marine harvesters,” Bradford writes. “Thank you all for the rewarding experience.”

Special days ahead

Selectmen unanimously declared Saturday, June 6, Ruth Applin Day, in honor of the Wiscasset resident’s accomplishment of attending all 80 alumni banquets since she graduated Wiscasset Academy in 1935.

“That’s amazing,” Dunning said.

The board also looked ahead to the town’s July 4 celebration. In early plans released Tuesday night, the parade’s theme this year will be “A Maine Kind of Fourth.” Other returning events include a veterans’ memorial salute and flag-raising; strawberry shortcake at Wiscasset Yacht Club; and fireworks over the Sheepscot River.

Town Manager Marian Anderson asked selectmen to think about who they would like to have as the parade’s grand marshal, an honor Applin carried out last year.