Regulars at Hunter’s Breakfast in Wiscasset are thinking about where they will try for breakfast and lunch, now that the Route 27 business is closing for good. The last day is July 7.
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A summer stay at Wiscasset Municipal Airport for Texas Flying Legends is “on hold,” Airport Advisory Committee member Steve Williams said June 21. Williams made the announcement at the panel’s…
A Wiscasset woman is a step closer to opening a day care in her home. Amber Underwood of 90 Alna Road told the Planning Board Monday night, she wants to serve six to 10 children in the…
The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is circulating a petition for an open, special town meeting to reinstate the 2017-18 planning budget residents rejected June 13, member Sherri Dunbar said.…
The state gave a Wiscasset panel an on-site look Friday, June 23, at plans for the downtown. The morning walk was a departure from the Public Advisory Committee’s usual setting for talks with the…
The $80,951 grant the ConnectME Authority approved for a broadband project in parts of Alna may be canceled in whole or in part next month because, it turns out, it may not be needed, ConnectME…
A small gathering came together at the Fishermen’s Memorial on Sunday, June 25 to hear ceremonies recalling those lost at sea and then to watch as local clergy blessed the local fishing…
On Saturday, July 15, Saturday, August 5, and Saturday, September 9, 2017 the Frances Perkins Center will host guided tours of the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic…
Newcastle Realty and The Lincoln Home are deeply rooted in the heart of this community; both are committed to supporting the needs of the people who…
The Cod Cove Inn has announced that it has received the …
As part of their natural reproductive cycle, honeybees will swarm. A swarm is when a queen and a good portion of the worker population of bees leave the hive to find a new home. While a honeybee…
On Friday, June 30, Dr. Alison Rieser will give a talk on herring at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center.
The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall on the…
In a split vote Tuesday night, Wiscasset selectmen decided to tell the state they no longer support the downtown project. They plan to send Maine Department of Transportation a letter reversing…
If you were traveling along Route 1 in Newcastle between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. on June 14, you may have noticed a lot of cars parked along the road in front of…
“Are we going to be dissecting something?” a Great Salt Bay third-grader asked as he entered the classroom.
When he got a whiff of the empty petri dish in front of him, he announced,…
Wiscasset’s latest vote on the downtown project has not changed Maine Department of Transportation’s plans, according to MDOT’s project manager.
“MaineDOT will be staying the course with…
Trustees, or inmates, from Two Bridges Regional Jail were working, scraping and painting Edgecomb Community Church on Cross Point Road on June 14.
The work was being done through the…
On Saturday, June 24, from 9 a.m. to noon, volunteers are invited to join Midcoast Conservancy to build a new hiking trail at the Jump Pond Preserve…
The answer is yes. Ask the hungry people who received over 250,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables grown last year by Master Gardener Volunteers for food pantries across the state. Ask the people…
Lauren Muser Cates, LMT, instructor and co-founder of Healwell, led a three-day class in Damariscotta guiding therapists on ways to embrace and be present in care-giving with end-of-life…
On Friday, June 23, director of the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, Dr. Heather Leslie, will give a talk titled "Resilient Coastal Communities & Marine Ecosystems: Translating…
Rosemary Campbell of Newcastle, a highly regarded 27-year insurance veteran, retired recently from a loyal career with Cheney Insurance of Damariscotta. She joined…
Little Village Bistro and a Federal Street couple got the nods they sought June 8 from the Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission. The Gardiner Road restaurant plans two additions.
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Alna selectmen
If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it, Dave Sutter maintained June 7 about Alna’s longtime setup for alewife rights. Sutter has had the town’s rights under contract for three decades; selectmen and…
On Saturday, June 24, from noon to 3 p.m., join us for a celebration of Damariscotta River oysters at the Darrows Barn, DRA Round Top Farm, 3 Round Top Lane, Damariscotta.
Come meet the…
After receiving many requests to provide dryer vent service over the years, former Maine Coast Stove & Chimney owner Robert Conlin has…
ORONO, Maine — Despite an abundance of egg-bearing adult lobsters and record-breaking harvests, the number of young lobsters continues to fall in the Gulf of Maine.
…Peregrine Turbine Technologies owner David Stapp confirmed Friday, he is considering leasing land at Wiscasset Municipal Airport for work he had been wanting to do at a Point East building.
…The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in March:
Alna: Preston, Michael and Preston, Amy to Fat Pig LLC; Genes, Dawn W Tr,…
The works of Maine artist John Moon of Falmouth, the new featured artist at Atlantic Motorcar, will be exhibited June through September. And, the “Antique Auto Art Show” of Tenants Harbor artist…
On June 17, Maine Maritime Museum invites the public to celebrate the museum’s newest permanent exhibit, Into the Lantern: A Lighthouse Experience. The…
Tom Albee said if it weren’t for volunteers’ help in recent years, he wouldn’t still be able to farm his Route 218, Alna land, in his family since the mid-1880s. Now residents are stepping up to…
Red’s Eats, the iconic roadside take-out stand at 41 Water Street in Wiscasset, has earned one more in its long list of accolades. Known far and wide for its famously huge, fresh Maine lobster…
In the Clover, a women's specialty boutique in Wiscasset, has new owners.
Kasey McNamara and her husband Jay took over the store and all its merchandise in…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen talked contracts May 24, awarding one and moving closer on others. As a result, the town has a new contractor to cut grass; possibly the same plowing contractor for another three…
Big Al’s Super Values in Wiscasset is the subject of a six-page piece in the June issue of Down East Magazine, Al Cohen, owner of the Route One store, told fellow Ordinance Review Committee…
Wiscasset Planning Board
Progress on the Clark’s Point Subdivision continues in Wiscasset with Monday’s approval of another update to the plan. The Planning Board unanimously supported changing it for the second time in…
Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) in Damariscotta is setting an ambitious goal for its second season, growing even more fresh nutrient-dense food to serve many more outlets in Lincoln County.…
So last week I left you tied to a mooring off Monhegan on a moonlit late August night. Sorry about that, but there are worse places. And I like to think it was a clear, starry, moonlit night, but…
Joe Ford, MBA, EA, has assumed responsibility for guiding the finances of three local companies that make up The Cheney Financial Group.
“We are extremely pleased to have added Joe to our…
Alna selectmen announced Friday, they hired Liz Brown as the next town clerk. Brown, an Alna resident, succeeds Lisa Arsenault.
Brown was one of five applicants; the board interviewed her…
Join Midcoast Conservancy for an Invasive Plant Identification workshop on Thursday, May 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Led by Hildy Ellis of the Knox-…
The Wiscasset Planning Board decided Monday, the town needs to seek Mason Station LLC’s consent if it wants a new lot at the Point East Subdivision. The town wants to create it from tax-acquired…
Alna selectmen have questions for the state after hearing from the man who has been harvesting alewives in town for three decades. The board agreed May 3 to have Third Selectman Doug Baston write…
Dick Cleveland of Newcastle may have the ideal part-time retirement job. Cleveland is “The Local Locksmith.”
He was working as a handyman in Waldoboro 16 years ago when he met an area…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission (LCRPC) hosted a listening session May 3 as part of a federal evaluation of the Maine Coastal Management Program. MCMP is an inter-agency group…
Gain the skills necessary to get a good job by attending two free job seeker workshops being offered through a partnership of Central Lincoln County Adult Education and Goodwill…
Biologist Tim Forrester, a wetland scientist, is an environmental consultant.
Forrester lives with his wife, Bethany, and their children, Ben and Lily, in Woolwich. In the expansive…
“What a community. You’re the best,” Cheryl “Shep” Rust called down to about three dozen well-wishers on the Wiscasset waterfront Sunday afternoon. Rust, in an open window at Le Garage, was taking…
Single-family home values in the state of Maine remain in a healthy terrain. According to Maine Listings, the median sales price (MSP) reached $191,000 in March—a 4.66 percent price increase over…
