The Edgecomb Budget Committee is seeking two missing pieces of information prior to making its final recommendation to selectmen. Chairman Jack Brennan reported the committee lacks a figure for…
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Wiscasset's Public Safety Advisory Committee finalized questions March 27 for a survey on community concerns about the town's agencies.
The survey will be available online and in person.…
Carrie Kinne, executive director of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust, and KELT board member Dennis Dunbar asked Westport Island selectmen March 26 to reduce the remaining portion of property taxes…
Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz received three parting gifts March 26 during his final Edgecomb selectmen’s meeting. Waltz has served as Wiscasset’s and Edgecomb’s code enforcement officer for…
Wiscasset selectmen and the Budget Committee finalized the municipal budget for fiscal year 2018-19 on March 27.
Also Monday, Selectman Jeff Slack’s proposal for a warrant article asking…
March 29 is National Vietnam War Veterans Day. It was designated as such in 2017 with the passage of the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act.
Maine Vietnam War veterans are invited to…
A Facebook Page operated by four women has sparked an audit into the state’s largest electric utility. In January, CMP Ratepayers…
Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority
The Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority approved an extension with Penobscot County to board inmates for another 90 days at the current rate.
The decision followed an executive session.…
Wiscasset planning board
Christopher Juntura is looking to grow his Wood Lane, Wiscasset hop farm into a brewery. The Topsham man told the planning board Monday night, he expects the business to have about five to 10…
Obituary
John E. Potter Sr., 75, of Cochran Road, Edgecomb died March 21, 2018 at his residence.
John was born in Gardiner on June 22, 1942, a son of Roy B. and Mildred M. (Smith) Potter. He…
Luck changed quickly for South Thomaston’s Jonathan Marr, 35, Friday night. The jeep he was driving…
Accident remains under investigation
WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro Police Department, Fire and EMS responded to the report of a vehicle submerged in the Medomak River at the…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Wiscasset selectmen on March 20 heard from residents with concerns on both sides regarding the town's lawsuit against the Maine Department of Transportation.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent…
Wiscasset and New Hampshire men jump in to save man
UPDATE: ROCKPORT — A Thomaston man was rescued by Good Samaritans after his Grand Cherokee Jeep left the highway and landed in Chickawaukie Lake this evening, March 23.
The call came …
Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting in Alna favored getting a modular town office and selling the cape. They chose the option over two others in a majority show of hands at the fire station…
Wiscasset Public Library on High Street was the setting for this month’s Business After Hours meeting of the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commence Thursday evening, March. 22.
Pam Dunning, who…
Alna voters on Friday favored a referendum to drop the private school option from publicly funded K-8 school choice. The vote at the polls at the fire station ran 258-161.
The ballot…
Obituary
June Stockus-Stevens died peacefully at Miles Hospital on March 20, 2018 after battling pancreatic cancer.
June Althea Stockus was born in Canton Massachusetts on June 19, 1955. She was the…
Obituary
Janet E. Peters, 84, of Boothbay, died peacefully on March 21, 2018 at Maine General Medical Center in Augusta, Maine.
She was the daughter of Gerald and Hazel (Clifford) Pinkham of…
Wiscasset Municipal Airport’s interim manager Rick Tetrev was relieved March 22 to learn the airport’s budget is intact. He and the Airport Advisory Committee wondered one day earlier if part of…
Kim Dalton recently joined the Woolwich town office staff as tax collector. Her other duties include serving as deputy town clerk and general assistance coordinator.
Dalton comes qualified…
Boothbay region native Stanley R. Tupper III was one of two attorneys recently honored by the Maine Justice Foundation. Tupper, of Frederick, Quinlan and Tupper, and Nan Heald of Pine Tree Legal…
The Edgecomb Fire Department will host an EMS (Emergency Medical Services) responder course in May. Upon successful completion, students will be licensed as a Maine EMS first responder.
The…
The Woolwich Select Board is honoring three citizens who died in 2017-18. The board is dedicating this year’s annual town report to them.
Chairman David King Sr. announced the dedication…
The Medomak District of the Garden Club Federation of Maine to have its annual meeting May 7 at the 1812 Farm, 1297 Bristol Road, Bristol, Maine. The District clubs include, Bath, Boothbay Region…
The small one-lane bridge spanning Nequasset Brook that Woolwich voters will consider discontinuing at next month’s annual town meeting is at least the second one at this location adjacent to the…
On Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Library, Chats with Champions will present Randall Liberty, warden at the Maine State Prison in Warren. His talk is…
Wiscasset School Committee
Due to back-to-back snowstorms, the Wiscasset School Committee is only beginning its preliminary budget meetings. Tuesday night, the committee reviewed proposed budgets for administration,…
The Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary Used Book Sale will take place on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Merrymeeting Plaza, 147 Bath Road in Brunswick. Thousands of gently…
The Second Congregational Church of Newcastle, UCC has announced its Holy Week and Easter worship service plans.
On Sunday, March 25 Palm/Passion Sunday begins Holy Week…
Elections 2018
Alna has two candidates on the ballot for one seat representing the town on Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12’s board: Ralph Hilton and Abbe Manahan.
…
Public encouraged to check their own storage units
ROCKLAND — Maine State Police, working with the four sheriff’s offices in the Midcoast, are asking owners and renters of storage units to check them following the arrest…
AUGUSTA — Following the decision this morning, March 20, by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to conduct a forensic audit of Central Maine Power’s billing system, the company issued its own…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Detective Sergeant Ron Rollins was honored as Deputy Sheriff of the Year at the Maine Sheriffs’ Association award banquet in Biddeford March 15, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Chief Deputy…
Woolwich selectmen
A small, one-lane bridge spanning Nequasset Brook in Woolwich is causing some big concerns for the select board and the couple who own and rent the home it serves.
A public hearing on an…
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 2-5
Would you enjoy boating more if you knew more about boats and navigation? That’s the purpose of boating courses offered by U. S. Coast Guard Flotilla Boothbay Harbor. They are designed to help you…
Alna planning board
Donald and Marcia Lyons got Alna’s nod March 12 for their vegetable, hay and lavender business, SeaLyon Farm LLC, at 1788 Alna Road. Planning Board Chairman Beth Whitney said the board approved…
Wiscasset Selectmen and Budget Committee
On March 15, Wiscasset Selectman Jeff Slack proposed to pay for the nearly $900,000 in recommended capital improvements with interest from the capital improvement fund. Slack, who also sits on the…
Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice (MSAHHH) will be offering a free hospice training course for all those interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. The training will held on April…
Edgecomb Community Church, United Church of Christ, at 15 Cross Point Road will join Christians throughout the world celebrating Holy Week, the most sacred time of the Church year with the…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has been advised of a possible scam attempt occurring over this past weekend. On Sunday, March 18, at about 10:15 a.m., a Bristol resident…
The Edgecomb planning board is asking how a small River Road bait shack became a rental vacation cottage. On March 15, the board requested Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz investigate how the…
Obituary
Ardath E. (Farnham) Wood, 75, of Vassalboro, Maine died March 18, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family following a long illness.
She was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on Nov. 8, 1942…
Obituary
On March 16, 2018, Mr. Ronald A. Pratt Sr., a lifelong resident of Cumberland, Rhode Island, died in Portland, Maine.
A loving husband to Janet L. (Simoneau) Pratt, a father and grandfather…
The Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission agreed March 15 to submit ordinance changes it has been working on for months to the Ordinance Review Committee, with the aim of getting them on the…
First Congregational Church of Wiscasset
Waving of palms and shouts of “Hosanna” will mark the beginning of Holy Week during the celebration of Palm Sunday on March 25 at 10 a.m. at the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset. The title…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their last indoor meeting on Friday, March 23 with a Comb Honey Workshop featuring Neal Kober from Humble Abodes and Betterbee. The…
In his family’s Wilton canning plant during World War II, Vance Wells worked alongside friends and neighbors canning vegetables to ship to soldiers overseas. Friday, in the Wiscasset Elementary…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will hold a storewide half-price sale from Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24. Hours are Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and…
Obituary
Neil S. Grover, 59, of Boothbay, died peacefully the morning of March 14, 2018 at Lincoln Health Center in Damariscotta.
Neil was the son of the late Betty L’Hostis Sitton, and Dale Grover…
