Alna selectmen said Wednesday night, Jan. 20, they would have the codes enforcement officer and possibly Maine Department of Environmental Protection see if anything added to the Head Tide Dam…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 21, an additional six COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 536.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 21, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens ended its experimental, sixth Gardens Aglow season on high notes. CMBG President and CEO Gretchen Ostherr said the team pulled off a spectacular and successful…

If all the lawyers can make it, Alna’s appeals board plans to hear three appeals Feb. 11, all linked to Jeff Spinney’s recent shoreland project. Meeting over Zoom Wednesday night, Jan. 20, board…

Wiscasset Fire Society has come a long way from patrolling the streets with leather buckets. Formed in 1801, the group’s purpose stated in its rules and articles was to “aid in the prevention and…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 20, an additional 11 COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 530.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

Mid-Coast Audubon will be accepting bird seed orders through Feb. 20 to raise funds to support bird conservation and education programming. Orders can be placed by mail-in form available at Mid-…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 20, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Director Duane Goud told selectmen over Zoom Tuesday, Jan. 19, due to COVID-19 crowd limits, neither Winterfest nor the annual father-daughter dance can run on their…

 Louis Nicholas “Nicky” Mihalos Jr., 65, of Wiscasset died peacefully on Jan. 18, 2021, at his home surrounded by his family after a long illness with cancer.

Louis was born on Oct. 20,…

Candles lined Wiscasset’s Main Street for Route 1 motorists to see on Tuesday, Jan. 19 and, at 5:30 p.m., the sound of church bells tolling echoed through town. It was a time of remembrance in…

Individuals age 70 and up who have an appointment will be the first to be vaccinated at…

Judith Alice (Benner) Seiders of Whitefield passed away at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Jan. 19, 2021 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Jan. 10.…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 19, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

According to a document released ahead of Wiscasset selectmen’s Tuesday, Jan. 19 meeting, new help may be coming to possibly get something going at the former Wiscasset Primary School.

Town…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 19, an additional five COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 519.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

Westport Island selectmen Monday night agreed to sign a letter supporting an effort to expand broadband access in town. About 195 homes do not have access, Ralph Jacobs of the broadband and cable…

Deborah Lee Mullen, 78, died on Jan. 14, 2021 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Born on Nov. 1, 1942 in Quincy, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of the late…

After a year-long search, parishioners at St. Giles Episcopal Church Jefferson will meet their new rector in a Zoom service Sunday, Jan. 24. The Rev. Dana Stivers is “thrilled to join such a…

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Internal Revenue Service has announced the nation's tax season will start Friday, Feb. 12 when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns.…

Our beloved mother, wife, grandmother, sister and friend, Diana Dorothy Paris Breslav of Tamarac, Florida, passed away peacefully with family on Jan. 8, 2021 at University Hospital in Tamarac,…

A Southport selectboard decision to fill in the pond at Southport Central School drew about 20 protesters to the pond early Monday morning, Jan. 18.

Word spread through Facebook, emails and…

Andrew Christian Twaddle, 82, died of complications from the COVID-19 virus on Dec. 2, 2020, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.

He was born in Hartford,…

Y Arts has done it again! Twenty-five of our local youth worked together to create a competition piece for this year's Junior Theater Festival and received high honors winning the award for…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 18, an additional three COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 514.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 18, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Robert W. Cochran I, with his loving family by his side, peacefully ran out of runway at his home in Winthrop, Maine, on Jan. 8, 2021. He was 87. The youngest of four children, he…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 17, an additional four COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 511.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 17, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Frances Leslie was looking to serve a cause in her hometown of Wiscasset for Martin Luther King Day, a national day of service, Monday, Jan. 18. She thought of food insecurity. Then she thought of…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 16, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 16, an additional 30 COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 507.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

Scammers make their living by keeping up their ploys day in and day out. Often, they aren’t solo con acts but are part of a large criminal enterprise scheming to fund illegal…

We like boats more than we have good sense and want everyone to share that passion. Every March at the equinox, since 1987, the Maine Boatbuilders Show has been on the minds and calendars of the…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 15, an additional 16 COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 477.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 15, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit has put off until March a recreational youth basketball program’s request to play Saturdays in school gyms. In person and on YouTube and Zoom Thursday night,…

University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is partnering with the Maine Primitive Skills School and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to offer a new monthly outdoor educational series for…

COVID-19 vaccinations are on the way to the Boothbay region as part of Gov. Janet Mills’ updated Phase 1A and 1B of her vaccination plan. Residents identified as being “at-risk” to COVID-19 and…

Allan Crocker, Boothbay Region High School athletic director, has announced that tonight’s basketball games at BRHS (girls) and at Winthrop (boys) have been postponed and have been rescheduled…

2021 Vibrio training is required for harvesters and dealers who harvest or buy oysters or hard clams directly from the Damariscotta River, New Meadows…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 14, an additional eight COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 461.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 14, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

DAMARISCOTTA—Faced with the food limitations necessary for their own family, a baker and her husband have decided to open a completely gluten-free bakery and cafe at 77 Main Street in downtown in…

Wiscasset School Department staff are working hard to bring back as many students in-person as possible, Superintendent Terry Wood reported at the Tuesday, Jan. 12 Zoom school committee meeting.…

Gary Lewis of Gardiner passed away Jan. 9, 2021 at Glenridge Rehab Center in Augusta, Maine after a long illness of dementia.

Gary was born in Wiscasset, the…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Jan. 13, an additional four COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 453.

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Jan. 13, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Rotary District 7780 grants are small grants awarded each year on a competitive basis to Rotary Clubs in Southern, Midcoast Maine and New Hampshire in support of a humanitarian projects either in…