Tom Iampietro, a teacher by avocation and a life-long scholar of the sea, passed away on March 4, 2020 from sudden congestive heart failure. He was 67, and had just moved to Wiscasset in June to…
News
RSU 2 schools will be closed for two weeks, from Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 27. It is in the best interest of our school communities, Kennebec County, and the state of Maine to …
UPDATE: According to Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Lincoln County has had a second presumptive positive test and the first has gone from presumptive positive to…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 schools are closed through March 27, Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle confirmed Sunday afternoon in a text reply to Wiscasset Newspaper.
The…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s Facebook page announced Sunday afternoon: “Students in Wiscasset schools will not have school starting on Monday, March 16 and schools will stay closed until March…
As you are probably well aware, at this time, the decision whether to open or close schools is being left to superintendents. After consultation with the Maine, Department of Education and other…
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Good Shepherd Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in Maine and distributes 25 million meals per year through more than 450 partner hunger-relief programs across the state.…
LincolnHealth announced March 14 that it is limiting visitation to all of its long-term care, assisted living facilities and the Schooner Cove retirement community. Exceptions may be made for…
Out of sincere concern for our patrons and employees and following the advice of the Maine CDC to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by social distancing, the Harbor Theater will be…
Edgecomb residents at a 2020-21 budget meeting March 9 were outspoken about rising school costs, according to information the board provided after the meeting.
The discussion took place…
In a decision Regional School Unit 1 Superintendent of Schools Patrick Manuel announced Saturday night, the unit, which serves Woolwich, Bath, Arrowsic and Phippsburg, is closing its schools…
March is Women’s History Month. The year 2020 also marks 100 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Along with this accomplishment of the women’s suffrage…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) was informed this morning, March 13, by MaineHealth that preliminary testing in their lab indicates two more individuals…
Obituary
John Joseph Grundy, 81, of Freedom Song Lane, Wiscasset died March 8, 2020 at Togus in Augusta.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 21, 1938, a son of John Joseph and Bertha…
There are many additions to this year’s Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days & Tall Ships Festival in celebration of Maine’s Bicentennial.…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in February:
Alna: Hutchings, George R. Jr. to Percival, Harry.
Boothbay:…
While Maine lobster exporters are reporting a drop in prices due to lost sales to China, area dealers see a mixed picture of supply and demand at the local level.
“It is not the Chinese…
Governor announces insurance emergency proclamation, temporary suspension of non-essential out-of-state work travel for State employees, and a recommendation to postpone large, indoor gatherings
Governor Janet Mills and the Maine CDC announced today Maine’s first presumptive positive case of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Maine. The individual who tested positive is a woman in…
You can now grab a submarine on Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor, not for an undersea adventure, but for a delicious take-out or eat-in meal of a sandwich that resembles its namesake!
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Wiscasset School Committee
UPDATE: The resignation accepted March 10 was from PreK teacher Amy Mitchell; on Friday, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood provided Mitchell’s resignation letter to Wiscasset Newspaper.
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Press release
In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, Midcoast Senior College has decided to cancel its spring term effective immediately. We are also suspending, until further notice, our Current Events forum in…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) and 211 Maine announced today, March 11, a new option for Mainers to get answers to questions about the 2019 novel…
In February, the Musquash Pond Preserve, on Bunker Hill Road in Jefferson, was transferred from The Nature Conservancy to Midcoast Conservancy. This was the second step in creating a 473-acre…
Lincoln County courts
A Lincoln County grand jury rose March 11 with an indictment charging an Augusta woman with trafficking a drug the charge claims contributed to a death.
The single-count indictment alleges…
Special Olympics Programs worldwide have been very strongly advised by Special Olympics International to suspend all sports training and competition activities involving their athletes through…
Boothbay Region YMCA is now offering LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, which is a free, 12-week recovery program for adult cancer patients and survivors. Registration is currently open for the session that…
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today published “Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19” to help companies respond in…
In one district, public school and nonprofit collaborate
MIDCOAST — A disturbing trend of students, especially in younger grades, exhibiting out-of-control behavior has increasingly unsettled schools in recent years, to the point that superintendents…
Alternative Organizational Structure 98 schools are formulating plans for handling the coronavirus. Superintendent Dr. Keith Laser reported during the March 9 Edgecomb School Committee meeting the…
2020 Elections
Southport, Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay, Edgecomb and Westport Island Democrats met for the 2020 Democratic Caucus March 8. Around 100 filed into the Boothbay Region High School gymnasium to take…
Everyone is guilty of procrastinating from time to time, but one place where it doesn’t pay to wait is doing your taxes. Scammers take full advantage of opportunities during tax filing season to…
Monday night’s Wiscasset Planning Board meeting was scarcely attended with no one from the public choosing to attend to speak at the public hearing to address several proposed ordinance changes.…
Like hospitals and health care provides across the state, LincolnHealth has been working since the earliest reported case of COVID-19, or coronavirus, to prepare for a response when it is needed…
On Friday, March 27, the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS), in collaboration with the VA Maine Healthcare System, will host a recognition ceremony for Vietnam Veterans. The ceremony will…
Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett is all for reforming the criminal justice system, but he’s against a couple of proposals working their way through the Maine Legislature.
Brackett…
Obituary
William Edward Gindele of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, formerly of East Boothbay and for 44 years loving companion of Carol Buxton of West Boothbay Harbor, died at home on the afternoon of March 6,…
Woolwich EMS wants to begin charging patients for ambulance services other than hospital transports. The proposal will be discussed at a public hearing 6 p.m. Monday, March 16 in the municipal…
Sheepscot Harbour Village Resort General Manager Gayle Hunt got the Edgecomb planning board’s unanimous approval Thursday, March 5 to move a previously approved market area from one end of the…
Lincoln County courts
Corey H. Ater, 32, of Phippsburg, charges of violating protection from abuse order and violating condition of release in Wiscasset, dismissed.
Olivia T. Coniam, 24, of Alna, charge of…
Later this month, Chesterfield Associates President E. Davies Allan expects the Westport Island firm to start a $1.4 million state job. Allan said it will pay more than any job the firm he started…
Sagadahoc County is learning an expensive lesson in cost-sharing agreements. For the second time, Sagadahoc officials requested three years of cost reimbursements from Lincoln County for a shared…
Press release
Celebrate Maine’s Bicentennial with a classic baked bean supper hosted by the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust, Maine’s First Ship, and the Merrymeeting Gleaners on Saturday, March 14 at 4:30 to 6:30 p…
Presidential primary and state referendum
Democrat
Joseph Biden 114, Bernard Sanders 78, Michael Bloomberg 29, Elizabeth Warren 22, Amy Klobuchar 2, Tulsi Gabbard 1
Republican
Donald Trump 90
State referendum:…
A Celebration of Life service for Alice H. Thompson of Southport, who died Dec. 29, 2019, will be held Saturday, June 6 at 2 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 25 Industrial Park Road, Boothbay. Al…
Smithsonian Magazine has designated Saturday, April 4 as the 16th annual Museum Day, an initiative in which…
Midcoast Conservancy and Maine Department of Marine Resources staff have been braving the cold waters of the Sheepscot River planting Atlantic salmon eggs this month. These eggs will hatch and…
Damariscotta reported its Tuesday, March 3, voting results at damariscottame.com. Question 1, the people's veto on vaccinations, ran yes 173, no 685. And in the Democratic presidential primary,…
The Wiscasset select board March 3 approved installing electrical submetering on the Main Street, or Creamery, Pier and approved a few changes to the pier policy and vendor application.
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Dresden reported March 4, in March 3 results, Question 1, the people's veto on vaccinations, ran yes 183, no 413. And in the Democratic presidential primary, Joseph Biden got 70 votes; Michael…
