Wiscasset’s Budget Committee is anxious to get to work on the 2018-19 budget; among its goals is helping voters understand how town spending impacts their property taxes. The budget work will…
News
On Thursday, Nov. 16, from 2-4 p.m., Paul Kando will offer a two hour free public presentation and discussion at Friends Meeting House, 77 Belvedere Rd. in Damariscotta that will explore the…
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit health care ratings organization, recently announced the fall 2017…
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop & Café in Damariscotta will host a book signing with Laurie Apgar Chandler, author of “Upwards: The story of the first woman to solo thru-paddle the Northern…
The First Congregational Church UCC of Wiscasset will be honoring our veterans at Ames Supply in Wiscasset on Saturday, Nov. 11. From 8 to 10 a.m., free coffee and homemade baked goods will be…
Police Chief Jeffrey Lange shared his thoughts and concerns with the Wiscasset select board Tuesday night, about a plan for expanding Wiscasset Middle-High School’s special education program.…
Lincoln County commissioners hosted their eighth annual Spirit of America awards ceremony Tuesday afternoon. Among those recognized for their many hours of community volunteerism were a retired…
There are early deadlines approaching for the print editions of the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper during the holiday season.
These deadlines are for all copy, ads, columns…
On Tuesday, Edgecomb voters supported three of four state referendum ballot questions. The only ballot question not receiving local or statewide support was a measure which would have allowed slot…
Lincoln County Commissioners
The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency and the Communications Department had something of a trial by fire the week of Oct. 30. And as of Tuesday, Nov. 7, the county still had 1,743 roads…
Edgecomb
With the wind storm over and power restored, local school committees are now looking toward making up for lost time. In Edgecomb, the school committee began discussing possible ways for recouping…
Of the four questions on the state ballot – Question 1, the York County casino issue; Question 2, Medicaid expansion; Question 3, the transportation bond; and Question 4, a constitutional…
Wiscasset businesses, both downtown and along Route 1, are preparing for the Early Riser sale this Saturday, Nov. 11. Stores will open at 6 a.m. or earlier.
The best deals, according to…
A wonderful networking opportunity will be held at The Morris Farm on Monday, Nov. 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The Morris Farm Trust is both a working farm and an educational resource for the…
American Legion Post 54 of Wiscasset will hold its Veterans Day service at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at the memorial wall at the municipal building on the corner of Routes 1 and 27, Post Cmdr.…
The Twin Villages went to the polls and voted on various warrant articles and a selectmen’s race.
Newcastle voters decided three local warrant articles, as well as four state ballot…
Elections 2017
Dresden came up with a tie vote of 241-241 on Regional School Unit 12’s ballot question Tuesday to accept $26 million in state funding for a pre-kindergarten through grade eight school next…
Motion to seek injunction passes 3-2
The Wiscasset Select Board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to hire an attorney and head to court in hopes of forcing Maine Department of Transportation officials to reconsider parts of the $5 million…
Woolwich voters returned two incumbents to the select board but ballots on the Regional School Unit 1 bond issue were being hand-counted and results were not yet available from Tuesday’s…
Wiscasset voters Tuesday kept the 2015 historic preservation ordinance.
Selectmen had recommended repeal 3-2. The vote ran 437 yes to repeal it, 536 no.
“I couldn’t be more pleased…
It has taken about 350 man hours in the past week for Edgecomb firefighters to remove debris from the town’s roads. Fire Chief Roy Potter and Edgecomb Emergency Management Agency Director Bill…
One of the casualties of last week’s storm in Lincoln County was the annual Haiti Benefit Dinner. Power was not restored to St Patrick’s in time to hold the dinner on Nov. 3 as originally…
A sturdy bridge has withstood all types of weather to connect Westport Island with the mainland. But the same could not be said for the island’s main power and telephone lines, brought down by the…
Obituary
Phillip J. Shepherd, 79, of Wiscasset, died Nov. 5, 2017 at Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick.
Phillip was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 12, 1938, a son of…
The Woolwich select board praised the community’s emergency workers, road commissioner and volunteers for their response to last week’s storm.
At Monday night’s meeting, Chair David King Sr…
Woolwich’s Tanner Square Monument, which honors Woolwich men and women who served in the U.S. military during World War II, recently got a facelift, thanks to the efforts of Woolwich resident…
The Woolwich pedestrian tunnel in the town’s center got a much needed facelift recently thanks to the assistance of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department and community service volunteers. The…
The Edgecomb Fire Department responded to 17 emergencies in town and three mutual aid calls between Oct. 3 and 31.
On Oct. 3, the department responded to a medical call on McKay Road for a…
Standing in his vegetable garden nearest Route 218 Friday morning, Alna farmer Tom Albee said what he was seeing was outstanding: Juniper Hill School students, staff and parents and other…
Obituary
Robert Allen Marden died at his Waterville home on Oct. 29 at the age of 90.
“Bob,” as his friends knew him, was born in Waterville on Jan. 4, 1927, the son of Harold Chesterfield Marden…
Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
The Wiscasseet Historic Preservation Commission approved two certificates of appropriateness Nov. 2.
A property that was the subject of one of the requests was well-known to the commission…
Damariscotta Selectmen
Biscay Road, Damariscotta residents on Nov. 1 went to selectmen with concerns about what a boat launch on the small pond would entail.
Jaja Martin spoke for the residents. “The pond is long…
The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program, offered by the Boothbay Region YMCA and the Central Lincoln County YMCA in partnership with LincolnHealth, is encouraging residents of Lincoln County to…
It’s become easier for Edgecomb residents to get a quick bite to eat or pick up some household items. The town is no longer without a general store. A Boothbay Harbor couple is leasing the former…
A smoke detector woke a woman at 497 Lowelltown Road, Wiscasset, Sunday morning and she escaped the fire that claimed the home she was renting, she and a fire official said.
The fire was…
Becky McKarns said daughter Sully, 4, is obsessed with Wonder Woman. So both went as the super heroine Friday night at Wiscasset Community Center, where area families and organizations joined…
On Oct. 24, Lincoln County sheriff’s detectives arrested an Alna man on a charge of Domestic Violence Assault involving a child. Myles Jordan, 64, was arrested after an investigation into a…
Wiscasset Parks and Recreation
Owing to lack of power in town and rain in Friday’s forecast, the Halloween parade and block party rescheduled for Nov. 3 will be moved to the Wiscasset Community Center. Parade lineup begins at 4…
The usual out-of-state visitors at Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna come for a train ride or to volunteer, but on Thursday morning, Nov. 2, Ohio and New York crews…
Event rescheduled
A collection of rare and unusual items never before placed on the market will be made available at a public auction to benefit Chop Point School. Due to the storm on Oct. 30,…
United Way of Mid Coast Maine
Lincoln County
American Legion Post #36 Christmas Dinner for Boothbay and the surrounding areas. Christmas meal served Monday, Dec. 25 at noon. Reservations recommended; transportation…
NOAA Fisheries has released the “Fisheries of the U.S.” 2016 report, and once again New Bedford, Mass. was the leading U.S. port by value for the 17th consecutive year and American…
We’ve added a couple of photos that didn’t appear in print this week to this week’s At a Glance. One of the photos has to do with Halloween and we try not to use old news in print (…
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency reported the following updates to road closures and warming stations in Lincoln County, as of 11:30 a.m., Nov. 3:
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Area voters face four state questions and some selectmen’s races and local questions at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 7. We’ve rounded up the times and locations for voting and a rundown of the ballots…
Wiscasset Public Library
In recognition of Veterans Day, the Wiscasset Public Library will present a program by Peggy Konitzsky, site manager in Wiscasset for Historic New England, on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 5 to 6:30 p.m…
Elections 2017
Damariscotta will vote Tuesday, Nov. 7 to replace outgoing Selectman George Parker, who resigned because he has moved to Newcastle. Five candidates will vie for the seat. The term ends in 2020.…
The Lincoln County Budget Committee wrapped up deliberations Oct. 26 by reviewing the county’s single largest budget, the Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff Todd Brackett justified the increase…
Emergency Management Director Casey Stevens said Lincoln County was surprisingly hard hit by Sunday night’s storm. “Almost everyone was out of power at some point in Lincoln County. The (county’s…
Obituary
Joseph Francis Cook Sr., 69, of East Boothbay, died at his home in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2017 with his beloved family by his side.
Joe was born on July 2, 1948 in Fall River,…
