Alna will meet at the fire station, not the meetinghouse, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 12 for a special town meeting. The town updated local news media via email Sunday. Selectmen said May 8 and May…
News
Acting quickly to replace Engine #3, Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter informed selectmen June 3 that a 1991 KME Renegade pumper was for sale in Scio, New York, a town of about 1,800, south of…
Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
The Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission approved a single banner sign for three businesses operating at the former Wiscasset Hardware building at Water and Main streets. The sign still…
Wiscasset Elementary School students have collected pet supplies and raised over $193 for Midcoast Humane. Students and teachers assembled on Thursday morning, June 6 to present MH’s Program…
A 62-year-old Alna man was killed Thursday, June 6 at the intersection of Route 1 and Old Ferry Road in Wiscasset in a truck-motorcycle collision.
According to a report from Wiscasset…
New research connects recent changes in the movement of North Atlantic right whales to decreased food availability and rising temperatures in Gulf of Maine’s deep waters. Right whales have been…
Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Charles Lomonte’s late, great uncle Bob left a lot of things behind, in cereal boxes and elsewhere in the World War II veteran's Forest Hills, New York home…
Obituary
With profound sadness and love in our hearts, we announce the passing of Nancy Thorpe Sellar, our adoredand devoted mother and friend to all whose lives she touched, on May 9, 2019.
Nancy…
Maine’s rich cultural history spans thousands of years. The first coastal residents were the indigenous hunters and gatherers who relied on the natural resources of the region’s forests, marshes,…
A Boothbay Animal Hospital veterinarian is treating her patients with the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture. Dr. Jenny Marvelle recently completed her training in animal acupuncture and is now…
Lincoln County Commissioners
The Wiscasset Regional Transfer Station, which also serves Alna and Westport Island, will begin a mandatory recycling program with Lincoln County July 1.
Wiscasset had used a single-stream…
The 50th annual Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games are fast approaching. Over 1,500 athletes, ages 8-88 have been training, planning, and now packing for this exciting event. They will…
“Maine Creatures Great & Small” lecture series is a collaboration between Kennebec Estuary Land Trust and Midcoast Conservancy. The four-part series looks at four organisms important to our…
The 2019 Senior Class marched through the halls of Wiscasset Elementary School in their caps and gowns June 5 for the annual Senior March, the day before graduation.
Wiscasset selectmen
John O’Connell was named Wiscasset's town manager, after selectmen met in an executive session Tuesday night.
O’Connell has been interim manager since Marian Anderson resigned in January.…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
New research has found that the decisions made by individual Antarctic krill help to shape the massive schools they form, which can stretch for hundreds of miles.
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Woolwich
Flashing lights on Central Maine Power company’s new transmission towers have residents in one Woolwich neighborhood seeing red, literally.
Curtis Fish told the select board Monday night…
Mary Ellen Barnes, director for the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission, is pleased to announce the welcomed addition of summer intern Colleen Hendricks. Colleen was chosen from a myriad…
Woolwich Planning Committee
Bob and Gayle Edson and their attorney Bruce McGlauflin appeared at a Woolwich Planning Committee special public hearing Monday, hoping for some relief in accessing their 1910 cottage, Rock…
ROCKLAND — A Wiscasset woman was arrested late Friday night, May 31, after police say she…
Obituary
Elliott R. Barker III, 87, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine died peacefully at St. Andrews Village on May 24, 2019.
A native of Maine, he was born in Waterville on April 7, 1932 and graduated from…
Several local organizations are coming together to provide kids and teens with free, healthy meals throughout the summer through the USDA funded Summer Food Service Program.
The program is…
The push is on in Alna as a June 12 deadline nears for the town and Tidewater Telecom to apply for a grant to aid broadband access and internet speed for about 120 underserved properties. Over…
Woolwich’s EMS director Brian Carlton asked the select board Monday for permission to use reserve monies to cover costs toward ambulance coverage.
Carlton wants to draw up to $10,000 from…
All are welcome at the second annual Alna Day, Saturday, June 8 at locations throughout Alna from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Alna Day celebrates all things Alna: its residents, businesses, organizations,…
Maine State Legislature
A bill to ban single-use plastic bags in large retail stores, including grocery stores, advanced May 30 when the Maine State House voted 91-52 to advance the bill. It goes next to the Senate, but…
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood said May 30, she expects to begin a search soon for Wiscasset Elementary School's next principal. In the meantime, she's there twice daily.
…
Obituary
Cheryl E. Greenleaf, 72, of Westport Island, passed away on May 26, 2019 in Arizona.
She was born in Sanford on July 16, 1946, a daughter of Frank T. and Beatrice (Colby) Greenleaf Sr.…
Wilder York, 14 months, of Bath got to check out Wiscasset’s castle on the water Saturday, Historic New England’s (HNE) Castle Tucker, with parents Monica Finley and Ryan York. New to the area,…
Some things old, others new, always unique is how Betsy Kyle described White Pine Home, a new business in Wiscasset Village specializing in vintage and antique home décor.
It is in the…
At the Wiscasset Alumni Association annual banquet Saturday, June 1, President Nancy Sherman Roby, Class of 1967, encouraged the Class of 2019 to treasure every moment in life and enjoy the…
Get out your calendar and note the annual “Bands for Books” party benefiting Wiscasset Public Library, on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The event, held since 2014, features…
Orono, Maine — A $75,000 gift from two seafood companies will fund a fourth field season for a University of Maine deepwater lobster…
Energy, Technology and Utilities Committee
LD 1646, a bill to create a public utility authority in Maine, was tabled until next week after discussion at a May 30 work session. The bill's goal is to create a consumer-owned utility in Maine…
The Maine Legislature said no last week to letting unenrolled voters take part in primaries. Both legislative chambers voted in opposition to LD 211 “An Act to Open Maine’s Primary.” The bill…
A memorial service for Frank Richards of Edgecomb, who died Nov. 18, 2018, will be held at noon on Saturday, June 15 at the VFW Hall in Damariscotta. All are welcome to come share a ham and bean…
In December 2017, the Wiscasset Police Blotter included a listing that David Nery, then 48, of Wiscasset was issued a summons for OUI on Dec. 20, 2017. The summons was dropped in January 2018 and…
The Lincoln Home is once again celebrating its employees for a perfect Department of Health and Human Resources survey. Every two years all Assisted Living communities are surveyed…
First National Bank recently announced it has donated a total of $2,200 to 11 Emergency Medical Service organizations in the bank’s market area in response to National EMS Week.
In 1974,…
Obituary
Richard A. Wilde, 55, of Salt Point, New York, died at his family’s home on Ocean Point Road in East Boothbay on May 24, 2019.
Richard was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1963 to Wilson…
Obituary
Jane Pfeiffer Mullane, 94, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, passed away peacefully on May 28, 2019 at Harborview Cottage in Newcastle, Maine.
Jane was a resident of the Harborview Cottage (the…
Three enterprising young men have opened a new restaurant on Pier One in Boothbay Harbor called Taka Mediterranean Bar & Grill and they mean business! A thousand tiny lights on the ceiling…
On Sunday, May 26, Lincoln County Animal Control Officer Will Snowman responded to a report of a possible rabid fox that…
Lincoln County Courts
Patrick Shorey, 26, of Waterville, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, all but three suspended, and four years’ probation, for a 2017 crash that claimed an elderly woman’s life.
The crash…
A Red Cross blood drive will be held Wednesday, June 12, 1 to 6 p.m. on the Red Cross bus at St. Mary Church, 144 Lincoln St, Bath, Call 800-RED-CROSS for an appointment. Drop-ins also OK.…
Obituary
Victor H. Pinkham Jr., 77, of Wiscasset peacefully passed into the presence of this Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 24, 2019 at the Veterans Memorial Hospital. He was the loving husband of…
With Wiscassset Selectman Bob Blagden not seeking another term, two seats are in contention in the annual town meeting June 11. Polls will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wiscasset Community Center.…
The Frances Perkins Center will honor Steven Hufnagel, executive director of the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust (CRCT) at 4 p.m. on June 26 at the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic…
Obituary
Not long after sunset on May 20, 2019, Chester W. Thompson passed away at the age of 98 while surrounded by his family.
Chet was born in Gardiner, Maine on Sept. 25, 1920 to James and May…
