Rorbert Vachon, 58, of Lewiston was nominated this week as the first in a series of “Flagpersons of the Week.” Vachon works for a private company that supplies flaggers to construction sites. He…
News
A Boothbay Harbor man is claiming that a snow-covered awning collapsed on him in February, outside an apartment complex on Bay Landing Lane. George Larrabee is suing Statewide Bay Landing II for…
For the second year, the Friends of the Wiscasset Public Library group is planning a fun-filled evening to raise money for the library. The event, on Sept. 20 from…
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Paul Sacaridiz is Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ new director. He will begin his tenure at the Deer Isle school in September.
"There are few places like Haystack, and those who have…
Lincoln County Superior Court
UPDATE: A Lincoln County jury found Brant Perkins guilty of sexual abuse of a minor on Wednesday afternoon. Judge Daniel Billings also found Perkins guilty of two counts of tampering with a…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Little Dyer Pond is at the heart of Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson. The pond is over 100 acres, and is more secluded than most in the region. There are no boat launches or public…
The Midcoast Outreach and Peace Center will present the second program in the Public Dialogue Series entitled “Healing Humanitarian Crises —Exceptional Relief Work Conducted in the World Today.”…
Edgecomb
The Sheepscot Harbor Village Association is getting a little help from its neighbors maintaining a Davis Island sewer pumping station. Edgecomb Planning Board chairman Jack French told the…
Breakfast is served, lunch too, and best of all, it’s free to young people age 18 and under on weekdays thanks to the Summer Food Service Program.
The meals are served in the cafeteria of…
Alna selectmen
Alna Third Selectman Doug Baston told fellow board members June 29, the chairman of Whitefield’s board of selectmen believes a handshake deal would be enough to ensure Alna’s Bailey Road doesn’t…
Growing up in London, Morgan Curtis picked up an early love of the natural world. She would go around the house unscrewing light bulbs and hiding them.
“And I was maniacal about recycling. I…
The Alna Fire Department’s new pumper-tanker arrived at the fire station on Route 218 on June 29, about 14 months after voters agreed to buy the truck.
Standing beside it Monday afternoon,…
The Lincoln County Republican Committee held its June meeting in Wiscasset. Mike Violette, co-host of the “Mike and Ken Show” weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m. on WGAN, kicked off…
Deb Boucher makes quilts.
She's also an artist, though she humbly denies it.
Boucher has a studio…
The 11th annual Healthy Kids Strawberry Shortcake Shuffle is fast approaching on Saturday, July 11 at Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta. Come join us to run, walk, have fun and enjoy delicious…
When Sumner and Pam Price Richards moved to Damariscotta in 1985, they had no clue that they would be starting a business that would survive for 25 years.
"I had an idea to open up an old-…
Strawberry sundaes, crafts, music, a silent auction and a pie auction attracted throngs to St. Philip’s Church in Wiscasset on Saturday for the annual Strawberry Festival.
In addition to…
Obituary
Jean C. Mosier Wallace, a lifelong resident of Westport Island, died unexpectedly on the evening of June 22 at the age of 68.
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Did you happen to notice that Wiscasset’s historic town cannon is back alongside the Veterans War Memorial? Next time you drive past, stop and have a closer look. The 1861 gun recently underwent a…
Mark your calendar! The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole marks its 50th anniversary this year.
To celebrate, the center is offering a full line-up of summer…
Photos
Weather put a slight damper on the Touch-a-Truck event in Wiscasset on Sunday, June 28.
About six months ago, Judy (not her real name), 62, lost her apartment, her car and many of her belongings in a fire.
Not long after that, pain in her stomach…
Annual town meeting
Westport Island has finished smoothing out a five-year wrinkle from when it changed its tax billing time.
A light turnout of voters at town hall for the annual town…
Think Maine, Wiscasset Fourth of July parade entrants. This year’s theme is “A Maine Kind of Fourth.”
The 10 a.m. Saturday, July 4, parade will start on Hooper Street and continue on to…
Incumbents prevailed over write-ins on election day in Westport Island on June 26. Gerald Bodmer retained the second selectman’s seat with 121 votes to write-in candidate Reginald Lee’s 20; Dennis…
The Carmolli family have experienced the sweet taste of success for four decades making fudge and taffy. Dave and Pat Carmolli began Downeast Candies in 1974 almost as an afterthought.
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The first Wiscasset Art Walk of 2015 had beautiful weather and a variety of offerings for those strolling downtown Wiscasset on June 25.
The art walks are held June through September on the…
The calendar was turned back to the 1890s Thursday evening, June 25, to relive a scandalous trial involving a famous Kentucky Congressman, his jilted mistress and the lurid affair’s mysterious…
Clinton Roscoe Hilliker, 98 is the town of Woolwich’s new keeper of the Boston Post Cane.
Surrounded by family and friends, Hilliker accepted the ceremonial walking stick from the board of…
Commander Bill Wilson, U.S. Coast Guard Retired, an active member of the Titanic International Society, will share facts you never knew about the Titanic …
An electrical issue with a light fixture sparked a fire in the basement of a home at 16 Old County Road in Wiscasset June 25, Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry said.
No one was hurt in…
Wiscasset’s two remaining public schools have new names. Wiscasset High School is becoming Wiscasset Middle High School; and Wiscasset Middle School is becoming Wiscasset Elementary School.
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March of Dimes 2014 National Ambassador Aidan Lamothe will be in attendance at Touch-a-Truck: Wiscasset Speedway on Sunday, June 28 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
He will be signing autographs,…
A two-car accident on June 25 sent three to the hospital and backed up Wiscasset traffic for miles.
At approximately 1:15 p.m. Thursday afternoon the northbound driver of a 2004 Toyota…
Seventy years ago, two local Navy men, unknown to each other and serving on separate ships, were attacked by the same kamikaze suicide plane at the battle of Okinawa.
On April 2, 1945,…
Wiscasset Sun CATs
The new chairman of the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen, Ben Rines, and newly-elected board member Judy Flanagan were among the attendees at a June 17 solar energy presentation.
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The Newcastle-Damariscotta-Boothbay Harbor Trolley begins its weekend schedule just in time for Independence Day festivities. By next Friday, July 3, new trolley stop signs will decorate the Twin…
A Woolwich man was taken by a Lifeflight helicopter to a Lewiston hospital early June 25, following an accident on Woolwich’s Nequasset Road, Sagadahoc County sheriff’s officers said.
Ray…
Paul Crandall joined the Alna Fire Department this spring because he likes to help people. The night of June 17, the former forestry firefighter was working with longtime department members…
Musician and composer Grace Lewis-McLaren will lead a service entitled "Songs and Stories" at the Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Damariscotta on…
Knox-Lincoln and Waldo Soil & Water Conservation Districts and Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation…
Wiscasset High School
On June 16, the staff of Wiscasset High School presented the following awards:
Three Quarters of Honor Roll Grade 9: Kobe Carrier, Vanessa Dunn, Trinin…
Obituary
Jean Wallace, 68, of Westport Island, died unexpectedly June 22, 2015, at the LincolnHealth, Miles Campus in Damariscotta.
A full obituary will be published in next week’…
Edgecomb Planning Board
The ownership of a pumping station has become the central issue of a proposed Davis Island condominium project. Land developer Anthony Casella wants to build three condominiums on his land located…
Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association
The time has come to dust off the kayak paddles and burnish life jackets instead of parkas.
But, before paddlers take to the water,…
When then 20-year-old Keith Wass took over his ex-wife’s uncle’s hot dog stand in Rockland in 1972, he was studying psychology in college.
The owner of the newest branch of Wasses Hot Dogs…
