After a year hiatus, Morris Farm is excited to once again invite members and the community to the Morris Farm annual meeting. On Saturday, Aug. 28, festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a social…
News
The Missing Children Alert Program is having a fingerprint photo I.D. program free of charge at the Boothbay Harbor House of Pizza on Friday, Aug. 27, 1-2:30 p.m.The parent keeps the card with all…
On Westport Island we’ll be celebrating Labor Day again this year at the Town Hall, from 1 to 3 p.m., on Monday, Sept 6. As much as possible we’ll be outside, and following the current CDC…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in July:
Alna: Sniffen, Peter to Suchoff, Jessica O'Rourke, Gardner, Kaitlyn and O'…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
The annual Jones Family Sand Volleyball Tournament in Wiscasset Aug. 21 raised $1,024 for Dean Snell Cancer Foundation, Julie Jones said. The event included concessions, homemade pies and a race…
The Windgate Charitable Foundation has awarded Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts with a $3 million endowment to support the organization’s programs and operations. Watershed serves artists…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen have decided, if someone, vaccinated or not, and not legally exempt from face coverings, enters a building the town owns, for now they must wear one. If they don’t, the person in…
Burnt Island’s bicentennial celebration honored former keepers and their families; recognized the donors, volunteers over the last two decades, the Keepers of Burnt Island Light - a nonprofit…
AUGUSTA (Aug 23, 2021)—Home buyers are still out in force across Maine’s 16 counties. According to Maine Listings, home sales decreased 4.86 percent and prices rose 23.58 percent comparing July…
Obituary
Barbara Schubert Coggiola, formerly of Wiscasset and Damariscotta, Maine passed away Aug. 17, 2021 in Spring Hill, Florida from complications due to COVID-19. She was 75.
She was born…
Edgecomb selectmen will soon be considering the merits of a proposed solar power ordinance. The planning board voted 5-0 Aug. 19 to submit a proposed ordinance to…
If you give a free barbecue, they will come, and many did, gathering Saturday afternoon on the lawn of the Woolwich town office to eat, talk and enjoy live music provided by the Montsweagers.…
Showing Schoonerfest goers around the 1939 When and If Saturday, the crew said the schooner would leave Wiscasset about 8 a.m. Sunday, earlier than planned, due to Tropical Storm Henri.…
Social media is an all-too-popular avenue for spreading scams among “friends.” Criminals hijack someone’s social media account and share a “great offer” to everyone on the target’s…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
BOSTON — The Coast Guard urges all mariners to prepare for Tropical Storm Henri before its predicted Sunday landfall.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts Henri to…
Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s Aug. 17 letter to families is posted at wiscassetschools.org:
I hope this letter finds you enjoying the last days of summer. I would like to start by…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
LincolnHealth reported a spike of 39 positive COVID-19 cases for the week of Aug. 9. The data represents the most cases in a single week for LincolnHealth since before Dec. 2020, the most tests…
Schoonerfest
The when moved from 9 to 10 Thursday morning, but there were no if’s about General George Patton’s schooner When and If’s arrival, and later the Sycamore’s, with the Alna man who…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, said Aug. 19 that Sen. King tested positive for COVID-19 this morning in Maine. Senator King took the test as a precaution after…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
UPDATE: Heller said that as of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, the When and If was on the Sheepscot River and expected to arrive in Wiscasset Harbor at 10 a.m.
Downtown was the choice for Bruce and…
Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset has inmates from other counties and the inmate count has reached 159. Sheriff Todd Brackett told Lincoln County Commissioners Aug. 17, he expects the jail to…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
Marc A. Ashton, 67, of Lowell Town Road, Wiscasset died Aug. 16, 2021 at the Sussman House, Rockport, after a long illness.
He was born in Bath Jan. 7, 1954, the youngest of six children…
The Five Mile Yard Sale is an Edgecomb tradition which dates back to the mid-1990s. The community event began as a fundraiser for Edgecomb Eddy School. When the school moved to Route 27, the yard…
St. Philip’s Church on Hodge Street, Wiscasset, will hold a Heavenly Yard Sale on Saturday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds will help maintain…
Tom Junkert and wife Jane moved to Wiscasset from Minnesota in June 2019. Two years later, on July 1, he became St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Wiscasset’s priest-in charge.
Since last…
Three decades ago, Massachusetts residents Lew and Ina Heafitz found their own special spot of paradise in Edgecomb. On a trip visiting friends, they discovered a cozy home on Eddy Road with a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Maine Department of Transportation is making improvements to three intersections along Route 1 in Wiscasset. This work will improve safety and traffic flow. The project areas are at the…
Obituary
Estella F. Pinkham passed away peacefully at Maine Medical Center Aug. 7, 2021 after battling a long illness.
She was born Sept. 18, 1932 to Willard and Blanch…
Lincoln County Republicans will hold their monthly meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 25 at the American Legion Post 42 at 524 Waldoboro Road (Business Route 1), Damariscotta. The social and refreshment…
Some 200 guests enjoyed the Lincoln County Democratic Committee’s annual Family Fun Day Lobster Bake on Sunday, Aug. 8 at Cider Hill Farm in Waldoboro. A highlight of the event was the surprise…
Press release
With aging facilities, delinquent reimbursements, regulations and staffing shortages, LincolnHealth continues to evaluate all options to sustain nursing home care in Lincoln County.
The…
Innovative companies in Wiscasset and Biddeford engaged in developing clean energy technology have each been awarded $250,000 through the Maine Clean Energy Innovation Challenge, a joint…
Press release
Maine Department of Transportation wants members of the traveling public to be aware of changing traffic patterns at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 (Boothbay Road) in Edgecomb. Beginning…
Down East Magazine
The results of the annual Down East Magazine poll, Best In Maine, are in! Here are the winners and finalists in the Boothbay Region, Wiscasset, Bath, Damariscotta, Waldoboro, Camden, Rockport,…
When U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Massachusetts, ran for President in 2019, the podium she toured with had wood from Frances Perkins Homestead in Newcastle. “I love Frances Perkins,” Warren…
The eclectic bric-a-brac, furniture and machinery being amassed inside and outside the Southport firehouse on Hendricks Hill Road will, Aug. 21, be turned in to funds for the fire station and…
Invasive aquatic plants can cause tremendous loss of wildlife habitat, as well as recreational and property damage. Identifying invasive plants before they spread is a critical component to…
UGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Raise your hand if robocalls have finally stopped ringing your phone day and night. None of you? No surprise there. Despite industry and regulatory efforts to rid our phone lines…
Alna’s planning board Aug. 3 passed Central Maine Power’s corridor expansion 4-0. En route to that vote in the in-person and Zoom meeting, the board also passed verbatim CMP’s proposed…
Letting homeowners rent out apartments would not hurt Alna “at all,” Brittney Morgan Bardo said. It would enrich the town with people whose rent would help residents keep their homes, she said. …
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
