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Governor Mills announces actions to advance floating offshore wind research array in Gulf of Maine

Maine home values jumped 13.78 percent in 2020

Maine’s residential real estate market fared well during COVID-impacted 2020. Statistics released today by the Maine Association of Realtors and Maine Listings show a sales increase of 9.82% for all...
Wiscasset selectmen

‘It’s tough out there’: Pandemic challenges departments, delays events

Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Director Duane Goud told selectmen over Zoom Tuesday, Jan. 19, due to COVID-19 crowd limits, neither Winterfest nor the annual father-daughter dance can run on their...
A different kind of service

On Friday, Jan. 15, our team stopped work at noon and began a different kind of service. Our newly renovated sales office became a classroom. Thanks to Wiscasset EMS and Service Chief Erin Bean's...
Veggies to Table gets cold storage unit

As winter progresses and spring is on the horizon, Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm in Newcastle, is deep in season three planning mode and looking forward to growth in 2021. In their first...
Internet and vaccine: Westport Island talks access

Westport Island selectmen Monday night agreed to sign a letter supporting an effort to expand broadband access in town. About 195 homes do not have access, Ralph Jacobs of the broadband and cable TV...
Common Ground Fair 2021 dates set

On Jan. 14, 2021, at the annual meeting of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), the organization kicked off a year-long celebration of MOFGA’s 50th anniversary by unveiling...
Reliving Wiscasset’s past

Once upon a time, there was the Lincoln Telegraph

Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ago at 1820. If you lived then, you got your news by word-of-mouth and from...
Maine Boatbuilders Show to return in 2021

We like boats more than we have good sense and want everyone to share that passion. Every March at the equinox, since 1987, the Maine Boatbuilders Show has been on the minds and calendars of the...
DMR will be holding virtual Vibrio training sessions in 2021

2021 Vibrio training is required for harvesters and dealers who harvest or buy oysters or hard clams directly from the Damariscotta River, New Meadows Lakes and the upper Sheepscot River. Please note...
Sturgeon in Maine lecture Jan. 21

Learn about Maine’s living fossils – sturgeon! A virtual lecture on Thursday, Jan. 21 will focus on some of Maine’s most interesting fish. Although you may have seen or heard sturgeon leap and splash...
Woolwich to review request for marijuana farm

The Woolwich select board will review an application for a proposed marijuana cultivation business. Christian Elie, a representative of Sea Grass Group, asked the select board for conditional...
‘Your backyard as a conservation treasure’ with Peter McKinley

An online program hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, will explore how individual property owners can contribute to wildlife conservation on a larger...
UMaine Extension, UNH Extension offer free farm food safety planning

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension are offering a free three-session introduction on farm food safety planning from 5–6:30 p.m. Feb. 2,...
Mammy’s Bakery a beacon of hope in pandemic

Mammy’s Bakery owner Jessica Deshiro and staff continue to put smiles on for customers through the COVID-19 pandemic even if the smiles are hidden behind masks. Deshiro said she feels lucky Mammy’s,...
service employee minimum wage to be $6.08 per hour

Maine’s minimum wage increases to $12.15 per hour

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Labor is reminding business owners that effective January 1 the state minimum wage increases from $12 to $12.15 per hour. This increase is pursuant to Maine law (...
Gov. Mills extends Maine business curfew indefinitely

AUGUSTA — Amid an increase in Maine’s COVID-19 positivity rate and a continued high rate of hospitalizations, Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday she will extend the requirement for certain...
38 Maine farmers receive Maine Farm Emergency Grants

Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) announced today that 38 Maine farms have been awarded grants through the Maine Farm Emergency Grants program...