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Real estate sales up 2.41 percent in 2021; Prices up 16.8 percent

Registration open for April chainsaw safety course

Join Midcoast Conservancy April 16 and 17 for this one-and-a-half day course designed for beginners at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. Most participants have little or no experience with a...
Public hearings on lobster draft Addendum XXIX

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Lobster Management Board has approved for public comment Draft Addendum XXIX. The Draft Addendum considers implementing electronic tracking...
Bigelow Laboratory appoints new board members

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay recently appointed four new members to its board of trustees. Each will support the laboratory’s mission to study the foundation of global ocean...
Midcoast Federal Credit Union announces recent new hires

Midcoast Federal Credit Union is pleased to welcome the following individuals to the Midcoast Team. Midcoast FCU welcomes April Chubbuck as their new Member Services Representative for its Edgecomb...
Alna planning board

Cabin OK’d, solar project hearing bound

The proposed solar project off Route 218 is an Alna first, Planning Board Chair Jim Amaral told the developer’s representatives Jan. 4. The board set a public hearing for 6 p.m. Jan. 25 at the fire...
Ordinance review committee

Wiscasset marijuana rules supporters lead in early survey results

Most people who have so far answered Wiscasset’s marijuana survey want an ordinance to allow licenses, Selectmen’s Chair Sarah Whitfield told the ordinance review committee Monday night. That survey...
Kieve-Wavus staff make meals for Wiscasset food pantry patrons

The kitchen staff at Kieve-Wavus Education, Inc. are no strangers to making meals for their neighbors in need. From March 2020 to April 2021 they ran a meal delivery program at their campus in...
Completion of timber harvest requires temporary closure of Dodge Point

The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands is working with an independent logger to complete the selective timber harvest that was begun at Dodge Point in Newcastle in 2019. According to Project Manager...
Wiscasset selectmen

Broadband panel: Fed money not forever

To explore Wiscasset’s options for all of town to have fiber optic broadband, including how to ensure residents who cannot afford broadband, or do not know how to use it, can get it and learn it,...
Ash ponds cleanup proves a challenge

Wet weather has continued to plague work to dry out the ash ponds at Mason Station in Wiscasset. Town Manager Dennis Simmons told selectmen in a written report ahead of the board’s Jan. 4 Zoom...
no requirement for owner-occupied single-family homes that are not part of a rental arrangement

REVISED: Maine law to require fuel gas detectors in multi-occupant buildings

This past June the Maine State Legislature signed into law a new requirement that affects some commercial businesses, rental properties, and certain forms of housing. The Office of State Fire...
Beauty spa Ashley Kate Aesthetics opens in Wiscasset

For the past five years, licensed aesthetician Ashley Kate James has operated Ashley Kate Aesthetics in Brunswick where she provides popular beauty and skincare techniques. Now James is working...