In a special town meeting that Alna resident Chris Cooper said may have been the shortest one he ever moderated, nine Alna voters on June 10 unanimously adopted a new floodplains ordinance. Alna…
Elections
Wiscasset’s new board of selectmen on June 10 moved Ben Rines Jr. up from vice chairman to chairman, and made newly elected Selectman Judy Flanagan the board’s vice chairman. There were no…
There is a new Dresden selectman.
Challenger Dale Hinote narrowly defeated incumbent Phil Johnston, 61-56, during Tuesday's municipal election.
Treasurer Kim Rzasa fended off two…
In unofficial results from Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent Howie Tuttle early Wednesday, the district’s budget appeared to pass with 62 percent approval.
Although the margin of…
Wiscasset voters on June 9 put Judy Flanagan and William David Cherry into selectmen’s seats and kept Glen Craig and Eugene Stover on the school committee.
In other results released at the…
A third Wiscasset resident is throwing his hat in the ring for Wiscasset School Committee in elections on Tuesday, June 9. Preston Dunning’s announcement Monday, June 8, that he is running as a…
Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline on June 2 expressed confidence that residents will agree to keep funding the department’s school resource officer. The $47,400 spending item is among the 55…
Wiscasset voters will need to approve a $10,000 item that was left off the warrant for a May 27 town meeting on the school budget, according to officials.
“I didn’t get it on there,” Interim…
Elections 2015
Wiscasset residents on June 9 have two selectmen’s seats to fill and three people who want to fill them. William David Cherry, Ervin Deck and Judy Flanagan are each running for a two-year term.…
Lincoln County Democrats gave a test run to ranked choice voting at a May 18 meeting in Wiscasset, and in a straw poll chose Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as their 2016…
Lincoln County Democrats will meet Monday, May 18 at the Wiscasset 911 Communications Building (behind the courthouse) to discuss rank choice voting and to conduct…
Elections 2015
The only two residents filing papers for Westport Island’s elections were incumbent Second Selectman Gerald Bodmer and incumbent Regional School Unit 12 representative Sandra Crehore,…
Wiscasset Selectmen
Proponents of keeping Wiscasset Ambulance Service got three boosts on May 5. A contractor’s bid options ranged from $178,000 to $403,000 a year; Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter and other speakers…
Lincoln County Democrats plan to celebrate the end of a long, cold winter with good food, good friends and good conversation at a spring celebration from…
Elections 2015
Wiscasset voters will have three choices June 9 for two selectmen’s seats. The three-way race emerged as the only contest when nominations closed at the town clerk’s office at 5 p.m., Monday,…
Jim Torbert, chairman of the Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC), announced at the start of LCDC’s April 13 meeting that the release of “A Better Deal for Maine,” the Democrats’ counter to…
The Lincoln County Republican Committee's April meeting demonstrated that the Republican Party is building on its 2014 election success with a strong plan for 2016. Highlighting…
All Democrats are encouraged to attend the April 13 meeting of the Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC). The open forum meeting be an…
Lincoln County Democrats
Maine citizens will have a chance this coming November to vote on an amendment aimed at restoring the state’s Clean Elections law, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011…
Elections 2015
Alna has a new third selectman. In the only contest of local elections on Friday, March 20, Planning Board Chairman Douglas Baston defeated incumbent Third Selectman David Reingardt, 102-62.
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Edgecomb residents will choose between two candidates for selectman and town treasurer this spring. Incumbent Stuart Smith is being challenged by Mike Smith for the selectman’s seat. The other…
Wiscasset School Committee member Eugene Stover and Vice Chairman Glen Craig have both decided to seek second terms. Stover and Craig confirmed in separate telephone interviews Friday that they…
Anna Kellar, Southern Maine field organizer for Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, will be the featured speaker at the Monday, March 16 meeting of the Lincoln County Democrats. The event will…
Elections 2015
Both candidates for third selectman in Alna say they would like to see people get along with one another when discussing town business. Incumbent David Reingardt and his challenger, longtime Alna…
State Sen. Chris Johnson of Somerville will hold his monthly office hours on Saturday, March 14, at three in-district locations. He will be at the Waldoboro Public Library in Waldoboro from 9 to…
Elections 2015
One of Wiscasset’s town boards stands to pick up at least one new member in spring elections, while another could see one or both incumbents defending their seats. Selectmen’s Chairman Pam Dunning…
Of all the local elections lining up for the ballot in Alna on March 20, the third selectman’s seat is the only one to emerge with a contest. Nominations for all the upcoming races closed Feb. 3.…
Lincoln County Democrats, in a well attended first monthly meeting of the year Jan. 20 in Wiscasset, chose Jim Torbert of Whitefield as their new chairman. Torbert, a retired…
Lincoln County Democrats will have a full agenda for their meeting on Jan. 20.
One of…
Nomination papers were scheduled to be available in Alna beginning Tuesday, Dec. 23 for several seats up for election in March 2015.
Among them are two of the town’s three seats on the board…
Wiscasset will replace its plow truck that a falling tree limb totaled in November. About two dozen voters at a town meeting Dec. 11 agreed to get a truck that will restore the town’s fleet of…
Wiscasset residents voted Dec. 9 to close Wiscasset Primary School.
Tuesday’s referendum ended in 367 “yes” votes to authorize the Wiscasset School Committee to close the school, and 133 “no…
Wiscasset Schools
Wiscasset decides today if it will agree to close Wiscasset Primary School next year. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Wiscasset Community Center.
Shortly before…
Lincoln County Republican Committee
Meeting at its headquarters on Business Route 1 in Damariscotta on Dec. 4, the Lincoln County Republican Committee took time to savor their successes in the last election before moving on to plan…
Except for someone with a special circumstance, the time to pick up an absentee ballot at the Wiscasset town office for Tuesday’s school closure vote has ended.
It ended Thursday, Dec. 4,…
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, voters will decide if this school year is the last one at Wiscasset Primary School, or if the school committee needs to go back to the drawing board for other solutions to the…
If no school closes in Wiscasset, Interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage said he wouldn’t be able to look taxpayers in the eye, knowing the impact three schools will continue to have on a town…
Wiscasset School Department
Thursday night, Nov. 20 at Wiscasset Middle School, the town’s residents have the chance to say or ask anything about the Dec. 9 referendum on plans to close Wiscasset Primary School. The public…
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Les Fossel (R-Alna) requested a recount of ballots cast in the Nov. 4 Senate District 13…
Whatever path Wiscasset takes to cut its excess school space, Wiscasset Middle School Principal Bruce Scally and Wiscasset Primary School Principal Mona Schlein said Nov. 13, their staff members…
Absentee ballots are now available at the Wiscasset town clerk’s office for the Dec. 9 vote regarding the future of Wiscasset Primary School.
Voters will either let stand the School…
Democrat David Sinclair, of Bath, conceded defeat early Thursday afternoon in the race for District Attorney against incumbent Geoffrey Rushlau (R, Dresden). Sinclair, a longtime member of the…
Wiscasset selectmen
“It was disgusting.”
Wiscasset Selectmen’s Vice Chairman Ben Rines Jr. on Tuesday night had those strong words and others for the stations at which local voters completed their ballots. He…
The two Wiscasset schools that could drop to one next year will be the focus of tours and a discussion November 13, ahead of a December 9 vote over plans to close Wiscasset Primary School. The…
Election 2014
Depending on your interest, Tuesday, Nov. 4 was either a very short or very long night. Within five minutes of the polls closing, Sen. Susan Collins had been announced the winner in her bid for…
In the November 4 gubernatorial election, Republican Paul LePage won a second term as Maine's Governor, beating out both challengers Democrat Michael Michaud and Independent Elliot Cutler.
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Palermo will stay in Regional School Unit 12, following Tuesday’s vote at the polls rejecting a plan to withdraw. The district includes Alna and Westport Island; until July, it also included…
Westport Island voters on Tuesday narrowly agreed to get rid of the town’s budget committee by repealing the ordinance that created it in 2007. The referendum to drop the ordinance garnered 195…
Election 2014
SENATE DISTRICT 13
LES FOSSEL (R) 8,450
CHRIS JOHNSON (D) 8,778
PRECINCTS REPORTED…
