Next to the Wiscasset Community Center driveway Tuesday morning, Showcase Antiques co-owner Ted Talbert and Wiscasset Bay Gallery employee Quincy Brimstein stood by, Talbert with notecards reading in part: “Save Wiscasset ... Vote option 3”; and Brimstein holding a pro-Option 3 sign. Artist Keith Rendall said he took a shift the previous hour. The effort will continue until polls close at 8 p.m., Talbert said.

Inside the center’s lobby that voters pass through en route to the polls inside the senior center, easels dispayed all three of the Maine Department of Transportation’s options to change or leave as-is parking, traffic and other aspects of the downtown. Wiscasset resident Doris Pendleton was looking them over with Alna’s Bob Owens, a community center user.

Owens hopes Wiscasset picks one of the options for change but he said he isn’t sure how he would vote and, if he owned a business, he wasn’t sure he would want to gamble on a change. “It’s a big decision,” he said.

Town Clerk Linda Perry described turnout as “pretty good” as of mid-morning. The weather was favorable so far, which helps, she said. Absentee voting had been light this election, Perry said.

Faye Simpson, in the parking lot after she voted, said the MDOT vote got her to the polls. The town should do what the MDOT decides is best, Simpson said, adding that she had been in favor of a bypass.

Also Tuesday, Wiscasset voters will decide both the school and town budgets, including a third year for the school resource offer and a hike in ambulance service funding. Residents will also weigh proposals for solar power and letting the airport and waterfront committees each have a non-resident member.

Look for results online tonight and in this week’s print edition.