Fri, 10/28/2022 - 05:11 am

SUSAN JOHNS

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The pandemic drove Cynthia Brown’s yoga teaching online. The change worked so well, including drawing students from around the country, Brown kept classes web-only. And now working remotely has let her move from Massachusetts to Wiscasset and “amazing Maine,” she told Wiscasset Newspaper in a phone interview Oct. 28. A home in Maine is a family dream fulfilled, after years of Midcoast visits, including to East Boothbay. Brown and husband Richard Davis honeymooned in Camden.

Brown’s Pure Light Yoga at purelightyogacenter.com is among businesses up for licenses at the Nov. 1 Wiscasset selectmen’s meeting. According to documents released Oct. 27, the others are Back River Bistro, 65 Gardiner Road; Marcoux Family Farm, LLC, 179 Gibbs Road; and Lucy Begonia’s, 681 Bath Road.

Matthew Hincks said by phone Oct. 28, he and wife Crystal opened Lucy Begonia’s Sept. 1 at the former Nonny’s Nook at Marketplace Plaza. He said she had been selling clothes and gifts online and wanted to open a business. They bought Nonny’s Nook from family friend Sandra Miller, he continued.

“We thought it would be a great idea to keep it in Wiscasset, since it’s such a great town and wonderful community and (has) wonderful potential for business, so we thought we’d give it a shot.” About two months in, it has been going really well, changing the layout some, getting to know the customers and adding about one new vendor a week, he said.

And 1991 Wiscasset High School graduate Bonnie Marcoux said she and husband Chris, a retired, disabled, Navy veteran, started making maple syrup “just as a hobby and we’ve grown and every year we get bigger, and we’ve decided turn it into a business.” She said Marcoux Family Farm has 30 acres and a lease on more, hopes to expand to 1,500 taps, will have the sugar shack open year round and will also sell eggs and more. The couple met when both joined the fire department.

Back River Bistro’s Matt and Corrinna Stum recently told Wiscasset Newspaper the restaurant, where Midcoast Provisions was, will have upscale, farm-to-table dining; plans called for opening before Thanksgiving.

Also Nov. 1, selectmen are set to consider nodding Police Chief Lawrence Hesseltine’s use of distracted driving and impaired driving enforcement grants. Both are from the Bureau of Highway Safety, according to documents for the meeting.

The meeting is at 6 p.m. in the municipal building and carried on Zoom:

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Meeting ID: 899 4907 4298

Passcode: 083446

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