The MaineHealth COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic got off to a good start Monday, with 240 individuals receiving the first dose of the vaccine at the Boothbay Region YMCA Fieldhouse.
“The hard…
Spotlight Wiscasset
Wiscasset selectmen
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…
Salt ’n Spar
Let’s turn the calendar back about 30 years or so when Wiscasset Middle High School was Wiscasset High School. Mid-winter was the time of year when many of us looked forward to Friday night and…
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’…
number of cases of COVID-19 in Maine is higher than the case numbers reported
AUGUSTA — With a daily influx of test results pouring into the Maine CDC, the state agency has been forced to alter its reporting methods.
“New positive COVID-19 lab reports are being…
Santa Claus is waving with his left arm now. And he has a new green sack and black gloves instead of green.
He is shorter, too.
But this one Jean and Alton King III and family…
A local basketball milestone was recently brought to light 46 years after it happened.
Laurel “Laurie” Reed, Boothbay Region High School class of 1974, was an outstanding basketball player…
As the last of the sun disappeared and the moon started to rise Nov. 24, the Sunken Garden came alive with light. Jars full of twinkle lights lit the paths and arches lit up the path entrances.…
The summer season shook out better than expected for business owners in the Boothbay and Wiscasset regions. Last spring, most just wanted to come out of it able to pay their rent and bills, and…
Gregory McAllister has been playing the same numbers in the Tri-State Megabucks game since his 27th birthday, including the number 27, for 35 years. On Oct. 28, those numbers matched the winning…
At an early age, Chris Armstead had a special affinity for men in uniform. Growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, his father served in the U.S. Air Force. Also many of his friends’ parents wore…
United Way of Mid Coast Maine
United Way of Mid Coast Maine has provided the following listing of holiday resources for Lincoln County:
Boothbay Region Food Panty: Thanksgiving and Christmas Boxes for Boothbay,…
Analysis
“Remember My Name” is a national registry of the lives ended by domestic violence. Ms. Magazine and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) began the registry in 1994. Earlier…
Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons and Friends of Wiscasset Village members agreed Oct. 8 to look into a possible marker honoring James Weldon Johnson. A 1938 car-train crash downtown killed…
Details are still to come, but Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Director Duane Goud wants to do the Halloween parade and Nightmare on Federal Street. “I don’t have anything concrete yet, but I know…
Central Maine Power has notified Lincoln County commissioners it intends to seek Department of Environmental Protection water permits in Alna, Whitefield and Wiscasset. On Oct. 6, County…
Stott Carleton thinks every day about his best friend Donald Workman, who died the last day of their tours serving in Vietnam. Both were excited to get home, Carleton, to meet his son for the…
About 60 people gathered Sunday night for a vigil on Wiscasset Common in memory of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. Organizer Deborah Morgan said similar vigils were…
Heather Demeny has always wanted to see Las Vegas. She hopes to go this year and, if she does, the trip will be all expenses paid. And she could come home to Wiscasset with a crown, like she did…
National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
If you were walking down the street and saw a person clutch their chest and fall down in agony, would you stop to see if they needed help?
Of course you would. But what would you do if you…
Maine is now accepting applications for absentee ballots which become available the first week in October. Since…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset will tweak its busing, lunch and recess times as it sees how long the safety steps are taking for each, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Terry Wood told the school committee Tuesday night,…
With a back-to-school shuffle like none before, students and their families should be extra vigilant on their health, said Lincoln Medical Partners pediatrician Dr. Melissa Keeport. Attention to…
This year, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will present its sixth annual Gardens Aglow, but due to safety concerns surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic, the event will be a drive-through…
In a plan Wiscasset’s school committee passed 4-1 Tuesday night, students would be at school two days a week starting Sept. 8, Mondays and Tuesdays or in another group Thursdays and Fridays,…
The Edgecomb School Committee unanimously accepted the advisory committee's reopening plan and the revised school year calendar Aug. 10. The plan works off the state's recommendation for all…
This is the fifth part in a series on how our local restaurants are navigating state regulations on health and safety concerning COVID-19. We are doing our best to be inclusive, but with so…
All is a key word in Wiscasset School Department’s approach as the next school year nears and the pandemic continues.
“We will be looking…
This is the third part in a series on how our local restaurants are navigating state regulations on health and safety concerning COVID-19. We are doing our best to be inclusive, but with so…
Gordon and Lynne Kontrath always let Wiscasset Newspaper know when they…
Dennis Simmons, Wiscasset’s EMS director for the last 18 months, is moving from one end of Wiscasset’s municipal building to the other. On Tuesday night, July 7, selectmen announced they have…
At 12 and a half feet long and built of plywood with a pair of designs Herb Smith found in WoodenBoat, the latest Appledore will be launched privately in Boothbay Harbor, probably this…
Edgecomb native Mandy Boucher returned home from Hanoi, Vietnam March 28 after just over two years of teaching English as a new language. Boucher’s departure came nearly two months after Vietnam…
Alna’s attorney Amanda Meader has seen nothing in her municipal law career like the tension, meetings, letters, information requests and more around Jeff Spinney’s request for a dock project on…
UPDATED: Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett was able to reply at length Monday to Wiscasset Newspaper’s request for comment after the demonstration. Here…
Ken Cooper has probably driven close to a million miles and never left Wiscasset. On May 4, he retired, ending a 44-year career with the highway department.
“Coop,” as he’s better known,…
Holbrook’s Pond is back to looking like it’s supposed to and not like an overgrown mud puddle. This wasn’t the case last summer after a small dam gave way threatening the Wiscasset landmark at the…
Wiscasset’s eateries are gradually reopening or opening for the season as the state allows, according to interviews and the businesses’ Facebook pages.
Red’s Eats is gearing up to open May…
Edgecomb’s Karen Potter had just gotten home from work at Dan’s Automotive in Boothbay Harbor Thursday when the family’s Labradors, on the deck, started barking.
“We’re like what’s that?…
Years of planning came to fruition Friday as Sheila Sawyer sold Carl M.P. Larrabee Agency in Wiscasset to J. Edward Knight. Sawyer and J. Edward Knight President Rob Wheeler said it was a good fit…
COVID-19 aka the coronavirus has certainly upended our way of life and will likely continue to do so for some time to come. It is hard to keep up with information concerning the virus as new data…
For Wiscasset, 2020 looked like it would be a great year for the business community. The downtown reconstruction project was mostly finished and three new businesses – The Barnhouse Grill &…
The two new traffic signals in downtown Wiscasset will be going live on Tuesday, March 31. These signals are at the intersection of Main (Route 1) and Middle streets and at the intersection of…
Downtown March 22, Wiscasset’s Loretta Leighton saw a kind of bird she didn’t know. So she messaged sister Rhonda Hamlin, who has taken up birding and photography. “My new hobby,” Hamlin, also of…
The Lincoln County EMA Emergency Operations Center issued a request March 26 for new, unused Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to assist our front line Emergency Medical, Fire Department and Law…
Social distancing had a ring to it in Wiscasset Village Sunday. A lot of them: From a cowbell to Christmas ones,…
Alna residents who wrote in Leslie T. Fossel for first selectman Friday do not deserve to be called fellow citizens, Second Selectman Doug Baston told annual town meeting-goers Saturday afternoon…
Maine Department of Transportation will seek bids on an estimated $500,000 in repairs to Max L. Wilder Memorial Bridge on state Route 127 linking Woolwich with Arrowsic.
The bridge spans…
Miles Brewer, 39, of Wiscasset was arrested and charged with Domestic Violence Aggravated Assault, Domestic Violence Criminal Threatening, Aggravated Assault, Criminal Threatening, Burglary,…
Residents on both sides of the Kennebec River want Central Maine Power to eliminate or greatly reduce the intensity of strobe lighting on its transmission towers on Chops Point. The flashing red…
