The Wiscasset Planning Board scheduled a site walk for the restaurant planned at the former Simpson’s fish market on Dec. 16 at noon, followed by a public hearing Dec. 23.
Michael Collins…
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After hearing from opponents of Central Maine Power’s corridor project, Woolwich selectmen agreed Dec. 4 to reword a letter announcing results of a local referendum opposing the project.
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“OK, let’s see how that looks. Oh!” A step back from the garland she and Linda Belmont had just wrapped around and around a bollard’s chain, Terri Wells was liking the look.
So were their…
Woolwich officials have mixed feelings on the state’s plans to replace the Route 1 bridge north of the Taste of Maine Restaurant. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Nov. 6, Maine will get…
Off Route 218 Sunday, No. 9, an 1891 locomotive that last crossed Alna’s Trout Brook in 1933, crossed it again, over a different bridge. And, in a change of plans, No. 9 was on a mission.
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“I’m Lou. I’m from Atlanta, and I’m going to have a lobster roll,” a smiling Lou Furlong of Atlanta, Georgia told the Wiscasset Newspaper before he stepped out of his Cessna 180 at Wiscasset…
In Wiscasset harbor Saturday morning, the Wiscasset Newspaper found Terry Ashton, 44, of Wiscasset and Boothbay doing what he’s been doing since he was 11: Going fishing for lobster.
He…
Wiscasset Municipal Airport
Until a February day her senior year at Wiscasset Middle High School, Lindsey Gordon had only been on commercial flights and her great-grandfather Al Rainville’s helicopter he used to land on her…
Alna’s and Waterville’s Peter Love has been coming to Head Tide Dam and its swimming hole since 1971. He was 12 when his parents got a piece of land off Lothrop Road. Now it’s his. And though the…
Woolwich selectmen
Maine Department of Transportation officials announced plans Tuesday to replace the Route 1 bridge north of the Taste of Maine Restaurant in Woolwich. The state hopes to finance the $30 to $35…
Numbers mean business, and ours are 28.1 million strong. Since launch in 2012, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper websites have racked up 28.1 million pageviews. In the last 12 months…
If you thought you saw Amtrak coming down the rails Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, you weren’t seeing things, except maybe the future.
And the views from aboard were great, according to a…
The luxury liner My Seanna arrived Monday evening and berthed overnight at the Wiscasset pier on the waterfront. Harbor Master Ray Soule told the Wiscasset Newspaper he had received advance…
Part of Alna’s concrete, century-old Head Tide Dam became history last week, and on Monday continued being pulled off the Sheepscot River. And the dam, the site and the fish and people who…
New stop will be at Circle K
Concord Coach Lines’ service to Wiscasset resumes this Wednesday, July 24, according to a Concord statement Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Chair Jean Beattie shared Saturday…
In June 2017, Terry Heller and her black lab Etta left Heller's hometown of Austin, Texas, destination to be determined.
Austin, where she grew up along the Colorado River, is magical, she…
Friends of Wiscasset Village on June 14 floated the possibility of an “Orange Barrel Festival” to celebrate the construction process. They discussed holding it later this summer when most of the…
Wiscasset Future of the Schools Committee
In estimates Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson shared Monday night, tuitioning out the high school grades, closing Wiscasset Elementary School and having all the grades up through…
