Dear Editor:
As a Wiscasset resident for 14 years, past member of the Waterfront Committee and Waterfront Advisory Board Member, Don Davis is now running for the Wiscasset Select Board…
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Dear Editor:
We—Wiscasset citizens, taxpayers, business owners—strongly endorse re-electing Terry Heller and Dusty Jones to the Board of Selectmen. In addition to serving on the Board of…
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Dear Editor:
Earlier this spring two of Wiscasset’s amazing teachers brought the work of over 100 of our young people to an art show at our own Maine Art Gallery. It was truly a…
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Dear Editor:
Wiscasset’s red-brick, white-shuttered, cupola-crowned Old Academy on Warren Street,…
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Dear Editor:
Committed partnerships are powerful engines of achievement. Wiscasset and the Maine Art Gallery have had such a partnership for 65…
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Dear Editor:
On June 13, Wiscasset voters will find two articles on their ballot relating to the Old Academy Building. This town-owned structure (built in 1807) has been leased to the…
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Dear Editor:
The town of Wiscasset needs members of the Select Board who will work hard and add a different perspective to the office. Don Davis is that person. Don has experience on a…
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Dear Editor:
Pamela Dunning has called Wiscasset home for 50 years. When I asked…
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Dear Editor:
Wiscasset voters will have many items to consider when they vote at the annual town meeting June 13. Two of the town warrant articles relate to…
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Dear Editor:
Recently, a resident lodged an ethics complaint against Alna First Select Board Member Ed Pentaleri. The complaint alleges that, before being elected, Pentaleri expressed his…
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Dear Editor:
During the Candidates Forum this week, the last question asked of the candidates was about their vision for Wiscasset in 20 years. Pam Dunning had the answer I liked the best…
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Dear Editor:
After a three-year hiatus, Alna had an enormously successful ham and bean supper where members from all parts of Alna worked, ate, and socialized together.
Among…
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Dear Editor:
Ten years ago, Bill and I purchased our home in Wiscasset after doing extensive due diligence. We wanted to find a home in a year-round community. We visited the Midcoast…
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Dear Editor:
Terry Heller has a track record of contributing to the well-being of Wiscasset and its people with her common-sense approach to the opportunities we have here. She is…
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Dear Editor:
We support re-electing Terry Heller to the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen for two more years. In addition to serving on the Board of Selectmen, Terry has spent four years as…
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Dear Editor:
We recently offered the communities we serve the opportunity to make a difference…
Commentary
Question 47 on Wiscasset’s June 13 ballot asks Wiscasset voters to support a $183,200 appropriation from the Capital Reserve Fund to construct a high-speed, fiber-optic broadband network…
The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 7. The menu is minestrone, garlic bread, salad, lasagna, and brownies a la mode. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for nonmembers. Take-…
A Bird’s Tale
It should come as no surprise to learn that some of the greatest mysteries of the bird world are within some of our most common and familiar birds. Take the ever-present blue jay, for example. On…
From the assistant editor
We have been pleasingly swamped with letters to the editor supporting local candidates. Does this portend a strong turnout June 13? We shall see, but either way, it has been wonderful to see so…
From the editor
What, you may ask, is happening? News and lots of it!
Thursday, May 25 at 6 p.m. in the Boothbay Region High School gymnasium is the annual CSD budget meeting. Hopefully voters will turn…
’Round Town
Spring is springing little by little. Here on Southport Island things are moving along at a snail’s pace.
Wiscasset is in full bloom along the Route One corridor. We know this because in…
Joe’s Journal
Dear Reader,
Last weekend, I was in the produce aisle of Hannaford market when I got a pointed suggestion from one of my favorite readers.
No, it was not one of the three online…
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Dear Editor:
I recently visited a wonderful show at the Maine Art Gallery (MAG) that reflects on the last 65 years of exhibitions.
I saw paintings by founding members Gene Klebe,…
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Dear Editor:
We have volunteered with Terry Heller since moving to Wiscasset in 2019. Terry got us involved with hanging Christmas garlands, planting petunias in the medians, and helping…
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Dear Editor:
We are voting for Terry Heller because she is ethical, steadfast in her convictions and has a vision for a greater Wiscasset. Her compassion for all who live in Wiscasset is…
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Dear Editor:
The Maine Art Gallery has a very positive effect on Wiscasset. Terry Heller understands. As a trustee of the Maine Art Gallery, I have appreciated her support during her…
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Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in support of Terry Heller's re-election to the Select Board in Wiscasset.
Over the last two years, I have observed her persistence and…
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Dear Editor:
I am writing in support of Barbara Cray for Westport Island’s Representative to the RSU #12 School Board. Barbara is a multi-talented neighbor of mine who deeply loves Maine…
Maine House District 47
What Mainers earn belongs to them. They are "free" to use their earnings as they choose but they have chosen to let others decide where their earnings are to be used. Many are not satisfied with…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
Terry Heller continues to amaze us with her love for her adopted hometown of Wiscasset, and her dedication to wise management of town affairs. She just can’t get enough of…
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Dear Editor:
Pam Dunning’s hallmark is sound judgment in practical matters. Having served our town as a member of the Budget Committee and as a former Selectman as well, Pam knows what…
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Dear Editor:
I am writing to ask residents of Wiscasset to vote to reelect Dusty Jones and Terry Heller to another term on the Wiscasset…
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Dear Editor:
As local law enforcement leaders, we frequently speak about crimes after they have been committed and about our efforts to apprehend the criminal. But today we want to talk…
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Dear Editor:
I am a selectman in Wiscasset. I would like to mention a few articles on the town warrant that you will vote on June 13. I am representing myself and am not speaking for the…
The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 7. The menu is minestrone, garlic bread, salad, lasagna, and brownies a la mode. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for non-members. Take-…
From the House of Representatives
I have written and submitted the following letter on May 15 to Commissioner Bruce Van Note, Maine Department of Transportation, following my attendance at the Edgecomb Selectmen’s meeting May 2…
A Bird’s Tale
We have had the good fortune to be able to be spending time with family in Central Florida, from where we are writing this column. While many birds are just returning to Maine in mid-May, the bulk…
From the assistant editor
Good idea on taking a year off, Schoonerfest, for all the reasons stated in the announcement in this week’s print edition and online.
Schoonerfest has not blossomed into a Damariscotta…
From the editor
Tradition: the body of customs, thought, practices, etc., belonging to a particular country, people, family, or institution over a relatively long period – Collins English Dictionary
Using…
’Round Town
It was a packed house! Hundreds of people coming to pay their respects on a beautiful spring day when anyone could have been elsewhere – a very impressive gathering for Mr. Farrin and his family…
Joe’s Journal
Dear Reader,
The last thing I want to do on this sunny Sunday morning is sit in the house and pound out a column. But duty calls.
On a normal week, as if there is ever a normal…
The next public supper will be Wednesday, June 7. The menu will be minestrone, garlic bread, salad, lasagna, brownies a la mode. Cost is $10 for members, $12 for nonmembers.…
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
We, present and former Wiscasset Select Board Members, endorse Don Davis for Selectman.
Don recognizes that Wiscasset needs a Select Board consisting of fiscally…
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Dear Editor:
We, present and former Wiscasset Select Board Members, endorse Pamela Dunning for Selectman.
Pam has spent 14 years serving the town of Wiscasset, first on the Budget…
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Dear Editor:
Tom Perkins was right on the “money” suggesting that the trustees, school committee and community members perhaps search for alternative solutions…
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Dear Editor:
The State has been expanding its role, responsibility, and power over us since the signing and ratification of our Constitution. We have gone…
Salt ’n Spar
“Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.” – Henry David Thoreau.
I had intended to write this Salt ’n Spar column last September but one thing led to another and I never got…
From the assistant editor
If you want to photograph or just look at the Virginia without the cover it had on this winter in Wiscasset, by the time you read this you may still be able to, before it returns to Bath a…
