As planning continues for year two of Wings Over Wiscasset, upcoming budget talks will help determine what organizers can expect in support from the town.

Meanwhile, the event's volunteer, interim executive producer Dennis St. Pierre, said recent decisions to drop a couple of night attractions will greatly cut the money that needs to be raised for Wings to happen.

The event is planned for Friday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 9, at Wiscasset Municipal Airport.

Fireworks and a concert have both been nixed for Saturday night, St. Pierre said February 10. So have plans for antique auto, boat and plane competitions. The changes shrink the event's earlier projected, $35,000 cost, down to $15,000, he said.

The cuts will also lower the volunteer help needed, St. Pierre said.

A pair of year two add-ons, a World War II encampment and a Friday night swing dance fundraiser, are still in the plans, St. Pierre said.

The air show is also still a go, for late Saturday afternoon, he said. Two World War II-era aircraft, a P-51 fighter plane and a P-6 training fighter, have been lined up; other planes are still being sought.

Again this year, children's day camps will be invited to activities centered on science, aviation and veterans. Friday will be for the day camps, although families can also attend on their own that day, St. Pierre said.

About $3,000 has already been raised for Wings, St. Pierre said.

The town's support, meanwhile, could include money toward funding the event, or the use of staff to help with set-up, Wiscasset Selectmen's Chairman Ed Polewarczyk said.

The town could also encourage sponsors, Polewarczyk said in a telephone interview February 7.

He isn't sure which of those options, or which combination of them, he and fellow selectmen will go with. But he has included support of Wings as a proposed goal for the board this year, he said. The board plans to vote on its goals February 18.

Last year's Wings premiere brought attention to Wiscasset, including a stop by U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, and coverage by Maine television stations, Polewarczyk said.

He and the airport's manager, Ervin Deck, said they would like to see Wings continue.

“It's a part of the whole economic development picture (for) Wiscasset,” Polewarczyk said.