Due to multiple parts needing more information, the Wiscasset planning board Monday night found Central Maine Power’s application incomplete. A complete one is needed before there can be a public…
Work
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, in partnership with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Somerset County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD),…
The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) and Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust will be hosting a tour of the recent harvest operation at Dodge Point in Newcastle at noon on Tuesday, May 11.…
Press release
Close to 500 Mainers gathered at the Civic Center in Augusta Wednesday, April 28 to oppose offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine. Organized by the IAMAW Maine Lobstering Union (Local 207…
This summer Maine Maritime Museum will launch a three-week enrichment program for middle-schools students. Crosscurrents: Youth Learning & Leadership Program – open to rising seventh and…
Wiscasset may want details when shops, event-holders, or anyone else asks to take up space on Main Street’s sidewalks. On Zoom Monday night, the ordinance review committee continued drafting a…
Monday evening’s Wiscasset planning board meeting drew what Chair Karl Olson called a “record” turnout of 20 attendees. Permitting specialist Cole Peters of POWER Engineers, Inc. represented…
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops has announced that it is opening three new locations this summer. The new stores will be located in the Topsham Fair Mall between Reny’s and Lamey Wellehan, in the…
Franklin Dorray came to Wiscasset Speedway decades ago with a racing crew from Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough. None of them, including Dorray, had been to the West Alna Road, Wiscasset…
Farley’s Cannabis Farm can switch from selling medical to recreational marijuana products. The Woolwich select board approved the change following a public hearing Monday evening, April 20. State…
Midcoast Conservancy is offering a virtual workshop, Foraging for Wild Mushrooms: The Season Begins, on Thursday, May 20 from 6:30-8 p.m., led by…
Soon-to-be Boothbay Harbor residents Ed and Ashley Bernard are bringing Carefree Boat Club to the harbor. The franchise will be Carefree’s first in Maine and an addition to nearly 100 locations in…
Press release
Day’s Jewelers has promoted Joseph Corey as president of the 107-year-old Maine family business. The company is based in Waterville, Maine and operates eight jewelry stores throughout…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new office of Sheepscot Bay Physical Therapy on Thursday, April 15. The office is on the ground floor of Wiscasset Family…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Treasury will allocate at least $56,234,176 to Maine businesses through the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), according to a news release.…
Wiscasset Ordinance Review Committee
“Well, we missed it, didn’t we?”
Opening the Wiscasset ordinance review committee meeting on Zoom Monday night, Chair Karl Olson was referring to the April 3 fall of hundreds of a building…
Wiscasset planning board
Nouria Energy’s car wash in Wiscasset will grow 520 square feet, and Planning Board Chair Karl Olson said he is looking forward to a cup of coffee at Steamed Beans Coffee Emporium downtown. Monday…
A week after part of the outer wall collapsed, a construction team has been assessing damage to the Wawenock Block, a fixture of Wiscasset’s Main Street for more than a century. No one was injured…
Westport Island
Under a sunny sky for Saturday’s special town meeting, Westport Island voters agreed 79-1 to seek a ConnectME broadband infrastructure grant. Residents stood outside town hall for the vote that…
The Maine State Ferry Service's newest vessel, Capt. Richard G. Spear, slid down the ways at Washburn & Doughty Shipyard in East Boothbay and into the Damariscotta River Friday morning…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset Art Walk can hang banners on Main Street railings and, on Middle Street, have bistro tables and possible performances, selectmen decided 4-0 Tuesday night, April 6. Making the requests,…
Alna selectmen
Past Alna town clerk Lisa Arsenault’s hire as interim clerk has avoided a town office shutdown. Third Selectman Charles Culbertson said the board on Monday afternoon named Arsenault to the interim…
LincolnHealth President and Chief Executive Officer James Donovan retired March 30. Donovan came to LincolnHealth, formerly Lincoln Medical Partners, in 2008 from over 20 years of healthcare…
Westport Island selectmen Monday night agreed to hold a 9 a.m. Saturday, April 10 town meeting at town hall for voters to consider a local match to a possible ConnectME grant to expand broadband…
“OK, let’s get measuring!”
With that start from Wiscasset Selectman Sarah Whitfield, ordinance review committee members and other masked walkers spent about a half hour in the whipping…
an enthusiastic and passionate person who can’t say ‘no’ when it comes to plants
After 10 years of service as district coordinator promoting conservation and farming in the Midcoast area, Hildy Ellis has retired from the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (…
Maine Department of Marine Resources
Augusta – Despite unprecedented market losses, Maine fishermen earned over a half billion dollars for their catch in 2020. Valued at $516,796,614, the ex-vessel value of Maine’s commercially…
MIDCOAST — A total of 51 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the second phase of the Maine Economic Recovery Grant Program.
The grant program, backed by $200 million in…
During a Midcoast Conservancy Timber Frame course at Hidden Valley Nature Center, more than post-and-beam frames are built: partnerships, friendships and new skill sets are regular features of the…
According to the broadband committee and Monday night’s UberConference selectmen’s meeting, Westport Island has about three weeks to agree to chip in with Spectrum and ConnectME Authority on a…
Weather permitting, Wiscasset’s Ordinance Review Committee will be downtown Monday night, March 29 walking the sidewalks and measuring them. The panel is working on a policy for selectmen to…
High demand for single-family existing homes across Maine continues, despite the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic. Maine Listings released new housing statistics today for the month of February 2021,…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday the State of Maine will move the deadline for Maine individual income tax payments from April 15 to May 17, a change aligning Maine with the…
The Department of Marine Resources Coastal Program announces the availability of funds for Shore and Harbor Planning grants. Funds are provided through the state's NOAA Coastal Program Grant and…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta is holding a special sale on music CDs, from Monday, March 22 through Saturday, April 3. Every CD will be on sale at half price; there’s…
Woolwich selectmen accepted an application Monday night, March 15 from Farley’s Cannabis Farm to switch from selling medical to recreational marijuana products. A public hearing to discuss the…
Alna planning board
Jade and Davis Archer got Alna planning board’s OK March 9 for a business raising and slaughtering chickens. The 4-0 nod is contingent on the business also getting state approval.
In that…
The Maine Tourism Association (MTA) applauds the Maine Legislature and Governor Janet Mills for securing funding for Maine’s tourism marketing. The Maine Office of Tourism, which falls under the…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a seven-session online course for aspiring farmers starting March 29. The class meets from 5:30–7:30 p.m. twice per week through April 22.…
Shellfish Focus Day of the Maine Fishermen’s Forum is an annual event that gathers shellfish harvesters, municipal officials, shellfish wardens, nonprofits groups, researchers, and…
Twin Villages Foodbank Farm is starting its sixth season by hiring additional staff members to help grow food for Lincoln County pantries. Amanda LaBelle and Claudie Babineaux bring many years of…
AUGUSTA — Maine has been selected as the inaugural cohort of states in the Workforce Innovation Network, the National Governors Association (NGA) and Cognizant U.S. Foundation announced Tuesday.…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Maine Maple Sunday is scheduled March 27–28 and maple trees are being tapped in preparation for this traditional spring celebration.
University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers a…
Amy Stockford never stopped serving Alna after she left as town clerk in 2016. The co-owner of Old Narrow Gauge Farm with Toby Stockford, and mother of Etta, pushing 4, has been town treasurer…
University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is recruiting student researchers to contribute to a diversity of marine and environmental research projects.
The DMC typically hosts 25 to…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta, which has been closed since November because of the pandemic, will re-open on a full schedule on Monday, March 8.…
Press release
On Feb. 19 The Maine Department of Marine Resources filed comments with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the draft Biological Opinion for ten fishery management plans…
On Tuesday, March 2 at 7 p.m., the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center and Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust will host a panel discussion with Ian Cheney, director of the 2020 documentary…
compost issues in agriculture and waste management
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a three-webinar series about compost issues in agriculture and waste management, Thursday, March 11, and Tuesdays March 23 and March 30, from…
