Buyer demand for Maine’s real estate is strong and for-sale home inventory is historically low. According to Maine Listings, the median sales price (MSP) for a single-family existing home in Maine…
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Maine’s largest electricity reseller wants to pony up a $500,000 fine. The state’s utility regulator suggested pulling the plug.
A report last year recommended revoking the license of…
AUGUSTA — For the week ending February 13, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 2,000 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 450 initial claims filed for federal…
FREEDOM – On one side of a window, an elderly person with dentures looks out at the same time as a mini horse with no top teeth peers in.
Belfast nursing home residents will soon have a…
MIDCOAST — A total of 96 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the Maine Tourism, Hospitality & Retail Recovery Grant program.
Funding for the program originated from…
Press release
Fugro USA Marine on behalf of New England Aqua Ventus will be conducting a Geophysical and Geotechnical seabed survey from East Boothbay to Monhegan.
The seabed survey will be taking place…
At Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm, we are busy planning the upcoming growing season and excited to start the first of our seedlings in March.
We look forward to a successful third…
Alna planning board
Jade and Davis Archer want a business permit to raise and slaughter certified organic chickens at their Echo Farm, 104 Sheepscot Road in Alna. They told the planning board over Zoom Tuesday night…
Policies, not an ordinance, might be the way for Wiscasset to go on its sidewalks, according to participants in a workshop on Zoom Monday night. “Policies are flexible,” ordinance review committee…
The panel working on Wiscasset’s next decade of goals regrouped Thursday night, Feb. 4. The comprehensive plan committee got a new chair and some new help, and members renewed their plans for a…
Press release
Today, Maine is home to some of our nation’s last true working waterfronts. Our fishing heritage is part of what makes our state such a unique, beautiful, innovative, and sustaining…
Kennedy Orr is right where she wants to be. The 2016 Wiscasset Middle High School graduate is now the school’s administrative assistant, a past student serving today’s, and working with some of…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
A nearly $900,000 grant awarded to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay will be used to explore how kelp…
Midcoast Conservancy is delighted to welcome Tim Trumbauer to its staff as senior watershed manager. Trumbauer will be responsible for protecting and improving water resources for human and…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host a webinar about methods for control of rodents and wildlife on the farm 1–3 p.m. Feb. 23
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Following a pair of public hearings Feb. 1, Woolwich selectmen unanimously approved a conditional license to SeaGrass Group to grow recreational marijuana. Voters have the final say in a March 17…
Morris Farm is going 21st century on its fundraising, after a pandemic-induced, $30,000 budget shortfall, board chair Madelyn Hennessey said in a phone interview Friday night. A press release…
Wiscasset School Department
More than 25 people gathered on Zoom Jan. 27 to celebrate the retirement of head Wiscasset Middle High School custodian Jeff Speed. He will retire Feb. 28, after 46 years of service to Wiscasset…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday she will end the 9 p.m. early closing time for businesses, effective Monday, February 1.
The decision is the result of Maine’s improving…
Before Sea Grass Group can finish its licensing to grow recreational marijuana, Woolwich voters need to amend the planning ordinance. A public hearing to discuss the changes will be held at 6 p.m…
Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan first met in 2012 as third graders, and quickly became best friends forever. The two have been nearly inseparable since, but now are spending more time together…
Governor Janet Mills today proposed a series of actions to advance the nation’s first floating offshore wind research array in federal waters and to protect Maine’s more heavily fished state…
A team of researchers, aquaculture production specialists and educators in Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire will be working to help transform the sea urchin fishery by supporting green sea…
Maine’s residential real estate market fared well during COVID-impacted 2020. Statistics released today by the Maine Association of Realtors and Maine Listings show a sales increase of 9.82% for…
Tony C. McKim, president and chief executive officer of First National Bank and its parent company, The First Bancorp, has announced the appointment of Alyssa Allen as business development officer…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens ended its experimental, sixth Gardens Aglow season on high notes. CMBG President and CEO Gretchen Ostherr said the team pulled off a spectacular and successful…
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole recently welcomed Dr. Gregory Gerbi, assistant professor of oceanography, to UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences.
Gerbi comes to…
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…
On Friday, Jan. 15, our team stopped work at noon and began a different kind of service. Our newly renovated sales office became a classroom.
Thanks to Wiscasset EMS and…
As winter progresses and spring is on the horizon, Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm in Newcastle, is deep in season three planning mode and looking forward to growth in 2021.
In…
Westport Island selectmen Monday night agreed to sign a letter supporting an effort to expand broadband access in town. About 195 homes do not have access, Ralph Jacobs of the broadband and cable…
On Jan. 14, 2021, at the annual meeting of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), the organization kicked off a year-long celebration of MOFGA’s 50th anniversary by unveiling…
Reliving Wiscasset’s past
Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ago at 1820. If you lived then, you got your news by word-of-mouth and from…
We like boats more than we have good sense and want everyone to share that passion. Every March at the equinox, since 1987, the Maine Boatbuilders Show has been on the minds and calendars of the…
2021 Vibrio training is required for harvesters and dealers who harvest or buy oysters or hard clams directly from the Damariscotta River, New Meadows…
Learn about Maine’s living fossils – sturgeon! A virtual lecture on Thursday, Jan. 21 will focus on some of Maine’s most interesting fish. Although you may have seen or heard sturgeon leap and…
The Woolwich select board will review an application for a proposed marijuana cultivation business. Christian Elie, a representative of Sea Grass Group, asked the select board for conditional…
An online program hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, will explore how individual property owners can contribute to wildlife conservation on a larger…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension are offering a free three-session introduction on farm food safety planning from 5–6:30 p.…
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’…
service employee minimum wage to be $6.08 per hour
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Labor is reminding business owners that effective January 1 the state minimum wage increases from $12 to $12.15 per hour.
This increase is pursuant to…
AUGUSTA — Amid an increase in Maine’s COVID-19 positivity rate and a continued high rate of hospitalizations, Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday she will extend the requirement for certain…
Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) announced today that 38 Maine farms have been awarded grants through the Maine Farm Emergency Grants…
Low for-sale inventory and high demand for Maine’s lifestyle has driven real estate sales and values into double-digit gains. Today, Maine Listings reported that 1,965 single-family existing homes…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins, in a news release, welcomed the finalization of the agreement to eliminate tariffs on live and frozen American lobster, which will help to…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry will offer two free webinars for producers interested in selling packaged meat and…
In its fifth growing season, Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) grew, collected, and distributed over 75,000 pounds of fresh food to Lincoln County food pantries and youth programs. Strong support…
Marine fisheries provide many benefits to coastal communities. Fisheries generate food, provide employment and economic profit through the supply chain, and play an important role in a sense of…
The Wiscasset Select Board unanimously renewed a license for the sale of consumer fireworks for Big Al’s Fireworks Outlet on Route 1 when they met via Zoom Tuesday night, Dec. 15.
The…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), with support from Governor Janet Mills, is launching a branding and promotion initiative to…
