Alna selectmen set property taxes July 29 at $18.95 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation. The rate is up 75 cents per $1,000 over last year, according to Second Selectman Doug Baston.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maine will receive a total of $16,958,613 through the CARES Act to create new, innovative ways to better serve K-12 students during the COVID-19 pandemic, a press release…

As the strike of 4,300 IAM Local S6 members at Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics subsidiary, enters a sixth week, U.S. Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree are asking the U.S. Navy to clarify…

U.S. News & World Report has named Maine Medical Center (MMC) as the best hospital in Maine for 2020-2021. This is the eighth consecutive year MMC was named…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 29, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,800 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

Emery Easton “Brownie” Brown, son of Mabel Hayden (Easton) Brown and Arthur Bernard Brown, was born Aug. 18, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, “a subsequent product of the earlier celebration of the…

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has announced up to 200 people are now allowed to gather for seated outdoor spectator events such as sports or concerts under a…

7/28, 1:30 p.m. Update: Officials identified the shark as a great white shark during a noon press conference in Augusta. 

The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) confirmed…

There is good news for Edgecomb residents waiting to register their motor vehicles. Interim Tax Collector Kim Batchelder and Deputy Tax Collector Rebecca Brewer have completed training with the…

Francis “Eli” Whittaker, 73, of Hale Pond Road, Wiscasset, passed away July 22, 2020 at his home.

He was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island on Feb. 16, 1947,…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, July 28, an additional two COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 121.

A man in his 70s from Androscoggin County…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 28, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,800 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

Newcastle Realty Office Administrator Kristy Battles has announced that Hannah Kutschinski has joined the company as her administrative assistant.

Kutschinski is a graduate of the…

Heather Leslie will present “Climate science and action for Maine’s coast and coastal communities” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, August 7, as a virtual seminar, or webinar, hosted by the University of…

During Monday’s Zoom meeting, the Wiscasset Planning Board approved an amendment to an approved plan for a driveway at Clark’s Point. The approval involving lot 8 will allow a new house under…

In a 12-minute UberConference Monday night, the Westport Island Select Board approved a request by Jeff Tarbox on behalf of the Westport Democratic Committee to hold a Labor Day picnic at the town…

The Maine Department of Transportation has scheduled more overnight paving work on ramps along Route 1 in Bath for later this week. Between 9 p.m. on Thursday, July…

Jeff Spinney was considering all options after Alna’s planning board again rejected his Sheepscot River ramp replacement request Monday night. Two new votes went the same way as the June 29 one:…

Peter White Holland, 74, also known as “Chewy” but definitely not “Mr. Holland,” passed away on July 20, 2020 after a brief illness. He was a resident of Brookfield, New Hampshire.

Born in…

Richard Walter Kubler, 53, died Saturday morning, July 25, 2020, at his Wiscasset residence.

He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on April 15…

Jib Fowles, 79, professor emeritus of media studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, died on March 7, 2020.

Born Robert Briggs Fowles in 1940, he was given the family nickname “Jib…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 27, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,800 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

The management of Boothbay Harbor Country Club informed its members Friday morning, July 24 that an adult child of one of its members, who had been at BHCC on Tuesday, tested positive for the…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 26, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, July 25, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 119. 

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 25, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

The Maine Department of Transportation will be doing overnight paving work on ramps along Route 1 in Bath early next week. Between 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 26 and 6 a.m. on Monday, July 27, crews…

AUGUSTA – The Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee (EUT) today voted 8-1 (with four members still to vote) to proceed with additional consideration of …

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 24, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

The Veterans Administration (VA) recently reported a scam in which the con artist poses as a VA official who works with veteran-owned small businesses. This impostor asks targets to donate…

Woolwich residents got to weigh in by teleconference July 22 on proposed marijuana ordinances that address recreational marijuana sales, manufacturing of cannabis products, marijuana cultivation…

AUGUSTA—The number of sales of single-family homes in Maine is down slightly in June but prices remain on the rise. Realtors across the state sold 1,720 homes in June — 78 fewer homes than a year…

We are eager to welcome movie lovers back to our beloved Harbor Theater! But right now we are working on making the theater safe and comfortable for all during this pandemic.

So the movie…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 23, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

Something new but with a vintage look will soon be taking shape at Wiscasset’s historic Sunken Garden. The select board will allow an open-air pergola and two arbor arches.

Terry Heller…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 22, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

When the Burnt Island Lighthouse was built in 1821, a keeper’s dwelling was also constructed. However, drawings or photographs that document that first house have never been found. The only clue…

Lincoln County Democrats will hold the Drive In for Democracy:  A Rally for the People, at the Wiscasset Speedway, 274 West Alna Rd., from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. The “pandemic-safe”…

The lakes and ponds of the Pemaquid River watershed are a unique and valuable natural resource. Their health is the topic of an online conversation hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust from…

For seven years, Duke, a patrol and drug search dog, has taken a bite out of crime in Lincoln County. But those days are numbered. The 8-year-old German Shepherd is struggling with spinal and bone…

John Van Reed Lyman died on July 17, 2020 in Edmond, Oklahoma after a long illness.

He was born in Bronxville, New York on March 14, 1939 to Richard Van Reed Lyman and Lois Marean Lyman,…

On July 8, Wiscasset Police Department responded to a physical altercation between two men at the Clipper Mart in…

The ongoing investigation into a May 27 motorcycle accident on Gardiner Road, Wiscasset has led to the injured rider…

The accident reconstruction of the June 3 crash on Bath Road, Wiscasset that claimed the lif…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, July 21, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 118. 

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

Bruce James Gilmartin, 79, of Boothbay, passed away peacefully under the compassionate care of staff at the Sussman House Hospice, in Rockport, after a long battle with complications of diabetes…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, July 21, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

There have been more than 3,700 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 across the state…

A town clerk is charged with recording official proceedings and vital statistics. Or as Anthony Blasi sees it, being a community historian and genealogist, too. Woolwich selectmen recently hired…

Westport Island selectmen Monday night OK’d a weekend of historic proportions for town hall, Wright House and volunteers, and agreed to give a military man a break on his milestone a year from now…