AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Aug. 20, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 128.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 20, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
Fewer than a dozen voters turned out for a public hearing on Wiscasset’s combined municipal and school budgets of just under $12 million Aug. 18. Selectmen held the hearing before their meeting in…
Dresden selectmen
Aug. 18 via Zoom, Dresden selectmen voted to open their meetings back up to the public starting Sept. 15. At the next meeting Sept. 1, still via Zoom, they will check in about the status of COVID-…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 19, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
AUGUSTA — Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey announced Tuesday he is joining a coalition of state Attorneys General led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro in filing a federal lawsuit…
The curtains covering the silver screen of the Harbor Theater have not opened on a film since mid-March due to COVID-19, but a lot has been going on behind the scenes.
“As the world changed…
The disappearance of the red Lobsterman’s Wharf building in East Boothbay a few years ago marked the end of an era. And a new era has begun. The former restaurant, built around a minesweeper…
A question on how the public perceives local enforcement resulted in a brief discussion Aug. 18 about Sheriff Todd Brackett’s plan to possibly create an advisory group. County Commissioner Mary…
Recent reports of cyanobacteria on Damariscotta Lake have led to concerns about water quality and safety there. On Saturday, Aug. 15, Dr. Peter Countway, senior research scientist at Bigelow Lab,…
Obituary
Jack M. Bremer, 91, of Boothbay quietly passed away at home on Aug. 14, 2020.
He was born in New York City on Dec. 11, 1928 the son of Clark Bremer and Gladys McClellan.
Married 24…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 18, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
To help keep Westport Island healthy, the town now has touchless hand sanitizer dispensers and public health posters available for island businesses who have walk-up customers. The dispensers come…
The Woolwich select board on Monday finalized procedures for the Saturday, Aug. 22 annual town meeting. It will be outdoors next to the municipal building. Town Clerk Anthony Blasi will call the…
Down a member Monday night, Westport Island selectmen put off deciding any internet plans for the town office, Wright Landing House and possibly the old town hall. First Selectman George…
Obituary
Richard F. McLellan, 85, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 4, 2020 with his loving family by his side.
He is survived by two daughters, Richelle and Melanie; granddaughter, Katie;…
The 2020 Edgecomb town meeting will be like no other in the town’s history. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Edgecomb’s annual May town meeting being first postponed, and later changed to a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 17, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
MIDCOAST — Teachers in the Midcoast counties of Knox, Waldo and Lincoln are likely to return to campus this fall, if their school district allows for in-person learning, despite area teachers…
Every race Danny Evarts wanted to enter this year was canceled due to the pandemic, until Sunday, when the Woolwich firefighter got to bike seven miles from Wiscasset’s fire station to Woolwich’s…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 16, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
On Friday, Aug. 14 at 10:25 p.m., Lincoln County Communications Center received a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Aug. 15, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 127.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 15, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
First National Bank is proud to announce the winners of its thirteenth annual Customer Photo Calendar Contest. Fifteen color photographs have been chosen from over 150 entries, and each winning…
The coronavirus has created a perfect storm for scammers. One unique scam to arise this summer is scammers posing as contact tracers working for state health departments.
…
“This is so cool,” Wiscasset Elementary School’s new assistant principal Laura Mewa said. All around her in the cafeteria Friday, Wiscasset Feed Our Scholars’ Set for Success volunteers in face…
In Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12, green means go. A reopening plan the board passed Aug. 13, in person and on Youtube, has students in school five days a week or, if the state raises…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 14, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
The Boothbay Charities Classic, a fundraising event for Special Olympics Maine for the past 29 years, will not be held this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, in a letter being…
Parents feel students did not make academic progress during remote instruction
MIDCOAST — Families of students attending schools in Knox, Waldo and Lincoln counties are likely to send their students back to campus this fall if their child’s school district allows for in-…
Obituary
Alexander Boulette Taylor, 19, of Wiscasset died Aug. 11, 2020 at his residence.
He was born in Damariscotta on Sept. 19, 2000, a son of David A. and Deborah M. (Boulette) Taylor.
…
Obituary
Heidi Lynne Dodge Safford Marcotte passed away peacefully at her mother's home on Aug. 12, 2020 after a brave 20-year struggle with scleroderma.
She was born in Augusta on Nov. 30, 1968 to…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 13, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
Alna selectmen have two questions for planning board members: Do they want selectmen to consider keeping them on the board and, if so, for how long. The poll is part of selectmen’s plans to…
The town budget vote is taking place on Saturday, Aug. 29. Voters can go to the town office 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to vote by secret ballot regarding the school budget along with all Edgecomb…
The U.S. Census Bureau is following up in person with households in Maine that have not yet responded to the 2020 Census.
…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 12, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
In a plan Wiscasset’s school committee passed 4-1 Tuesday night, students would be at school two days a week starting Sept. 8, Mondays and Tuesdays or in another group Thursdays and Fridays,…
In recent years’ annual town meeetings, Edgecomb selectmen have recognized residents who epitomized community service. But the May 2020 annual meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Newcastle, ME: Sunday, Aug. 16, 5 to 6 p.m., on YouTube at bit.ly/393QLYU: Inspired by Frances Perkins’ legacy, the Frances Perkins Center is rising to the challenges of our time. Each time she…
Midcoast Conservancy is delighted to welcome Lissa Widoff as its interim executive director following the retirement of founding Executive Director Jody Jones. Widoff will oversee the day-to-day…
The Mills Administration announced today that it has approved an additional $4 million in awards to more than 80 municipalities and Tribal governments across the state under a second round of Keep…
The Edgecomb School Committee unanimously accepted the advisory committee's reopening plan and the revised school year calendar Aug. 10. The plan works off the state's recommendation for all…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 11, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, Aug. 11, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 126.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
Westport Island is looking to boost the town office’s internet service and get internet for Wright Landing House. Selectmen heard Monday night via UberConference, town office staff have been…
Obituary
Robert T. “Jake” Jacobson of Foxboro, Massachusetts died suddenly on Aug. 9, 2020.
He was the beloved husband of Joanne Malinn Jacobson and adored father of their daughter, Annabel, and…
The 63rd annual Rotary Club Auction may be cancelled this year, but the very popular Rotary Boutique is now back in operation. Now set up in the comfort of the Rotary Club Barn.
The…
