Terry O. Brewer, 88, passed away peacefully with his family by his side after a long courageous battle with dementia. He passed away the evening of Dec. 17, 2023 in his home in Boothbay Harbor…
News
Thomas Harris was last seen Jan. 2, at night, in Boothbay fiddling with his home fuel tank. Nobody has seen him since. For nearly a year, law enforcement has searched for Harris without any…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 175 calls for service for the period of Dec. 12 to Dec. 19. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 10,686 calls for service.
Summonses…
Alna First Selectman Ed Pentaleri and Road Commissioner Jeff Verney told Wiscasset Newspaper they will run for re-election. Nomination papers were to become available at the town office Dec. 13,…
Obituary
Kathryn “Kathy” T. Barter, 69, died at the Gregory Wing in Boothbay Harbor on Dec. 14, 2023.
Kathy was born Jan. 17, 1954 in Boothbay to Roscoe Dodge and Betty Ann (Child) Dodge. Kathy…
Wiscasset’s TextMyGov service, available for signup at wiscasset.org, released the following statements Monday afternoon, Dec. 18:
“The town is experiencing heavy tree damage, widespread…
Obituary
Margaret E. Holden, 86, of Boothbay Harbor, passed away at Lincoln Health – Miles Campus on Dec. 12, 2023.
Margaret was born on March 9, 1937, in Queens, New York to parents Kenneth and…
The old Murphy’s Corner Schoolhouse in Woolwich came alive with holiday music and caroling Sunday afternoon when neighbors of the Montsweag and Phipps Point roads gathered to celebrate the Yule…
Alna’s planning board is getting technical help with the mining and blasting ordinance it drafted. Selectmen Dec. 14 authorized spending up to $1,500 for consultant Carol White to…
The Lincoln County Communications Association, along with their leadership team, is spreading a little Christmas cheer to a Damariscotta family this Christmas season.
The Association put…
Obituary
Linda Pierpont, 81, of Jefferson, passed away peacefully at the Sussman House in Rockport on Dec. 7, 2023, after a courageous struggle with cancer.
She was a loving…
“This is the best place to work in the state of Maine. It’s a rare thing to have such great communities to work with. My ride’s been sweeter than Tom Brady’s in the NFL!” That’s how Mary Ellen…
What would you like to see at Mason Station? Dec. 12, Wiscasset Comprehensive Plan Committee Chair Sarah Whitfield gave fellow committee members that example of “relevant (to) right now” questions…
Wiscasset planning board
The last time Peter Wells asked the planning board about the potential single-resident occupancy (SRO) apartments upstairs at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church on Hodge Street, the new Wiscasset…
Edgecomb selectmen have nominated a full appeals board and will be scheduling the first hearing in years. On Dec. 12, the board appointed Susan Amundsen to serve on the five-person board. She will…
Wiscasset Police Department reported the following for Nov. 15-30:
Arrests/Summonses
Nov. 15, Corey Frizzell, 44, of Boothbay Harbor was arrested for Refusing to Submit to Arrest…
School committee
Minutes after Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson on Dec. 12 previewed budget season and talked student recruitment, some residents and teachers aired concerns, among them the impact…
The deadline for advertisements, classifieds, press releases, letters, columns and community news, for the Thursday, Dec. 28 edition will be at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 22. The deadline for…
Midcoast Conservancy is delighted to welcome Zoe Thomas as its inaugural Nature Based Program Manager at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. She joins HVNC Director Tripp Henderson and…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 168 calls for service for the period of Dec. 5 to Dec. 12. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 10,511 calls for service.
Summons
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The Wiscasset Climate Action Team (WCAT) is making strides to prepare the town for the effects of climate change by joining the Maine Community Resilience Partnership. Members of the team are…
Obituary
After several years of declining health, Heather Macdonald Shaughnessy (80, of Damariscotta Mills), passed away at Maine Medical Center on Dec. 9, 2023 surrounded by her loving family.…
The Edgecomb Community Church will be holding a special Christmas Eve service, Sunday, Dec. 24, at 5 p.m. The service will feature Lessons and Carols revealing the Christmas story through Bible…
Update: Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson announced via email Monday afternoon, Dec. 11, WMHS Principal-on leave Gina Stevens’ dismissal hearing “planned for tomorrow…
Lincoln County TV
Lincoln County Television invites the community to attend this Sunday’s 2 p.m. full-concert experience of “Yellow Brick Road, a Tribute to Elton John” at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta.…
A town-wide property tax revaluation is underway in Woolwich and will take until the fall of 2025 to complete, according to Dirigo Assessing Group, the Sidney-based company hired to carry out the…
Celebrate Edgecomb’s 250th!
Edgecomb’s Historical Society will launch the town’s 250th birthday in 2024 with a talk by local historian Chip Griffin. The talk, entitled “Four Amazing Centuries of Edgecomb History,” is filled…
Reviewing the school budget and getting appointed instead of elected are among Wiscasset’s budget committee’s ideas for itself. Chair Tom Joyce has given a list to selectmen. It will be a topic…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is glowing this week in more ways than one. After a month-long readers' choice contest with…
The man charged in the Christmas Day 2022 death of a 3-year-old Edgecomb girl is scheduled for an arraignment hearing at 11 a.m. Jan. 11 in Lincoln County Unified Criminal Court. Tyler Witham-…
Will Matteson, substance use prevention coordinator for Healthy Lincoln County (HLC), presented a “Overdose Response and Narcan…
Obituary
Elisabeth Meury peacefully passed away on Nov. 29, 2023, in Celebration, Florida, at the age of 88.
Born on March 15, 1935, in Singen, Germany, to Friedrich and Anna Maria Loescher,…
Lincoln County is considering extending its planning services contract with Wiscasset for six months. The contract expires at month’s end with Wiscasset still in need of additional assistance from…
A disposition hearing for the man charged in a 2023 Boothbay Harbor shooting incident has been postponed. On March 19, 2023, Matthew A. Plummer, 42, of Boothbay Harbor was charged with three…
Salt ’n Spar
Once upon a time there was the Wiscasset Theater, a movie house downtown offering more than just Hollywood films. Its front entrance didn’t have a glitzy marque of flashing lights, but inside…
Wiscasset selectmen Dec. 5 amended the longtime, midnight to 6 a.m. Nov. 15 to April 15, on-street parking ban to instead have public works place a ban as needed, based on the weather.
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Town of Woolwich
Articles authorizing sale of a residential lot on George Wright Road and raising the mileage rate charged by the ambulance department passed at a special town meeting Wednesday, Dec. 6 in Woolwich…
On Dec. 5, Lincoln County commissioners approved a $13,743,701 2024 budget. Commissioners Hamilton Meserve and Mary Trescot voted in favor of the budget. Commissioner William Meserve was absent…
Finding Our Voices
The Nov. 28 Finding Our Voices event of men talking about growing up with abusive fathers broke attendance records for indoor programming in 2023, according to Julia Sagaser, Program Director of…
Obituary
Phillip W. Koskela, 73, of Southport, passed away peacefully at his home on Nov. 18, 2023 with his loving family by his side.
Phillip was born in Waldoboro on Oct. 10, 1950 to Raymond and…
Obituary
Donald Frank Main, age 78, passed away unexpectedly on Nov. 29, 2023 in Oklahoma.
Don was born in Damariscotta, Maine on April 22, 1945 to Harold and A. Lillian (Sidelinger) Main. He and…
Gardens Aglow Lighting Contest awards
Shortly before the arrival of Santa and company aboard the Novelty, the Gardens Aglow Community Lighting Contest winners were announced by Gretchen Ostherr, president and CEO of Coastal…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 151 calls for service for the period of Nov. 28 to Dec. 5. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 10,343 calls for service.
Summons
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Here are just a few of the new items that have been added to the Boothbay Region Health Center’s annual Gifts4Health online/mobile auction:
• 5 Yoga Classes at Crow Point Yoga
•…
Commonspace’s planned single-room apartments upstairs at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Wiscasset might be ready in January to propose to the town, the Hodge Street church’s senior warden told…
On Saturday, Dec. 2, Wiscasset fourth through 12th grade choral students provided the music for the Annual Wiscasset Christmas Tree Lighting. The event took place on the town common and the steps…
Obituary
James Carlisle MacLeod of Stuart, Florida and Boothbay, Maine, and formerly of Kent, Connecticut, passed away Nov. 24, 2023, at the age of 76, at Treasure Coast Hospice in Stuart, Florida, with…
Obituary
Lawrence R. Bennett, 61, of Boothbay Harbor, passed away at Maine Medical Center in Portland on Nov. 26, 2023. Lawrence was born on June 3, 1962, to Lawrence W. Bennett and Sharon (Pinkham)…
Obituary
Gordon A. Frizzell, 76, of Jefferson, passed away on the morning of Dec. 1, 2023 at the Sussman House in Rockport.
Born on Jan. 2, 1947 in Boothbay Harbor, he was the…
Tony C. McKim, president and chief executive officer of First National Bank and its parent company, The First Bancorp, has announced the appointment of Adam Climo as branch manager based in…
