Nominations are now being accepted for the fifth annual Coulombe Center Award for Innovation, but only until April 15.
Created in 2018, this award highlights non-profit community partner…
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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
TOWN OF WOOLWICH
Woolwich is looking for a new fire chief following the resignation of Mike Demers. The select board announced Deputy Fire Chief Glen Kirkpatrick will take temporary charge of the department.…
Obituary
Clarence “Larry” H. Cash Jr., 95, of Washington Street, Bath died March 1, 2022, at his residence.
He was born on Sept. 24, 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Obituary
Evelyn Elizabeth Trask Racz died peacefully at home with her daughter, Susan, and her son-in-law, Steve, by her side on Feb. 25, 2022. She was 94 years old. Evelyn was the wife of the late Steven…
A New Harbor man has been charged in connection with Dec. 31, 2021 fatal crash in Bristol. After an investigation by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Robert G. Campbell, age 39 of New Harbor,…
Obituary
Arthur E. Reed, 79, passed away peacefully on Feb. 28, 2022 in Boothbay Harbor.
Arthur was born on May 20, 1942 in Boothbay Harbor. He was the son of the late Edward and Virginia (Bartik)…
Salt ’n Spar
Two of Wiscasset’s current select board members, Terry Heller and Dusty Jones, hail from Texas. But long before they arrived in Maine’s Prettiest Village, Wiscasset had a connection to the Lone…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
It’s not every day an organization reaches its 200th birthday, let alone is entering its third century of service to the people of Maine. Yet, Maine Historical Society (MHS) is doing just that! On…
Please join your friends at First Congregational Church, UCC, for a special Lenten sermon series on the ancient concept of koinonia beginning March 6.
In the series, Rev. Dr. Amy Lignitz…
Obituary
Peter Royce Cook, of Westport, Connecticut and Boothbay Harbor, Maine passed away suddenly at his home in Boothbay Harbor on March 2, 2022. He was 65 years old.
Peter was born in Portland…
A Wiscasset police officer would make $16,000 more a year in Waldoboro, Wiscasset Officer Jonathan Barnes told Wiscasset selectmen in an email Chair Sarah Whitfield read…
For over three years, a collaboration of county and municipal officials has worked on a proposal to stabilize state funding for county corrections. Weekly meetings with representatives from the…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Service notice
Peter R. Cook, 65, passed away on March 2, 2022 at his home in Boothbay Harbor. A gathering of Family and Friends will be held on Sunday, March 6 from 2 to 3 p.m. with a Celebration of Life to…
Feb. 2 at 5:15 p.m., two-car accident at Route 1 and Route 27. Both cars had to be towed.
Feb. 5 at 5:28 p.m., car vs. deer accident at the intersection of Route 27 and Town Hall Road. Car…
LincolnHealth reported 36 new COVID-19 cases from 306 tests for the week of Feb. 21. The data shows the lowest amount of weekly cases since August, tests since July, and positivity rate (11.8%)…
Press release
Former Wiscasset Selectboard chair Ed Polewarczyk has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican nomination in House District 47 which includes Alna, Jefferson, Whitefield and Wiscasset.…
Sharon Marchi, chair of The Lincoln County Ecumenical Committee for Haiti (LCECFH), announced March 1 that the annual Lincoln County Haiti Benefit Dinner will not be held again this year because…
On Feb 21, the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) received the 2022 VA Abraham Lincoln Pillar of Excellence Award for Innovative State Programs for its Maine Veterans’ Dental Network from…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the Maine Department of Education advised Maine school units and child care providers on Wednesday that effective March 9 universal…
The Maine Aquaculture Association (MAA) has released the first of its kind…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
The Edgecomb Budget Committee is happy with overall Fiscal Year 23 budget figures proposed by school officials. On Feb. 15, the budget and school committees discussed the proposed $3,093,387…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in February:
Alna: Johns, Susan M. to Brassil, Claire; Baston, Douglas C. and Baston…
Westport Island Democrats are having a special meeting Thursday, March 10, at the Town Hall, 6:…
Maine Department of Transportation is replacing Station 46 Bridge, which carries Route 1 over Back River Creek Marsh and the Rockland…
Ordinance review committee
“There’s not a science to this, really” for how far a marijuana business should have to be from a school, Wiscasset Ordinance Review Committee Chair Karl Olson told fellow members over Zoom Monday…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
Erin M. Hallinan, 56, passed away peacefully on Feb. 26, 2022 at the Sussman House in Rockport.
Erin was born on Nov. 6, 1965 in Boothbay Harbor, the son of Dennis and Mary (Delano)…
Obituary
Carol Ann Diprima Rankin, born April 3, 1961 in Groton, Massachusetts, passed away surrounded by her family on Feb. 18, 2022 at Maine Medical Center in Portland as a result of injuries sustained…
Every day in Wiscasset, when motorists pass Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission on Route 1, they are also passing the non-profit National Digital Equity Center. Headquartered at LCRPC, the…
Marita Fairfield said she has “always been all about making sure people can use technology.” Now she is doing it as chief operating officer of Wiscasset-based National…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in cooperation with Maine Resource and Recovery Association, is again offering local residents the opportunity to improve soil and…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
AUGUSTA — With the U.S. CDC announcing Friday it is relaxing its mask guidance for communities where hospitals aren’t under high strain, Governor Janet Mills is calling on the Maine CDC to review…
Woolwich is seeking bids for more improvements to Nequasset Park that include making its swimming area more Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) friendly. The park which includes a picnic area…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
Carolyn A. (Thayer) Bailey, 85, of Brewer, formerly of Wiscasset, passed peacefully Feb. 19, 2022 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
She was born in…
LincolnHealth reported 57 new COVID-19 cases from 405 tests for the week of Feb. 14. Tests and positive cases continue on a downward trend from the peak of the pandemic in late December and early…
Absentee ballots for Alna’s March 25 town election will be available from Friday, Feb. 25 through Tuesday, March 22 at the town office, Town Clerk Lisa Arsenault…
Woolwich will post Old Stage, Nequasset and Mountain roads during construction of the new Station 46 Bridge. Road Commissioner Jack Shaw told the selectboard Feb. 22, he’d need their approval…
Obituary
Millicent Ruth Brewer, age 83, of Orlando, Florida, passed away peacefully at home on Feb. 14, 2022.
Millicent was born on Nov. 29, 1938 in New York, New York, the daughter of Millicent (…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
Obituary
William Lowell Stinson, 87, of Wiscasset passed away on Feb. 21, 2022. Lowell was born in Bath, Maine May 20, 1934 to William L. and Mary (Boudin) Stinson. He lived most of his life…
Maine Department of Transportation’s project of replacing Station 46 Bridge is getting underway in Woolwich. All was quiet Sunday, Feb. 20 at the work site at Route 1 and…
