EMS Director Dennis Simmons got the go ahead from the Wiscasset selectboard March 17 to begin contract negotiations with Dresden for renewing ambulance services. The board met for the first time…
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Shaw’s Supermarket will be making two hours available for senior citizens and at-risk community members to do their shopping on select days.
“To help ensure that the most at-risk members…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills today pressed the Federal government to provide more Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and testing supplies to the State of Maine, she said, in…
Help Yourself Shelf at St. Philip’s Church will run from 4:30 to 5:30 each Thursday set up as grab 'n go: Attendees will come to the hall door, check in, and we will put a box of…
Dresden selectmen on March 17 approved a five-point protocol to limit public exposure to COVID-19. The meeting was closed to the public except for the press.
Effective through the end of…
A racoon killed in Woolwich earlier this week by a Sagadahoc Sheriff’s deputy has tested positive for rabies. The Woolwich town office received confirmation from Maine’s Health and Environmental…
Obituary
Jennifer “Jenny” Dalton Long, 55, of Wiscasset passed away suddenly on March 15, 2020.
She was born in Damariscotta on March 31, 1964, daughter of Stanley P. and Delia A. Dalton. She…
PORTLAND---With attention to the guidance from the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and upon consideration of the size of the usual congregations, Bishop Robert P. Deeley is…
On Monday, Feb. 24, the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) received the 2020 Abraham Lincoln Pillar of Excellence Award for Innovative State Programs from the U.S. Department of Veterans…
The memorial service for John Grundy for 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Wiscasset has been canceled due to the ongoing concern for the well-being of the community at this…
Days of mulling, consulting and planning for Alna’s uncontested elections this Friday and the annual town meeting Saturday have led to a plan for munchies-free voting with other…
The American Red Cross now faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Healthy individuals are needed now to…
Days into Maine’s state of emergency, social distancing and other novel terms have emerged. Seeing as they’re here for the foreseeable future, Boothbay Register is…
At Hall Funeral Home and Cremation Services, the families we serve are always our top priority. During confusing and concerning times such as the current COVID-19 event, we want to share our plans…
LincolnHealth is suspending elective medical procedures and postponing non-urgent, routine office visits to reduce community spread of coronavirus and redirect its most scarce and important…
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Alna this week has gone from possibly moving the Saturday, March 21 town meeting to the fire station bay, to looking instead to a possible special town…
Dresden selectmen plan to adopt a coronavirus protocol at their Tuesday, March 17 meeting. Town Administrator Michael Henderson said the town office will…
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AUGUSTA — Effective Tuesday, March 17, all Bureau of Motor Vehicles' offices will be closed to the public until further notice to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Maine, according to a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is taking immediate steps, according to a news release, to ensure access to critical services and benefits for Maine people while…
The River Arts Center Community Drum Circle, held on the second Saturday of each month, is being permanently cancelled.
The River Arts Center's gallery will be moving to downtown…
UPDATE: At noon Tuesday, March 17, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s daily update showed the Lincoln County man’s test results changed from presumptive positive to confirmed,…
Portland, Maine – The nine local health organizations within MaineHealth are suspending elective medical procedures and postponing non-urgent office visits to its practices in response to the…
The Maine Arts Commission, acting for the Maine Bicentennial Commission, informed the town of Westport Island last week that the Westport Island History Committee had been successful in their…
Wiscasset School Department announced plans Monday to provide meals for all students during the shutdown. See Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s letter here on how it will work.
Covid-19 concerns caused the Woolwich selectboard to move the April 29 annual town meeting to late May. The board also announced Monday night a precautionary measures at the town office to…
Effective today, March 16, the Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper office at 97 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor will be closed to the public until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak…
Effective Tuesday, March 17, amid what we know to be unprecedented and uncertain times and in the interest of public health, the Boothbay Region YMCA is suspending on-site operations until April 1…
Wiscasset shared this “notice to employees” with local media Monday afternoon. It also contains helpful information for the public on access and operations in light of the global concern of…
Obituary
Edna Nora Soule, 73, of Zephyrhills, Florida, formerly of Wiscasset died Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at Gulfside Hospice in Zephyrhills.
She was born in Sanford on Nov. 2, 1946, a daughter of…
Westport Island selectmen
Westport Island selectmen voted Monday to close the town office to all foot traffic for two weeks, effective immediately. With the decision, they join other area towns adapting their operations…
“Big Al” Cohen said Saturday, the only panic buying he has seen remotely close to what the coronavirus has caused was the 1970s gas shortage. “This, to me, is that, multiplied” because it isn’t…
Obituary
Tom Iampietro, a teacher by avocation and a life-long scholar of the sea, passed away on March 4, 2020 from sudden congestive heart failure. He was 67, and had just moved to Wiscasset in June to…
RSU 2 schools will be closed for two weeks, from Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 27. It is in the best interest of our school communities, Kennebec County, and the state of Maine to …
UPDATE: According to Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Lincoln County has had a second presumptive positive test and the first has gone from presumptive positive to…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 schools are closed through March 27, Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle confirmed Sunday afternoon in a text reply to Wiscasset Newspaper.
The…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s Facebook page announced Sunday afternoon: “Students in Wiscasset schools will not have school starting on Monday, March 16 and schools will stay closed until March…
As you are probably well aware, at this time, the decision whether to open or close schools is being left to superintendents. After consultation with the Maine, Department of Education and other…
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Good Shepherd Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in Maine and distributes 25 million meals per year through more than 450 partner hunger-relief programs across the state.…
LincolnHealth announced March 14 that it is limiting visitation to all of its long-term care, assisted living facilities and the Schooner Cove retirement community. Exceptions may be made for…
Out of sincere concern for our patrons and employees and following the advice of the Maine CDC to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by social distancing, the Harbor Theater will be…
Edgecomb residents at a 2020-21 budget meeting March 9 were outspoken about rising school costs, according to information the board provided after the meeting.
The discussion took place…
In a decision Regional School Unit 1 Superintendent of Schools Patrick Manuel announced Saturday night, the unit, which serves Woolwich, Bath, Arrowsic and Phippsburg, is closing its schools…
March is Women’s History Month. The year 2020 also marks 100 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Along with this accomplishment of the women’s suffrage…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) was informed this morning, March 13, by MaineHealth that preliminary testing in their lab indicates two more individuals…
Obituary
John Joseph Grundy, 81, of Freedom Song Lane, Wiscasset died March 8, 2020 at Togus in Augusta.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 21, 1938, a son of John Joseph and Bertha…
There are many additions to this year’s Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days & Tall Ships Festival in celebration of Maine’s Bicentennial.…
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in February:
Alna: Hutchings, George R. Jr. to Percival, Harry.
Boothbay:…
While Maine lobster exporters are reporting a drop in prices due to lost sales to China, area dealers see a mixed picture of supply and demand at the local level.
“It is not the Chinese…
