The Garden Club of Wiscasset held its October meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2.
The featured speaker was Amy LeBlanc from Whitehill Farms.
LeBlanc spoke to the club about culinary herbs…
News
Open enrollment begins Nov. 15, 2014 and ends Feb. 15, 2015. Get ready to renew or enroll in health insurance before the deadline for the Health…
Edgecomb School Committee
A higher than normal iron content and slightly elevated magnesium level has produced discoloration in the Edgecomb Eddy School’s drinking water, according to principal Lisa Clarke.
Clarke…
Boards, staff and members from Lincoln County's many historical societies, museums and history-oriented organizations will attend the 2014 gathering of Lincoln County's historical organizations on…
CHANS Hospice Care program will be holding an interfaith memorial event for anyone who has lost a loved one in the past year.
A Time for Remembering will be held on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m.…
Bath Trails is calling all adventuresome kids to complete the 5 miles long Whiskeag Trail on Sunday, Oct. 19. Parents and kids can park cars at the Bath YMCA at 1 p…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset’s interim superintendent of schools Lyford Beverage is recommending grades seven and eight move next year from Wiscasset Middle School to Wiscasset High School.
The school…
Maine Municipal Association
Wiscasset’s 2013 town report that came out last spring has snagged third place, or the “excellence” designation, in a statewide contest. Among 250 entrants in the Maine Municipal Association’s (…
Elections 2014
Sen. Chris Johnson said his reelection is about the people who put him in the Maine state senate to begin with. The Democrat state senator from Somerville is seeking…
Election 2014
Les Fossel is a busy man.
The Republican state senator candidate from Alna serves on eight boards serving Lincoln County and the…
Obituary
Rona Mary Metcalf, a resident of Southport since 1979, died of natural causes on Oct. 4 at her home, surrounded by her children. She was 85.
Born in Winchester, Massachusetts to Wilfred…
Elections 2014
Regardless of whether or not voters hand Republicans control of the U.S. Senate in November, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she will keep working across the aisle to form bipartisan coalitions…
Get to Know...
“The World of Wooden Bobbins” is a book about, well, bobbins. Much of the material provided for the production of the book was supplied by experts on the subject: Ann…
Wolverines Soccer
Goals, like Canada geese, have been coming in bunches at the end of the fall, or so it seems for the Wiscasset Wolverines.
The boys varsity soccer team blasted the Winthrop Ramblers, 2-1,…
The Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene, 255 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset, will host Tim Connelly on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the 11 a.m. morning worship service.
Connelly has been singing since he was…
Photo
At least 100 people took test drives at Wiscasset High School on Oct. 11, raising an initial estimate of about $2,000 for the school, according to Wiscasset Ford employee Colleen Bennett.
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South Bristol Fire Chief Mark Carrothers said, "My wife is going to be happy with me tonight," shortly after his name was drawn as the winner of the $1,000 home heating oil raffle recently…
Stephanie Hawke is well-known in the Boothbay region as a hard working, honest and personable member of the business community.
She lives in Boothbay Harbor, with her husband Andrew and her…
When voters read the ballot to elect a new Lincoln County Register of Probate they won’t see any names, but there are three candidates. No major party candidates sought the nomination in June to…
Fall is the perfect season for motorists age 50 and older to sharpen their driving skills and update their driving knowledge by participating in the AARP Smart Driver program.
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The Morris Farm Trust has been gifted with a work of art from “The Rock Paintings” collection (1975-1987) by the late …
Sometimes, something that takes just a moment to do can go a long way, maybe even overseas.
Among the many display tables that lined the inside of the Woolwich Fire Station on Oct. 15 for…
Obituary
Neil T. Greenleaf, 69, of Westport Island, died Oct. 9, 2014 at his residence, surrounded by family.
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Take out your calendars: The dates for the 53rd annual Windjammer Days in Boothbay Harbor will be June 21-27, 2015.
At an Oct. 14 meeting…
Andrea Main’s petition for a school closure vote has the signatures needed to send it on to Wiscasset selectmen to set a date, Wiscasset Town Clerk Christine Wolfe said Oct. 15.
Main turned…
Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson is pleased to announce that they will host George Mason as this year’s artist in residence.
As the artist in residence, Mason will spend two…
Obituary
Leonard Schork, 94, of Westfield, New Jersey and Southport, died peacefully on Oct. 11, 2014 at the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains, New…
By the time John Potter became minister of First Congregational Church in Wiscasset in 2003, he already felt a bit of a connection to it. He’d passed by it every summer of his life, when his…
A Wiscasset parent planned to turn in to the town office Oct. 15 a petition for a town vote on the school committee’s plans to close Wiscasset Primary School.
Andrea Main said Wednesday…
At least one Susan Collins, U.S. Senate campaign sign was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, probably overnight Sunday into Monday, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said Oct. 14.
A…
The eighth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Regatta ended much the same way it typically does: with a flourish, some floundering and a whole lot of pulp.
The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and…
Obituary
Wallace H. Brewer Jr., 67, of Boothbay died suddenly on Oct. 11, 2014 at his favorite camping spot in The West Forks after a long struggle with health issues.
…The Boothbay Police Department arrested four people between Oct. 7-13.
On Oct. 8, police arrested…
The Otto and Fran Walter Foundation has awarded a grant to Friends of Thai Daughters (FTD), a nonprofit organization, preventing child trafficking…
The Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission will host a field workshop on Stream-Smart Road Crossings coordinated by Maine Audubon. The workshop will be held Thursday, Oct. 23 (Oct. 24 rain…
Obituary
Roger A. Kingsbury, 69, of Lumberbridge, North Carolina, died Oct. 8, 2014 after a long illness.
He was born in Bath, the son of Robert E. Kingsbury Sr. and Rose V. Higgins. He attended…
The Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education group will hold a free showing of "Under Our Skin 2: Emergence (From…
A trip into the attic of a family home is often poignant, full of objects that remind us of the generations that have gone before. Imagine the attic of a building that holds items that reflect 200…
As has been the policy of this newspaper for several years, we will not be publishing political letters to the editor in the issue before the election.
All political letters must be received…
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Wiscasset Middle School’s new physical education teacher Daniela Marino wants to motivate her students to learn ways they can be physically active their whole lives.
That’s how it was for…
An 86-year-old Dresden man was found with only minor injuries after being missing in woods off Gardiner Road for about two hours on Oct. 13, a Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy said.
State and…
After work at BK Auto in Litchfield, Dane Bonang would come home to Wiscasset and go for a walk-run in the neighborhoods of Fowle Hill, Huntoon Hill and West Alna roads. It was part of his…
On Wednesday, October 15 at 7 p.m., We The People Maine will conduct a workshop at Savory Maine on 11 Water Street in Damariscotta. People from Damariscotta and surrounding towns who are…
The Merrymeeting chapter of the National Active of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) will be held Oct. 15 at 11:15 a.m. at the Fairground Café, Topsham Fair Mall, Topsham.
Chapter 1796 of…
The public is invited to the Lincoln County Community Resources Expo from 1 to 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17 at St. Patrick’s Church in Newcastle.
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Pumpkinfest 2014
To be a human or a zombie: That was the question October 11 at CLC YMCA’s second annual Zombie Run, during Pumpkinfest in Damariscotta. The 31 entrants who opted for human received a minute’s head…
There were 28 entries to the pumpkin dessert contest at Skidompha Library on Saturday, Oct. 11 as part of the Pumpkinfest weekend in Damariscotta.
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Edna Sukeforth calls being a Certified Nursing Assistant “the hardest job you will ever love.”
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Small businesses in Lincoln County are invited to a Business Resource Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 16, from 8 to 10 am at the Water’s Edge Banquet Facility in Edgecomb. Federal, state and local…
