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Wanser’s Natural Market owner Kate Winslow and Merry Auld Tea Company owner Mary Norwood have merged their two businesses to offer the region a fantastic new market and gathering tea/coffee room…
Valentine’s Day 2017 proved to be a memorable one for 12 households, thanks to the heating oil company …
Helen and Bob Johnson have always had a desire to help people, so when they had an opportunity to turn that passion into a business, they decided to…
Wiscasset Town Planner Ben Averill took little to no credit for some of the positive local economic signs he cited in an office interview Friday. But he said they are all cause for optimism and he…
Company owner Dennis Hilton and Designated Broker Lorrie Zeiner are pleased to announce that Debi Fox has joined Newcastle Realty.
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Twisted Iron Customs is looking to move from Wiscasset to Edgecomb by summer’s end. The Edgecomb Planning Board unanimously approved a building permit Feb. 2 for the business to renovate and…
Known for its generosity in supporting community efforts, First National Bank has made a $100,000 pledge to help construct a new outpatient Health Care Center on the LincolnHealth-Miles Campus.…
We are remodeling cabins that have sat vacant for the last 20 years. This has unearthed a mystery.
The cabins were originally located on Ice Pond near where the old ice cream stand sits in…
Westport Island selectmen heard plans Monday for the state’s first MOFGA-certified organic craft brewery.
Local…
Artists Patricia Binette and Ann Rhinehardt will have an exhibition of their paintings at The First bank in Boothbay Harbor for the months of February and March.…
For the 18th year, the Institute for Family-Owned Business (IFOB) will honor the best Maine businesses owned by families. Nominations are open now and will close Feb. 17.
The Maine Family…
As of Monday, Jan. 30 at 2:30 p.m., Wiscasset will no longer own the former Wiscasset Primary School, according to Town Manager Marian Anderson. That’s when the…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission
Municipal attorney Ted Kelleher of Drummond Woodsum appeared Jan. 25 at the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s workshop on the marijuana initiative for town officials, “Weeding Through…
Wiscasset downtown project
The Advisory Committee for Wiscasset’s Downtown Project got its first look at a modified plan that includes a delivery drop-off area on Main Street. State staff have talked previously about…
A prospective applicant for a project at the former Wiscasset Primary School property is set to meet with the Wiscasset Planning Board tonight, Monday, Jan. 23. The board meets at 7 p.m. at the…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta will open in its new, waterfront location at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The new place is at 17 Backstreet Landing (behind Elm Street…
A coin and stamp show will be held in the Exhibition Hall at the Topsham Fairgrounds in Topsham on Sunday, Feb. 5 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Coin & Stamp Club of Brunswick, the…
Wiscasset Municipal Airport
With no one upstairs, now is the time to see how much it costs to have a tenant in the terminal, Wiscasset Municipal Airport Advisory Committee Interim Chairman Steve Williams said.
Panel…
The upstairs office space at Wiscasset Municipal Airport brought in $900 a month when Peregrine Turbine Technologies was renting it. The business moved to former Point East lots in October and, as…
The Lincoln County Registry Of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in December.
Alna: Mitkus, Katie and Sherman Katie Sue to Sanborn, Keith D. and Sanborn…
What’s in a name? The Bath Antique Show and Sale, an antiques market held during the winter months, is making a change: it is dropping the word “Show” from its title. Why? Promoter Paul Fuller…
“Mason Station LLC paid the taxes on the former Mason Station, $220,834.50,” Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson reports in an email to news media Thursday afternoon. The 4:29 p.m., Dec. 22…
If Wiscasset wins as much as $550,000 for cleanup, the 20-percent local match would be a cheap price to make some former Mason Station lots fit for use, an engineer said Dec. 14.
In-kind…
A photographer and a mixed media photographer are showing their work on the walls of Atlantic Motorcar (AMC) until March. AMC offers art space for artists creating with watercolor, print, acrylic…
Brook Hoerner is a serious artist who makes some seriously curious things — things like jellyfish and gold dinosaur air planters, and copper-covered (real) honeybee…
Rising Tide Community Market is gearing up for its holiday season Member-Owner Appreciation Week, Saturday, Dec. 10…
A local oyster farm is expanding its operation along the Damariscotta River. Glidden Point Oyster Farm, which owns one operation on 707 River Road in Edgecomb, has purchased a second.
On Dec…
Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop, now on Elm Street in downtown Damariscotta, will move during January to a new, more spacious location.
Its new home is located a short distance from the…
Forget the malls; forget the big box stores. Instead, shop for all your holiday gifts at the sumptuously beautiful stores and galleries in Wiscasset Village on Route 1, just before the Donald E.…
Wiscasset Planning Board
No Wiscasset residents turned out Monday night to ask about, or comment on, the proposed update to the Clark’s Point subdivision. But in the minutes before the planning board took a set of…
The Saturday afternoon portion of the Wiscasset Holiday Marketplace Dec. 7 - 10 will have the Downeast…
Do you need a jacket altered? A dress hemmed? A new zipper sewn into a winter coat? A couch cushion re-covered? A wedding dress taken in or designed and made from…
Hundreds of shoppers, from the peninsula and beyond showed up in the pre-dawn hours for the 2016 Early Bird Sale in Boothbay Harbor on Saturday Nov. 19. Many were first-time shoppers in the harbor…
The town of Wiscasset has gained a few new shops over the past year, making it an even better destination for holiday shopping than it's been in the past.
And merchants, with help from the…
Making the Wiscasset Early Riser sale pre-dawn on Saturday was not a problem for Boothbay Harbor’s Dave Bean. He…
The Bath Antiques Show and Sale kicks off its 28th season on Sunday, Nov. 13 at the Bath Middle School at 6 Old Brunswick Road in Bath, Maine.
Bill and Ruth Garland have been…
Wiscasset Early Riser
Al Cohen has been doing a yearly early bird sale at Big Al’s on Route One since 1988. On Saturday, Nov. 12, for Cohen and other participating merchants, the tradition of the Wiscasset Early Riser…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens did something so wondrous last year it attracted 36,000 visitors, most of whom would never have ventured onto the Boothbay peninsula…
For the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s premiere scarecrow contest, Wiscasset Ford staff thought a hunter scarecrow would be a good Maine theme and would go with the trucks the Route One…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) continues their annual Environmental Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 3 at the Maine Maritime Museum starring energetic innovators doing aquaculture in Maine…
The second annual Vacation Rental Professionals of Maine (VRPOMe) Educational Meeting will be held Thursday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to…
Red Cloak Haunted History Tours celebrates 10 years
DAMARISCOTTA — If you happen to see a mysterious figure in a red cloak wandering through a cemetery in the weeks leading up to Halloween, do not be alarmed. Her name is Sally.
Ten years ago…
Seawicks Candle Company has added a new candle to its iconic collection.
The new Maine candle was launched on Saturday, Oct. 15. It…
The Early Bird saves the cash on Saturday, Nov. 5, from 6 to 9 a.m., when local shops and restaurants throughout the Damariscotta region open their doors early to…
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This Wiscasset Newspaper paperboy scarecrow smiling at motorists from the Ames True Value Supply lawn is part of the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s first-ever…
Selectmen spent 42 minutes in a closed-door session about the former Wiscasset Primary School Monday night, then returned to open session and announced they were taking no action.
The…
