Miss Wiscasset Diner co-owners Mark Suarez and Robert Harris expect some of their first customers Saturday morning, Nov. 14, will be women wanting a good meal to shop on.
There will also be…
Commerce
Three local nonprofit organizations recently received donations from Rising Tide Community Market’s Co-ops for Community Day program. Co-ops for Community Day…
The annual fall half-price sale at Skidompha Second Hand Book Shop in Damariscotta will take place from Wednesday, November 11 through Saturday, November 14.
The shop is located in “The Red…
Wiscasset Planning Board
ReVision Energy will build a solar farm at Morris Farm regardless of whether a ninth member is found to…
Dennis Hilton, a Damariscotta native who has owned Newcastle Square Realty for almost 20 years, has assumed management responsibilities within the company following…
Three Early Birds will win more than fantastic bargains and exciting specials this Sat., Nov. 7.
When the Damariscotta…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce
A chamber of commerce is a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses.…
In celebration of the Edgecomb Thrift Shop's 10-year anniversary of service to our communities this month, everything in stock will be offered at 50 percent off.
It all started in early…
The Early Bird saves the cash on Saturday, November 7, from 6 to 9 a.m. , when shops and restaurants throughout the Damariscotta Region open their doors early to…
Clamming has been good in Wiscasset this year, very good.
A few years ago, one or one and a half bushels would have been a digger’s likely take from a tide, Wiscasset Shellfish Committee…
Gordon and Lynne Kontrath were recording the Patriots-Jets game Sunday afternoon to avoid missing the end, in case it came when Maine Eastern Railroad’s Brunswick-Rockland excursion was making its…
Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC), the parent company of Camden National Bank, completed its acquisition of SBM…
As Gardiner Road, Wiscasset travelers might have noticed Oct. 14 and 15, a contractor was replacing part of the roof on Morris Farm’s circa 1840 barn. But passersby won’t be seeing some of the new…
Since its inception, business at Watershed Tavern and Boothbay Craft Brewery on Adams Pond Road has been booming. Now, a new national ad campaign is…
Coastal Enterprises’ (CEI) founder and Chief Executive Officer Ron Phillips was feeling like the captain of a ship Oct. 15.
“I want to be the last one off,” he said.
On Oct. 15 and 16…
The Cod Cove Inn in Edgecomb will remain open throughout the winter months, according to innkeeper Ted Hugger.
“In 2014, we experimented keeping the inn open year round. Our first winter…
Sherman’s Books & Stationery Stores has entered into an agreement with Susan and Barnaby Porter…
Look for a meeting this fall to explore how downtown Wiscasset might once again become a neighborhood where people can buy their groceries.
Local business owner Lucia Droby and Lincoln…
Amy and Mike Preston have no regrets about buying The Alna Store in 2004. They love the town and the people, and business has been good, Amy Preston said. But the couple has been thinking about…
Lisa Evans and Tim Smith have been growing microgreens in their greenhouse in Roslindale, Massachusetts, since January, ever since Evans…
Maine-OK Enterprises, Inc. has sold the Wiscasset Newspaper's office at 47 Gardiner Road to The First NA.
Expect the same coverage of municipal, school, sports, business, church, human…
The Wiscasset Municipal Airport Advisory Committee on Sept. 16 took issue with airport manager Frank Costa’s handling of a recent flying complaint. Members questioned Costa’s writing of a letter…
Lincoln County Superior Court
A Wiscasset couple continues to challenge the town’s approval of fireworks storage near their home.
A brief filed by Thomas and Kathleen Bryant and new ones filed in response by the town, Al…
Alna Selectmen
When an Alna Fire Department utility truck went up for sale earlier this summer, a Craigslist ad drew 35 sealed bids. The winning one came in $71 higher than the $10,000 Fire Chief Mike Trask had…
Wiscasset Planning Board
No sticking points emerged Monday night when the Wiscasset Planning Board heard the early details of a proposed…
The prospect of environmental cleanup at Mason Station is being be dusted off once more.
Wiscasset officials are eyeing regional and federal help in figuring out what needs to be done, just…
Home sales continue to rise at impressive rates across the state of Maine.
Maine Listings announced August 20 that…
Christine Schweighauser calls herself a legend in her own mind.
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The work that a lab is lining up for Peregrine Turbine Technologies (PTT) stands to bring in about $15 million to the Wiscasset firm, co-founder David Stapp said. But Stapp, of Bremen, said that…
For anyone looking for something a little out of the ordinary to do while visiting Boothbay Harbor, Cabbage Island Clambakes is a destination that defies the mundane.…
For anyone interested in a little palm or tarot reading, there is a woman in Boothbay Harbor with a natural born talent for seeing into people's deepest psyches.
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Damariscotta had a look at its potential future Wednesday, July 29.
Although nothing has yet been decided, the board of selectmen, along with business owners and town officials, met with…
Alna Selectmen
Proposed new values on Central Maine Power property in Alna would cut other taxpayers’ bills by hundreds of dollars each, starting this year, according to town officials.
Hiring the expert…
Ribbon-cutting at Wiscasset Village Antiques
After Wiscasset Village Antiques’ owners cut a ribbon on the business at 536 Bath Road on July 24, manager Sparky Lindsey said she was feeling like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Lindsey…
Wiscasset Primary School and the Mason Station properties are now in the hands of a local real estate agent to try to sell.
The school property will be listed at $895,000, Sherri Dunbar of…
Wiscasset Town Planner Jamel Torres is trying to help make prospective businesses aware of what’s on the market in town.
Torres, who…
In the two months since Vincent and Sally Thibeault went public with their plans for a family entertainment complex on Gardiner Road, the Wiscasset couple have been taking steps toward getting it…
Anna Jansen just wants to make bread, and she hopes people will buy it.
A classically trained chef and baker, Jansen graduated first…
Joe Lane is a multi-generation lobsterman. He said his lobstering ancestors probably date back to when fishermen started fishing for lobsters.
Lane said his father’s family came from England…
There's a new kitchen in town. It’s not in a restaurant, it’s not in a take-out concession stand, and it’s not in someone's home.
This…
Wiscasset Selectmen
If Desiree Bailey’s idea comes to fruition, the Wiscasset Primary School building will become a holistic health and healing center, salon and day spa attracting clients from around the country.…
When Sumner and Pam Price Richards moved to Damariscotta in 1985, they had no clue that they would be starting a business that would survive for 25 years.
"I had an idea to open up an old-…
The Carmolli family have experienced the sweet taste of success for four decades making fudge and taffy. Dave and Pat Carmolli began Downeast Candies in 1974 almost as an afterthought.
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When then 20-year-old Keith Wass took over his ex-wife’s uncle’s hot dog stand in Rockland in 1972, he was studying psychology in college.
The owner of the newest branch of Wasses Hot Dogs…
On Aug. 8 and 9 at Wiscasset Community Center, Wiscasset Rod & Gun Club will hold an event that club president Ed Goud hopes will become an annual one. The half-century-old club will host its…
Nearly all the reaction Vincent Thibeault has read and heard about his and wife Sally Thibeault’s plans for an entertainment complex has been positive.
“It’s very promising,” he said May 13…
Could tenpin bowling be coming to Wiscasset? How about six lanes, along with indoor batting cages, billiards, virtual golf, video gaming, a dance club, an ice cream shop and dining, all in a two-…
James Simmons, a 40-year-old lobsterman from Friendship who had all of his commercial fishing licenses suspended in February for two years by the Department of…
Wiscasset Ordinance Review Committee
Light industry would bring jobs to Wiscasset without some of the impact heavy industry can have, members of the town’s ordinance review committee said April 27. The committee and Town Planner…
Coastal Enterprises (CEI) has hired David Wedick of South Portland to become its new chief financial officer, starting May 18.
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