The traffic signals are designed to remain green unless someone pushes a pedestrian crossing button or side street traffic on Water Street, Middle Street, or Route 27 triggers the signal sensors.
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Wiscasset Feed Our Scholars to host fundraising dinner
WISCASSET — Feed Our Scholars will hold its annual fundraising dinner, a pot luck recipe auction, at 5 p.m. in St. Philip’s Lippiat Hall, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset. Bring your favorite main dish, salad, side or dessert (or several) to the event for sampling, along with a printed or written copy of the recipe. Anyone […]
Maine DOT tests new downtown Wiscasset traffic lights
According to Paul Merril, MDOT spokesman, the new traffic lights on Route 1 are expected to go live the first week in April and remain active year-round.
Lincoln County spay/neuter program expanding
Thanks to a grant from the Wiscasset-based Elizabeth Ann Leach Charitable Trust, the Animal Welfare Society’s Cleo Fund is expanding its spay/neuter resources for residents of Lincoln County. Through a voucher system, the fund regularly offers reduced cost spay/neuter surgeries to income-qualified individuals statewide. Vouchers are given out on a first-come, first-served basis to qualifying […]
Alan Hawkins, esteemed former educator in South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, dies at 72
‘A giant of a man’ who overcame cancer and made kindness a priority is remembered by former students and colleagues.
Wiscasset man charged with breaking into home, barricading ex-girlfriend, children
The woman’s teenage son tried to defend his mother with stun gun, police say.
Maine Voices: ‘Good old boys club’ management has cost BIW its workers’ trust
If shipyard managers want productivity to rise and labor-hour costs to fall, they should look to the Golden Rule.
Sheepscot Chorus to sing “Missa Gaia” Earth Mass
WISCASSET — The Sheepscot Valley Chorus is preparing for an April performance of Paul Winter’s “Missa Gaia (Earth Mass): A Mass in Celebration of Mother Earth.” The first public rehearsal will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Congregational Church in Wiscasset. The performance of “Missa Gaia” celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth […]
Proposed county corrections bill seen as a long-term funding fix by Two Bridges boss
LD 973 requires the state to kick in money for inmates staying in county jails more than 9 months.
New brewery with Bath ties finds home in Wiscasset
Pepper Powers is moving his brewery with multiple Bath Iron Works-themed brews a few miles up Route 1 to Wiscasset.