Dennis Simmon News Today

With National Volunteer Week this week, Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ April 16 reading of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ letter honoring Katharine Martin-Savage’s posthumous receipt of the “Spirit of America” award was timely. The...

With National Volunteer Week this week, Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ April 16 reading of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ letter honoring Katharine Martin-Savage’s posthumous receipt of the “Spirit of America” award was timely. The...

In 2023, Wiscasset and other towns dealt with how to get and keep workers, improve residents’ and businesses’ internet access and, in Wiscasset’s case, how to protect the wastewater treatment plant from the rising water of climate change...

Something did not feel as peppy, Midcoast Railservice Vice President and co-founder George Betke recalled an engineer saying after the last Coastliner passenger run in October, a Damariscotta Pumpkinfest excursion. Turned out, there was a problem...

Wawenock LLC expects masonry work to be finished next March on its Main Street, Wiscasset building that shed hundreds of bricks in April 2021. Wawenock’s latest update to the town follows Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ admonishing letter the...

Wiscasset selectmen agreed 5-0 Feb. 21 to send the ordinance review committee a proposed change for public safety agencies’ free use of communications towers. According to Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ email to the board hours earlier, and the...

What will it take for Maine Yankee’s nuclear waste to leave Wiscasset? It will take the federal government meeting the responsibility it took on around 1950 to get, somewhere in the country, high-level, permanent storage, U.S. Senator Angus King, I...

In a 5-0 vote Thursday night, Sept. 8, Wiscasset selectmen set the tax rate at $20.08 per $1,000 of assessed valuation – the same rate as last year. To do it, they took $275,000 from the fund balance. According to the discussion at the town office...

Wiscasset Selectmen’s Chair Sarah Whitfield on Nov. 2 called the planned housing at the former Wiscasset Primary School exciting news. And Selectman Terry Heller said she looked forward to a lot of people being in the Nov. 16, Zoom public hearing, “...

In a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, Oct. 19, Wiscasset selectmen passed MSD Wiscasset , LLC ’s $28,000 a year lease of Wiscasset Municipal Airport land for a 20-acre solar project. Selectman Kim Andersson said she was satisfied it is a good deal, two years...