Rob Lalli News Today

Wiscasset has big decisions ahead, including where to move the sewer plant, and what to plan on every front, from education to economic development, via the next comprehensive plan. Kudos to those involved in both efforts for asking people early on...

One way to help keep the principal intact on Wiscasset’s capital reserve might be to lease, not buy, some of the smaller vehicles needed such as cruisers, Town Manager Dennis Simmons told selectmen and the budget committee Saturday morning, Feb. 17...

The Wiscasset Select Board held a special meeting Thursday, Nov. 9 to discuss issues regarding the future of the town’s wastewater treatment plant. William Olver, of Olver Associates Inc., a civil engineering firm based in Winterport, gave the board...

“Statistically, students are six months to a year behind where they normally would be due to COVID and the impact it has had on schools and student learning,” Lucy Preston, Wiscasset School Department math interventionist, told the school committee...

From sewer needs, would-be waterfront and Whites Island projects, the ash ponds cleanup, Wawenock block repairs and Optimus Senior Housing, to the first James Weldon Johnson Day, Wiscasset rallying for a teacher’s child who had a stroke, the airport...

Wiscasset selectmen Dec. 6 agreed to tap American Rescue Plan Act funds for up to $75,000 in light-emitting diode (LED) street lights. The lights will save the town about $30,000 a year in power costs and would have paid for themselves by now if put...

“Should we stay or should we go?” Wiscasset Wastewater Superintendent Rob Lalli said Sept. 29, the options of building a wall and taking other steps, versus moving the plant – and, if so, where, at what cost, and how much government aid there might...

Wiscasset selectmen passed the new sewer rates June 21, after department superintendent Rob Lalli explained how revenue can rise 46% with most rates rising by about half that. Via Zoom, Lalli told the meeting at the town office, only one rate will...

A hired firm’s document Wiscasset released in advance of the June 7 selectmen’s meeting raises the idea of moving the wastewater treatment plant, maybe to Federal Street or Mason Station. The point would be to address sea level rise and to replace...

Time to stop kicking the can down the road and start having the sewer department’s revenues meet costs, town officials said May 3. They used the can-kicking analogy multiple times, including on the prospect of raising rates. A report Maine Rural...