I’m feeling nostalgic this afternoon, so I’m turning the calendar back to the spring of 1979, just a few weeks after I joined the staff of the Wiscasset Newspaper, now known as the Boothbay Register-Wiscasset Newspaper. Back then the paper cost 25.
Wiscasset’s June 14 town election will have contested races for the select board and school committee. No nomination papers were taken out for budget committee. Turning in nomination papers for three, two-year seats on the select board by the.
Edgecomb selectmen received only one bid Oct. 4 for the foreclosed Gleason Lane property. Abutters Mark and Andrea Kelley submitted a $25,555.51 bid which selectmen accepted, 2-0. Selectman Mike Smith, who is also a property abutter, abstained.
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Wiscasset voters take up a proposed $6,116,034 municipal budget Tuesday, June 8. The sum is $249,575 higher than the 2020-21 budget, Town Manager Dennis Simmons said in a May 28 email response to questions.
Simmons said leading factors in the increase include the 2.5% wage hike for all employees except the police department, whose union contract is not yet settled. “We are also requesting the addition of one full-time police officer, though we are applying for a grant to pay for 75% of the wages and fringe benefits.”
The town saw an increase in water rates and hydrant rentals, Simmons continued; and selectmen are requesting an increase in their contingency from $30,000 to $50,000.