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.
On Saturday, Sept. 30, about 25 people looked on as Richard DeVries, chair of the Wright Landing Committee, unveiled a plaque to honor longtime, former selectman George Richardson as the “founding father” of Westport Island’s Wright Landing public.
Westport Island Select Board presented Westport Island's Spirit of America Award Monday night, jointly to History Committee Co-Chair and representative Jean Wilhelmsen-Exter and Wright Landing Committee Chair and representative Richard DeVries.