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In about two weeks, a draft marijuana ordinance could be ready to send Wiscasset selectmen for a first look. “It’s not a finished product, but it could be,” Ordinance Review Committee Vice Chair Al Cohen told participants in Monday night’s Zoom...
Smoking and inside fires might be out and bounce houses, pets, alcohol and more might, in some cases, be in. Over Zoom Monday night, Wiscasset’s ordinance review committee talked about what to let users of town property have and do. Selectmen want a...
“Well, we missed it, didn’t we?” Opening the Wiscasset ordinance review committee meeting on Zoom Monday night, Chair Karl Olson was referring to the April 3 fall of hundreds of a building’s bricks onto a downtown sidewalk where, days before the...
No more office? COVID may have changed some in Maine to 'work from home' Some Maine companies plan to restructure work styles indefinitely. NEWS CENTER Maine's Hannah Dineen reports this Thursday at 6p. Author: Hannah Dineen (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 11:58 AM EDT April 12, 2021 Updated: 12:18 PM EDT April 12, 2021 MAINE, Maine — Since March of 2020, the daily commute for many Mainers has been but a few steps as we shifted to working from home either part or full time because of the COVID pandemic. For some Maine companies, the work-from...
July 4 fireworks, May 8 plant sale are on SUSAN JOHNS Thu, 03/04/2021 - 8:30am The ancient cemetery along Wiscasset’s Federal Street March 9. Plans call for removing the fence around it. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons, top left, talks generators with selectmen March 2. Zoom screenshot Most firms bid more on four generators for Wiscasset’s pump stations than the $100,000 budgeted, and that was not the only issue Town Manager Dennis Simmons noted on Zoom March 2 when he unsealed the bids: IEC Electrical Data and Services of Strong, $204,537; ...