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SUSAN JOHNS Wiscasset municipal building. File photo Selectmen and other residents debated Tuesday night over a proposed plaque honoring a poet-civil rights advocate who died in a 1938 Wiscasset car-train crash. The board voted 3-2 to have resident Lucia Droby get the board a cost to consider giving voters to decide in an already anticipated special town meeting this summer. “(James Weldon Johnson) was doing his work during the Jim Crow era (when) it was very dangerous to be a person of color, particularly a black man, and he devoted his life to serving his arts but also to struggling for r...

‘Holy cannoli’: $15K gift for Parks and Rec SUSAN JOHNS File photo If Wiscasset voters agree in June, selectmen will have a committee explore options for the school department’s future. The warrant article arose from two split votes on Zoom Tuesday night, March 16. Selectmen rejected 3-2 a proposed question Town Manager Dennis Simmons offered. Its scope aligned with residents Judith Colby and William Maloney’s proposal that started this year’s talks. Simmons’ proposed question read: “Shall the Town authorize the Selectmen to form an ad hoc committee to study the financial impa...

An “awful lot” of Wiscasset’s wastewater treatment equipment is decaying, the plant’s superintendent, Robert Lalli, told selectmen March 9. The board looked at $220,000 in proposed capital spending for the department, including replacing a 1994 dump...

SUSAN JOHNS Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:45am Jeff Slack, lower left, gives a thumbs up Feb. 16 as fellow selectman Kim Andersson, next box over, comments, “People seek out public art installations.” Zoom screenshot Wiscasset selectmen received this photo and others, all taken elsewhere, as part of Lucia Droby’s yarn bombing proposal. Courtesy town of Wiscasset Wiscasset selectmen received this photo and others, all taken elsewhere, as part of Lucia Droby’s yarn bombing proposal. Courtesy town of Wiscasset The prospects for a colorful yarn exhibit, or yarn bombing, on Wiscasset’s m...

File photo Wiscasset selectmen plan to ask voters for a committee about education in town. Will the question call it a committee on schools’ future or come closer to residents Judy Colby and Bill Maloney’s proposed wording to evaluate the financial impact of tuitioning out the high school grades? The board was not sure Tuesday night, Feb. 16. But after member Jeff Slack reiterated he was seeking a vote that night to commit the board to proposing a committee to voters, Chair Pam Dunning said, “You don’t need to vote on it, Jeff. We’re all on board with working on this.”