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.
Alna selectmen on May 4 went with the low bidder for the next three years of plowing. Besides the savings, the board cited the job the contractor, Whitefield’s Mike Jewett, did in the 2022-23 winter, and the inclusion of subcontractors’ Ben Jewett.
After Alna selectmen opened two bids March 8 for alewife harvesting, one bidder, the town’s longtime contractor David Sutter, brought up the pandemic and said he “only assumed the town would honor that period of time for me.” First Selectman Ed.
The vote is on in Alna for the rest of the funds to cover a one-year, $325,000 plow deal after a Woolwich firm’s pullout last month. Selectmen Nov. 30 agreed on the warrant for a special town meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15 at the fire station.