In a special meeting Tuesday, Nov. 22, the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted to shorten the standard 85-day time frame for municipal elections to fill the vacancy on the board created by a recent resignation as quickly as possible.

There were a variety of complex interests involved in the 2014 Farm Bill, which will allocate about $466 billion over a five-year period to U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation, food-assistance, and agricultural programs, U.S. Rep Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said during a forum at The Morris Farm in Wiscasset on Friday, Nov. 18.

There are tennis courts, a freshwater pond, a deepwater dock, a community building, and community gardens along the Sheepscot River in the Clark’s Point Development in Wiscasset. However, there are only two finished homes on the 200 acres on River Point Road that have long been slated for development.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to find a permanent home for spent nuclear fuel, is “creating energy that is very positive,” said Marge Kilkelly, senior policy advisor to U.S. Sen. Angus King.

The outstanding performance of the responders to an emergency call at Two Bridges Regional Jail on Sunday, Oct. 16 saved an inmate’s life, Wiscasset Ambulance Service Director Toby Martin said.

Wiscasset resident Nathan Panarese, a 2014 graduate of Wiscasset High School, was studying electrical engineering at the University of Maine at Orono when he was diagnosed with leukemia about a year ago.

For unknown reasons, a Kennebec County inmate suffered a severe medical emergency while at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset and became unresponsive the morning of Sunday, Oct. 16, said Capt. James Bailey, acting jail administrator.