The Wiscasset Fire Department is preparing a petition to bring the question of whether volunteer firefighters can wash their personal vehicles at the station to a townwide vote. While the language on the petition is still in development, community members are already calling the fire station to ask where they can sign, Fire Chief T.J. Merry said.

The Illinois city of Zion has asked Wiscasset to back federal legislation that would compensate municipalities where spent nuclear fuel is stored.

Northy Bridge on Howe Road, which the Maine Department of Transportation closed with less than a week’s notice in December 2015, will be removed by November, and those plans are non-negotiable, Maine Department of Transportation officials said.

Despite a last-minute plea from downtown business owners, the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to move forward with the Maine Department of Transportation’s option 2 to alleviate traffic congestion in Wiscasset at its Monday, June 20 meeting.

Wiscasset School Committee Chair Steve Smith called his last meeting to order June 15. With the meeting ended a three-year term that oversaw the establishment of an independent school district.

The three outgoing Whitefield representatives on the RSU 12 Board of Directors have weathered several of the district’s trials. As board members Joan Morin, Malinda Caron, and Chair Hilary Holm depart, the three spoke of their experience on the board.

Despite claims of election irregularities and a last minute plea from downtown business owners to do nothing, the Wiscasset Selectboard voted unanimously to move forward with the Maine Department of Transportation’s option 2 to alleviate traffic congestion at their Monday, June 20 meeting.

By an overwhelming majority, Wiscasset voters sided with the Maine Department of Transportation on the three options presented to alleviate traffic congestion on Route 1. Option 2, which would eliminate on-street parking between the intersections of Middle Street and Water Street, garnered 426 votes in the non-binding referendum question on the annual town meeting warrant Tuesday, June 14.

After two tours of duty, Ben Leeman, a Bowdoin native, came home to financial insecurity, a divorce, and a series of service-related health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder.

A 77-year-old former Dresden man who fell victim to a “romance scam” and landed in a Spanish prison has been released and reunited with his family in the United States. Joseph Byron Martin is currently in Nevada with his son after serving nearly one year of a six-year prison sentence for drug smuggling in Madrid.

The question of whether Whitefield should adopt an elderly tax deferral ordinance has been presented to voters twice, and twice voters have said no. On a local ballot Tuesday, June 14, voters again rejected the elderly tax deferral ordinance, 150-137.