Wiscasset Ambulance Service Director Toby Martin, anticipating a future consolidation of the ambulance service and the Wiscasset Fire Department, is purchasing personal protective gear that will meet the needs of both departments.

The Wiscasset School Department’s proposed $1.75 million energy conservation performance contract, the town planner’s budget, and two social service requests were voted down at Wiscasset’s annual town meeting by referendum Tuesday, June 13.

Wiscasset voters will lay to rest the issue that has divided the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen and Wiscasset School Committee at the annual town meeting by referendum Tuesday, June 13. Voters will decide whether to authorize the Wiscasset School Department to enter into a $1.75 million energy conservation performance contract with Siemens Inc., to be funded through either a lease-purchase agreement or a bond.

Route 1 and Route 27 in Edgecomb could become a “Florida T” intersection. The Maine Department of Transportation is in the preliminary engineering phase of a redesign of the intersection. DOT Project Manager Ernie Martin attended the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen’s Monday, June 5 meeting to walk the public through the department’s plans.

Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets launched four years ago as a walking tour of the town’s heritage with panels at 29 stops detailing historic locations in the village. Visitors can now take the tour from a car, or even a couch, with a new app, said Ed Kavanagh, chair of Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets Committee.

There is tremendous activism to elect representatives who stand for less government, lower taxes, and civil liberties during election season, “but then we tend to walk away and hope for the best,” said Mike Quatrano, director of civic engagement at the Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank.

Few customers attended the Wiscasset Water District’s public hearing Tuesday, May 23 to hear the rationale behind the district’s proposal to implement sharp rate increases over the next two years.

Two rescue dogs will be more likely to find new homes after their graduation from Beyond the Bars, a new dog obedience program at Two Bridges Regional Jail.

There were several attempts to amend RSU 12’s $21.46 million budget during the district’s annual budget meeting at Chelsea Elementary School on Thursday, May 18, but voters defeated those motions and approved the 2017-2018 budget as presented.

The courtroom at West Bath District Court was full Friday, May 19 with family, friends, and colleagues who turned out to watch Jonathan Liberman take the oath of office as the district attorney for Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and Waldo counties.

Fire destroyed a mobile home in Waldoboro early Saturday, May 20, displacing two residents. Kathy Harriman and Douglas Barter rented the home at 4 Brookside Mobile Home Park, off Route 220, but were out of state at the time of the fire, neighbors said.

With only scattered votes in opposition, the Wiscasset School Department’s $9.45 million budget for 2017-2018 met with voter approval at the district’s annual budget meeting Monday, May 15.