Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest 2023 is planned from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Saturday, Dec. 1-3. New this year is a Santa’s Workshop for families, a Christmas Cookie Challenge for bakers, a wreath-making demonstration, and workshops for holiday decoration making, according to a news release from Lucia Droby for Marketfest. Familiar features return, such […]
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$1.6 million on the line for Wiscasset in dispute over nuclear waste facility
A state statute rewards companies for limiting pollution at the cost of the towns where they’re located. For Wiscasset, the price tag could be in the millions.
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Posted inLocal & State, Times Record
Wiscasset schools superintendent calls for principal’s firing
Gina Stevens, principal of Wiscasset Middle High School, was accused of improperly authorizing the installation of a hidden camera, indefinitely removing a student against policy, mistreating students and failing to communicate with the superintendent. Stevens denies any wrongdoing.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Agency to fork up nearly $200,000 for shielding public records related to Kennebec County jail
The Maine County Commissioners Association Risk Pool is the first government entity in Maine to be penalized for wrongly withholding documents since the Freedom of Access Act became law in 1959.
Posted inTimes Record
Future of Wiscasset principal placed on leave to be discussed at meeting
Gina Stevens, principal of Wiscasset Middle High School, was placed on leave over a camera she said was installed after the school’s food pantry kept getting broken into.
Posted inLocal & State, Times Record
Wiscasset principal placed on leave over ‘hidden’ pantry camera
Gina Stevens, principal of Wiscasset Middle High School, said the camera was installed after the food pantry was broken into several times. ‘I have done nothing wrong,’ she said.
Posted inTimes Record
Report: Wiscasset principal placed on paid leave
Gina Stevens was named principal of Wiscasset Middle High School in March.
Posted inTimes Record
Coastliner excursion train to make another run through Bath, Wiscasset, Newcastle
The debut of the Coastliner’s Brunswick-Rockland weekend service has been delayed as operator Midcoast Railservice works out logistics.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime
Chelsea woman charged with helping boyfriend evade arrest before police fatally shot him
Police say Annie McKechnie, 22, helped Frank Foss Jr. avoid arrest weeks before his death.
Posted inCommunity, Kennebec Journal
Year’s last Wiscasset Art Walk set for Sept. 28
WISCASSET — The community is invited to “Hold Back the Night”at a contra dance during Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, Sept. 28. WAW runs from 5-8 p.m. with the dance party beginning around 6:30 p.m. under the tent on Water Street in Wiscasset Village. Contra dance band T-Acadie will play the tunes and call the […]