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Wiscasset municipal building. File photo
Selectmen and other residents debated Tuesday night over a proposed plaque honoring a poet-civil rights advocate who died in a 1938 Wiscasset car-train crash. The board voted 3-2 to have resident Lucia Droby get the board a cost to consider giving voters to decide in an already anticipated special town meeting this summer.
“(James Weldon Johnson) was doing his work during the Jim Crow era (when) it was very dangerous to be a person of color, particularly a black man, and he devoted his life to serving his arts but also to struggling for racial justice, and we’re in a moment that values that effort,” Droby said in the Zoom meeting.
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Downtown Wiscasset crumbling brick façade repair cost, timeline remain uncertain
Questions about what caused the brick façade of the 163-year-old Wawenock Block building in downtown Wiscasset to crumble and how long the repairs will take remain unknown nearly one month after the incident.
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The owners of the Wawwnock Block in downtown Wiscasset doesn’t know how long it will take to repair the building’s brick façade after it unexpectedly crumbled earlier this month.
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Contractors are working to stabilize the façade of a downtown Wiscasset building after a layer of bricks peeled off and crumbled to the sidewalk below earlier this month, but the exact cause of the collapse and how long repairs will take remain unknown.
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