In 2023, Wiscasset and other towns dealt with how to get and keep workers, improve residents’ and businesses’ internet access and, in Wiscasset’s case, how to protect the wastewater treatment plant from the rising water of climate change.
With the onset of the summer boating season, Wiscasset is developing a Volunteer Dock Master Program to assist the town’s harbormaster and police chief, Larry Hesseltine. Approved by the waterfront committee and the selectboard, the volunteers will.