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Westport Island selectmen have added a town meeting question Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said would update computer programs, add storage and provide software backup and, for all computers, “advanced threat protection.” “It’s been a while.
Early voting starts next week
SUSAN JOHNS Tue, 05/04/2021 - 8:00am
Jacob Carver, 10, right, foists the American flag at Westport Island’s town office. With him is Stephen Coombs; behind Coombs, Bill Miller. Courtesy of Gaye Wagner
Courtesy of Gaye Wagner
Westport Island town office’s American flag is back flying for the first time in at least five years, Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said. In Monday night’s UberConference call selectmen’s meeting and an email afterward, Wagner described a group effort to raise the flag.
“The halyard was broken, and the pole is steel and very heavy. Those previously asked about a fix said special equipment was needed to fix the pole in place,” Wagner wrote. “Westport Island resident Bill Miller was determined that the flag would fly once again and enlisted his friend Stephen Coombs from Massachusetts to make it happen. They, in turn, enlisted 10-year old onlooker Jacob Carver to assist. Jacob helped lift the pole an
SUSAN JOHNS Tue, 02/09/2021 - 8:45am
In Westport Island’s latest move to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the town website at westportisland.us is getting a calendar. Via UberConference Monday night, selectmen agreed to hire Pedro Guimaraes of Willow Light Studio in Westport Island for $80 to set up the calendar. He designed the town website, Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said.
Due to the pandemic, not everyone has ready access to the town office’s paper calendar that lists meeting dates and town hall reservations, Wagner said.
“I think it’s a good idea,” First Selectman George Richardson said of the online one.
Wed, 12/30/2020 - 9:00am
If ever a year did not need an extra week, 2020 would be right up there. But for a weekly paper, depending on how the Thursdays fall, we get a 53rd edition. As we plan and execute it, we call it Week 53. That’s right.
Our last Week 53 was in 2015.
The Dec. 31, 2015 editions of Wiscasset Newspaper and Boothbay Register were, as usual in a week’s coverage, full of good and bad news and some news where good or bad depended on the reader’s stance. Five years ago this extra week, these were some of our headlines: