Wed, 12/30/2020 - 8:45am
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:
Tue, 12/22/2020 - 8:45am
Which is the higher priority, a plowed fire station or plowed roads? Westport Island officials pondered that question in selectmen’s UberConference call Monday night. The question stemmed from the Dec. 17 snowstorm, when, according to officials, snow was falling at two to three inches an hour and the town’s plowing contractor, G & D Cromwell, had some equipment problems.
Second Selectman Gerald Bodmer said the fire department tends to all emergencies and should be the first priority to keep clear of snow. “It is critical to have that open.”
“Yeah, you really can’t do that,” Third Selectman Ross Norton said. He said the fire trucks can get out of the station in over a foot of snow, but the department and the island need the roads cleared.