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Requests for the use of Wiscasset’s capital reserve funds include spending $800,000 to buy a new fire truck and setting aside $300,000 for a planned town-wide property revaluation. Selectmen reviewed the list when they met with the budget committee.
Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford’s December report, released ahead of this week’s selectmen’s meeting, contains winter home safety tips worth our passing along. One is to keep chimneys and all venting clean. The department had two chimney fire.
The scarecrows returned to the lawn of Wiscasset’s municipal building Saturday at the annual Scarecrowfest, co-sponsored this year by Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce and the Parks and Recreation Department. “It’s not our biggest event but it is.