PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Sat, 05/15/2021 - 8:45am
Selectmen, from left, Katharine Martin-Savage, Sarah Whitfield and Kim Andersson, Town Manager Dennis Simmons and Chairman Pam Dunning listen to a final presentation on the proposed solar farm. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Former selectman Ed Polewarczyk, left, and David Stapp of Peregrine Turbine Technologies, LLC. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Stapp’s workshop at Peregrine Turbine Technologies, LLC. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
David Stapp of Peregrine Turbine Technologies, LLC gives a tour at his research facility at Wiscasset Municipal Airport. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Wiscasset select board received a final briefing Thursday evening, May 13 at Wiscasset Municipal Airport on a proposed five-megawatt solar project there. Voters will decide June 8 if they want the town to enter into negotiations to lease property to Cenergy of Carlsbad, California.
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.
Kathleen O’Brien / The Times Record
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.
SUSAN JOHNS Wed, 04/21/2021 - 8:45am
Wiscasset officials and other attendees take part in selectmen’s April 20 Zoom meeting. Zoom screenshot
Over Zoom and Youtube Tuesday night, April 20, Wiscasset selectmen listened to, praised and talked about acting soon on teenagers’ request the town help address climate change.
“Wiscasset is an amazing place. It’s beautiful. But we need to keep it that way,” Wiscasset Middle High School freshman Grace Greene said. The new WMHS group, Sheepscot Climate Action Club, was Greene’s idea, teacher Ralph Keyes said. Keyes, fellow teachers Brad Lopes and Seth Platikus, and 2020 WMHS graduate Maria West advise the club. Greene’s fellow members are freshmen Julia Truesdell, Emily Gilliam, Nevaeh Campbell and Linnea Andersson, homeschool student Bri Wright, senior Ty DeLong and junior Brianna Colson.
PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Sat, 04/03/2021 - 6:00pm
Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford at the scene after part of the Wawenock building collapsed April 3. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset newspaper
Hundreds of bricks fell when the wall gave way Saturday afternoon. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Public Works Director Ted Snowdon, center. Also pictured are Officer Nathan Willhoite and Earl Babcock. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
People gather on Main Street to see the damage to the Wawenock building. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wawenock building damage. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
No injuries were reported after part of the Wawenock block collapsed Saturday afternoon showering hundreds of bricks onto the Main Street, Wiscasset sidewalk in front of the historic building.
An “awful lot” of Wiscasset’s wastewater treatment equipment is decaying, the plant’s superintendent, Robert Lalli, told selectmen March 9. The board looked at $220,000 in proposed capital spending for the department, including replacing a 1994 dump.