A group of community-minded volunteers are in the early stages of planning the return of Wiscasset’s Schoonerfest, celebration of the town’s seafaring past and present-day working waterfront. Schoonerfest is being shortened to a one-day event. “.
In January, I received an email from Ryan Gahagan, president of Mason Station Redevelopment Company LLC, based in Portland. His comments were in response to publication of a column I’d written about the former power station that faces Wiscasset.
Please join us at Wiscasset Community Center for a spaghetti dinner fundraiser on Feb. 28. Willow Orr is 11 years old and recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder. ANCA is an autoimmune disease affecting small blood vessels in the body.
Let’s turn our attention to the town of Edgecomb where our neighbors across the Sheepscot River are celebrating their town’s 250th birthday. Mark your calendar: A town-wide birthday party is planned for Sunday afternoon, March 3 at Edgecomb Town.
Not so long ago, Maine winters were a lot colder. Around this time of year the mercury would plunge far below freezing and stay that way for days, sometimes weeks even here on the coast. Around the end of December anglers would haul out their wooden.