Following an idea Town Manager Dennis Simmons received Monday from Wiscasset Ambulance Service Director Erin Bean, selectmen Monday night pulled from the draft June 11 ballot a question on selling Scout Hall. Residents in a straw vote last June.
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.
In 2023, Wiscasset and other towns dealt with how to get and keep workers, improve residents’ and businesses’ internet access and, in Wiscasset’s case, how to protect the wastewater treatment plant from the rising water of climate change.
Just out of a briefing with Wiscasset Police Chief Lawrence Hesseltine Thursday morning in connection with last night’s mass shootings in Lewiston, Town Manager Dennis Simmons, a paramedic and past head of Wiscasset Ambulance Service, said the town.
Citing some costs that are climbing and others that might climb, Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons got selectmen’s OK Oct. 3 to carry forward hundreds of thousands of unspent dollars from departments’ 2022-23 budgets to this year’s. That money.