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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.
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Sharon Jacques with daughter Haley. Courtesy of Sharon Jacques
Sharon Jacques said she and her daughter would like Wiscasset to have this boat and trailer, to use or sell, to help save lives. Courtesy of Sharon Jacques
Sharon Jacques said her family made a lot of good memories on its 1988 Cobia bowrider
Haley Morgan. And Jacques, husband Corey and their daughter Haley, the boat’s namesake, were having a beautiful day with friends on Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson July 9, 2017. Then he had a sudden, and fatal, cardiac event.
Maybe having an automated external defibrillator (AED) on board would have made a difference, or not, the Wiscasset woman said in a phone interview April 15. But boats do not tend to carry them, because AED’s cost a lot, she said.
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March 26, 2001 in Edgecomb, Carol Daigneault’s northbound SUV was turning from Route 1 onto Route 27 when the car hit black ice and tipped onto its side, smashing Daigneault’s arm through the driver’s side window and pinning it under the car. “After a few futile attempts to call into the blackness for help, I lost consciousness,” the Rockport woman writes in a new letter to Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford and the department.
Daigneault’s letter came with a $1,000 donation to the department.
Bickford received the letter and donation in the mail March 29. Responding to questions from Wiscasset Newspaper April 2, Bickford said, “I was surprised to read about how the event still affected her 20 years later. We haven’t yet discussed what we will use the money for but will use it exactly as she wishes.”
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.
Mike Alexander has been appointed as the new chair of the The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales THE Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW) will be appointing Mike Alexander as new chairperson of the trust at its AGM today (Thursday). Mike has a long interest and career in nature conservation spending a year as assistant warden on (WTSWW s) Skokholm in 1966, and later as the Skomer warden for 10 years. Leaving the islands in 1985 he was appointed Warden of five national nature reserves in north Wales. He was one of the founders and is currently the chairman of PONT, an organisation established to build the essential bridges primarily between nature conservation and farmers in Wales.