Wiscasset News

At first glance, the scene at the Penobscot Salmon Club on Friday seemed like old times: Trucks packed the small parking lot.

Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 board Chair Hilary Holm looks on as incoming Superintendent Howard Tuttle speaks on May 9. By Dominik Lobkowicz Though two more chances for public input remain, the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 board of directors have approved a $26.5 million budget for the 2013-2014 school year.

By LCN Staff John Burbank, 34, of Jefferson, was arrested May 13, outside his Goose Hill Road home, after allegedly threatening a municipal road crew.

By Dominik Lobkowicz Edgecomb residents approved a $2.37 million dollar bond for work and paving on a number of town roads as well as paving five dirt roads at town meeting on May 11.

Windsor residents voted 193 to 21 to start the long process of separating from the Somerville-based district, which also includes Alna, Chelsea, Palermo, Westport Island, Whitefield and Wiscasset.

A man from Jefferson is in jail accused intimidating a road crew near his house, while holding a weapon, then instigating a standoff with police.

By Dominik Lobkowicz An accident that claimed the life of one man and injured two others in the early morning of May 11 is still under investigation, according to Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline.

Windsor would be the fourth of the district's eight towns to take such a vote, joining Wiscasset, Westport Island and Palermo.

One person was killed and two others injured in a motor vehicle crash early Saturday morning on the Westport Bridge Road.

A $26.5 million budget approved by the Regional School Unit 12 school board is nearly 3 percent higher than the current budget.

Members of the Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 board of directors raise their hands in favor of the draft withdrawal agreement.

By Dominik Lobkowicz Wiscasset Ambulance Service lost out to North East Mobile Health Services to provide emergency medical service to Woolwich, according to Town Administrator Lynette Eastman.

This vehicle was involved in a high speed chase with Wiscasset Police before it rolled over on Route 27 near Huntoon Hill Road.

Firefighters contain damage in Dresden DRESDEN - Firefighters from several communities were able to save a Middle Road home Tuesday after fire broke out in the basement.

Coastal Enterprises Inc., a private, nonprofit development corporation based in Wiscasset, has offered to purchase the Brunswick town office, police station and adjacent recreation buildings for an undisclosed amount of money with plans to build a new facility in which to consolidate its statewide offices.

Officers responded at 10:05 p.m. to an apartment shared by Damion Fincher, his 21-year-old girlfriend and her half-sister. The half-sister told police that Fincher was beating his girlfriend, Bath Police Lt.

By Dominik Lobkowicz The Wiscasset and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 withdrawal committees are nearing the end of their first series of negotiations and the RSU's board of directors will be presented the draft agreement on May 9. The two committees finalized discussions on the substance of the agreement at their meeting in Wiscasset May ... (more)

Bath police Sgt. Dan Couture and Patrolman Ted Raedel pulled over a car driven by 31-year-old David Loewen in the Amato's parking lot on Centre Street and arrested him on charges of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, namely heroin, according to a press release from Bath police Lt.

At the district's board of directors meeting April 11, Finance Committee Chair Jerry Nault said the district's current $25.75 million budget would need to increase by around $2 million dollars to continue operating as it does this year.

River Arts invites the public to the opening reception for its newest juried exhibition, "Dreams, Reverie and Reflection," Friday, May 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. Mat O'Donnell will be playing jazz guitar music during the opening of the show, which will runs through May 31.