The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to introduce a selection of Business Showcases throughout this Holiday season introducing you to businesses in the Wiscasset Area offering great services and unique gift ideas. 

As part of the Chamber’s Think Outside the Box promotion, each week several different Wiscasset area businesses will be showcased. Through the showcases you’ll have an opportunity to learn more about businesses in the area and the services available to you. 

In addition to weekly showcases featured in your local paper all showcases will be displayed on the Chamber’s website (wiscassetchamber.com), the Chamber’s Facebook page, and displays at the Wiscasset Community Center, Key Bank, and other area businesses. 

Think Outside the Box is a buy local promotion of the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce focused on helping area residents realize great shopping opportunities during the holiday season right here in the Wiscasset area. When we shop local we are strengthening our local economy, investing in our communities and supporting local families. Think differently this holiday season and shop the Wiscasset area!

Lincoln County Animal Shelter

The Boothbay Region Humane Society/Lincoln County Animal Shelter started in 1959 when a few dedicated individuals believed there could be a way to help abused, unwanted and abandoned animals in the area. This local business is a humane society, meaning they take in animals that need homes, whether they are strays or those that their humans can no longer care for. They primarily have kittens and cats, puppies and dogs, however you never know what you may find when you come in the door: rabbits, birds, guinea pigs and more.

Servicing 32 towns, Lincoln County Animal Shelter is the local animal shelter for Lincoln County. They have a large variety of colors and sizes of dogs and cats! The best way to find something special for yourself or someone in your life, is come by the shelter and learn about the facility. The Lincoln County Animal Shelter offers gift certificates for those looking to help find a furry or feathered friend during the holiday season. Monetary donations to the shelter or donations of pet food or accessories in the name of someone special make a wonderful gift as well. They also have t-shirts and sweatshirts, as well as some pet accessories, which make great gifts, too. Yearly memberships to this organization are offered and help support their facility all year long. You can also become a cage sponsor for one of the animals. To learn more about these great gift ideas stop by the shelter at 27 Atlantic Highway in Edgecomb or call 207-882-9677.

Lincoln County Animal Shelter is a nonprofit and has wonderful affiliates with many of the surrounding businesses including, but not limited to: Ames Supply, The Animal House, Coast Vet Care, Boothbay Animal Hospital, and Positively Best Friends. Occasionally, the shelter offers a rabies clinic for those that need to get their animals vaccinated, a pet pantry for those in need of help with dog or cat food, and they offer many events such as their upcoming Christmas Party with Santa for dogs on December 15.

Skip Cahill Tire

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Skip Cahill Tire is a family owned business that started in 1938 in Bath. David Cahill grew up around the gas and tire business, but went off to college after graduating from Morse High School. Upon graduation from UMF, Cahill left Maine and went to Texas where he taught elementary school. After being away for a year he missed Maine and his family and decided to love back, follow in his father’s footsteps. In 1989, Cahill returned home to open his own station in Edgecomb, Skip Cahill Tire, Inc; naming the station after his father.

Skip Cahill Tire is known for professional and friendly tire sales as well as a full service gas station. They handle over 20 different brands of tires. They are currently the only gas station within a 15-mile radius that offers 93 octane gasoline. Cahill says “at Skip Cahill Tire, where we pump it for you, we try to keep our prices competitive with the self-service stations. Skip Cahill Tire prides themselves in knowing their customers and always striving to provide personal, professional service.

This local business believes in community and reaching out to those less fortunate. They donate and support local schools, Wiscasset recreation, Veterans, Special Olympics in Maine, Maine State Troopers Association and the Fresh Air Fund which brings children from New York to Maine and several other states for one to two week summer vacations.

This holiday season, Skip Cahill Tire offers gift certificates for gasoline, diesel, kerosene, tires and wheels in any denomination. Give a gift of service this year with a gift from Skip Cahill Tire. Stop by their station at 236 U.S. Route 1 in Edgecomb, 7 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday or 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays to purchase your gift today.

For more information on local businesses offering great deals in your area this holiday season visit www.wiscassetchamber.com for more business showcases.