Another Monday holiday! It kind of slows up our operation when the newspaper goes to press on Tuesday afternoons. Reporters deserve a day off and I took half a day off. Also, there were still some…
Editorial
From the assistant editor
Our websites in the last week were showing our strides closer, much closer, to their normal caliber, as we also put out another print edition, all with the new system.
Just please do not…
From the editor
They are just about everywhere – political signs – and they are juxtaposed against the prettier fall foliage. There are signs for candidates for various offices, sometimes there are signs for or…
From the editor
My co-workers greeted me Monday morning, asking about the highlights of my 11-day vacation, six days in Omaha, Nebraska, where my wife and I attended our nephew’s rehearsal dinner, wedding and…
From the assistant editor
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an email that misspelled WMHS (Wiscasset Middle High School) as WHMS. And I thought, that’s funny; because, with the HMS, it’s like a ship. It stands for His or Her…
From the assistant editor
Mid-last week, did your Morning Catch emails start to look wonky, showing a beta-like menu instead of the usual, user-friendly headlines and more?
And when you went to our websites,…
From the editor
In late April, when the Major League Baseball season started, Boston Red Sox fans were hopeful for a playoff spot after two years of finishing last in the American League East. Our hopes remained…
From the assistant editor
How long does it take to inadvertently prove Wiscasset attracts? As in, it attracts people who don’t live and/or work here and therefore who are in town limits because they want to spend time here…
From the editor
Fifty years ago was a pivotal year for me. It was the start of my senior year in high school and deciding how I wanted to get through life – what college to apply to, what to major in, where I…
From the editor
We have a small but talented reporting staff but we can’t always get all the news, all the time, every waking hour of the day. Yes, we do follow Facebook posts where people post immediate news as…
From the assistant editor
As longtime readers and wiscassetnewspaper.com viewers can attest, we cover bigger, ongoing local government news stories pretty wall to wall, like with last year’s principal removal controversy…
From the assistant editor
You know those days where everything is just busy? Not terrible, just terribly busy. Monday was one for me. Fairly typical, as Monday is the day before we go to press. Plus I had…
From the editor
I don’t know if it is my age or whether it is an avalanche of things I want (or need) to get done, but I took a couple of hours on Sunday to write down a list of “things” to accomplish in the next…
From the assistant editor
The double s’s in Wiscasset could have stood for Set for Success earlier this month. Another year of…
From the editor
After witnessing a customer’s verbal abuse of an employee of a business over the weekend, it is shocking to think anyone would do that and require the employee to call in security (and the police…
From the assistant editor
Several weeks ago, John Merry, Wiscasset schools’ longtime maintenance and transportation director, sent us the school bus schedule and we recently ran it in the print edition. Look for it online…
From the editor
One of our favorite back-to-school commercials was Staples’ take on the Christmas song, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” In it, the Dad loads the shopping cart with glee as the faces of…
From the assistant editor
News these days, even soft news – such as news on volunteer-run community events – you would not think could possibly elicit negative comments about Wiscasset, somehow does on social media. No…
From the editor
Great news for area fishermen. A plan and construction contract for building Carter’s Wharf on Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay Harbor has been announced. It has been in the planning stage for a little…
From the assistant editor
Months ago, Wiscasset’s economic development director, Aaron Chrostowsky, started calling selectmen’s attention to the town’s parcel that used to be Maine Yankee’s, off Old Ferry Road. The ideas…
From the editor
After reading this in this week’s Ocean Point column – “Wednesday evening Ginna Yerrall has organized a kids’ version of Right Left Center at 7, another fun and enjoyable night for the kids!” – I…
From the editor
Last Wednesday evening, as I laid in bed and, for the third or fourth night of trying to relax enough to get to sleep while our dog huddled right beside me shaking from the sound of thunder, I…
From the assistant editor
Kudos to Woolwich’s and Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s plans for projects near George…
From the editor
It’s not too late to get out on the water. I haven’t been on a boat to see our beautiful coastline for several years. I always hand off the coverage of the Parade of Sail on Windjammer Days to…
From the editor
We’ve had a lot of notable anniversary articles in the newspaper lately, including this week’s 60th anniversary of Boothbay Railway Village Museum and the 50th anniversary of Boothbay Region Arts…
From the assistant editor
What if one of our towns’ leaders, hired or elected, was rumored to and/or appeared to possibly have a medical issue that, if true, might impact their service?
A number of factors make…
From the editor
Summer. More people, more cars, more sunshine … and more news.
One of my jobs is to try and fit as much news on our pages as possible … until it becomes impossible.
Back in the…
From the assistant editor
I don’t think I know anyone who likes sweltering heat, although I know some thunderstorm fans. I am not one. And Monday’s end of day, very windswept rain was wild and surprising, as was Sunday…
From the editor
hindsight: n. 1. the ability to understand, after something has happened, what should have been done or what caused the event.
First of all, we congratulate Earl Brewer on…
From the assistant editor
Covering Wiscasset’s June 11 school committee meeting, I heard a resident noting Eugene Stover’s death. The speaker told the committee he thought Wiscasset Newspaper would have reported it, but…
From the editor
Here’s hoping we saw the Boston Celtics win their 18th NBA Championship on Monday night. My earliest memory of the Celtics winning a championship was when Bill Russell, John Havlicek and company…
From the editor
A definition – Copyright: The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a…
From the assistant editor
The Wormfest group has hit on something. The founders picked an apt spot for the worm-digging theme, on the waterfront, and successfully walked the line of both honoring a serious and special…
From the editor
Five out of seven of our yearly supplements are done, printed and available. The sixth, the Dining Guide, is just about ready to be sent to the printer.
We wish to thank all of our…
From the assistant editor
Aug. 27, 2015, at a ribbon-cutting for Wiscasset Middle School’s return to being Wiscasset Elementary, Damon Lincoln, 9, of Wiscasset told me he was a little nervous about going to a different…
From the assistant editor
Alfred Hitchcock was one of the best, and one of his best known films, “The Birds” has become synonymous with any time the birds outnumber the people or nearly dive bomb them. Monday, a bird stood…
From the editor
Driving around the region and seeing the veterans’ banners should make residents proud. Having covered the Memorial Day parades for decades, it’s great to reminisce about the times we have come in…
From the editor
I have sat and worked in three locations/two rooms during my nearly 37 years at the newspaper office here on Townsend Avenue. When I first arrived in 1987, the editorial desks were set up in the…
From the editor
It’s Tuesday. I need to come up with a topic for this column … so I take a drive.
That’s the setting for the dream I had overnight Monday into Tuesday. Dreams are a scrambled mess of what…
From the assistant editor
Last week, Wiscasset’s town meeting-style school budget meeting drew way more residents than usual to that yearly meeting in Wiscasset Middle High School’s Stover Auditorium. Wouldn’t it be nice…
From the assistant editor
Wiscasset has big decisions ahead, including where to move the sewer plant, and what to plan on every front, from education to economic development, via the next comprehensive plan. Kudos to those…
From the editor
It’s hard to believe that one quarter of the year has passed. A lot has gone on since Jan. 1, 2024: storms, storms and more storms; winter sports at area schools ended; and the storm of the year…
From the assistant editor
With National Volunteer Week this week, Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons’ April 16 reading of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ letter honoring Katharine Martin-Savage’s posthumous…
From the editor
When covered in snow, litter is hidden. Now that spring is here, the short dog-walking route I take is hideous and unsightly – and not just this year. I meant to purchase a trash gripper (my last…
From the editor
The school referendum on Wednesday, April 24 has certainly been a controversial subject in conversations around town, at public meetings, in the newspaper via letters to the editor and full page…
From the assistant editor
Something about forget-me-nots starting to spread, and something about the robin’s recent return, both help make up for the wet, windy spring’s often unenjoyable days. But getting Gretchen…
From the editor
Not only is April 10 a day when Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor residents gets a chance to hear about the school renovation project during a pair of public hearings at the Harbor Theater at 5 and 7 p…
From the assistant editor
Worms and Wiscasset, they just go together.
Both start with “w,” neither was created by artificial intelligence, and both are a long held part of the Midcoast earth. So, to the…
From the editor
Kenny Marston, who died too young this week, and I were the number three children in our large 1960s and 1970s families. Those were the best of times, weren't they? No internet to relegate…
