Wiscasset News

The board that oversees county jail systems throughout Maine on Thursday voted to maintain funding levels for the upcoming fiscal year, even as it deals with unrest created in large part by the state government's refusal to live up to its financial promises.

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By Honora Perkins On June 12 Wiscasset citizens will vote on their town warrant, Article 4, asking whether the town should file a petition to withdraw from the RSU 12 and authorize a withdrawal committee to spend $55,000 for that purpose.

Avalon Antiques Market in Wiscasset, which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a storewide sale from Sat., June 9 to Sun., June 17, along with having a two-day Memorial Day Weekend sales event.

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An average 1,000-megawatt commercial nuclear reactor produces more than 20 tons of spent fuel per year.

County officials who gathered at the State House on Wednesday expecting a debate over a recent decision by two jails to quit taking inmates from other counties will have to wait at least another week.

Two men indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury in February are among a group of a half-dozen inmates charged with trafficking in illegal contraband at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.

The U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed an earlier court decision requiring the federal government to pay $81.69 million in damages to the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co.

An airplane show featuring experimental aircraft and vintage World War II fighters and bombers will fly in for the Central Maine Egg Festival in July.

Franklin County officials say they face a logistical nightmare because Somerset County commissioners recently decided to stop accepting inmates from other communities at their jail.

Nearly 50 years ago a Maine State Prison inmate escaped from the former prison at Thomaston, disappearing into dense fog and remaining at large for 11 days before state police collared him at Wiscasset.

The Somerset County Jail's recent decision to no longer board inmates from other counties may end up testing the resolve of state officials to force their will upon counties, and the counties' will to fight back.

Seventh-graders Jacob Soule, left of Wiscasset, and Joshua Breault, of China, take part in a Star Wars-themed dodgeball team building exercise during the in Nature Exploration for Students through Teamwork event at the State YMCA Camp in Winthrop.

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By Honora Perkins On May 15 the Wiscasset Selectmen met to discuss the tax-acquired Koehling property, a potential adult entertainment ordinance, and economic development.

People arrested in towns such as Wilton, Carrabassett Valley and Rangeley have traditionally been booked and held at the Somerset County Jail in Madison, about 30 minutes from Farmington.

A Wales man has been arrested and a Lewiston man is sought by police after a burglary earlier this month that was interrupted by a homeowner, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Department.

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