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SUSAN JOHNS

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · SUSAN JOHNS

    Why everyone should want to be a reporter (opens the original)

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    This print week alone, meaning from roughly last Tuesday night to Tuesday of this week when we finished the pages, I got to interview the new owner of the old Sarah's Cafe building about why he bought it; one of the uses he anticipates it will have; the warm welcome he and his family have had; and how their new home, the historic customs house, will have aspects that add to the community's experience of community. Is that not cool enough to think reporting is a job worth considering? How about,

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · SUSAN JOHNS

    Third school budget try passes first step with Wiscasset voters (opens the original)

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    As with the first two tries at a 2026-27 Wiscasset school budget, the latest offer withstood all attempts Sept. 29 to pare the school committee's proposal. The $10.6 million offer, with a local ask down 2.54% from 2025-26, goes to a vote at the polls Nov. 3. The special town meeting in Wiscasset Middle High School's Stover Auditorium saw the most comments from Richard Lutes. On multiple warrant articles, he proposed smaller sums. "I am still of the school that we are spending too much money in t

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · SUSAN JOHNS

    2 Steves and a propeller (opens the original)

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    Wiscasset's Steve Erskine said his grandfather Roy B. Rowe and Rowe's brothers Clarke and Frank started Eastern Steamship Company and owned the Winter Harbor and another steamboat. Winter Harbor did the Boothbay-Wiscasset mail run with over 100 passengers aboard, Erskine, of Wiscasset, said. He told Wiscasset Newspaper Sept. 24, Route 27’s paving “gradually put them out of business.” He has a logbook he said shows a Boothbay-Wiscasset trip with seven passengers. Its income lost to the changing t

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · SUSAN JOHNS

    2 Steves and a propeller (opens the original)

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    Wiscasset's Steve Erskine said his grandfather Roy B. Rowe and Rowe's brothers Clarke and Frank started Eastern Steamship Company and owned the Winter Harbor and another steamboat. Winter Harbor did the Boothbay-Wiscasset mail run with over 100 passengers aboard, Erskine, of Wiscasset, said. He told Wiscasset Newspaper Sept. 24, Route 27’s paving “gradually put them out of business.” He has a logbook he said shows a Boothbay-Wiscasset trip with seven passengers. Its income lost to the changing t

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · SUSAN JOHNS

    Comments, questions encouraged in Wiscasset Oct. 7 on potential 170-apartment development (opens the original)

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    Maple Property Holdings, LLC is exploring making housing on Route One near Wiscasset’s Birch Point Road, and wants to know what the public thinks, said an architect involved. “I would love to see that engagement from the community,” Patrick Boothe, partner and principal architect at Woodhull in Portland, said in encouraging people to come to the town office Oct. 7 for a 6 p.m. public informational meeting. “The whole point is to show that this developer’s interested in building housing that can

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