🌱 Why a Wiscasset court is central to a birthing center battle

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• Why a Wiscasset court is central to a birthing center battle

Also on today's calendar: Monday Mah Jongg and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Variable cloudiness, with a high of 73 and low of 62 degrees.
• Friday: An afternoon shower or two, temps: high: 74, low: 51.
• Saturday: Sunny; pleasant, less humid, with a high of 70 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Woman moves ahead with lawsuit against MaineHealth for closing Damariscotta birthing center (pressherald.com) — A lawsuit challenging MaineHealth's plan to close Lincoln Hospital's Damariscotta birthing center is moving forward in Lincoln County Superior Court in Wiscasset. The pregnant Newcastle plaintiff argues the closure violates Affordable Care Act requirements and would force families across the Midcoast to travel much farther for labor and delivery care, as Maine faces widespread rural maternity ward shutdowns.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Wiscasset

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 17
• Sustainable Supper with Edible Insects →
  Maine Tasting Center, 506 Old Bath Rd, Wiscasset
  5:30 pm

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Other local events

Thursday October 1
• Learn the Essentials of Growing Your Own Apples →
  First Congregational Church Wiscasset, 28 High Street, Wiscasset
  6:00 pm
Saturday October 3
• Maguire's Midcoast Community Challenge →
  Maguire's Midcoast Community Challenge, 242 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset
  8:00 am
• Scarecrow Festival →
  Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset
  11:00 am
Monday October 5
• Monday Mah Jongg →
  First Congregational Church, 28 High St, Wiscasset
  3:00 pm
Thursday October 8
• Wiscasset Fix-A-Bike with Bicycle Coalition of Maine →
  Wiscasset ME
  5:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Maguire's Midcoast Community Challenge →
  Maguire's Midcoast Community Challenge, 242 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset
  6:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Painted & Decorated Hay Bale Pumpkin Deployment →
  Damariscotta ME
  2:00 pm
• Volunteer Opportunity: Damariscotta River Clean-up →
  Damariscotta Town Landing, Municipal Parking Lot, Damariscotta
  2:00 pm
• Gray-New Gloucester at Lincoln Academy →
  Lincoln Academy, 81 Academy Hl, Newcastle
  3:30 pm
Friday October 2
• Read Together Tutor Training →
  Midcoast Literacy, 9 Park St, Bath
  9:00 am
• ArtIST Opening: Jessy Doyle →
  Union + Co, 31 Centre Street, Bath
  4:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• If you find yourself driving in the area of the "new" roundabout at US 1/Belvedere Rd tonight and you see what appears to be people "creeping" around the Maine Health Arrowsmith Building, have no fear...
  that would be our Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in action. We are grateful to our volunteer teams' dedication to training their skills of… (Nextdoor )

• New Horizon Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Dining Server in Wiscasset. Apply here.
• Albertsons Company posted a job opening for Deli Clerk in Bath. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Wiscasset here.

🗞 Nearby News

Bath

• Bath Iron Works has laid the keel of the future USS John E. Kilmer, a destroyer named for a Navy corpsman awarded the Medal of Honor in Korea (newsbreak.com)
• Lot# 11-47 Stoney Brook Rd, Phippsburg, ME 04562 (redfin.com)
• Bath house on sale for $1 lands on endangered places list (pressherald.com)

Boothbay

• 2 Steves and a propeller (boothbayregister.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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