Wiscasset and neighbor towns, you're making this so easy, thank you! At the close of the first third of 2025, we're four months into our monthly lists of five good things that happened in or around Wiscasset, and the tough part is, again, keeping it to just five.

And we're off (said in honor of this week's Kentucky Derby)! First up, and maybe foremost for some, is the first look we got at the about to reopen Montsweag Flea Market, with a new owner and the Woolwich site's decades of popularity to build on. We recall a lot of people missed this flea market the last couple years and its return is good to see. Careful driving along Route One near Mountain Road, all, as attendees will again be turning or re-entering.

We were excited to get word Monday, the Defense Department has given Wiscasset Middle High School and Principal Sarah Hubert the Patriot Award for, the release said, "extraordinary support of employees serving in the Guard and Reserve." Very cool.

The planned, federally funded covering of an asbestos-filled dumping ground from the days of Mason Station appears still a go, as confirmed in a public Zoom meeting in April with a federal environmental official and other participants. 

On other environmental notes, Wiscasset had its second year celebrating Earth Day at Wiscasset Community Center, and Alna started planning a May 3 roadside cleanup event that will have crafts and a trash weigh-in.

After April's rains, the month's photo finish with sun and a 70F-plus Monday could round out the five good things that made the cut, but let's instead go with Wiscasset's announcement it was one of the top-ranked small towns in the Northeast in the USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards 2025. Wiscasset was No. 6.

Or number 1, if you ask us.