The town’s official website
Office hours, phone numbers, officials, committee memberships, service pages and notices are taken from westgardinermaine.org and linked directly, so you always land on the current version.
westgardinermaine.org ↗About this guide
An independent starting point
WestGardiner.com is a volunteer-run, community-maintained guide. It is not the town, it does not speak for the town, and it never will — but it tries to make the town’s own information easier to find.
What this is
A directory, not a government
West Gardiner is a town of about 3,700 people in western Kennebec County. Most of what matters to a resident or a visitor is public information — but it is spread across a town website, a printed newsletter, a chamber directory, a school district site and a dozen other places.
This site gathers those pieces into a single starting point, and — just as importantly — links straight through to the original source for anything that has to be authoritative.
What it is not
- It is not an official website of the Town of West Gardiner, and it is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the town.
- It is not a substitute for the town office. Tax bills, licences, vital records and legal notices come from the town.
- It does not collect information about visitors, and it runs no analytics or advertising scripts.
- It does not endorse the businesses listed. Listings are compiled from the town’s own published directory.
Rule of thumb. If it matters legally, financially or for your safety,
call the town. If it matters for finding your way around, start here.
Who runs it
WestGardiner.com is created and hosted by Alexander Wasson, an independent web developer. Questions, corrections and sponsorship enquiries all go to alexander@aroostook.me.
Provenance
Where the information comes from
Every page on this site is assembled from public sources, and every page links back to them. Nothing here is invented.
The town’s own business directory
“West Gardiner Businesses Large and Small” is printed inside The Weathervane and updated online between issues. It is the source for the local listings on this site.
Newsletter & directory ↗The Kennebec Valley Chamber
Population figures, town history and the chamber’s own list of West Gardiner member businesses all come from the chamber’s community profile for the town.
Chamber profile ↗Regional and public sources
Kennebec Land Trust for the Wakefield preserve, Maine by Foot for trail facts, the Maine Turnpike Authority for the service plaza, the Cobbossee Watershed District for the watershed, and the U.S. Census Bureau for population and area.
See what came from where
Photography. Images are reused from Wikimedia Commons under Creative
Commons or public domain terms, resized for the web and credited in place. Full details
are in assets/IMAGE-CREDITS.txt.
Corrections
If something here is wrong
Local information goes out of date. Businesses close, officials’ terms end, hours change, phone numbers change hands.
Two rules apply. First, the town’s own website wins over anything on this site. Second, if you spot a mistake here, tell someone — that is the only way it gets fixed.
Different kinds of corrections go to different places
- Official town information — taxes, licences, hours, meeting times, official notices — contact the town office directly, because only they can change it.
- Business listings — go to the town newsletter, which maintains the business directory that this site reproduces.
- This guide — anything about the pages themselves, including broken links, wrong descriptions or anything that should be listed and is not — email alexander@aroostook.me.