The Twin Villages went to the polls and voted on various warrant articles and a selectmen’s race.
Newcastle voters decided three local warrant articles, as well as four state ballot…
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Elections 2017
Dresden came up with a tie vote of 241-241 on Regional School Unit 12’s ballot question Tuesday to accept $26 million in state funding for a pre-kindergarten through grade eight school next…
Motion to seek injunction passes 3-2
The Wiscasset Select Board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to hire an attorney and head to court in hopes of forcing Maine Department of Transportation officials to reconsider parts of the $5 million…
Woolwich voters returned two incumbents to the select board but ballots on the Regional School Unit 1 bond issue were being hand-counted and results were not yet available from Tuesday’s…
Wiscasset voters Tuesday kept the 2015 historic preservation ordinance.
Selectmen had recommended repeal 3-2. The vote ran 437 yes to repeal it, 536 no.
“I couldn’t be more pleased…
It has taken about 350 man hours in the past week for Edgecomb firefighters to remove debris from the town’s roads. Fire Chief Roy Potter and Edgecomb Emergency Management Agency Director Bill…
One of the casualties of last week’s storm in Lincoln County was the annual Haiti Benefit Dinner. Power was not restored to St Patrick’s in time to hold the dinner on Nov. 3 as originally…
A sturdy bridge has withstood all types of weather to connect Westport Island with the mainland. But the same could not be said for the island’s main power and telephone lines, brought down by the…
Obituary
Phillip J. Shepherd, 79, of Wiscasset, died Nov. 5, 2017 at Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick.
Phillip was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 12, 1938, a son of…
The Woolwich select board praised the community’s emergency workers, road commissioner and volunteers for their response to last week’s storm.
At Monday night’s meeting, Chair David King Sr…
Woolwich’s Tanner Square Monument, which honors Woolwich men and women who served in the U.S. military during World War II, recently got a facelift, thanks to the efforts of Woolwich resident…
The Woolwich pedestrian tunnel in the town’s center got a much needed facelift recently thanks to the assistance of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department and community service volunteers. The…
The Edgecomb Fire Department responded to 17 emergencies in town and three mutual aid calls between Oct. 3 and 31.
On Oct. 3, the department responded to a medical call on McKay Road for a…
Standing in his vegetable garden nearest Route 218 Friday morning, Alna farmer Tom Albee said what he was seeing was outstanding: Juniper Hill School students, staff and parents and other…
Obituary
Robert Allen Marden died at his Waterville home on Oct. 29 at the age of 90.
“Bob,” as his friends knew him, was born in Waterville on Jan. 4, 1927, the son of Harold Chesterfield Marden…
Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission
The Wiscasseet Historic Preservation Commission approved two certificates of appropriateness Nov. 2.
A property that was the subject of one of the requests was well-known to the commission…
Damariscotta Selectmen
Biscay Road, Damariscotta residents on Nov. 1 went to selectmen with concerns about what a boat launch on the small pond would entail.
Jaja Martin spoke for the residents. “The pond is long…
The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program, offered by the Boothbay Region YMCA and the Central Lincoln County YMCA in partnership with LincolnHealth, is encouraging residents of Lincoln County to…
It’s become easier for Edgecomb residents to get a quick bite to eat or pick up some household items. The town is no longer without a general store. A Boothbay Harbor couple is leasing the former…
A smoke detector woke a woman at 497 Lowelltown Road, Wiscasset, Sunday morning and she escaped the fire that claimed the home she was renting, she and a fire official said.
The fire was…
Becky McKarns said daughter Sully, 4, is obsessed with Wonder Woman. So both went as the super heroine Friday night at Wiscasset Community Center, where area families and organizations joined…
On Oct. 24, Lincoln County sheriff’s detectives arrested an Alna man on a charge of Domestic Violence Assault involving a child. Myles Jordan, 64, was arrested after an investigation into a…
Wiscasset Parks and Recreation
Owing to lack of power in town and rain in Friday’s forecast, the Halloween parade and block party rescheduled for Nov. 3 will be moved to the Wiscasset Community Center. Parade lineup begins at 4…
The usual out-of-state visitors at Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna come for a train ride or to volunteer, but on Thursday morning, Nov. 2, Ohio and New York crews…
Event rescheduled
A collection of rare and unusual items never before placed on the market will be made available at a public auction to benefit Chop Point School. Due to the storm on Oct. 30,…
United Way of Mid Coast Maine
Lincoln County
American Legion Post #36 Christmas Dinner for Boothbay and the surrounding areas. Christmas meal served Monday, Dec. 25 at noon. Reservations recommended; transportation…
NOAA Fisheries has released the “Fisheries of the U.S.” 2016 report, and once again New Bedford, Mass. was the leading U.S. port by value for the 17th consecutive year and American…
We’ve added a couple of photos that didn’t appear in print this week to this week’s At a Glance. One of the photos has to do with Halloween and we try not to use old news in print (…
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency reported the following updates to road closures and warming stations in Lincoln County, as of 11:30 a.m., Nov. 3:
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Area voters face four state questions and some selectmen’s races and local questions at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 7. We’ve rounded up the times and locations for voting and a rundown of the ballots…
Wiscasset Public Library
In recognition of Veterans Day, the Wiscasset Public Library will present a program by Peggy Konitzsky, site manager in Wiscasset for Historic New England, on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 5 to 6:30 p.m…
The Lincoln County Budget Committee wrapped up deliberations Oct. 26 by reviewing the county’s single largest budget, the Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff Todd Brackett justified the increase…
Elections 2017
Damariscotta will vote Tuesday, Nov. 7 to replace outgoing Selectman George Parker, who resigned because he has moved to Newcastle. Five candidates will vie for the seat. The term ends in 2020.…
Emergency Management Director Casey Stevens said Lincoln County was surprisingly hard hit by Sunday night’s storm. “Almost everyone was out of power at some point in Lincoln County. The (county’s…
Obituary
Joseph Francis Cook Sr., 69, of East Boothbay, died at his home in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2017 with his beloved family by his side.
Joe was born on July 2, 1948 in Fall River,…
Bob MacDonald of Wiscasset Parks and Recreation said Tuesday, Tuesday’s Halloween parade and all other Nightmare on Federal Street activities will happen Friday instead, at all the same times as…
Matthew Edney from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine will be Skidompha Library's “Chats with Champions” guest speaker…
Obituary
Westford (Wes) Milton Hannan, 79, of Greene, died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017 at the Hospice House in Auburn, after a long courageous battle with…
The Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA) again this year is providing free enrollment assistance to Maine fishermen who wish to sign up or reenroll in Affordable Care Act…
Damariscotta
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in Damariscotta will have a special sale during Early Bird festivities, the first time it has participated in the popular downtown…
Cindy Seigars slept through a stormy Sunday night and into a stormier Monday morning at home on Cross Road in Alna near the West Alna Road end. Then she woke when a transformer blew about an hour…
On Oct. 29, the proceeds of Summerfest, an annual fair held by the First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, were distributed to 23 area charities during the Sunday morning church service. Every…
Girl Scouts of Maine (GSME) announces that it will host Discover Girl Scout events for potential members and volunteers at locations throughout the state every month. Below is a list of events in…
Central Maine Power Co. has been monitoring weather forecasts and is prepared for a storm that could bring high winds and heavy rain to Maine Sunday night and Monday.
CMP’s storm readiness…
St. Patrick Church
Fourteen new and returning vendors have reserved tables at St. Patrick’s Christmas Fair and will sell locally made items on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Cheverus Hall. Cheverus Hall…
Sure, the 2017 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta is history. Only a few of the dozens of ginormous wonderfully decorated gourds remain to be seen in the Twin Village area. The…
LincolnHealth
Lincoln County’s CarePartners case manager Jeff Slack is now accepting appointments to help community members enroll in health insurance plans through the Marketplace, also known as Obamacare.…
More than 50 members of the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary joined together on Wednesday, Oct. 11 for an annual meeting and brunch held at Brunswick Hotel and Tavern. The event highlighted the 2017…
Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene
On Sunday, Oct. 29, all are welcome to the Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene, 255 Gardiner Rd., to experience the gospel music and songs by The Springs of Living Water. Their music is a melody of…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested a mother and daughter from Lincoln County and charged them with selling thousands of Oxycodone pills in Lincoln and Knox counties over the past year…
