Dean A. Baker, 72, of Nequasset Road, Woolwich died May 11, 2017 at Gosnell House in Scarborough.

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Effective May 17 through project completion which is expected to be February or March 2018, the CLC YMCA will temporarily move its offices while the Y undergoes…

Mary Theresa McCusker, 73, of Boothbay Harbor, died surrounded by her children after a short illness on February 2, 2017 at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

Born August 9,…

Robert S. Nicoll, 66, of Bath, died May 8, 2017.

He was born to Robert and Georgia Nicoll, both deceased, of Back River Road, Boothbay on May 8, 1951. He graduated from Boothbay Region High…

Everyone is invited to attend the second in a series of free Lincoln County Community Conversations events on Wednesday, May 24 at Mobius at 319 Main Street in Damariscotta.

Sign-in and…

The Dean Snell Cancer Foundation has another $1,800 to help cancer patients with their costs, thanks to a Wiscasset family’s volleyball benefit Saturday. The event at Chad and Julie Jones’ Jones…

From 1909 to 1947, photographers traveled across Maine in Model Ts shooting scenes of small towns and rural life. They worked for Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company in Belfast, Maine,…

The Boothbay Region Fish & Game Association is having a free youth day on Saturday, May 20 at the Boothbay Region Fish & Game club house on Dover Road in Boothbay. Activities start at 8 a.…

Dresden’s Kelli Wallace and sons Kai Morse, 6, and Owen Morse, 2, were out Mother’s Day shopping Saturday for her mother Melissa Moore and the boys’ paternal grandmother Betsy Morse. Then Wallace…

Beta Rho, Wiscasset Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, will be raffling a beautiful new quilt at Ames True Value on Saturday, May 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Chapter member Martha Speed, an experienced…

This year’s Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary’s Grand and Glorious Yard Sale is guaranteed to be even more grand and glorious than the past 23 years, due to the out pouring of generous donations by the…

A selectmen’s candidates night is a go for Friday night, May 19 in the Wiscasset Elementary School cafeteria. The five candidates are on board and the location is reserved. We just need residents…

Edgecomb Eddy School’s cafeteria was filled with people attending an informational budget meeting on Tuesday, May 9. Concerned parents, teachers, town officials and Edgecomb citizens gathered to…

Alna selectmen announced Friday, they hired Liz Brown as the next town clerk. Brown, an Alna resident, succeeds Lisa Arsenault.

Brown was one of five applicants; the board interviewed her…

Alna selectmen are starting work on a deal with the Atlantic Salmon Federation for its project at Head Tide Dam. In March, town meeting voters authorized the board to negotiate a contract.

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Saturday, May 13 marks the 25th anniversary of America’s largest-single day of giving — the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive in partnership with the U.S. Postal…

This has to be the biggest At a Glance yet! Not a lot of new ideas, but we feature here a special gathering on May 20, groups doing good things, upcoming events, students being honored, sports…

The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta™  invites Maine artists to submit a design for this year’s official festival T-shirt. The deadline to submit a design entry is Monday, June 19…

The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites wildflower connoisseurs on Saturday, May 20 at 12:30 p.m. to join the third workshop in the spring stewardship series…

Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot put out a reminder Tuesday that residents will vote on the school budget Monday, May 15, at 6 p.m. in the Wiscasset Middle High School gymnasium…

John Arthur “Jack” Soper, 83, died unexpectedly April 25, 2017 in Bradenton, Florida. He was the loving husband of Joan (Sylvester) Soper for 60 years.

Jack was born on March 24, 1934 in…

The Wiscasset Waterfront Committee agreed Tuesday to ask the Select Board to examine several issues in early June.

The first is a series of pier policy changes which were not in a final…

The Edgecomb Board of Selectmen continue its search for a new recording secretary. Last month, Jessica Hicks concluded her brief stint which began in February. She replaced Sherry Tibbetts, who…

Celeste Edwards of Wiscasset said Tuesday, she has put her Fort Hill house up for sale because of the actions of the Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission.

Edwards said that after she…

Wiscasset town employees attended a special lunch on Tuesday, May 9 held in recognition of their service to the town.

Wiscasset Police Department Administrative Assistant Diane Hammond said…

Two positions in Dresden’s government will be contested when residents go to the polls on Tuesday, June 13.  The filing deadline for nomination papers was Monday, May 1.

Challenger Shirley…

Officials from the Maine Department of Transportation got a tepid response to parking proposals and other changes proposed for its $5 million downtown traffic improvement plan. About 100 residents…

At a special May 8 meeting, the Five Town CSD School Board unanimously voted to hire Shawn Carlson as the next principal of Camden Hills Regional High School, in Rockport.

Carlson was the…

The Wiscasset Planning Board decided Monday, the town needs to seek Mason Station LLC’s consent if it wants a new lot at the Point East Subdivision. The town wants to create it from tax-acquired…

The Ecumenical Diaper Bank is beginning its third year of distributing diapers to low income families. This year, from Mother’s Day (May 14) through Father’s Day (June 18), Mid-coast area churches…

Charles Dodge “Chic” Barton, 72, of Douglasville, Georgia died May 6, 2017. 

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The following are closed criminal cases from April 16 to May 1. All information was provided by the Lincoln County Clerk of Courts. All sentences, unless otherwise noted…

Laura Bertha (DeCain) Smith, 83, died May 6, 2017 at the Greenwood Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, she was the…

Carol Edgelow Howe, 93, died Sunday, April 30 at Pioneer Ridge Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas.

Carol was born July 14, 1923 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the oldest of four daughters of…

Midcoast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (MUUF) received official recognition as a Welcoming Congregation on April 27. This designation is awarded by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA…

Alna selectmen have questions for the state after hearing from the man who has been harvesting alewives in town for three decades. The board agreed May 3 to have Third Selectman Doug Baston write…

The Boothbay Farmers’ Market starts their season on the Boothbay Town Common, 1 Common Drive, on Thursday, May 18. They will set up on the Common from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays through October 5…

With over 60 members in attendance, Gordon Colby, chairman of the Lincoln County Republican Committee, welcomed featured speaker Demi Kouzounas, newly elected chairman of the Maine State GOP on…

In response to a troubling increase in the number of suicides in our community and the need to offer appropriate supports for their loved ones, Miles & St. Andrews Home Health & Hospice (…

CHANS Home Health & Hospice honored more than 50 volunteers at a celebration on April 5 at the Brunswick Hotel & Tavern. The event highlighted the outstanding work of the Hospice…

Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission (LCRPC) hosted a listening session May 3 as part of a federal evaluation of the Maine Coastal Management Program. MCMP is an inter-agency group…

The Central Lincoln County YMCA has announced the adoption of a newly revised campus-wide smoke-free policy. Since the use of tobacco products is the single, greatest cause of premature death and…

The Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission held its regular meeting on May 4 with two changes to its protocol. It added a public comment period, and it recorded the entire meeting.

Two…

Ronald E. Spofford, 87, died peacefully with his family by his side, on May 4, 2017 at St. Andrews Village in Boothbay Harbor.

Ron was born on Friday, December 13, 1929 to Eleanor (…

Maine’s participation in World War I was the topic of an illustrated talk May 4 by Maine Historian Earl Shuttleworth Jr., as part of the Chats with Champions series at Skidompha Library in…

At the end of the month of May, a group of Angels will descend upon the Old Jail Museum in Wiscasset. The Angels are Costume Society of America members who have volunteered to work with LCHA’s…

Kenneth Hatch III, 47, of Whitefield, arrested last June and later charged with multiple sex and drug charges involving three minors, was to appear at a deferred disposition conference in Augusta…

LeBarn, on Route 32 in Jefferson, is hosting a community fundraiser on Saturday, May 20 to benefit Jefferson Village School's Blessings in a Backpack program. Blessings in a Backpack will benefit…

This week’s At a Glance features a group’s donation of a quilt, firefighters completing training, a Masonic group, students traveling in France, guys moving a refrigerator through downtown…

Alna Third Selectman Doug Baston said May 3, he was tired of waiting for Midcoast Conservancy to decide on the board’s request for an annual contribution in lieu of taxes. The board decided…