The Lincoln County News

Jim Donovan, LincolnHealth’s president for the past 12 years, has announced that he’s chosen to retire as of March 30, 2021, capping more than three decades of health care leadership in Maine.

Maine Open Farm Day has been an annual, statewide tradition for 30 years, but this year the festivities looked a little different.

A small garage burned down in the Christmas Cove area of South Bristol early Saturday, Aug. 1.

A cigarette butt caught the exterior of a Waldoboro apartment building on fire Wednesday, July 29, but a resident of the building quickly snuffed the flames with a fire extinguisher.

By one vote, Shana York, of Newcastle, won the July #LCNme365 photo contest with a picture of her dog admiring flowers.

Waldoboro plans to enter negotiations with Volunteers of America with the goal to sign a letter of intent for the national nonprofit to redevelop A.D. Gray School as senior housing.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first death of a Lincoln County resident from COVID-19 on Tuesday, July 28.

James Weldon Johnson’s legacy lives on through the lyrics he penned in 1899 for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called the Black national anthem, but his life ended tragically on June 26, 1938 in Wiscasset, when his car was struck by an oncoming train.

Whitefield voters passed all but one of the articles on the warrant at annual town meeting, Saturday, July 18.

Although the project remains in an “evaluation” stage, the national nonprofit Volunteers of America has a $6.2 million plan to turn Waldoboro’s vacant A.D. Gray School into 32 units of affordable senior housing.

About 29 voters approved Dresden’s $1,014,060 budget during the open portion of annual town meeting, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, the morning of Saturday, July 18.

A fire at a new restaurant in Waldoboro village early Thursday, July 23 damaged the restaurant and a pharmacy at 9 Friendship St. and forced the evacuation of the four-story building.