The Lincoln County News

After a year of sawing and sanding and planing and painting, nine South Bristol School students found their seats in the two flat-bottomed skiffs they spent the last year building. Then the Heated Rowah and the S.S. Bobber slipped gently into the waters of the South Bristol Gut to the cheers of the assembled crowd.

One meeting led to many after the Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service Board of Directors proposed a potential buyback program for employees funded by participating towns.

Voters in RSU 40 approved the $24.9 million capital improvement bond to fund upgrades to Medomak Valley High School that school district leaders say can no longer be delayed.

It all started as a solution to a storage problem.

Seventeen seniors walked across the stage at Wiscasset Middle High School’s graduation ceremony on Thursday, June 4.

Despite the warm temperatures, the 141 members of Lincoln Academy’s class of 2026 still had smiles on their faces as they walked across the stage during the graduation ceremony on Friday, June 5.

Wiscasset residents approved the article asking if they would reconsider moving the town’s wastewater treatment facility to where the public works site during the annual town meeting by referendum on Tuesday, June 9.

Damariscotta residents will consider a 48-article warrant in two parts over two days next week.

Five candidates are running for three three-year terms on the Wiscasset Select Board this year. Incumbents William Maloney and board Chair Sarah Whitfield and Clifford Hendricks, Heather Jones, and Cassaundra Rose will all appear on the ballot when residents elect municipal officers on Tuesday, June 9.

District Attorney Natasha Irving, D-Rockland, hopes to seek reelection for Prosecutorial District 6, which covers Lincoln, Knox, Sagadahoc, and Waldo counties.