With Gov. Paul LePage’s nomination of District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau to the Maine District Court, the four county Republican committees of Maine Prosecutorial District 6 convened at Wiscasset Elementary School on Monday, April 10 to recommend candidates to replace the six-term prosecutor.

Non-binding referendum questions on whether to maintain the position of town planner and whether to tuition out high school students will not go to voters at Wiscasset’s annual town meeting by referendum in June.

Moody’s Diner, the iconic restaurant on Route 1 in Waldoboro, will close for the day Wednesday, April 5, as about 25 staff members travel to Augusta to support legislative efforts to restore the tip credit.

The fire that destroyed the Freedom Center in Dresden in October 2016 was like no other, because the displaced residents had nowhere to go, said Jeff Slack, case manager for Maine Medical Center’s CarePartners program.

Edgecomb residents voted unanimously to adopt a temporary ban on floating structures during a special town meeting Monday, March 27. The Edgecomb Planning Board will now have six months to a year before it will have to consider an application for a floating structure.

Family, friends, residents, and staff gathered at the Country Manor Nursing Home in Whitefield on Monday, March 27 to celebrate Lillie Weissenberger’s 100th birthday. “It has been quite a bash,” Weissenberger said. “I really am too old for these things.”

Mose and Anna Yoder, originally of Depeyster, N.Y., were in search of an area where their family could earn a living and still maintain the customs of their Old Order Amish faith, they said. They now call Whitefield home.