The Maine Department of Transportation is planning reconstruction and rehabilitation of Damariscotta’s Main Street (Route 1B) at an undetermined date. The work would begin 0.01 miles east of the road’s intersection with Church Street and continue for 2.25 miles northeast.

Central Maine Power Co. will use two Alna town roads to access construction on the New England Clean Energy Connect power corridor and repair damage caused by heavy equipment during the posted road season. The Alna Select Board gave authorization to the company at a special meeting Wednesday, March 27.

Alna voters chose a change in select board and road commissioner leadership at the ballot box Friday, March 22. Select board Chair Ed Pentaleri, who sought reelection to the two-year term with no opponent on the ballot, was surpassed by six votes by write-in Nicholas Johnston.

Alna voters rejected a proposed ordinance regulating mining and blasting and increased funding for several line items at a nearly five-hour annual town meeting on Saturday, March 23.

The town of Edgecomb turned 250 years old this month, and it still knows how to throw a party.

Damariscotta will have a new company plowing its roads next winter after a vote to mutually end its contract with longtime winter maintenance provider Hagar Enterprises Inc. two years early on Wednesday, March 6.

Like many Midcoast food producers, Ellie Young and Derek DeGeer started their businesses as small passion projects. Young, of Cozy Cove Microbloomery in South Bristol, started growing microgreens and mushrooms as a hobby with her young daughter. DeGeer, of Hootenanny Breads in Nobleboro, began baking for friends in a borrowed oven.

The AOS 93 Board discussed updates on restructuring the AOS, joining an Educational Service Center, and hiring a replacement for Superintendent Lynsey Johnston in advance of her June departure at its Tuesday, March 12 meeting.

A Damariscotta man who spent over 50 years involved with Camp Kieve is facing two more lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse in the 1960s and ‘70s. Kieve leadership said last month it has confirmed at least 10 cases involving Bill McCook, and stated the camp has updated policies and procedures to prevent a repeat of the “failures of leadership” that covered up allegations and allowed McCook to stay a volunteer for decades.

The Edgecomb Eddy School has long been recognized for its educational quality, but making the numbers work has been a challenge for years, and this budget cycle is no exception.

Central Maine Power Co. has restarted construction on its New England Clean Energy Connect corridor connecting Quebec hydropower to the regional power grid after several years of legal entanglement.