The high-pitched whine of a lone trumpet signaled the arrival of her majesty, the queen, as she descended the Skidompha Library staircase to bestow damehood upon the library’s outgoing executive director, Pam Gormley.

Newcastle’s fire chief suspects a heat lamp or light as the cause of a fire that destroyed a chicken coop and killed two chickens the morning of Monday, May 20.

State Rep. Michael G. “Mick” Devin, D-Newcastle, has been on medical leave from the Legislature since Feb. 5 while seeking and undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder related to his military service.

Twenty-one voters from Bremen, Newcastle, and Damariscotta, including the seven members of the Great Salt Bay School Committee, approved the Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District’s $6,099,967.08 budget during the district’s annual budget meeting Wednesday, May 8.

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust moved into its new headquarters in a restored 131-year-old farmhouse at Round Top Farm on April 22.

The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen voted 3-1 on May 1 to approve draft regulations for medical and recreational marijuana businesses, which will go to public hearings before a townwide referendum vote in November.

Lincoln County Television has a new look at its Newcastle office and studio and an even newer lineup of regular programming coming up in the near future.

Twin Villages Church has been born again in a new and roomy Damariscotta building, moving across town just in time for Easter Sunday.

The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen agreed to ban the sale of marijuana edibles Wednesday, April 17, during a workshop on regulations for recreational marijuana businesses.