Whitefield residents carefully scrutinized the budget figures and waded into the minutia of parliamentary procedure in the course of dispatching a 37-article annual town meeting warrant at Whitefield Elementary School on Saturday, March 15.

After an executive session for the purpose of employee evaluation, the Great Salt Bay School Committee unanimously voted not to approve a contract for the principal of 12 years during its Wednesday, March 12 meeting.

 South Bristol’s voters passed every article on the warrant during the annual town meeting the evening of Tuesday, March 11.

Plans to rebuild Schooner Landing Restaurant and Marina’s pier were approved by the Damariscotta Planning Board during its Monday, March 3 meeting.

A structure fire on Jones Woods Road in Newcastle on Sunday, March 2 destroyed a two-story home and displaced the residents.

During the same meeting in which it approved the rebuilding of a pier and heard concepts for a parking lot renovation, the Damariscotta Planning Board also heard a proposal for a housing development at the end of Vine Street.

With spring approaching, the renovation of Damariscotta’s municipal parking lot is set to resume once weather warms. Work began last in September and stopped in November 2024.

Allen Spinney is South Bristol’s newest fire chief after being appointed by the town’s select board on Thursday, Feb. 13.

The Newcastle Select Board heard an engineering firm’s recommendations to improve to two major intersections during its meeting Monday, Feb. 10.

Approximately a dozen Bristol residents approved funding $1.16 million bridge construction project with little discussion during a special town meeting Wednesday, Jan. 29 at the town office.

South Bristol School’s water contamination saga appears to have an end in sight.