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.

The Bremen Select Board appointed Eric Teele as the town’s new fire chief during the board’s meeting at the town office Thursday, Jan. 16.

Anyone who has passed through the Damariscotta area since the late 1980s and stayed for any amount of time likely ran into longtime bartender, innkeeper, Great Salt Bay Sanitary District Committee member, and public television host Robert “Bobby” Whear, of Damariscotta Mills.

Bristol’s seven-decade tradition of celebrating its history with a weekend of festivities will look different this summer with the absence of a parade, daytime fairground with vendors, and activities for kids.