An expected cost increase for ambulance service, improvements to the town hall, and raises for town officials are among the budget items Edgecomb voters will consider during the annual town meeting in May.

While the Edgecomb School Committee has approved a 2018-2019 education budget with a 6.7 percent increase from last year’s budget, taxpayers will feel less than half of the increase due to other revenues coming into the town.

A driver was airlifted to Maine Medical Center in Portland after a car accident near the entrance to LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus on Bristol Road in Damariscotta the afternoon of Tuesday, April 3.

Alna residents voted to restrict K-8 school choice to public schools and to purchase a modular building to replace the town office during the annual town meeting Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24.

Despite unrelenting snowfall that resulted in the cancellation of school, dozens of students and community members made their way to the Lincoln Academy campus the morning of Wednesday, March 14 to participate in a nationwide walkout to demand action on gun violence.

While also considering changes to the town’s school choice policy and alcohol sales rules, Alna residents will vote in a pair of contested elections for the first selectman seat and RSU 12 Board of Directors representative on Friday, March 23.

The Maine Department of Labor presented the Alna Fire Department with the Safety and Health Award for Public Employers during the Alna Board of Selectmen’s meeting Wednesday, March 14.

Proposed changes to Alna’s rules for alcohol sales received almost no comment from the audience during a public hearing the evening of Monday, March 12, with many in the audience saving their comments for a second hearing on amendments to the town’s school choice policy.

It was standing room only at the Alna fire station the evening of Monday, March 5, where, over the course of 3 1/2 hours, residents and town officials discussed an upcoming referendum vote regarding the town’s school choice policy.

Our Town, a coalition of residents of Damariscotta and surrounding towns, has filed an appeal of the Damariscotta Planning Board’s decision to approve the 435 Main St. development.

Although the Maine State Legislature will not pass a bill to authorize the lease of the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site to The Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, the nonprofit’s leadership will continue to pursue the lease.

Ten Colby & Gale customers received a Valentine’s Day surprise when the business’s delivery drivers showed up the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 14 to fill their oil tanks free of charge.

Dr. Allan “Chip” Teel, of Nobleboro, recently returned to his roots as a primary-care physician with a small medical practice operating out of Hodgdon Green in Damariscotta.