Hundreds of Lincoln County students, educators, and families are coming together to support Union Elementary School Principal Scott White and his family in the wake of the longtime educator’s diagnosis with a rare form of brain cancer.

Wiscasset will allocate $353,750 from fund balance toward the relocation of the town’s wastewater treatment plant after voters approved the measure at a special town meeting Tuesday, Dec. 3.

A flock of eight ducks on Jefferson’s Goose Hill Road are among the only representatives of their kind in the region, according to legacy poultry breeder Sarah Merrill, who is striving to keep their lineage alive.

Veterinarian Laurie Howarth, who founded Medomak Veterinary Services at her Waldoboro home in 1988, has retired after a nearly 50-year career in veterinary medicine.

When 17-year-old trumpet player Luis Cordero, of Warren, travels to Camden to join the 2025 Jazz All State Music Festival, he will be the first student from Medomak Valley High School to ever receive the honor.

After more than a month with a single town office employee and limbo among board leadership, Willard Pierpont was elected chair of the Somerville Select Board and resident Russell Gates assumed the role of town clerk on Wednesday, Nov. 20.

Midcoast Humane Executive Director Jess Townsend believes animal shelters provide a vital public service. However, with her organization’s Edgecomb shelter deteriorating, Townsend and her team are concerned about whether that service will continue to be accessible to Lincoln County residents, both human and animal.

Every year as the holiday season approaches, the Waldoboro town office grows steadily more crowded with boxes of donated children’s toys, boots, and coats set for distribution to families in need.

Wednesday, Nov. 13 was the last day for Somerville residents to access most town office services before the office is largely shuttered for a period of still-unclear duration due to lack of staff.

Commercial fireworks are once again allowed for general use in Waldoboro with some restrictions after voters turned back a 2020 ban at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 5 during a special town meeting by referendum held alongside the general election.

Firefighters from eight towns worked for five hours to contain a blaze that destroyed a two-story woodworking shop on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Consumer fireworks and regulation of food from local farmers will be on the ballot for Waldoboro voters in November, along with a commercial clean energy ordinance and proposed amendments to the town’s shellfish conservation ordinance.