Somerville residents elected Kathryn Jennings to fill the third select board seat during a special election on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

Newly elected Commissioners David Levesque and Evan Goodkowsky joined William Blodgett in Wiscasset for the first Lincoln County Board of Commissioners meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

Sinking golden shovels into the dirt of a vacant Depot Street lot, representatives from the public and private sectors ceremonially began construction on a new MaineHealth medical arts facility in Waldoboro Monday, Jan. 6.

For six years, Stephanie McSherry brought a vision of creativity, literacy, and creative joy to life at Edgecomb’s Merry Barn. Though The Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat shut its doors for good at the end of 2024, McSherry hopes the impact of the literacy and arts center will persist throughout the creative community.

It was about 20 degrees at Camden Hills State Park as, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 14, members of Medomak Valley High School’s outdoor club broke camp at the park’s ski shelter and set off into the woods for a second day of hiking.

On the evening of Friday, Dec. 13, a uniquely Edgecomb tradition changed hands.

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.