The RSU 40 Board of Directors reinstated a district policy outlining protections for transgender and gender expansive students at their meeting on Thursday, Aug. 1, rescinding action taken on June 7 to delete the policy.

This summer, in the woods of Washington, elementary school students from across RSU 40 are taking part in quintessential summer camp activities, including playing among the camp’s tall pines, practicing archery and crafts, leaping into deep, cool water, and, during quiet moments of reflection, writing postcards home.

For Ann Marie Gallant, a painter and saleswoman who five years ago added the title of “flower farmer” to her resume, the intensive and sometimes arduous work of her new trade is well worthwhile to add a measure of beauty to the world.

A raccoon that scratched a Nobleboro woman in early July was confirmed positive for rabies after testing by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Medomak Valley High School’s failing septic system will not be replaced until summer 2025, RSU 40 Facilities Director Brian Race told the district’s board of directors at a meeting on Wednesday, July 3.

At the open portion of the Somerville annual town meeting on Saturday, June 22, Somerville residents approved all 23 warrant articles, including a municipal budget of $739,637 and protection of municipal broadband ownership.

This summer, an administrative disruption will lead to a pause in interlibrary lending across Maine. How long it will last is still unclear, but the announcement has left Lincoln County library officials frustrated and patrons already feeling the impact.

One by one, 125 members of the Medomak Valley High School class of 2024 crossed the graduation stage on the evening of Wednesday, June 12, celebrating the completion of their high school education as the sun set over Waldoboro.

Waldoboro voters approved 60 warrant articles at their annual town meeting by referendum on Tuesday, June 11, accepting a municipal budget of $8,258,355 and opting to invest $316,000 to bring fiber internet townwide.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission sided with Somerville on Tuesday, June 11, in its ruling that communications utility Consolidated Communications LLC, and not the town, must pay costs associated with readying telephone poles for the town’s long-planned fiber broadband network.

At about 1:30 a.m. on Friday, June 7, the RSU 40 Board of Directors voted to repeal a policy outlining protections for transgender and gender expansive students.

On Tuesday, June 11, Waldoboro voters will consider four candidates in a charged race for two seats to represent Waldoboro on the RSU 40 Board of Directors.