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.

At the polls this November, Waldoboro voters will consider more than presidential candidates, as they will also weigh a potential food sovereignty ordinance. The Waldoboro Select Board voted unanimously to add the ordinance to the November warrant during its meeting on Tuesday, May 28.

Damariscotta multimedia artist and educator Andrea Parker believes that creativity is at the heart of all things. But until recently, Parker said, she felt that the Twin Villages lacked a central hub where creatives and makers could unite to work and learn in community.

At a nearly five-hour meeting on the evening of Thursday, May 16, the RSU 40 Board of Directors passed a motion to delete the district’s transgender and gender expansive students policy, the first of two votes that would be needed to remove the policy.