Surprisingly for Dresden town officials, it was the article that would have authorized the select board to sell a fire truck that drew the most attention during a 40-minute special town meeting at Pownalborough Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Following an executive session interview at the town office Thursday, Nov. 21, the Alna Select Board voted to hire William Butler, of Jefferson, as the town’s code enforcement officer and licensed plumbing inspector.

Former Damariscotta Fire Chief and longtime community stalwart James “Jimmy” Hall passed away at his home in Damariscotta on Oct. 14 following a lengthy illness.

From across the county and across the state, family, friends, and admirers gathered at the New Harbor fire station Friday, Sept. 13 to pay their final respects and celebrate the life of retired Bristol Fire Chief Ron Pendleton.

The pain was still obvious when Zach Gilbert’s loved ones gathered at his sister’s house in Nobleboro to tell a stranger about the late Newcastle man on Monday, Sept. 9. Yet, as the stories come and the tears flow, chuckles and giggles follow as one happy memory falls into another.

Surrounded by loved ones, retired Bristol Fire Chief Ronald E. Pendleton passed away at his New Harbor home on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 22, after a period of ill health.

To hear Anne Marie D’Amico tell it, she slowly came around to the idea of teaching music for a living. Once she embraced it, however, she gave it everything she had.

A structure fire devastated a single family home on Abenaki Road in Edgecomb on Monday, June 3.

Edgecomb residents packed into the town hall for their annual town meeting Saturday, May 18, working their way through a 66-article warrant in slightly under four hours. In the end, almost every article passed as written, however, public comments made it clear Edgecomb residents were feeling the financial pain.

A Waldoboro man who ran for state Senate in 2022 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capital.