Join Rising Tide Community Market in shifting the tide. Rising Tide is excited to continue its new reusable container incentive program. When one brings in one’s own containers and bags for produce and bulk items one will receive 25 cents back per “package.” It’s simple. Bring a container from home (or purchase it at the co-op and reuse it), weigh it for a “tare,” and then fill it with bulk/produce products. Since Rising Tide started this program in September, more than 1,000 reused containers have been used for more than $350 in discounts.

The Lincoln County News has an opening for a full-time reporter and photographer to cover local government, breaking news, business news, community events, and courts; write features; and perform other tasks as necessary under the direction of the editor. Candidates should demonstrate a passion for community journalism. Requirements: experience or relevant education; strong reporting, writing, […]

“I want to experience Thanksgiving with a family here because I like to make a lot of friends and practice my English and enjoy Thanksgiving,” said Shuyu Pang, a junior at Lincoln Academy from Tianjin, China. “In China we don’t have Thanksgiving and we don’t know what people do to celebrate it.”

Coastal Humane Society and Lincoln County Animal Shelter announced Friday, Sept. 29 that the shelters have been selected to participate in Subaru of New England’s #SNELovesPets social media campaign to earn up to $10,000 in grant money from the New England company. 

It all begins in May, when hundreds of cultivated giant-pumpkin seedlings are distributed free to volunteer growers. By Columbus Day weekend, the Midcoast Maine towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle have been transformed into a living art gallery of giant decorated pumpkins. Then the insanity of the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta –which runs Sept. 30 to Oct. 9 this year — begins.

The Midcoast Friends Meeting has welcomed on its campus in Damariscotta the construction of a permanent storage space for the diaper supply of the Ecumenical Diaper Bank. The Ecumenical Diaper Bank provides a supplementary supply of diapers to low-income families to enable them to change their children’s diapers with appropriate frequency.