Several local organizations are coming together to provide youth with free, healthy meals throughout the summer through the USDA funded Summer Meals program. The program is open to all children ages 18 and under, no questions asked and no registration required. While many sites offer programming, kids do not need to be enrolled in programs in order to receive meals. Healthy Lincoln County sponsors the participating organizations, and all together they served more than 12,000 meals last summer.
Local Homelessness Prevention Group Receives Award
The Ecumenical Council on Homeless Prevention was honored by Tedford Housing on Thursday evening, June 14, with the Tedford Home Award for the council’s work in homeless prevention.
Planning Underway for Community Cares Day
The Community Housing Improvement Project Inc. Community Cares Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 9. While CHIP Inc. is busy throughout the year addressing people’s housing and emergency heating needs, this is the special day when 100 or more volunteer workers spend the day working on about 10 projects around Lincoln County helping make the homes of neighbors in need safer, warmer, and drier.
Historical Group Seeks Oldest Barns in Bristol
The Old Bristol Historical Society is looking for the oldest barns in Bristol. The society would like to photograph several very old barns for inclusion in a slide show to be presented at its July 9 meeting by Don Perkins, author of “The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories.” Member of the society’s board will take the photos and send them to Perkins.
Call To Maine Chefs for Sixth Annual Claw Down
The sixth annual Claw Down – Maine Chef’s Lobster Bite Competition, sponsored by the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Thursday, Sept. 14 at the Newagen Seaside Inn on Southport Island. This year’s competition has shifted from a local competition to a statewide competition. The competition is open to all Maine chefs but is limited to a total of 15 competitors.
Washington Schoolhouse Hosting BCS Fifth-Graders
On Friday, June 16, the Round Pond Schoolhouse Association will host Bristol Consolidated School’s fifth-graders as they tour local historic sites. The students will visit the restored Washington Schoolhouse and its museum. Built in 1885, the two-story building was one of Bristol’s largest schools.
LincolnHealth to Take Discussion of Unified System to Community
The LincolnHealth Board of Trustees, along with boards of trustees at organizations throughout the MaineHealth system, have spent the last eight months discussing a possible system-wide reorganization that would align local organizations and their boards under a system-wide board of trustees and a unified financial structure. In a series of board votes at the entities […]
Red Cross Blood Drive at First National Bank
The American Red Cross will visit the Damariscotta office of First National Bank for a blood drive. The drive, which is sponsored by First National Bank, will take place on Tuesday, July 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Red Cross will send its donor coach, a converted recreational vehicle specifically designed for their blood collection. The coach will be parked on Water Street adjacent to the bank’s public entrance. The registration table will be located in the front lobby of First National Bank.
Damariscotta Selectmen Reschedule Meeting
The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen will hold its second meeting of June at Great Salt Bay Community School at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 14, prior to the annual town meeting. This selectmen’s meeting replaces the regularly scheduled meeting June 21.
Land Trust Accepts New Donation of Land in Friendship
The Medomak Valley Land Trust has recently acquired a new six-acre parcel of land in Friendship on Martin Point, thanks to the generosity of the former landowners, Penny Axelrod and Jerry Haller.
New England Recreational Boating Deaths Up 62 Percent
The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast welcomes the 2017 boating season by warning everyone to be safe while on the water this summer.
Despite Record-Breaking Harvests, Fewer Baby Lobsters in Gulf of Maine
Despite an abundance of egg-bearing adult lobsters and record-breaking harvests, the number of young lobsters continues to fall in the Gulf of Maine. That is the 2016 update from the American Lobster Settlement Index, an international monitoring program founded in 1989 by University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle.
Historical Association Offers Summer Program for Kids
Registration is now open for Summer with the Past, three week-long day camp sessions for children ages 7 through 11. Sponsored by the Lincoln County Historical Association, each session will be held at a different Lincoln County Historical Association site: the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, June 26-30; the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, July 10-14; and the 1811 Old Jail in Wiscasset, Aug. 7–11.
Lincoln Academy Graduation
Lincoln Academy graduation has been moved inside to the gym due to thunderstorms. Graduation will still take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 1.
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