The annual Walt Gallant Walk-A-Thon will be held on Sunday, April 9 at 1 p.m., with a rain date of Sunday, April 23, at the downtown branch of Damariscotta Bank & Trust. The walk will cover approximately three miles, ending back at the bank.

The Wells-Hussey American Legion Post 42 in Damariscotta will hold an American Legion birthday celebration on Wednesday, March 22. The celebration was originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 15, but the date was changed due to the impending storm.

The Polar Dip event originally scheduled for Sunday, March 12 at the landing at Bradford Point Road in Friendship has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a future date not set as of yet.

The Wells-Hussey American Legion Post 42, at 527 Main St. in Damariscotta, will hold an American Legion birthday celebration on Wednesday, March 15.

Thomas E. Delahanty II, U.S. attorney for the District of Maine, is pleased to announce the Youth Voices on the Opiate Crisis Media Contest.

Sen. Dana Dow, R-Lincoln, has sponsored legislation to roll back the three percent surtax on business owners and households earning more than $200,000.

Because of the unusually warm weather and rain due over the next week, the Lincoln County Fish and Game Association is canceling its Youth Ice Fishing Day that was scheduled for Sunday, March 5 at Kalers Pond in Waldoboro.

March is National Reading Month, and the Lincoln County Historical Association encourages young readers to engage in history-themed reading. Local libraries carry a number of books that will enhance appreciation of life in an earlier time on the Midcoast of Maine. Their collections include a wide variety of books whose authors have woven 18th- and 19th-century-based stories into “good reads.”