Through Saturday, Oct. 22, the Whitefield Lions Club is hosting a pet supply drive to support the Lincoln County Animal Shelter and the Coastal Humane Society. Wish lists of needed items can be found at lincoln.coastalhumanesociety.org/wish-list and coastalhumanesociety.org/wish-list. Items include dish soap, hand cleaner, dog and cat food (wet and dry), peanut butter, cat and dog toys, paper towels, newspaper, and Swiffer pads.

The Jefferson Area Community Food Pantry provides food assistance on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, from 4-5:30 p.m., at St. Giles’ Episcopal Church, 72 Gardiner Road, Jefferson. Pantry food is purchased primarily from Good Shepherd Food Bank; donations are also received from neighbors in Jefferson and Somerville, local organizations, and the USDA.

Motorists in Maine can now easily update their address and physical attributes when obtaining a duplicate license or renewing a license using the driver-license renewal online service, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced on Thursday, Oct.6.

In celebration of Columbus Day, post offices across the state of Maine will be closed on Monday, Oct. 10 and there will be no mail delivery. Normal mail delivery will resume Tuesday, Oct. 11.

Water of Life Lutheran Church, at 618 U.S. Route 1 in Newcastle, invites the public to attend a dinner and program at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct, 29 to benefit the Lincoln County branch of New Hope for Women. The dinner is being presented by the church in conjunction with New Hope for Women’s Domestic Abuse Awareness month, which culminates at the end of October.

The Nobleboro Planning Board meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 29 at the town office has been rescheduled due to a procedural issue, according to board Chair Shoshana Zuboff. The board will instead meet at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 6 at the town office. The meeting will focus on Maritime Energy’s proposal to install […]

The Wiscasset Police Department is pleased to announce that the department will now be a drug and prescription collection site throughout the year.

In the near future, the Waldoboro Food Pantry will be making significant changes in its overall operation, including changes in the pantry’s location and the day the pantry is open.

A retirement party for Charlotte Dorr, of the Village Barber in Wiscasset, scheduled to take place at the Wiscasset Community Center from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 25, has been canceled due to illness.

Maine Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette is warning job seekers about a scam that Department of Labor staff detected over the past week. The scammer used the Maine JobLink account of a legitimate Maine employer to target at least four job seekers, posing as a real Texas hospital system to recruit them for an administrative assistant position. The scammer contacted them by email, indicating how to follow up. This included an interview through Google Hangout with the hospital president.

U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced that the Office of National Drug Control Policy has awarded a total of $2,250,000 in grant funding to several Maine health coalitions to prevent youth substance abuse and foster drug-free communities in Maine. Of that funding, $375,000 will be allocated for three new grant awards, while the remaining funding will be allocated to seven projects in the state that have previously received funding from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.