Three Lincoln Academy art students – Ella Appell, Clare Colburn, and Maddy Scott – recently received scholarships from the Damariscotta River Grill’s Art at the Grill Program.

The Saltwater Artists Gallery in New Harbor welcomes oil painter Rachel Hendrick.

It was all aboard for the students from Nobleboro Central School’s Center for Alternative Learning last week as they hopped a train to Boston for a day of sight-seeing.

Midcoast Literacy held its annual meeting and celebration in Bath on May 21, celebrating 53 years of providing free literacy services in Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and northern Cumberland counties. The festive picnic brought together board members, staff, tutors, learners, supporters, and their families to mark the organization’s accomplishments in the past year.

Raffle tickets are now available for two hand-braided wool rugs offered by the Waldoboro Woman’s Club as part of its scholarship fundraiser.

The Pumpkinfest artist competition for T-shirt design has produced a winner, with 20 artists submitting entries, based on strict design criteria.

Debra Arter, of Damariscotta, was awarded a cash prize for her mixed media collage by National Collage Society annual small-format exhibition juror Kimi Kitada, director of the Charlotte Street Foundation, in Kansas City, Mo., on May 5.

Abigayle Reed, a senior at Lincoln Academy who studies cosmetology at the Bath Regional Career and Technical Center is the BRCTC Student of the Year.

New information is emerging on how climate change is impacting American lobster populations and their connections to other species in the marine food web in the earliest stages of their life cycle. New research conducted by two graduate students at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center has revealed more information about how these economically and culturally important marine animals are responding to the changing ocean.