In the fall of 2019, when trustees, staff, and volunteers at Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service launched a capital campaign to fund two new ambulances to replace aging and increasingly unreliable vehicles, they couldn’t have predicted that the fundraising effort would be suspended six months later due to the demands of COVID-19 preparation and staff training.

Maine is sixth in the nation in domestic violence murders. Over 50% of Maine’s murders are domestic abuse-related.

The Saltwater Artists Gallery is having a silent auction to raise money to help the Seagull Shop in Pemaquid, which had a devastating fire recently destroy the shop and restaurant. The contributing artists, Scott White, Lynn Thompson, Cindy Smith, Dave Higgins, Janet Lockhart, Cathie Peterson, and Judine French, are donating the entire proceeds of the auction to the Seagull Shop.

The Halloween Trunk-or-Treat event in Damariscotta has been canceled, Damariscotta Police Chief Jason Warlick announced.

Friends of Hog Island has announced the launch of a digital history about the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen. Since its founding in 1936 as a hands-on conservation camp for teachers, the Audubon Camp in Maine has instilled a love of nature and commitment to community and conservation in the more than 50,000 campers who have arrived on Hog Island.

Susan Connery has been making masks as a fundraiser to benefit local organic farm, Veggies to Table.

The annual Damariscotta Mills alewife festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the quilt raffle was not. Christine Ruffley was the winner in the raffle drawing on Labor Day. In front of a small crowd of 11 cheering onlookers, Christine’s ticket number was drawn from the bag by Mary Chase.

The Whitefield Lions Club is proud to announce the recipients of the Lions International lifetime membership awards.

At the end of August, Midcoast Conservancy purchased a high priority 27.7-acre addition to its Whitefield Salmon Preserve from Ellis Percy and JoAnn Tribby.