On Thursday, Aug. 22, Boothbay Region Land Trust took a new step in its efforts to provide sustained monitoring of coastal waters in the Boothbay region by participating in the first-ever Shell Day.

The University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are co-leading a five-year initiative that aims to revolutionize environmental monitoring, ecological understanding, and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the project, which involves collaborators in research, education, government, community, and economic development, and marine-related businesses statewide.

Twin Villages Foodbank Farm in Damariscotta is not like other farms. All the food grown at this farm is donated to food pantries and other low-income food programs in Lincoln County like the Salt Bay Area Head Start, school food pantries, FARMS at the Y, and the Morris Farm in Wiscasset.

Servpro of Bath/Brunswick recently purchased 25 copies of the new edition of the Lincoln County Road Atlas to donate to local emergency responder agencies.

Community Housing Improvement Project, aka CHIP Inc., will hold its 17th annual Community Cares Day on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. People are asked to please consider volunteering; preregister online at chipinc.org prior to the event at the Second Congregational Church, 51 Main St., Newcastle.

The Friends of Colonial Pemaquid announce the opening of their new gift shop located in the Fort House on the grounds of Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site. Hours will be weekend afternoons noon-5 p.m. on Saturday and noon-4 p.m. on Sunday from Aug. 24 through Oct. 14.

The Old Bristol Historical Society expects to take over legal responsibility later this summer for the former Poole Brothers/Hammond Lumber retail store as well as the old Pemaquid Mill located at the Pemaquid Falls Preserve of Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust (formerly the Damariscotta River Association and the Pemaquid Watershed Association).

Live Well, the fifth and final issue of Lincoln County Magazine for 2019, will hit newsstands later this month with local copies of The Lincoln County News.