Bangor Savings Bank will close its branch at 100 Main St. in downtown Damariscotta, the original location of Damariscotta Bank & Trust, by the end of March 2026.

The Johns Bay Coastal Alliance Education Service Center Board approved a draft budget of $780,884.67 for fiscal year 2027 at its meeting on Monday, Dec. 8.

Despite residents’ ongoing land use violation concerns, Glidden Point Oyster Farm can now crack the shell on expanded operations in Edgecomb.

Aaron Bradbury, who previously served as interim chief and deputy chief of the Nobleboro Fire Department, was officially appointed to the chief position during a select board meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 3 after the resignation of Matthew Kilpatrick.

Despite receiving an incomplete petition on the issue, the Wiscasset Select Board voted to put the relocation of the town’s wastewater treatment plant back before voters in June 2026, over a year after the measure was originally approved.

A 67-year-old Alna man died the morning of Thursday, Dec. 11 after a car crash on Pittston Road in Whitefield.

After six months of searching, Damariscotta might have found its new police chief.

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners approved a $17.5 million budget for fiscal year 2026 during their regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Revisiting two reoccurring agenda items Tuesday, Nov. 25, the Edgecomb Select Board authorized the purchase of a new fire truck for the town and discussed the next steps for dealing with the town’s recently rediscovered sailboat.

Sweet, tiny kittens jumped over bolsters and crawled through bent limbs during kitten yoga at Live From Love Center in Bremen on Sunday, Nov. 30.

Wiscasset residents and town officials wrestled over the definition of the word “recent” during a public hearing on the subject hosted by the Wiscasset Planning Board on Monday, Nov. 24.

Spirits were merry in Damariscotta and Newcastle on Saturday, Nov. 29 as people gathered for the ninth annual Village of Lights celebration.

The Johns Bay Coastal Alliance committee elected officers and discussed its transition plan for leaving AOS 93 at its meeting on Nov. 19.

The sounds of nail guns and good-natured hollering filled the brisk November air at Medomak Valley High School as volunteers laid new shingles on the building that houses the school’s heirloom seed bank on Friday, Nov. 21.